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Friday, September 26. 2008

Welcome Cal!

Yesterday was an incredible day for Ibuildings. I have never experienced anything like it before. Never expected or anticipated so much talk, chat and blogging on one person's move from one company to another. I knew that Cal Evans was popular in the community, but didn't realise fully what a celebrity he is. Wow... what an incredible addition to our team..

I saw Cal present in a London PHP seminar 2 years ago. Even though it was very techie and well above my head, I could see how everyone in the audience was captivated and mesmerised by his incredible presentation skills, confidence and lovely interaction with the audience. At that conference, I realised for the first time what an incredible following one language could have. I have been involved with many languages in my life, but never witnessed such admiration and fanatical adulation of a programming language. The more I explored, the more fanatics I found, the wider the community and the more passionate the supporters.

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Thursday, September 25. 2008

ZendCon Day 2 - 2

[webmaster's note: due to a miscommunication possibly involving beer at one of the Zendcon after parties, instead of a day 2 and day 3 review, we had 2 day 2 reviews; there's some interesting comments in the post though, so we're still just posting it. Don't worry, we'll get someone to cover day 3 as well.]

As you might know I was one of the lucky few who Ibuildings sent to ZendCon. I must say that the conference was a massive success; everything just seemed to work well even when some speakers canceled
on the last minute.

I am going to focus on the conference day 2 in this post since all other days have been covered by the other Ibuildings people. Day 2 was full of interesting sessions from presenters including Elizabeth M Smith, Sebastian Bergmann, Andrei Zmievski and many more.

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Thursday, September 18. 2008

ZendCon Day 1

Today was the kick-off of the ZendCon sessions. It started off with a keynote by Harold Goldberg, the CEO of Zend Technologies Inc., and Andi Gutmans who together did a review of PHP's growing role in the enterprise with some case studies.

They also made some announcements:

Release of Zend Studio 6.1
Partnership with Adobe
Release of Zend Core 2.6 for IBM System i
Dojo integration in Zend Framework

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Wednesday, September 17. 2008

ZendCon Day 0 - Tutorial Day

After our amazing roadtrip (see previous blog entries for trip reports), it was time for the first day of the conference. Or actually, day 0, as the first 'real' day would be on tuesday when the main conference starts.

We first went through registration, which went very smooth (only very short lines) and then had some coffee. I first sat in on the Object Oriented programming tutorial by Marcus Boerger from Google. It was a structured overview of Object Oriented programming. The target audience was clearly PHP programmers that wanted to learn how to do OO programming and I think Marcus did a nice job explaining it.

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ZendCon Trip Day 3: From LA to Santa Clara

Despite it being Sunday we had to get up very early (or was it late ? That 9-hour time difference keeps confusing me..) Paul knew a nice spot to have breakfast, so after a quick coffee at the hotel we were on our way.

The restaurant Paul had recommended is near Malibu on the Pacific Coast Highway, the road we had decided to use for the trip. Outside Santa Monica the road hugs the Pacific coast and you have a beatiful view of the ocean. And if you are lucky and patient you can see dolphins.

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ZendCon Trip Videos

I'm one of the lucky people at Ibuildings who got to go to ZendCon (2008). I brought my video camera to make some videos of our trip and the conference. The videos of the first 2 days are already online on Youtube, more videos will follow in the next few days. The videos of the first few days cover our trip to Los Angeles where we rented a van to go to San Francisco. You can find the videos here. Make sure you choose the high quality version of the videos, it's a link just below the video.

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Tuesday, September 16. 2008

ZendCon Trip Day 2: Sightseeing in LA

LA is big. Especially if, like me, you are used to small towns like Vlissingen. You can drive on and on and not leave the city. It is also way too big to see everything in one day, so we decided to go and see some of the most touristy things: Hollywood and the walk of fame.

As said, LA is big and despite our car navigation system we took a few wrong turns, but eventually we managed to get there.

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Wednesday, September 10. 2008

Building a PHP Center of Expertise

About this time last year, we had the pleasure of announcing the launch of our UK office. I'm very proud of the team we have built there (we have about 20 very talented people in our London office), but our growth hasn't stopped there.

This year we're going to do something similarly challenging, but completely different. We've grown from a development company into a PHP services company, and we managed to attract really smart and inspiring people from the PHP community. We've also been supporting user groups and organized conferences and seminars.

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Wednesday, September 3. 2008

SymfonyCamp 2008

A community around an open source project is always good. Talking to people in the community can give you support, or you can give back to the community by supporting others. But meeting the community in real life - and especially the people behind the project - gives it a whole new dimension. You can put names to faces, and make new friends. For symfony, the best moment for this is SymfonyCamp, a symfony-focused event in The Netherlands.

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Friday, August 29. 2008

Zend Framework testing: emulating HTTP calls

Following last month's article by Ian, here's some thoughts on how to test a Zend Framework application.

One of the unit testing best practices suggests to break dependencies, so you can test each component separately.

The first problem that arises when you want to test controllers might be having a tighter control over the HTTP Request and Response objects. Fortunately, ZF already has something that really makes your life easier, i.e. the Zend_Test_PHPUnit_ControllerTestCase class, which has stubs for the Request and Response
objects, and you can easily check headers, return codes, routes, redirects, and even the view itself.

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