The past week was the week of Symfony Live 2010 in Paris. One of the people there was Nils Adermann, the new Lead Developer of the phpBB project. The biggest news was that phpBB is considering moving to Symfony 2 as the basis of their new version of phpBB: phpBB4. As a result of this conference, Nils Adermann posted an RFC for this. This is my response, which I post here as an open letter to the phpBB community as well as in the thread where the RFC is being discussed.
posted on February 19, 2010 - 1 comment(s) - tags: symfony, phpbb, open source, framework, community
If there has been one buzz in the past days, it's been the announcement of Facebook of the Hip Hop for PHP (or HPHP). This new tool for PHP developers (or actually for users of PHP) is aimed at gaining performance by converting PHP code to C++ code, then compiling the C++ code to a binary which includes a web server. But what will it actually mean for PHP?
posted on February 3, 2010 - 2 comment(s) - tags: php, hiphop, facebook, performance
Two days have passed now since the PHPBenelux Conference 2010. On the one hand, I feel a bit stupid to have spent the majority of my free time into a conference I can not really attend any sessions in. On the other hand, I'm so grateful that I did. Let me elaborate.
posted on February 1, 2010 - 1 comment(s) - tags: phpbnl10, conference, phpbenelux, php, symfony, symfonycamp
So, now that I've looked back at 2009, it is time to look ahead at the coming year. I already know it will be quite an exciting year. But it's the future, so we can't predict everything that is going to happen. But there's quite a few things I already know will happen.
posted on January 3, 2010 - 5 comment(s) - tags: conferences, 2010, php, symfony, netbeans, zend studio, apache, lighttpd
With the new year having started, it's always fun to look back at the previous year. Something I've done before in previous years. 2009 for me was one hell of a year, both in the positives and in the negatives. It means lots of conferences, but also a forced change of job. Let's have a look at this year.
posted on January 2, 2010 - 0 comment(s) - tags: php, symfony, personal, year, conferences
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