This morning, as the first Ada Lovelace Day posts started rolling into my Google Reader, I found out about the whole concept of Ada Lovelace Day. I immediately pledged to write a post, because I think it is a good idea to give "women in technology" some attention. I would wish it wasn't necessary, but we're living in a world where this is still necessary. I'm going to pick two "heroines" though, instead of one.
posted on March 24, 2009 - 129 comment(s) - tags: AdaLovelaceDay09, php, women, technology
For quite some time I've been struggling to set up the backend of a symfony application to be served from a subdomain that is being served by the same document root, to no avail. My backend subdomain would keep serving my frontend. Today, by accident, I found out which stupid mistake prevented this from working, so I thought I'd share.
posted on March 23, 2009 - 43 comment(s) - tags: symfony, php, howto, apache, vhost, rewrite, directoryindex
Here are the slides for my PHPCon Italia sessions. Both sets of slides are slightly altered versions of the presentations I did at PHP UK Conference and 4developers .
posted on March 19, 2009 - 3 comment(s) - tags: phpitalia, php, conference, slides, symfony, refactoring
As we all know by now, we're living in times of crisis. A recession is hitting us, and it's hitting us hard. Even here in The Netherlands, where at first it seemed we'd be avoiding the biggest hit, we're now getting reports that the recession is the biggest since WWII. The crisis seems to be hitting bigtime in many places. So how does it affect open source and PHP?
posted on March 17, 2009 - 6 comment(s) - tags: open source, php, symfony, crisis, enterprise
This week is the week of PHPCon Italia. It already starts on wednesday with workshops, and has two conference days after that. I'll be speaking twice on thursday, in the morning I'll talk about the symfony framework in my myphpbusters talk, and in the afternoon I'll go into refactoring.
posted on March 16, 2009 - 0 comment(s) - tags: conference, php, symfony, refactoring
Those of you who have already done presentations, whether internally in your company, at user group meetings or at conferences, know that it can sometimes be a tedious job to write coherent, useful and understandable slides. You have all the knowledge on the topics you speak about in your head, yet turning that into a useful presentation with a clear slide deck can be a hassle. One solution I recently found to this problem was writing.
posted on March 10, 2009 - 3 comment(s) - tags: presentation, conference, refactoring, writing, article, php
So this morning I gave my The Power of Refactoring talk at the 4developers conference in Krakow, Poland. This is the first time I've given this version of the presentation, which is quite different from the previous versions.
posted on March 7, 2009 - 0 comment(s) - tags: php, refactoring, slides, conference
This weekend, I will be doing a quick trip to Poland. Overthere, a new conference is seeing the light called 4developers, and I will be part of the "dedicated languages" track with my refactoring talk.
posted on March 5, 2009 - 6 comment(s) - tags: 4developers, conference, talk, php
So, only two days have passed since PHP UK Conference 2009, so let's look at the conference (and my slides for the myphp-busters: symfony framework talk).
posted on March 1, 2009 - 3 comment(s) - tags: symfony, php, conference, phpuk2009, london
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