Last years speaker schedule was quite nice and this year again the organization has come up with a great list of speakers. The list includes (amongst others) Derick Rethans, Scott MacVicar, Michelangelo van Dam and Lorna Mitchell. I am very much looking forward to attending some of the sessions. My own talk is a brand…
My trip started on thursday night, when I boarded the ICE to Cologne from Utrecht. Now, the ICE is a great way to travel as I’ve experienced before and this was no exception. I was able to work on my workshop a bit more, and before I knew it I arrived in Cologne. There I…
The position of Community Manager is a relatively new position inside the symfony project. It was launched last year at the SymfonyCamp at a discussion on how the community can be more active and how these contributions could be managed better. I posed the idea of a community manager, and Fabien liked the idea. Kris…
The decision to work for Unet did not come easy as there are quite a few cool opportunities on the market here in the Netherlands right now (looking for one? let me know, I can point you in a few directions!). There were a few main reasons I decided to go for Unet in the…
This new single-day conference taking place in Cologne is an excellent way for both beginners and more advanced users of symfony to learn new things, expand their network in the symfony community, and simply have fun. WorkshopFor beginners, I will be hosting a full-day workshop. The workshop will be a combination of theoretical information on…
Most people know me for my strong tie with the symfony project. Granted, when I was first looking into frameworks, symfony was by far the best and most mature PHP5 MVC framework out there. And at this point in time, I still think symfony is the best solution for the types of websites and web…
Now, the name Neal Ford wasn’t really familiar to me. Which is not surprising, as he is not at all someone from the PHP community. Ford is mostly active in Java, .NET and Ruby (as I gather from his book) as he works for ThoughtWorks (where he works with people like Martin Fowler!). This is…
Even before the conference had started, lots of fun was to be had. Even though I missed out on it, on wednesday some of the community joined for a tour of a brewery and a BBQ. Even with all that, those who were there apparently were awake enough to make it to the tutorial day…
The history While being at php|tek I got invited to a meeting initiated by the PEAR people on frameworks, and more specifically naming conventions for PHP5.3. Even though I have no official role in the symfony project, I decided to accept because the purpose of the meeting seemed good and if I could somehow contribute…
The trip started on monday with an early flight to Chicago via Dublin. While waiting for my flight in Amsterdam, I found out via twitter that David Coallier was on the same flight as me from Dublin, and indeed at the Dublin airport we ended up meeting eachother. We chatted for a bit, I leeched…