Stefan Koopmanschap is a PHP developer, consultant and trainer. 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.
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.
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 - 1 comment(s) - tags: php, book, review, symfony, efficiency, best practicesWhile 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 - 1 comment(s) - tags: dpc09, dpc, php, symfony, amsterdam, conferencesThe 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
02-07-2009 20:02:38: skoop: http://mobypicture.com/?y20d75 - @eddieklive and "quartet + 1" doing the most beautiful version of forever 02-07-2009 19:51:20: skoop: http://mobypicture.com/?ad7lqv - @eddieklive in melkweg (doing Nobody knows) 02-07-2009 18:57:30: skoop: camera with 10x zoom #ftw I now already know the complete @eddieklive setlist 02-07-2009 18:47:47: skoop: hmmm... They could've done the concert without support act. I wouldn't mind. #eddieklive 02-07-2009 18:18:10: skoop: @michielveenstra Ze, je verwent ons! Drie weken goeie radio in de vroege morgen (giel en de ochtend gaan niet goed samen bij mij) 02-07-2009 18:03:36: skoop: btw, looks like @eddieklive brought along the #parkpop quartet again... Very cool!