Yes, you’ve read it right. I’ve not mistaken the subject. PHP.net is migrating to SVN. From CVS. Well, I don’t know if I have to laugh or to cry. Meanwhile I make a decision, I will comfort myself watching again Linus introducing Git at Google. The video follows.
My first corporate post @ Ibuildings
My first post on the Ibuildings’ corporate blog is now live: DPC 2009 Day 2. It is clearly about the second day of the Dutch PHP Conference 2009 I’ve attend not a long ago, and the article is basically an “extended version” of something I’ve already wrote here on my blog. Funny that my official [...]
Building from scratch. Again?
Seriously, I can’t believe the trend of this poll. The question is What PHP software would you typically use for an extranet type application (with user content, logins etc.)? and (so far) 24 votes have gone to this answer Custom built (with a framework) not to mention those three who have voted: Custom built (from [...]
DPC ’09 – My favourite talks
A couple of days ago the DPC ’09 ended and I must say that has been a good time. Nice people to talk to and some interesting talks. Here there are my favourite ones: All the Little Pieces: Distributed systems with PHP What are you talking about? Document classification in PHP PHP Compiler Internals Trees [...]
Dutch PHP Conference 2009
Ok, guys. I’d like to spend more words about this but time is a hard master, so I’ll put this simple. In nearly two months the Dutch PHP Conference will take place in Amsterdam, organized as usual by Ibuildings, the company I’m currently working for. This is for all PHP professionals out there: the DPC [...]
echo “techPortal”;
What’s techPortal? Well, it the first publicly visible piece of the PCE initiative from Ibuildings. PCE – PHP Centre of Expertise – is an initiative to spread and promote the professional use of PHP, and techPortal is basically a technical blog where you can find specialized articles mainly written by the Ibuildings PHP Engineers. The [...]
DPD – ConsumerSearch.com
ConsumerSearch.com is a website with a huge traffic. According to what Dries Buytaert reported is his post, this website gets 5.5 million unique visitors per month (and growing). ConsumerSearch is a part of About.com group, a subsidiary of The New York Times Company.
DPD – JQuery Plugins
Let’s get this started. The first website I want to talk about for the ‘Drupal Powered Digest’ is actually the latest I’ve come to know: JQuery Plugins. It is a pretty much standard installation of Drupal, with some additional modules, one of them being the ‘project‘ module. The estimated number of visits per day is [...]
Drupal Powered Digest
What This post is to introduce a periodically survey of websites/applications powered by Drupal, the only CMS in the PHP world that actually deserves to be classified as a CMF. From now on I will post a number of articles with the only goal to say «You see? another big one built with Drupal». Anyway, [...]


