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Friday, 3 July 2009DPC 2009 Day 1
After my colleague Cal reviewed DPC's tutorial day, it's now my turn to look back at the first real conference day of 2009's Dutch PHP Conference.
The day started with a nice movie made by Almer and Norman after which Cal officially opened the Dutch PHP Conference and introduced Andrei Zmievski to do the opening keynote. Andrei gave an outline of developments in PHP including the changes we are going to see in future versions. Closures, namespaces, better garbage collection and a few more things are coming to PHP5.3, but I think this isn't new to most people. I haven't really read a lot on PHP6 yet other than Unicode, so the addition of traits, C# style getters and setters and scalar/return value type hinting were new to me. I think this was a nice talk to be the opening keynote, because other than just being infomrative the talk also had the right amount of humor with some examples of frustrated people reporting "bugs" and a setting for y2k compliance. I wasn't active in PHP 10 years ago, but it made me laugh when I heard that the y2k_compliance setting basically did nothing other than stop people asking about it. Ga door met lezen van "DPC 2009 Day 1" Wednesday, 1 July 2009PHP 5.3 from a development manager's perspective
Yesterday, the PHP community proudly announced that they have released PHP 5.3. While only the minor version number went up, this is still a significant release containing many new features. Maybe even more important than these new features are several features that have been deprecated. These are features that have been in PHP for legacy reasons, but best practices generally already advised against using them, and now the features are formally deprecated. In a future PHP version they will disappear entirely.
At our Techportal Cal Evans gave an overview of the important changes, to make migration easier for developers. In this post,I'm going to look at the migration from a less technical angle, and explain when migration to PHP 5.3 is a good idea and when not. Ga door met lezen van "PHP 5.3 from a development manager's perspective" Friday, 26 June 2009DPC 2009 Day 0 - Stefan Esser's Security Crash Course
From the list of tutorials on Day One of DPC 2009, I chose to sit-in on Stefan Esser's Security Crash Course with the idea that it would be a good opportunity for a review. When he displayed one of his introductory slides about the topics he would be covering, there seemed to be no surprises: input filtering, XSS, CSRF, SQL injection, session management and PHP code inclusion and evaluation -- it was a fairly expected list of all those things in an application that can threaten at one time or another to come back and bite a developer on the back-end (or front-end too for that matter). Even though some of the topics on the list already suggested to me certain known risky situations and how to diffuse them, it didn't matter. I was here, after all, for a review, a reality-check, hoping that certain topics such as PHP code inclusion and evaluation would be made even clearer.
It worked like a charm, although, not immediately, not necessarily in that room on that day. Ga door met lezen van "DPC 2009 Day 0 - Stefan Esser's Security Crash Course"
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Tuesday, 16 June 2009Sessions at php|tek 2009
This year's php|tek conference was hosted by php|architect just outside Chicago in the US in mid-May. I attended this year as a speaker delivering a number of sessions, and was also able to attend the some of the other sessions on offer at the event. There were some particular highlights of the week.
The first session of the main conference was the opening keynote, "The Future of PHP 6" by Andrei Zmievski. The talk was great but will be forever remembered for Andrei's t-shirt which read "I ? Unicode". With the conference in full swing, we moved on to some of the more technical sessions. Ga door met lezen van "Sessions at php|tek 2009" Thursday, 7 May 2009TestFest 2009
The PHP TestFest is a gathering by PHP enthusiasts that get together to write automated test cases for PHP. These test cases help prevent future incompatibilities and bugs in PHP. The event has grown global over the course of the years, with user groups everywhere in the world participating.
Ga door met lezen van "TestFest 2009" Tuesday, 5 May 2009PHP is NOW
PHP is at an inflection point. We are at a once in a lifetime place where several factors are coming together to help boost the profile of PHP up and above the "scripting language" label and into a serious tool for enterprise development.
Many developers inside the PHP community have looked at PHP as serious development tool for years. Major companies like Digg, Expedia, Yahoo and facebook are trotted out during every discussion of PHP to prove what a useful tool PHP is. However, companies like Ladbrokes, Channel Five, Fiat, Panasonic, and the BBC, all use PHP as not only their backend glue language but for serious, enterprise level, transactional workflow systems. In a growing number of large development shops, PHP has gone from "why" to "why not". Ga door met lezen van "PHP is NOW" Thursday, 23 April 2009Surviving a plane crash - The nu.nl case study
About 2 months ago, Erik Snoeijs posted a story about the NU.nl backend, a project we did for the largest news site in The Netherlands.
Back then, we already planned to write a follow up post about the front-end technology. Where the back-end focuses on flexibility and ease of use for the Nu.nl editors, the front-end focuses completely on very high performance and getting the news out to the site's readers as quickly as possible. Ga door met lezen van "Surviving a plane crash - The nu.nl case study" Tuesday, 31 March 2009Dutch PHP Conference tickets are on sale
Just a short post to let you know that the tickets for this year's Dutch PHP Conference are on sale as of today.
Get your tickets here. There's currently an early bird discount, so book your tickets now before the prices are raised. With 2 days of conference plus a tutorial day, and many excellent speakers from all over the world, this year's event is going to be the best Dutch PHP Conference we've had so far. Don't miss it! Monday, 16 February 2009The launch of techPortal
A little over 2 years ago we started our company blog, mainly to share our experiences and show off cool stuff we were doing. By now, it has become the most popular area of our website, and looking back I can see we have had a nice mix of technical articles, case studies, reviews, conference reports and 'php in business' posts.
Today, we are moving another step forward. Last year we announced our PHP Centre of Expertise to promote the professional use of PHP. One of the first visible results of the PCE initiative is our new techPortal. Ga door met lezen van "The launch of techPortal" Thursday, 5 February 2009Review: Zend Studio for Eclipse Developer's Guide
I'm the kind of guy that buys a new gadget, ignores the manual and just starts to play with it. The same with software. If you need a manual to use it, then it's not intuitive enough. However, as things get complexer and more feature rich, it gets harder to simply discover all the useful features; it took me about 3 months before I accidentally discovered that my new iPod classic has a nifty context menu if you hold down the center button more than a second.
This is what manuals and books are useful for. To find the features you haven't discovered yet, but that turn out to be extremely useful. Ga door met lezen van "Review: Zend Studio for Eclipse Developer's Guide"
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