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Items by Stefan Koopmanschap

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  Installing the Geoip PECL package for Zend Server on OSX

  Posted: January 11th, 2012, 12:20pm MST by Stefan Koopmanschap

  Today I needed to get a client application up and running on my local system. This application uses the Geoip PECL package, so I needed to get this up and running. This turned out to be slightly more difficult than just a PECL install, as you're missing some libraries by default, so here is my log of things to do to get it up and running.
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  Looking back at 2011

  Posted: December 31st, 2011, 12:33pm MST by Stefan Koopmanschap

  Right, end of the year, time to look back. Let's have a look at the things that have happened this year. If you've read my PHP|architect column in the december issue, you might've already read some things, but my annual "looking back" post here is based more on my blog. So, let's have a look.
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  Support the global community

  Posted: December 29th, 2011, 1:23am MST by Stefan Koopmanschap

  As the year ends, we're looking back at an interesting year. More of that you'll also find in the PHP|architect december community column, which I've written looking back at the year a bit. But that is about the PHP community, not about the global community. We should be grateful for living "in the west", where despite economic issues, we live a good and usually healthy life. And if we're ill, we can get treated. And depending on social system and insurance, we still get paid, even if we can't work for a while. There are places in the world where this isn't the case. I personally believe we have a responsibility to support those that don't have all the opportunities we have.
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  Introducing IngewikkeldWrapperBundle

  Posted: December 21st, 2011, 3:11pm MST by Stefan Koopmanschap

  What to do when you want to migrate to Symfony2, but can't invest the time into rewriting your whole application at once? I get this questions sometimes, and I've asked myself as well for some time already. Talking to other people, I found I was not the only person struggling with this issue. Wrapping Symfony2 around your old application is one option, and I've found this works well in some situations. To automate this, I wrote a very simple wrapper bundle: IngewikkeldWrapperBundle.
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  Twig: Don't forget to close your tags

  Posted: December 6th, 2011, 6:37am MST by Stefan Koopmanschap

  Just a little heads-up for people working with Symfony2/Twig: Today I ran into an issue that I couldn't figure out. "It shouldn't be this hard..." I thought, and indeed, it turned out not to be as hard. It's just easy to overlook: Make sure to close your twig tags correctly :)
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  We just launched Techademy!

  Posted: November 29th, 2011, 4:09am MST by Stefan Koopmanschap

  As I've found out after starting my own company, training is a hot topic. On the one hand, everyone wants and needs training, but on the other hand, training seems to be really expensive. And while in-depth expert training has a good value (and I deliver those on a regular basis), I felt there should be a way for web developers to stay up-to-date on recent developments in a quick and not too expensive way. Talking with friend, old colleague and soon-to-be freelancer Joshua Thijssen I found someone who felt the same way. This is what lay at the root of a new training concept we have just launched: Techademy.
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  D-Day is coming to Finland

  Posted: November 3rd, 2011, 8:13am MDT by Stefan Koopmanschap

  I'm happy and proud to announce that I will be speaking at the D-Day conference in Finland. I will be doing my "Don't use a screw when you need a nail" talk there, a talk I've done before at Symfony Live in San Francisco and Paris and highly enjoyed doing.
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  Drupal just got a whole lot more compatible

  Posted: October 25th, 2011, 1:38am MDT by Stefan Koopmanschap

  In August of last year, I wrote this excited blogpost about phpBB joining the Symfony2 camp by announcing they were going to use Symfony2 as the basis for their new version. Things like this are exciting, because it will allow several communities to work on the same software: Symfony2 developers would be able to help with the development of phpBB, and the other way around. Now, the same thing is happening with Drupal. Even though they are not adopting the full Symfony2 stack, they have just started implementing some Symfony2 components.
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  A URL shortener in a couple of hours

  Posted: October 14th, 2011, 7:06am MDT by Stefan Koopmanschap

  I have been aware of Silex for a while as a nice microframework based on Symfony2, and have looked into it a couple of times to see if it would be useful for a project. So far though, the projects I was working on seemed to need more than just Silex, so I picked Symfony2 instead. This morning, I decided to dig into Silex a bit more with a real-world project I still wanted to develop myself: A URL shortener.
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  Open Sourcing LinkTuesday.com

  Posted: October 10th, 2011, 2:30pm MDT by Stefan Koopmanschap

  Some time ago, inspired by the #linktuesday initiative Lorna started, I built this relatively simple website which I put on LinkTuesday.com. It fetches tweets from Twitter with the #linktuesday hashtag, groups them together and then displays them in various rankings. Insanely simple idea, insanely simple execution.
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  About your job opening...

  Posted: October 5th, 2011, 1:07am MDT by Stefan Koopmanschap

  The PHP job market is booming. Lots of companies are looking for (good) developers, but these are hard to find. Lots of developers are looking for a (good) job, but these are equally hard to find. Wait, that sounds strange... but it's true.