This is the reason I give to charity a lot. But since 2008, I also support entrepreneurs worldwide by micro-financing loans they need for starting or expanding their business. I’ve been doing this through Kiva. Looking at my stats, since 2008 I’ve made 11 loans to a variety of countries (Cambodia, Senegal, Philippines, Paraguay, Ukraine,…
The IngewikkeldWrapperBundle adds a fallback route: Any URL not caught by your Symfony2 code will be forwarded to your old symfony 1 project. This allows for gradual migration to Symfony2. For an explanation of the thought behind all this, please check this post on the Leaseweb Labs blog, where I’ve guest-posted about this way of…
The conference, taking place on February 6th in Helsinki, is a new conference focussing on “Design, Development & Digital business”. It’s not a pure PHP conference, which is what I really like. The current list of announced speakers is quite nice already, I’m looking forward to seeing who else will be speaking. As for my…
Drupal is, independant of how you measure it, the leading PHP-based CMS. Whether you look at the amount of websites using it or the size of it, Drupal rocks it all. One thing that has kept me, and I guess many others, so far from seriously working with Drupal is the lack of object orientation…
About Silex Silex is one of the many microframeworks we’ve seen pop up recently. Contrary to most other microframeworks, however, Silex is built on top of an existing open source project: Symfony2. A microframework is a very small framework which basically does nothing more than bootstrap and handle your request and response. Though the microframeworks…
It did run into some issues, some of which I couldn’t immediately fix because I was occupied by other things. Really annoying, and it made me feel guilty, not being able to fix things. I considered open sourcing the source code, but decided against it because I thought nobody was waiting for it. Until people…
PHP is an awesome language. You can do many things with it. And people do many things with it. In the open source world alone, lots of different products have been built on top of PHP. Drupal, Typo3, Joomla!, Zend Framework, symfony 1 and Symfony2. Some are better than others, and sometimes that statement depends…
PFCongres Earlier in the year I stepped back from PHPBenelux and joined the ranks of the PFZ.nl event team. Of course, with PHPBenelux we just had our annual conference, so I was already involved in organizing one, but PFZ.nl did not yet have theirs. That one is now scheduled for September 17. I am not…
Git When I started with PHP and version control, CVS was the main VCS to use. Not just because it was the best (this is actually not a fact), but mostly because all the hosting services out there supported it, most specifically, SourceForge did. It worked in terms of version control, but it was not…