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  • TestFest is back!

    In the Netherlands, this year’s TestFest instance is in Utrecht at the Hogeschool Domstad. We have the pleasure of having Pierre Joye over to the Netherlands to mentor the TestFest (thanks to Microsoft for supporting us in this). Pierre will, together with all attendees, go through the steps of how to write tests and then…

  • Serving frontend and backend from the same document root with symfony

    Quite often have I been staring at my virtualhost setup for the admin subdomain of this application, wondering why the hell it kept serving the frontend. I’d set the DirectoryIndex to backend.php, so why did it keep serving the frontend? There would be no reason for it to do that, it seemed to ignore my…

  • My slides for PHPCon Italia

    Both sessions went well. The myphpbusters talk got greeted with much more enthousiasm though than my refactoring talk, but I guess the nature of that presentation is much more open and informal, where the refactoring talk goes more into theory and concepts that developers may not yet be familiar with. I got the idea that…

  • Open source and the times of crisis

    I want to make one thing clear: I am far from an economist. I will be mostly speculating, giving my opinion which is based mainly on assumptions and observations. Having said that, I’m writing this to the best of my knowledge and with a clear conscience. Recession, credit crunch, crisis. It doesn’t really matter what…

  • PHPCon Italia coming up!

    As I will be flying in on wednesday, I’ll be missing the workshops. Quite a shame, as Sebastian’s workshop on Quality Assurance in PHP looks quite interesting. I guess I’ll have to catch that one elsewhere. Looking at the DPC schedule there’s still one slot open… oh Cal, look what is very interesting! 😉 On…

  • PHP UK Conference 2009 (and my slides)

    I arrived on thursday morning in London for a day of working in the Ibuildings office there. So I had a very early flight in, which may not have been the smartest of things to do. But it worked alright: I missed high traffic to Rotterdam and was able to get into London before 9AM…

  • symfonyUnderControl: lime integration with phpUnderControl

    There is a plugin for symfony that enables phpUnit testing for symfony projects. However, this plugin used to be in limbo for quite a while. Besides, even though I see the power of phpUnit and have worked with it on several occassions, I personally prefer the more minimalistic approach of lime for unit testing. From…

  • public static vs static public

    Even in current literature on PHP 5 object oriented development, you’ll mostly see mentions of the “public static” order. And it isn’t strange, I can understand that some people prefer the PPP at the start to give clarity on the access rules for methods. While looking around inside the symfony code, I first encountered the…

  • Speaking at PHP Conference UK

    This talk will focus on the different myths and prejudices that people have against symfony. Symfony is supposed to be slow, extremely coupled and overengineered. To work with symfony you don’t do PHP anymore but only work with YAML configuration files. It’s things like this which I will test during this talk. I will either…

  • I want to see all of you at DPC!

    The past two editions of the Dutch PHP Conference were a big success, and now it’s time to be part of that success! So start writing that proposal on the topic you know everything of, and submit it for consideration for the Dutch PHP Conference. If you’re a bit unsure of how to write a…