Last week, I automatically updated my PHP installation to the latest version dotdeb was offering me (which usually poses no problems). However, this time around I ended up with two problems: * Most of my models started throwing errors: Error populating ”x” object [wrapped: Unable to convert value at column ”x” to timestamp: 0000-00-00] (or 0000-00-00…
In the past few days I’ve read quite a few weblog posts on language x vs language y and most of the posts were somewhat ranting or flaming against the language not of the author’s choice. Quite a few were triggered by the fact that Derek Sivers moved back to PHP from Ruby on Rails.…
Since a few weeks we’ve really truely implemented some agile methods in our biggest project (Jongeren in Beeld). Since others may benefit from knowing how we have approached this, I want to share our implementation of the agile approach of software development in a PHP project with the world. First of all, I actually wrote…
When we did the PHP Bootcamp in June of this year, it was an unexpected success. The PHP-wide one-day event on PHP Frameworks attracted about 35 visitors, and everybody was really happy about the event. The idea of SymfonyCamp had come up even before that, but after the success of the PHP Bootcamp we decided…
For a client, I had to present a bunch of select boxes where users could select a genre, then a sub-genre based on your genre of choice, then a second level of sub-genres based on the selected sub-genre. My first choice was to use the symfony AJAX options, and updating the sub-genre select box with…
Earlier this year we organized PHP Bootcamp, a one-day event in which we had discussions about several frameworks. It was a huge success. It was an afterthought after another idea though. The original idea is now being realized. SymfonyCamp is my little baby, and I’m gonna make sure this baby will be having a good…
Aside from the development I already do at Dutch Open Projects, and the fact that I am Lead Developer so have a role in helping, stimulating and to some extent steering the rest of the developers, a new activity is being added both to my work and to the Dutch Open Projects portfolio: “consultancy”. One…
The new version of Symfony has been released. It’s a bugfix release, unfortunately still with no fixes for the bugs I’ve reported. Those that saw my presentation at the Dutch PHP Conference may have noted that I was still running 1.0.1. I’ve now upgraded 😉
I’m not even talking about the unit testing and functional testing setup that Symfony has built in, as I haven’t even had the time to use it (I know, bad bad bad, but sometimes you just can’t do it when the needs for speedy delivery are high). I’m simply talking about the clarity of structure.…
Last weekend was our PHP Bootcamp. It was a huge success! With about 30 people present, the whole room was filled with PHP enthousiasts. The three presentations by Thomas Weidner, Johan Janssens and Francois Zaninotto were awesome! All three deserve great respect for bringing these presentations. The panel discussion afterwards was a very cool thing…