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  • About your job opening…

    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…

  • PHP on Azure content: The cool stuff

    Step out of your comfort zone Last year you might’ve seen several blogposts here about my experience working with PHP on Windows. It was because I participated in the WinPHP Challenge, another coding contest which was organized by Microsoft Netherlands. One of the reasons I participated in this contest was because I wanted to step…

  • Barcodes and QR codes in PHP

    Barcodes first First, let’s have a look at barcodes. For this project, I will be working on some shipping labels. Postal services can be very strict in their demands on the labels (and rightfully so), so it was a nice surprise to see that Zend_Barcode – aside from supporting the regular standards – has support…

  • Speaking at the International PHP Conference and SymfonyDay

    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…

  • Open source your career, my story

    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…

  • Your error page can be better

    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…

  • Speaking at PHPBarcelona

    At the PHPBarcelona conference I’ll be joined by such awesome speakers as Rasmus Lerdorf, Derick Rethans, Lorna Mitchell, Damien Seguy, David Zuelke, Jan Willem Eshuis, Sebastian Bergmann, Fabien Potencier and many more! I will be doing my “Integrating symfony and Zend Framework” talk, which I recently did in Tilburg and Manchester. During this talk, I…

  • PHPNW09: Nearly perfect

    I arrived on friday night and was picked up by Bittarman from the airport. He brought me to the speakers dinner where I joined for a very nice dinner. The only disturbing thing was seeing Scott drinking only water ;). After a great dinner, we moved on to “the Lass”, the location of the pre-conference…

  • phpBenelux september meeting

    Since I start early at work I usually can leave early which I liked in this case because that would allow me to meet Michelangelo for some short dinner in Tilburg before the meeting started. Traffic hated me though, so I was quite late and had to cancel our dinner plans. It was a shame,…

  • Don’t make them compete, make them work together

    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…