Tuesday, August 26. 2008
A few months ago I attended the Dutch PHP TestFest. It really shoud have been called the Belgian/Dutch PHP TestFest, since about half of the people there were from the Belgian PHP user group. One of them, Felix de Vliegher, even got a PHP CVS account because of the amount and quality of his tests. All in all, the TestFest was a great succes.
Last week the Belgian PHP User group held their second meeting. Because the venue was fairly close to our office in Vlissingen, some of us decided to have a look. We were early, so there weren't many people yet, but soon the room began to fill up and in the end there were a little over 30 people. Not bad, given that this was only the second meeting.
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Monday, August 11. 2008
In May, I helped organize the Dutch PHP TestFest in my position as board member of the Dutch PHP User Group. This dutch event, which was sponsored by Ibuildings, was part of the global PHP TestFest initiative, which aims to get a higher test coverage for the PHP language and with that stabilize the language even more - something that will benefit all users of PHP. Back in May, we already deemed our event a big success with 10 attendees, a great presentation by Sebastian Bergmann and a huge number of tests written. But it turns out to be an even bigger success...
Monday, August 4. 2008
Following the success of our two PHP seminars in London, we have decided to make it a tour and to visit other parts of the UK and Ireland as well. Next up are Leeds and Dublin - come and meet us in your city! Find out more about our events below.
Early-Bird Offer: Sign up for any of our events by 15th August, and receive a free copy of the new php|architect book on Enterprise PHP Development, written by our CTO Ivo Jansch!
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Tuesday, July 29. 2008
The official stable release of symfony 1.1 is now nearly a month old, and response so far has been fairly positive. This is not surprising, as this new version adds a lot of flexibility to the already flexible system that symfony offered. Let's have a look at symfony 1.1, and specifically to the points that I feel are especially exciting in this new release.
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Sunday, July 27. 2008
Among the standard object oriented principles is favouring composition over inheritance, and there are plenty of design patterns that work along this line. However, one of the most useful day-to-day facets of the idea doesn't seem to get a lot of attention from PHP developers, namely dependency injection. The general idea is, that if your class depends on some other object, that object should be passed in rather than generated internally or retrieved via a global variable or singleton.
Continue reading "Dependency Injection and Zend Framework Controllers"
Tuesday, July 8. 2008
It's July the 8th.
Today I realized that we're exactly one month away from 8-8-8, the final blow to PHP4.
Last december, the community already stopped support for PHP4, but until the 8th of August, at least security fixes would still be done. If nothing has changed in the meantime, and I didn't read any evidence to the contrary, in 31 days from now,security fixes will no longer be provided for PHP4.
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Wednesday, June 4. 2008
Finally after more then six months of rescheduling my exam appointments I had the time to do some proper preparation and took the test.
Getting your MySQL developer certificate means that you have to go through two tests. Each of them has 70 multiple choice questions. Both tests will take up to a maximum of 90 minutes.
At Ibuildings we use MySQL a lot. Being a PHP developer you're not always focused on advanced MySQL features. Especially with MySQL 5.0 you can benefit from using those advanced features. Often a developer prefers not to rely on database specific code and tries to resolve this in the application logic. Implementing MySQL's advanced features can benefit you and your users.
Tuesday, May 27. 2008
 We have some updates regarding the Dutch PHP Conference in June (13th and 14th):
1. Conference day - 95% mark reached
95% of the conference day seats are sold. There are a few places left. Register while they are still available.
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Monday, May 26. 2008
Over the last month I've been to quite a few of the GeekUp events which are local to me in Leeds, UK. These are where a selection of technologically-minded people get together, usually have a few small presentations, and then mostly chat and drink beer all night. I've been to these events as both a visitor and a speaker, and met lots of people and learned a lot.
The month started with a visit to the Leeds Geekup in April, where I gave a talk entitled "Enterprise Web Development" - the slides are available on slideshare.
Friday, May 23. 2008
 This week I'm at the php|tek conference in Chicago, organized by php|architect.
I'm happy to announce that as of now, we have a partnership agreement with php|architect! We will be adding the php|architect trainings to our existing training portfolio, which means that php|architects trainings can now also be delivered on-site in the countries where Ibuildings operates.
php|architect is a strong brand when it comes to PHP knowledge, so I'm very proud they teamed up with us!
The official announcement can be read here:
Press release
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