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One of the many things I do, on pretty much a weekly basis, is answering questions about REST and HTTP. Is this status code correct for X, should I use POST or PUT, is this hateoas enough, how do i …

A few months ago I started with a new programming language called Saffire, and it’s time for an update. Since then, we have merged over 100 pull requests, and the number of contributors is steadily …

I love working with composer. I think it’s a really neat way of dealing with dependencies in (PHP) projects and it’s not for nothing that big frameworks like symfony2 are using composer as their …

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 Doctrine\Common\DataFixtures\AbstractFixture, had a …

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 developers tool …

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 it was …