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Wednesday, 8 June 2011Dutch PHP Conference 2011
I have just returned from the fifth (and my second) Dutch PHP Conference (DPC). For the technical staff at Ibuildings the conference is a highlight of our year. Not only do we have a chance to visit the delightful city of Amsterdam, but we also have 3 days of stimulating tutorials and conference talks. There is the added bonus of being able to meet and exchange ideas with fellow developers from all over Europe and further afield, many of whom are the movers and shakers in the PHP world.
We believe it is of such value that all our developers get the chance to go, and few miss it. It is so easy to carry on creating software in the way we have always done, but we can't afford to do that in the rapidly changing world of the internet; we must keep up to date with changing trends and practices and adapt accordingly. Attending conferences such as DPC plays a vital part in this and we would really encourage others to attend, whatever your role in the development process. Ga door met lezen van "Dutch PHP Conference 2011" Thursday, 24 June 2010What's current in the world of PHP?
2 weeks ago, Ibuildings organised the fourth Dutch PHP Conference in the RAI centre in Amsterdam. DPC is a way for us to help PHP developers learn new skills and improve existing ones, but it is also an excellent way to get experts from around the world together and learn about current trends in the PHP ecosystem.
Ga door met lezen van "What's current in the world of PHP?" Friday, 2 April 2010What does the iPad mean for PHP companies?
Tomorrow is the big day that everybody and their mother have been talking about for the past few weeks. The iPad will finally be available, albeit only in a very select part of the world. Some have shunned the iPad as 'just a web browsing device' or 'a large iPhone, why bother?' and others have hailed it as the end of the laptop.
I see the iPad (and the non-Apple alternatives that already exist or are on the way) as a game changer. It brings new ways of consuming content and will reach audiences that the laptop has never reached. Similar to how the iPhone had a whole new audience that had no prior smart phone experience, the iPad will attract a new generation of web consumers. Whether it's simply reading email on the couch, or using recipes in the kitchen or new ways of reading magazines (Dutch page, but watch the English embedded video, it's awesome); we are moving into a new phase of web consumption. Ga door met lezen van "What does the iPad mean for PHP companies?" Friday, 12 February 2010Productivity in PHP from a fun perspective
One of the reasons so many people choose PHP for their web development is that it's fast. Not necessarily in the gazillion-requests-per-second sense, but in terms of developer productivity. One sentence you'll hear me say regularly is: "PHP is not pretty, but it gets the thing done, and gets it done well" and even in my 'PHP in the Enterprise' evangelization, the productivity argument is one I often use.
Every once in a while things happen that prove this point, and this is a post about such proof. Ga door met lezen van "Productivity in PHP from a fun perspective"
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Tuesday, 5 January 2010PHP in 2009 - A year in retrospective
2009 just ended, and since we've only just commenced work in 2010, there's still time to look back at 2009 and see what events have shaped the way we work with PHP and what happened in the general PHP ecosystem. PHPdeveloper.org has a nice overview from a community perspective. I'll cover some community aspects briefly as well, but will focus on the broader PHP ecosystem, including its adoption in the enterprise and industry participation.
Ga door met lezen van "PHP in 2009 - A year in retrospective" Monday, 21 September 2009PHP enters top 3 of most popular programming languages
The company TIOBE, founded in 2000, is involved heavily with Software Quality. They call themselves 'the coding standards company' and deliver tools to assess the quality of software by checking coding standards, among other things. Unfortunately, despite the fact that their website is written in PHP, they do not support PHP yet with their tools (at least as far as I can tell from their website), but they have one activity that is of interest to us in the PHP ecosystem: they collect statistics on the popularity of programming languages and have been doing this for a few years now.
In their latest analysis PHP has entered the top 3 of most popular programming languages, and that is something that both makes us proud and provides further proof that PHP is still growing and here to stay. Ga door met lezen van "PHP enters top 3 of most popular programming languages" Friday, 11 September 2009Oh Be Careful Little Eyes What You See
The children's Bible song starts off with the line "Oh be careful little eyes what you see". Regardless of whether you agree with the religious doctrine behind the song, the advice from the first line is, none-the-less, applicable to the PHP community these days.
The web has made it easy for anyone to become an instant pundit, regardless of their background. The tools exist so that anyone can quickly and easily publish anything and call it a fact. Nowhere is this problem more visible than in the software development community at large and the PHP community in specific. Ga door met lezen van "Oh Be Careful Little Eyes What You See" Monday, 7 September 2009Migrating a dev team to an OO team (Part 1)
For many years Object Oriented Programming was rare in the PHP world. Many PHP programmers don’t know OO simply because PHP isn't natively an OO language. But with PHP5, PHP really entered the world of objects.
Still many PHP programmers feel that OO is too much for PHP. They don't see the benefits of object oriented programming. This is the start of a series of blog posts to investigate the topic. Ga door met lezen van "Migrating a dev team to an OO team (Part 1)" Wednesday, 2 September 2009PHP North West 2009
10th October 2009 sees the second annual PHP Conference to be held in Manchester, PHP North West. As one of the organisers I've been watching the arrangements come together with growing excitement: this year we have a new venue, a schedule literally packed with excellent sessions, plenty of social activity, and some community-driven input on Sunday morning - I'll even be speaking myself this year. Some of the topics at this year's conference include various PHP frameworks, performance, Drupal, project management, and much more.
The conference is a regional event aimed at PHP developers of all levels as well as their managers, coming together and exchanging ideas around developing PHP within teams today. Our attendees range from those living locally or making a daytrip of it right across to speakers and attendees flying in from mainland Europe. We're very grateful to all our sponsors, they've stepped up to get involved even in the difficult economic climate and without them this entirely volunteer-organised conference simply couldn't happen. Ga door met lezen van "PHP North West 2009" Monday, 6 July 2009DPC 2009 Day 2
This year I attend the Dutch PHP Conference for the first time; and I must say I've enjoyed it quite a lot. It has been a good time to spend with my colleagues at Ibuildings, people from other companies all around the world and well-known names in the PHP community, like Andrei Zmievski or Sebastian Bergmann.
Andrei's keynote on the conference's first day was very good, but day one was already adequately covered by Jeroen, so I am going to sum up my experience of the last day. Ga door met lezen van "DPC 2009 Day 2"
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