While at the PHP UK Conference, O'Reilly had a stand. A new series of books caught my attention because they were not the standard "animal on white cover" book I had come to expect from O'Reilly. After looking at those books, I made my pick and went for Neal Ford's The Productive Programmer. A wise choice, as it soon turned out.
posted on June 18, 2009 - 181 comment(s) - tags: php, book, review, symfony, efficiency, best practices
While Paris had Symfony Live and Nieuwegein had Joomla!Days, Amsterdam had the Dutch PHP Conference last weekend. Three days completely packed with the most amazing content from speakers that flew in from around the world. Let's have a look back at this amazing event.
posted on June 16, 2009 - 12 comment(s) - tags: dpc09, dpc, php, symfony, amsterdam, conferences
The biggest PHP event of the year is coming for The Netherlands: Dutch PHP Conference will start with a tutorial day on thursday and the first official conference day on friday! In this post I want to give some recommendations on which sessions to visit. If you don't have a ticket yet, better get one fast! Some tutorials are already sold out, and there's only a few tickets left for the main conference days!
posted on June 8, 2009 - 1 comment(s) - tags: php, dpc, dpc09
Last week there was some fuzz about something bad happening the community. Now I'm not going to really go into that, but it is in my humble opinion hard (if not impossible) to prevent the occassional problem in a community as varried as the PHP community. But there's also much beauty in our community.
posted on June 6, 2009 - 2 comment(s) - tags: php, community
It's been a while since I've changed the design of this site, so it was time for me to make something change. I've decided to go for a more fresh, minimal look and hope I've succeeded.
posted on June 3, 2009 - 3 comment(s) - tags: left on the web
Much has been said already in the past days and weeks about the PHP standards initiative that was started by a group of PHP developers at the php|tek conference two weeks ago. As I was there but have not really given my opinion on this in public, I will do that now.
posted on June 2, 2009 - 81 comment(s) - tags: php, symfony, cake, zend framework, solar, pear, agavi, standards