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In the last blogpost I was talking about a new language in the making. Unfortunately, writing a complete new language - from scratch - isn’t as easy and takes a fair bit of time. During this …

If you know Symfony2, you probably are using (or at least, have heard of) the @paramConverter annotation from the SensioFrameworkExtraBundle. This is a really simple way to convert slugs into …

Confused by Perl? Bored by Python? Ruby too 2011? What’s the alternative? PHP? Come on! Well, seek no further since here is the next language for at least the coming decade: Saffire!

For a current project both me and a colleague are working on a big API system that authenticates through an OAuth system. Normally, such an API does all the necessary OAuth checking, handling of …

Doctrine’s DataFixtures are a great way to add test data to your application. It’s fairly easy to get this going: Create a fixureLoader that extends …

As you may now by now, I’m a big fan of using Puppet for configuration management. Since the rise of virtualization, these applications are becoming one of the more dominant tools in a …

This year the DPC (and DMC) bought all speakers one of the coolest gifts I’ve ever got (or seen) for speakers: an Arduino. During the speaker dinner, a lot of people were a bit confused on how …

Even though I really like using sed and awk, sometimes its hard to change or add parameters in configuration files. Big sed statements that may or may not work, double checking if everything has been …

During a presentation I gave yesterday about REST, there was a discussion about redirection (more detailed, a redirection from a queue to the actual resource during asynchronous operations). During …

So even in the middle of conference season, I’d like to update you with some of the awesome things I’ve seen and experienced over the last few weeks.