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After buying a secondhand generic Rabbit laser cutter, I immediately fell in love with laser cutting and engraving.

Today, I’ve found a nice bug/feature/whatsmathing in PHP.

I’m not a social media 2.0 hipster kinda guy.

One of the things that happens over and over again is that you need to check a value, and if it’s not set, it should set a default value.

I do a lot of consulting work and because of this I see lots of different development processes at many companies.

The question I get asked a lot, is what makes Saffire different?

Exception handling is available in PHP since version 5.

It happens more and more: large projects where your symfony2 site is just a small part in the big picture.

Most development languages will have some kind of printf() functionality.

So, Saffire started as a way to “learn” a bit about flex/bison.

Even in these days, with full-featured PHP IDEs around, I still see PHP developers using var_dump() and die() to debug their code.

One of the many things I do, on pretty much a weekly basis, is answering questions about REST and HTTP.

A few months ago I started with a new programming language called Saffire, and it’s time for an update.

I love working with composer.

In the last blogpost I was talking about a new language in the making.

Confused by Perl?

If you know Symfony2, you probably are using (or at least, have heard of) the @paramConverter annotation from the SensioFrameworkExtraBundle.

For a current project both me and a colleague are working on a big API system that authenticates through an OAuth system.

Doctrine’s DataFixtures are a great way to add test data to your application.

As you may now by now, I’m a big fan of using Puppet for configuration management.

This year the DPC (and DMC) bought all speakers one of the coolest gifts I’ve ever got (or seen) for speakers: an Arduino.

Even though I really like using sed and awk, sometimes its hard to change or add parameters in configuration files.

During a presentation I gave yesterday about REST, there was a discussion about redirection (more detailed, a redirection from a queue to the actual resource during asynchronous operations).

So even in the middle of conference season, I’d like to update you with some of the awesome things I’ve seen and experienced over the last few weeks.

In a span of two months or so, I’ve noticed a peak in implementation of bloom filters.

In the last post, we created a template extension for our shout class.

In the last post, we started with the implementation of the constructor and one method.

In the [last post][1], we created a template extension for our shout class.

To continue our journey in pointless, but nevertheless fun things to create, I’ve created a simple PHP extension that allows you stream music data to an IceCast server in pure PHP.

Good news everybody!

Yes, I’m a lemming.

Hi there!

A few months ago, I decided to quit my current job and start with freelancing.

Doing development on multiple projects can be a burden from time to time.

A little bit less than one year ago (actually, 9 months ago), I’ve created a blogpost about creating a Pragmatic Investment Plan.

Sometimes you hear about programs but you never really know how awesome they are until you actually use them.

So probably you are aware I’m currently exploring the deeps on the Apache source internals.

I think everyone has heard at least 5 five horror-stories when it comes to PayPal.

I like to play with unfamiliar stuff.

When you are dealing with Zend Server on a puppetized machine you can run into trouble: Zend Server uses it’s own packages for maintaining things like PHP etc so when you are installing PHP, you might end up with the PHP version of your distribution inste…

Version 5.4 is soon to be launched as the next new stable release of PHP.

Ok, so it’s not he most beautiful website you will ever see.

I’m not exactly sure where I got the link to this book.

The SPL is one of hardest things to grasp for most PHP developers.

Because learning new stuff is just one of those things I need to do on regular basis, I’ve decided to dive into another framework than the ones I’m used to.

You close one door, you open another.

ORM’s, or object-relational mappers, are a great way to convert (mostly) relational databases to classes in a object oriented language.

Oh man..

If there is a top-3 of conferences, ZendCon will be present in that list.

Back in the good old days - and in internet-time, this actually means just a few years ago - people were quite happy with their LAMP stack: Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP.