Written by Stefan Koopmanschap
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on Mar. 31, 2021
Over all the years that I've been a speaker at PHP conferences, I have been very happy as a speaker. Most conferences I spoke at would reimburse my travel and get me a hotel room for the duration of the conference. Most of the time, a speaker dinner was included as well. It got me to travel the wor…
Written by Stefan Koopmanschap
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on Jan. 6, 2021
After our Sonos died early December, we were in the market for a new device. We did some research, got some advice and eventually decided to go for a BlueSound Node 2. While going through the features we noticed the option to have your own digital music library playing on it (yeah, I know the Sonos…
Written by Stefan Koopmanschap
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on Dec. 30, 2020
Recently I've been digging into an internal API for one of our customers because there were some complaints about the performance. Some, and only some, calls would take over 10 seconds to complete. These were all calls that were being used by XHR requests fetching data for display, and the users we…
Written by Stefan Koopmanschap
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on Dec. 3, 2020
Today I was a speaker at SymfonyWorld, the global online conference related to the Symfony framework. In my talk I travelled through my history with the framework and shared some of the lessons I learned over the years, focussing specifically on the lessons I learned by using the framework and seei…
Written by Stefan Koopmanschap
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on Aug. 25, 2020
Earlier this year we made the tough decision to cancel WeCamp 2020 due to the on-going COVID-19 pandemic. It was not an easy decision but looking back at it now, I think we made the right decision. We honestly could not have justify letting people travel to an island. WeCamp was supposed to have ha…
Written by Stefan Koopmanschap
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on Jul. 2, 2020
Some time ago I got fed up with the performance of Docker on Mac. Especially with the bigger projects I work on, the performance was getting horrible. After trying Windows for a bit, I switched to Windows because performance was better on Windows. But as I was using Docker for Windows on a project…