Being a first time speaker at PfCongres 2011
It’s almost two weeks ago that PfCongres was held and now I finally have the time to write my experiences down. For me personally, PfCongres was my first experience with speaking at a conference. My...
View ArticleProTalk – Our secret project revealed
Together with my friend Kim Rowan, I recently started a project. The idea of this project came from her own experience. Since Kim is a newbie in the PHP world, coming from a Filemaker background, she...
View ArticleAda Lovelace Day 2011
Today it’s Ada Lovelace day. For those of you who haven’t heard of Ada Lovelace Day before, it’s a special day to honour women in technology whom you look up to or have learnt a lot from or just have...
View ArticleImporting a new project in Git
I’m working on the ProTalk project and one of the things I needed to do was to import the initial code for the project into our private bitbucket repository. I created the repository online, but since...
View ArticleProTalk update December 2011
A lot has happened since my October post announcing ProTalk, the secret project I am working on with my friend, Kim Rowan. So much in fact that now seems the ideal time to update you on our progress!...
View ArticlePHPBenelux 2012
Last week I visited the awesome PHPBenelux conference. I consider myself to be a phpbenelux veteran because I attended all editions of this conference. Although the very first edition was great...
View ArticleHow to use the Symfony2 SonataAdminBundle
I have been doing a lot of Symfony2 development lately for our project ProTalk and one of the things we needed was a backend for our database. This should be a fairly simple backend to start with, just...
View ArticleUpcoming conferences I am involved in
There are a lot of PHP conferences throughout the world, but I would like to highlight three of them: Symfony Live London, PHPNW and CodeConnexx. I am involved in all three conferences, one way or...
View ArticleSorting on multiple columns in Sonata Admin
Recently, I have been developing again in Symfony2 using the Sonata AdminBundle. Yet again, I have stumbled on things that I thought were pretty common and easy, but I found it was very hard to find...
View ArticleRole based security in Sonata Admin
A while ago I posted my first blog post in what I promised would be a series of blogposts surrounding the Symfony2 Sonata Admin Bundle. Finally, I have come around to writing the second blog post, this...
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