about
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.
weblog
The past week was the week of Symfony Live 2010 in Paris. One of the people there was Nils Adermann, the new Lead Developer of the phpBB project. The biggest news was that phpBB is considering moving to Symfony 2 as the basis of their new version of phpBB: phpBB4. As a result of this conference, Nils Adermann posted an RFC for this. This is my response, which I post here as an open letter to the phpBB community as well as in the thread where the RFC is being discussed.
posted on February 19, 2010 - 1 comment(s) - tags: symfony, phpbb, open source, framework, community
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, performance
Two 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, symfonycamp
