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21 Mar

Victor Welling of Coolblue – e-commerce & tech at Coolblue

By ThijsFeryn
In Interviews

Coolblue is a well-known e-commerce company that operates in the Benelux area. Coolblue primarily focuses on consumer electronics, but the types of products they still becomes increasingly broader. Over the last couple of years, Coolblue has become one of this companies that everyone

16 Mar

Peter Maynard – An Englishman in Belgium, Microsoft, Liverpool & banter

By ThijsFeryn
In Interviews

This episode was recorded at the PHPBenelux Conference 2016. I also wrote a blog post about the event. Who is Peter Maynard? Peter Maynard is a Senior Audience Evangelism Manager at Microsoft. He focusses on Emerging Audiences and is part

08 Mar

Relative symlinks

By ThijsFeryn
In Tech

We all use symbolic links (also known as symlinks) on Linux or other Unix systems. It’s an easy way to create a shortcut to a file or folder that is located in another directory. The ln binary allows us to create these

07 Mar

Juozas "Joe" Kaziukėnas – Digital nomad, being homeless & living in New York

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Juozas “Joe" Kaziukėnas, tech entrepreneur & digital nomad

Juozas “Joe” Kaziukėnas is a tech entrepreneur and digital nomad currently living in New York. Joe is Lithuanian and moved to Edinburgh (Scotland) for his studies. During his time at university, he also got involved in open source communities. He

02 Mar

2015 away games, football on the road

By ThijsFeryn
In Football, Video

Away games in football are awesome! There’s something adventurous about it: new city, new stadium, a slightly different vibe. I love it. As a technical evangelist for Combell, I tend to travel quite a bit and I get to visit cities

22 Feb

Derick Rethans – MongoDB, Xdebug & PHP

By ThijsFeryn
In Interviews

Derick Rethans is my guest for this episode. The interview was recorded at PHPBenelux Conference 2016 in the community village. Who is Derick Rethans? Derick Rethans is a Dutchman who lives in London. He recently became an official British

15 Feb

My interview with Varnish Software

By ThijsFeryn
In Interviews, Tech

On November 5th 2015 I was invited to speak at the Varnish Summit in Amsterdam. My talks was called “Varnish: where developers & sysadmins meet” and it was very well received by the audience. That same day the lovely people at Varnish Software

15 Feb

Cal Evans – Personal branding, developer advocacy & community

By ThijsFeryn
In Interviews

Cal Evans is my guest on this episode of the show. The interview was recorded at PHPBenelux Conference 2016. Cal Evans was invited as the keynote speaker which he was very excited about. He had keynoted our very first edition back in 2010 and

10 Feb

JSON pretty printing with a single Python command

By ThijsFeryn
In Tech

JSON is a great way to represent and transport data. It is commonly used in webservices, both for payload and output. It originates from the world of Javascript where it’s a standard notation for objects and other data structures. Hence

08 Feb

Bastian Hofmann – Talking about ResearchGate, Berlin & PHPBenelux

By ThijsFeryn
In Interviews

Bastian Hofmann My friend Bastian Hofmann was flying to Brussels to speak at the PHPBenelux Conference that I organize. I picked him up from the airport, put him in my car and talked to him about his work, the city