December 13, 2012
Writing games for fun
GitHub organized a Game Off - or a game competition - back in November. The contest ran for a month and its only limitations were that the game runs in a browser and relate somewhat to...
ReadNovember 16, 2012
Encouraging contributions with the Easy Pick label
One of the barriers to convert users into contributors in an open-source projects is that many people have no idea where to start. They are usually scared to take on large tasks because they are not...
ReadApril 23, 2011
I'm going nomad - introducing Nelmio
After almost three years working at Liip, I have finally decided to take the plunge and start my own business. Together with Pierre Spring, in early May we will start building up Nelmio. Why? To...
ReadApril 13, 2011
Terminal (Bash) arguments tricks
Reading David DeSandro's last post on how to store strings in variables in terminal, or any bash-y shell (I'd say any unix shell but I'm sure there is a weird one out there that does things...
ReadDecember 31, 2010
Speaking at ConFoo 2011
I recently had the pleasure to hear that I would be speaking at the ConFoo conference. This is a great opportunity for me as I'll finally be able to meet a few US-based guys from the PHP community...
ReadDecember 15, 2010
Speaking at Symfony Live 2011
I have the pleasure to announce that I will be speaking at the upcoming Symfony Live conference (Paris edition). I've been working with and on Symfony2 for a few months already, both in my spare...
ReadDecember 9, 2010
ESI - Full page caching with Symfony2
Launched about a month ago, techup.ch runs on the Symfony2 PHP framework, which is still undergoing heavy development but is already a great framework. Don't get me wrong, the framework is fast,...
ReadOctober 7, 2010
Speaking at the IPC and WebTechCon
Next week the International PHP Conference and the WebTechCon will happen both in Mainz, Germany. I will speak at both events over the three days and the good news is that the combined 100 sessions...
ReadSeptember 29, 2010
Symfony2 Presentation
Last weekend at the PHP Unconference in Hamburg I gave a talk showing an overview of the Symfony2 framework. The allowed 45min were way too short to say everything I wanted to say and I didn't really...
ReadSeptember 23, 2010
PHP Console in Your Browser
So-called interactive modes for scripting languages are commonly used in the command line, and they are great for quick tests, but most of the time when I try something it tends to grow and quickly...
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