Stefan Koopmanschap is a PHP developer, consultant and trainer. He currently works as senior developer at Unet. He is a community person and is active in the european PHP community as secretary of the phpBenelux Usergroup as well as in the symfony community as Community Manager amongst other things.
Stefan has a wide history in Open Source, having been Support Team Leader for phpBB, documentation translator for Zend Framework and now symfony advocate in The Netherlands and also online.
Within the PHP community Stefan is active in QA as (co-) organizer of several TestFests, and in the PHP standards group.
If there has been one buzz in the past days, it's been the announcement of Facebook of the Hip Hop for PHP (or HPHP). This new tool for PHP developers (or actually for users of PHP) is aimed at gaining performance by converting PHP code to C++ code, then compiling the C++ code to a binary which includes a web server. But what will it actually mean for PHP?
posted on February 3, 2010 - 2 comment(s) - tags: php, hiphop, facebook, performanceTwo days have passed now since the PHPBenelux Conference 2010. On the one hand, I feel a bit stupid to have spent the majority of my free time into a conference I can not really attend any sessions in. On the other hand, I'm so grateful that I did. Let me elaborate.
posted on February 1, 2010 - 1 comment(s) - tags: phpbnl10, conference, phpbenelux, php, symfony, symfonycampSo, now that I've looked back at 2009, it is time to look ahead at the coming year. I already know it will be quite an exciting year. But it's the future, so we can't predict everything that is going to happen. But there's quite a few things I already know will happen.
posted on January 3, 2010 - 5 comment(s) - tags: conferences, 2010, php, symfony, netbeans, zend studio, apache, lighttpd
08-02-2010 22:51:18: skoop: Onderweg van hoorn naar huis na eerste D&D sessie (karakter creatie) bij @mvriel. Hoorde net geniaal nummer van the sheer bij @ericcorton 08-02-2010 15:24:38: skoop: right, time to head over to @mvriel's house for my first time of D&D fun 08-02-2010 14:46:25: skoop: juist ja. Boney M - Rivers of Babylon stond op nummer 1 in de top 40 toen ik geboren werd #geboorteplaat 08-02-2010 14:43:49: skoop: @giorgiosironi well, I had a look at Zend_Http which seemed to do it wrong (or I just misinterpreted). sfWebBrowserPlugin has similar issues 08-02-2010 14:40:57: skoop: wow. had an amazing brainstorm with @mvriel on architecture for new stuff. intense but awesome 08-02-2010 14:10:20: skoop: interesting to note that where most PHP implementations use "Adapter", the Adapter pattern description @ wikipedia calls the thing "Adaptee" 08-02-2010 13:56:19: skoop: only one more week to #sflive2010! did you register yet? http://www.symfony-live.com/