A good day
So today was a good day. The only thing bad was the fact that FC Utrecht lost in the dutch cup and is thereby thrown out. By Ajax, nonetheless. However, that is quickly forgotten when I think of all the good things.
Symfony
Today and yesterday as well I have been in Paris. I have been attending a symfony training there. As I am already experienced in the framework, I was able to help a bit with helping the other attendees. It was a nice experience, and I hope in The Netherlands we can also do symfony workshops. I really enjoyed myself.
PHPNW
As I announced earlier today (and I rarely post twice on the same day, so enjoy it 
) one of my proposals for the PHPNW conference in Manchester has been approved. This means that on November 22nd, I will be doing my "The Power of Refactoring" talk there. Excellent news if you ask me.
But to top it all...
The best news (well, it was old news to me and my fellow Ibuildings colleagues, we heard it through an internal announcement a few days ago. However now we can finally talk about it!) by far was the fact that Cal Evans, one of the people I have the most respect for in the PHP community, will (very) soon be joining Ibuildings. He will be operating from the Utrecht office, a new office that I should also become part of sooner or later (since I live quite close to Utrecht, as opposed to the Vlissingen office which is a two hour one-way drive for me). Ain't that cool or what?! I think having Cal lead the new Center of Expertise at Ibuildings will already be more than half the effort needed to make it a big success. And with the talented people we already have on board, that makes it a certain success. I am very much looking forward to be able to work with Cal. The only "downside" to this is that we now have two American employees at Ibuildings, and, it's too crazy for words, they are *both* named Cal! I'd like to be there when they get introduced to eachother
September 25, 2008 - tags: php, symfony, ibuildings, phpnw
Comments
Maarten: Wat leuk om een mede utreg fan te zien op de php planet 
September 26, 2008
left: Hi Maarten,Yes, I can usually be found on a home matchday in the O section of the stadium, row 7, seat 21.
September 27, 2008
Daniel Londero: Hi! Can you tell me something about the symfony training? How do you rate it for a developer experienced in the framework, so not a newbie? Is the cost right for the level of the training?Thanks in advance.
Daniel
October 3, 2008
left: Hi Daniel,If you are already experienced with the symfony framework, the training is most probably too low-level. If you are starting with the symfony framework though, it is an excellent way to start and well worth the money.
I have attended the symfony 1.0 training though, so I am currently not in the know on how the 1.1 training is.
I am sure though that if you have specific wishes, but Sensio and my employer Ibuildings will be able to set you up with a custom advanced workshop.
Sincerely,
Stefan
October 4, 2008
Daniel Londero: Thanks Stefan. I've attended a workshop on sf1.1 on May at the italian PHPDay where Fabien comes for his first workshop on 1.1.Right now I'm quite experienced with sf so I've written an email to Fabien to ask for a middle-advanced workshop. I'm waiting for a reply.
Thanks for your feedback.
Daniel
October 5, 2008
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