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PHP BNL 12

News #PHPBNL12 #Conference

Feb 01, 2012 - no comments

Last weekend my co-workers were kind enough to take me along for the two-day crazy that is the PHP Benelux conference 2012. 

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My maiden voyage

News #pfc11 #PHP #Conference

Sep 18, 2011 - no comments

Don’t worry. This article isn’t nearly as sexy as the title implies. No, rather I visited my first time ever congress: PFC11.

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Some developments that interest me

News #Learning #PHP #Zend #Doctrine #PHPCR #Orchestra #Backbone #Mustache #jQueryUI

Aug 26, 2011 - no comments

When I was writing in my personal journal I made an entry of things I want to learn more about. I figured I’m going to learn at least some new tech or principle a month. I’ve already been trying out a few things, but sometimes computers just refuse to cooperate… Anyway, here is a list of stuff I’m currently watching and learning. So much to do, so little time.

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All your newline troubles solved!

News #Tool #nl2lf #PHP #Encoding #GitHub

Jul 31, 2011 - no comments

When I switched to a new IDE to edit an existing project, new files would get the wrong newline characters. This is not such a big deal, but to prevent cross-platform problems I wanted to keep all the files Unix-style. I wrote a convert script at first, but when it happened again I decided to make a small tool out of it: nl2lf. I also learned to configure my IDE before using it…

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Setting up a kickass development environment on Windows

News #Jenkins #Ant #PHPUnit #Quality Assurance #PHP #Wamp #Pear #DocBlox #CodeSniffer

Jul 22, 2011 - 11 comments

Recently I have become quite interested in quality assurance. Not that many things are going wrong for me, but I’d really like to be more certain about the quality of my work. I’ve used some tools to help me achieve just that. In less than two hours you can set up your workspace and have the living daylights automated out of you! Read more »

Online CSS editing with WebPutty

News #Css #IDE #Online #SCSS #Less #Compass

Jul 21, 2011 - 2 comments

If you’ve written CSS you’ve been likely to follow either one of these methods: editing in your editor of choice and then refreshing a webbrowser, or editing in a firebug-like browser add-on and copying to the editor. Fog Creek introduced a new way: editing in the browser. Online, with an actual editor.

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