Zend Certified Engineer!
Finally got around to doing the ZCE (http://www.zend.com/services/certification/) exam yesterday, and I passed! Click the logo below to see my certification details.
View ArticleDeploying PHP applications with Phing (PHPNW11)
Below are the slides of the Phing talk I gave during the PHPNW11 conference. Deploying PHP applications with Phing View more presentations from Michiel Rook
View ArticleBuilding and deploying PHP applications with Phing (PHPUK2012)
Below are the slides of my Phing talk I gave at the PHP UK Conference 2012. Also, some of the examples discussed during the talk can be found here. Building and deploying PHP applications with Phing...
View ArticlePhing development update
Starting today, I’ll post regular updates on the development of Phing (which is, as you might know, a PHP build tool based on / inspired by Apache Ant). For the past three years I’ve been the lead...
View ArticleJoind.in nominated for an Impact Award
The community site joind.in is the definitive community event tracker, and it’s entirely open source! Today I learned that the site has been nominated for the 2012 Impact Awards. As a conference...
View ArticleMy Ideas For March
Last year, Chris Shiflett started the Ideas for March movement, an effort to revitalize the interesting conversations that happen(ed) on blogs. This year, several people are refreshing that effort....
View ArticlePhing development update 01/04/2012
Roughly a month ago I posted the first in, what should become, a series of development updates concerning Phing. This second blog post details the most important updates during the past four weeks as...
View ArticleA new year…
Remember how I promised to blog more? I promise I’ll improve this year Meanwhile, visit this brilliant site.
View ArticlePhing development update
The last Phing development update was almost a year ago, so I guess it’s about time for a discussion of what’s new in Phing world. 2.5.0 and Semantic Versioning The most important news in this update...
View ArticleInteresting links
Some interesting links I’ve stumbled on the past few weeks, in no particular order: http://www.paperplanes.de/ http://ducksboard.com/ http://www.kitchensoap.com/2012/10/25/on-being-a-senior-engineer/...
View ArticlePhing development update
It’s about time I wrote another Phing development update post, as the previous one was written 6 months ago! So, what have we been up to ? Release 2.5.1 Unfortunately, because of other commitments,...
View ArticleUsing conditional build steps to speed up your Jenkins PHP builds
At my client Spotney, we have a pretty solid (and common) build infrastructure for our PHP projects; SVN commits are checked out by Jenkins, tests are run by PHPUnit, Sonar runs static code analysis,...
View ArticleDutch Web Alliance, leaders in web technology
I’m proud to announce that I’ve joined forces with a group of very talented web developers in the Netherlands and Belgium: the Dutch Web Alliance. More information is available on our website, the full...
View ArticleDocker & PHP: beyond virtual machines
(note: this post was first published on the blog of the Dutch Web Alliance) Docker is currently one of the hottest technologies around, because it solves a very specific problem: the ability to easily...
View ArticleZend Certified Engineer!
Finally got around to doing the ZCE (http://www.zend.com/services/certification/) exam yesterday, and I passed! Click the logo below to see my certification details. The post Zend Certified Engineer!...
View ArticleDeploying PHP applications with Phing (PHPNW11)
Below are the slides of the Phing talk I gave during the PHPNW11 conference. Deploying PHP applications with Phing View more presentations from Michiel Rook The post Deploying PHP applications with...
View ArticleBuilding and deploying PHP applications with Phing (PHPUK2012)
Below are the slides of my Phing talk I gave at the PHP UK Conference 2012. Also, some of the examples discussed during the talk can be found here. Building and deploying PHP applications with Phing...
View ArticlePhing development update
Starting today, I’ll post regular updates on the development of Phing (which is, as you might know, a PHP build tool based on / inspired by Apache Ant). For the past three years I’ve been the lead...
View ArticleThe road to continuous deployment: a case study
Below are the slides of my talk “The road to continuous deployment: a case study”, as presented at the Dutch PHP Conference in June 2016. I’m planning to dedicate a series of blogposts to this...
View ArticleCD: Continuous Delivery or Continuous Deployment?
I’m writing this post to contribute my take on the acronym CD, and the distinction (or perhaps, confusion) between the phrases Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment. These phrases are used...
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