Last year, back then I was not yet employed by Ibuildings, I spoke highly of the Dutch PHP Conference. It was an excellent event, with enough variation in speakers and topics. This friday and saturday, this year's installment of the same conference is taking place. posted on June 10, 2008 - 6 comment(s) - tags: event, conference, php, dpc, symfony
No, I still have not written a book (though there are actually plans for that ) but my name can again be seen in print. After my first official print mention as technical reviewer of Packt's phpBB book, I am now happy to announce I am named and even quoted in Michael Kimsal's new PHP Job Hunter's Handbook. posted on June 2, 2008 - 0 comment(s) - tags: book, php, recruiting
I've so far worked only very little with XML with namespaces, especially in terms of parsing it. Therefor, I was quite stumped today on the parsing of a particular snippet of XML which contained an element that had an xlink:href attribute. I just couldn't get that attribute's value out. The solution, as often seems to be the case, is quite simple. posted on May 30, 2008 - 2 comment(s) - tags: simplexml, xml, namespaces, php
I was already quite proud when I got the possibility to work at Ibuildings. They've shown to be (one of) the most professional PHP companies in the Netherlands, and after they partnered with Zend, it all became even more interesting. Now, I am even more proud to work for Ibuildings; they just announced a partnership with PHP|Architect. posted on May 23, 2008 - 0 comment(s) - tags: ibuildings, zend, php|architect, php
Even though in this day and age of Javascript, most people do not really think about this anymore, it can still be important to have your site working when someone either has no javascript or has it turned off. It does happen, so you better think about it a bit. Symfony has some neat features for graceful degradation. posted on May 18, 2008 - 1 comment(s) - tags: php, symfony, javascript, graceful degradation, usability, accessibility
Recently I wrote a review of Getting Real , the book by the guys from 37signals. But how, if at all, does this apply to, for instance, symfony ? Let's take some points from the book and see how symfony does... posted on May 8, 2008 - 0 comment(s) - tags: symfony, php, getting real, agile, decorator
The Dutch PHP UserGroup is organizing PHP TestFest in The Netherlands. I am quite excited about this, as we will be directly supporting the PHP project and ensure the stability of PHP as a language. posted on April 29, 2008 - 0 comment(s) - tags: php, phpgg, event, testfest, usergroup
Yesterday and today I have been away from home (I am actually quite happy that my presentation for tomorrow evening was cancelled, I actually get to stay home). Both evenings I really enjoyed myself, both evenings in the presence of some people I know mainly online. posted on April 22, 2008 - 0 comment(s) - tags: php, cal evans, event, ibuildings, sogeti
Both last saturday and this saturday I did presentations on symfony. They were mostly the same presentation, slightly different. posted on April 12, 2008 - 3 comment(s) - tags: symfony, presentations, nllgg, pfcongrez, php
I started using symfony by taking a single workday to walk through the first seven steps of the Askeet tutorial. After that, as time was scarce, we dived into the project we were planning to use symfony on. Here I'll present you with some tips that I either found or experienced myself. posted on March 1, 2008 - 0 comment(s) - tags: symfony, php, tips
Aside from the earlier announced Dutch PHP Conference , symfony will get more attention during dutch events the coming months. Because of this, I decided to make a small event calendar on this site. posted on February 22, 2008 - 0 comment(s) - tags: php, symfony, event, left on the web, conference
Last year, while I was not yet working for Ibuildings, I did an introductory session on symfony at the Dutch PHP Conference. I was really looking forward to the event , and it turned out to be the success I expected . Ibuildings proved beyond a doubt that they organize a killer conference! This year, the DPC is back, and stronger than ever! posted on February 21, 2008 - 0 comment(s) - tags: php, symfony, DPC2008, ibuildings, zend, conference, event
You can configure a lot of caching in symfony, so rarely do you need to cache things yourself, but it may happen that one day you decide you need it. I came to that point when I wanted to cache certain results from external web services. I could have used the Function caching, but in this case I wanted to keep a bit more control, possibly altering the cache etc. posted on February 19, 2008 - 2 comment(s) - tags: symfony, caching, php
Since a few weeks the new generation of the Zend IDE for PHP is available. Instead of the completely Zend-written IDE that there used to be, this one is based on the Eclipse platform, a platform I've never really been a fan of... posted on February 12, 2008 - 2 comment(s) - tags: zend, zend studio, ide, software, eclipse, php
In the development lifecycle of web applications, I think deployment is something that doesn't get nearly enough attention of developers. But where you can test your code, testing deployment is a bit harder. A good system for deploying applications is therefore a useful thing to have. Symfony has a very easy and strong system for deploying applications based on rsync. posted on January 30, 2008 - 11 comment(s) - tags: symfony, deployment, php
Steer CMS is a new open source application based on symfony. It offers a CMS for websites in a way similar to other open source CMS'es, yet is based on symfony and so quite a bit more interesting to me. posted on January 21, 2008 - 1 comment(s) - tags: symfony, php, cms, steer, open source
Due to yesterday's happy news I only picked up on another joyful thing happening yesterday somewhere very late in the evening. So let me announce it today: The episode I recorded for the PHP Abstract Podcast on symfony was published yesterday. posted on January 18, 2008 - 0 comment(s) - tags: symfony, phpabstract, php, technology, podcast
Lately there seems to be an increase in the #symfony room on freenode of people asking how to go about working with symfony 1.1. Let me give a short status of the new version of the framework. posted on January 8, 2008 - 1 comment(s) - tags: symfony, php
Finally the day has come. The final PHP4 release is available , so from now on, aside from possible security issues, no new PHP4 releases will be done. PHP5 is without a doubt the main line for PHP now. posted on January 3, 2008 - 0 comment(s) - tags: technology, php
) but my name can again be seen in print. After my first official print mention as technical reviewer of Packt's 
