Left on the Web

Left on the Web is the personal weblog, photo album, linkdump and playground of Stefan Koopmanschap, Zend PHP5 certified software engineer and Professional Services Consultant at Ibuildings.nl and symfony enthousiast. The main topics you will find here are technology, music, a slight bit of politics, and random thoughts.

Stefan has a wide history in Open Source, with involvement in phpBB as the biggest achievement. Currently, he is actively advocating the symfony framework in The Netherlands and also online.

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12-05-2008 15:01:03: skoop: @CalEvans the changes for the authentication chapter are in 3? I'll have to check. first, packing for my trip

12-05-2008 14:59:50: George Duke – Games

12-05-2008 14:55:14: Jade – Dont't Walk Away

12-05-2008 14:50:20: Luther Vandross – Going Out Of My Head

12-05-2008 14:44:57: Tears 'N Joy – I Will Always Love You

12-05-2008 14:41:21: Juan Wells – Round & Round (Easy Twins Bonus Mix)

12-05-2008 14:36:07: E.U. – Only Strings

12-05-2008 14:33:16: Endomorphix – Generator

12-05-2008 14:29:07: Blink Blink – Salty(Ambidextrous remix)

12-05-2008 14:23:47: FPI Project – Dancin' feed

Getting Real symfony

Recently I wrote a review of Getting Real , the book by the guys from 37signals. But how, if at all, does this apply to, for instance, symfony ? Let's take some points from the book and see how symfony does...
posted on May 8, 2008 - 0 comment(s) - tags: symfony, php, getting real, agile, decorator

Getting Real

When I recently did a presentation at pfCongrez , as a thank you I got the book Getting Real by the people of 37Signals. I had until then not heard of the book yet, but it's an excellent view on software development.
posted on May 4, 2008 - 0 comment(s) - tags: book, review, ruby on rails, symfony, getting real, methodology, agile

The Power of Refactoring

Just a small heads-up that a new post of mine has been published on the Ibuildings weblog, with refactoring as the topic.
posted on May 2, 2008 - 0 comment(s) - tags: meta, refactoring, best practices