William Durand

Last month, I gave a talk on software testing at Forum PHP 2014 in Paris, organized by the french foundation of French speaking PHP users (AFUP).

Last month, I gave a talk about REST and Symfony at PHP Tour Lyon 2014, organized by the french foundation of French speaking PHP users (AFUP).

Two years ago, I wrote REST APIs with Symfony2: The Right Way, one of my most popular blog posts, but also one of the most well-known blog post about Symfony and REST.

I have been interested in standing desks for a while.

One year ago, Julien, Pierre, Manuel, Jean-Philippe, Julien (yes, again) and I created Clermont’ech, a non-for-profit organization dedicated to gathering developers in our city.

Modifying HTTP resources is not a new topic.

In 5 hours, a new year will start, 2014.

Having classes (entities or whatever related to your model layer) that exposes attributes publicly, i.e. setters and getters for all attributes is just a non sense.

As a maintainer of various Open Source projects, I use to manage quite a lot of issues and Pull Requests (PRs).

After having described a decent folder structure and made things clear about DDD and this series, I will continue to bootstrap the sample application, focusing on a basic persistence layer and testing.

Almost two years ago, I pushed the first commits of a project that was anything but useful.

Domain Driven Design also known as DDD is an approach to develop software for complex needs by connecting the implementation to an evolving model.

Domain Driven Design also known as DDD is an approach to develop software for complex needs by connecting the implementation to an evolving model.

Last week I gave a talk about Object-Oriented Programming at Michelin, the company I am working for.

According to my PhD advisor, I am a sponge.

Open sourcing a library is easy, it is just a matter of seconds.

Earlier this year, I gave lectures to undergraduate students at IUT de Clermont-Fd (France) for the first time.

Last month, I gave a talk about Object Calisthenics at Clermont’ech’s APIHour #2, a local developer group based in Clermont-Ferrand (France).

Even though I learned C# and the .NET platform at the University, I only started to get exposed to all these Microsoft technologies some weeks ago.

You won’t be able to manage everything, they said.

Today was my first day at Michelin and that’s a significant turning point in my life.

Two weeks ago, I open-sourced TravisLight, a build monitoring tool – also known as a build wall – for Travis-CI.

Lately, I had to install Vagrant in a restricted environment.

A couple months ago, I took the lead of capifony, a set of Capistrano recipes for Symfony projects.

Designing a REST API is not easy.

For the past two years, I have been using Capistrano to deploy my applications, even if I sometimes rely on Git to deploy some of them.

Here are my slides for the talk I gave this morning at Symfony Live 2012 in Paris.

Seven months ago, I released Geocoder, a PHP 5.3+ library to ease geocoding manipulations.

Did you know that the PropelBundle was part of the Symfony core?

Heya, I’m glad to announce that I will be speaking at Symfony Live 2012 in Paris on June 7-8th, 2012.

Yesterday, I discovered the say command on my Mac.

I often rely on Capistrano to deploy web applications.

Did you ever hear about Component-Based Development?

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.

We all probably know this successful Git branching model, which looks like a very interesting model for teams that want to use Git.

A few months ago, my father offered me a Karotz (the new Nabaztag) for my birthday.

Today, I was looking for an Open Source alternative to Pingdom as I needed something free, customizable, and lightweight.

Hi folks!