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Slapping some Varnish on WordPress

October 15, 2012

DevOps, PHP, Tools, Wordpress

So last week I published my review of PHPNW12 and instantly my whole server went down in flames. My current WP setup has a few issues with multi-lingual plugins which I can’t get over yet, as it requires a bit more of invested time. But this can’t go on, I needed a solution, a fast and simple one to give my blog a fighting chance.

PHPNW12 - One Conference, so much good stuff

October 10, 2012

Conferences, PHP

This year I spent more time replying “I don’t know yet” to people who were asking if I was going to PHPNW12 then I did submitting to conferences. I think 75% of all the prominent members of the European Community told me at one point or another that i simply could not miss this conference. After stalling everyone for a while until I sorted out other problems i finally decided (yes, on the week before the conference) that I should go and got budget approval from my employers.

Deploying a Symfony2 and Composer app on PagodaBox

April 16, 2012

DevOps, PaaS, PHP

I have been working on a little pet project and wanted to put it up somewhere to show to a few people how it was going. I wanted something really simple so I decided to give the PHP PaaS solutions a try. Its a very simple Symfony 2.1 based app using Composer for vendor management, so I went on a quest to see what could be done and how.

The IDEs of March

March 15, 2012

PHP, Tools

Last Year, Chris Shiflett started the “Ideas of March” movement, and Jon Tangerine quickly coined the “Ides of March” twist and some people followed him. This year, here we are again and while reading my twitter feed I saw Cal Evans’ post with Jon Tangerine’s line. Of course it was early and I read “IDEs”. Since last year I defended the Ideas of March with why you should blog, and I still believe the reasons stand, this year I’ll just make my own twist and talk about IDEs. Yes, its a shameless sorry attempt at a joke.

Book Review: The Art of Readable Code

February 27, 2012

Books, Pessoal/Off-topic, PHP, Reviews

Lately I have been very involved with code quality, not just in terms of testing and actually working, but also on a deeper level, readability and plain good architecture. At my previous employer we had been working for a good while already applying rules from “Object Calisthenics” a concept by Jeff Bay, a simple set of exercises that helped identify bad code and improvements points. Once I saw this book show up at O’Reilly I did not blink and made a purchase.

PHP Community: Of Leaders, conferences and Union

February 24, 2012

Community, PHP

Note: This article was originally published on the march/2011 issue of php-architect. If you like it keep a close eye on the Community Column in the magazine, where i get the chance to write alongside other awesome community people.

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DMS\\Filter Library 1.0.1 and Bundle

February 2, 2012

The past weeks I finally had some time to invest in the DMS library again, so i got busy with a few things. I also had to fix a big problem which had gone unnoticed to me, so i have to thank Mr. Guilherme Blanco for pointing it out.

PHP Benelux 2012 - Learning lessons

January 31, 2012

Conferences, PHP

After hearing about how great PHP Benelux Conferences were I finally made it over to Belgium to check it out, and i was impressed. To catch you up on the new, I moved to Amsterdam last december and thus had the chance of attending the conference which is now 2 hours away on a train ride.