Tag: symfonycamp


  • I think the idea started years ago. In the orinal Dutch PHP usergroup, we discussed it, but we never did it. Lack of manpower to pull it off, but I guess also a lack of willpower to want to pull it off. About 1.5 years ago, PHPBelgium truely kicked off and since they were already…

  • Debugging With Symfony View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: phpsymfonycamp2008) My presentation went OK, even though I had the idea I perhaps spoke a bit too fast. This idea was confirmed by the fact that I finished too early. Not that that was such a big problem, because we were running a bit…

  • Having initiated the event last year, and it going on to become the success it was last year, I am very happy that my former employer Dutch Open Projects decided to organize SymfonyCamp again this year. The line-up for this year is quite impressive, with not only symfony founder Fabien Potencier there, but also Dustin…

  • There are a lot of PHP developers bashing, for instance, Ruby, or Java, or any other language, really. And then there are the inter-framework wars. CakePHP advocates bashing symfony, symfony advocates bashing Zend Framework, Zend Framework advocates bashing you name it. Everyone bashing everyone, trying to “protect” their own thing. But really, let’s learn from…

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • 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…