SymfonyDay is becoming a nice traditional, even though it’s only going into it’s second year this year. With an impressive schedule it’s going to be an information-filled day for the attendees. Just like last year, I’ll be doing a workshop this year. This unfortunately means I will be missing the main conference track again which…
phpBB. Software I’ll always have a love for. It’s not only awesome forum software (probably the de facto standard for discussion forums right now) but it’s also the first Open Source project that I truely contributed to. As a member of the Support Team and as the Support Team Leader I learned a lot about…
Not too long ago I was the “external expert” on the graduation project of my then-colleague Erik Baars. His topic was “contributing to Open Source” and parts of this blogpost owe some credits to Erik for inspiring me to write about this topic. Just as a FYI: Erik Baars graduated on the topic, so you…
Several of the jobs I’ve had in the past years I’ve come into partially based on my activity in the Open Source world. I’m not saying it’s *only* because my open source contributions, but in both cases it definitely had an impact in the whole process. I can point out some clear examples of why…
It has been an interesting journey so far. After my Ibuildings adventure I found a new job at UNET, a relatively small but very professional broadband ISP mostly aimed at the business market. While the work there was awesome and the team was one of the best I’ve so far been a part of, I…
In general, I agree with Lukas. I dislike the way private methods block any possible extension. I much more prefer being able to extend something if a piece of code does not support the use case I have. I agree with pro-private people that it is important to have a good API design and to…
Just like last year I’ll be hosting a full-day beginner workshop on symfony (using symfony 1.4 as the basis) at the Symfony Day Cologne for people interested in learning about symfony or people just starting out with the framework. During this day you will actually build your first symfony application using step-by-step instructions, starting with…
I was a bit afraid that it would be quite hard to connect to Azure Storage for my app, especially with the deadline looming in less than two weeks. My anxiety turned out to be without reason, mostly thanks to the great work of PHPAzure in abstracting away all the complicated stuff. Really, it is…
First of all, I didn’t want to reinvent the wheel for some basic stuff. So I did some research and ended up using several libraries: Using this, I’ve created a basic system that allows me to easily handle the request with a single front controller, delegate the actual execution to a controller, then pass back…
Today the Giro d’Italia is coming through our province (Utrecht). For this, a special website was set up which gives information on the route and all kinds of related topics. I wanted to check on the info, but instead of getting the main site, I got this: Now, with sites like this you never know…