about

Stefan Koopmanschap is a PHP developer, consultant and trainer. He is a community person and is active in the Dutch PHP community by being part of the PFZ.nl event team 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. Also, Stefan was co-founder of the Dutch PHP usergroup which later merged with phpBelgium to form PHPBenelux, where he was secretary.

Within the PHP community Stefan is active in QA as (co-) organizer of several TestFests, and in the PHP standards group.

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Setting iTerm tab names

I work a lot with terminal windows, and on my MacBook Pro I use iTerm2 for this. But a lot of tabs can be confusing. Unfortunately, there is no simple GUI for setting tab names in iTerm2 (that I have found). After a quick question, Joshua Thijssen found the answer on how to do this through a simple command.

Installing the Geoip PECL package for Zend Server on OSX

Today I needed to get a client application up and running on my local system. This application uses the Geoip PECL package, so I needed to get this up and running. This turned out to be slightly more difficult than just a PECL install, as you're missing some libraries by default, so here is my log of things to do to get it up and running.

Looking back at 2011

Right, end of the year, time to look back. Let's have a look at the things that have happened this year. If you've read my PHP|architect column in the december issue, you might've already read some things, but my annual "looking back" post here is based more on my blog. So, let's have a look.

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