The PHPBenelux Conference edition 2016 took place last week in Antwerpen (Belgium). As an organizer, I’m really happy with the end result. I like to think that our attendees, speakers and sponsors also enjoyed it. It’s the 7th time we organize
Michael Heap is a developer who works at Datasift. On Thursday January 28th 2016 Michael flew from London Heathrow to Brussels to attend the PHPBenelux Conference 2016. Unfortunately he forgot his laptop on the plane.
While driving Michael to the airport, I
Varnish has become an industry standard when it comes to caching. Varnish is a reverse caching proxy that you put in front of your webserver and that speeds up your website by caching your pages. The PROXY protocol was introduced
On the 2nd, 3rd & 4th October 2015 I was in Manchester for the PHP North West Conference 2015 where I did an ElasticSearch presentation. I have been attending this conference since 2010 and this was my 4th edition as a speaker. I
Hurray! PHP 7 is finally out there and to celebrate the release, I created a video that highlights a couple of interesting PHP 7 features.
Contents1 New PHP 7 features: a quick overview2 Scalar type hints3 Return type declarations4 Anonymous
This is the last episode of the Zendcon 2015 series. And the term “last but not least” definitely applies here.
I had the pleasure of having a great conversation with Fabrizio Branca. Fabrizio was born in Italy, raised in Germany and
I did a fair number of interviews while I was at Zendcon in Las Vegas. The entertainment capital of the world is located in the desert. So it seemed fun to do this interview in the desert.
This week’s episode features
Today, November 19th 2015, marks the release date of Drupal 8. To celebrate this release, I decided to publish my interview with Larry Garfield today.
Larry is a key member of the Drupal community and a core contributor to the
Earlier this week I attended the Varnish Summit in Amsterdam. This event is organized by Varnish Software, the commercial entity behind the Varnish Cache project.
I’m a big fan of Varnish and I’ve done a fair number of presentations on
I’ve started a good habit of releasing new episodes of my podcast and video blog on a weekly basis. Let’s continue to do that! This week’s episode features Adam Culp from Zend. Adam is a community animal. Here are some of