About me
Mike van Riel is a Senior Software Developer at Unet BV, an ISP for the corporate segment based in the Netherlands.
With a passion for industry standards and Quality Assurance he loves nothing more than to discuss methods to improve code and ways to 'Do-It-Better'™ in general.
Aside from the regular talk about PHP and web-based technologies he also occasionally tends to write about his personal life, opinions and hobbies.
phpWomen contest close to an end
Tomorrow will be the last day to participate in the phpWomen contest at www.phpwomen.org.
For those of you who do not know, phpWomen is a great initiative to bind the girls of the trade together in a sort of community or usergroup.
It has received quite a bit of attention lately and in my opinion rightly so!
I [...]
Kubuntu and a slow Eclipse
You know you want to do it, the move, from windows to Linux when developing locally. It works like a charm, except for Eclipse when you do not pay attention.
One could wonder, why do you want to develop locally? Well, sometimes (twice a day) I travel by train. And sitting still is very hard for [...]
Errorhandling in PHP, now with Fatal Errors included
Every once in a while you stumble upon a topic that you thought would have been completely covered. This I thought as well about PHP Errorhandling. Although resources are abundant about the topic, most of them cover Error handling without handling the Fatal Errors or with hacks for a solution.
This last problem can easily be [...]
Testing LDAP
Since I tend to work quite a bit at home, for the company or just for myself, I need to work off the Business Intranet quite some times.
This causes some problems when you are developing certain functionalities like a LDAP authentication mechanism in my new SOA Platform (I will blog about it in a later [...]
Dutch PHP Business Seminar == excellent
I like to learn, it might seem odd for some people but I just like it. There is never enough time to learn everything but attending a Seminar is surely one way to increase your learning efficiency.
And so I did attend the Dutch PHP Business Seminar for the first time. It was offered by iBuildings [...]