Category: Development
‘master’ has always been a poor branch name
Recently I was scrolling through my twitter timeline when I encountered this tweet by Fabien Potencier: Fabien eloquently describes something that suddenly clicked with me; master has always been a po... Read More
Shape, Form and Detail: What developers could learn from drawing techniques
When you are like me and love practising your art as a developer then it hurts to build something only to throw it away later on. Many books, articles and opinions centre around the notion of good cod... Read More
phpBenelux 2019 – Friday
Last week was the 10th edition of phpBenelux; and for me, it was the 8th time I had been there. From the first one to the 10th one is quite awesome to be a part of and in those 10 years, the spirit of... Read More
The WeCamp Experience
Disclaimer: I have been involved with the organisation of WeCamp for the past 6 years. The WeCamp Experience. In these past few years this has been my best description for what WeCamp is. It is incred... Read More
Adding drop shadows to your Mapbox Maps
One of the things that MapBox does not natively support is the concept of drop shadows or some sort of glow to your map elements. Luckily, with some trickery, we can fake that. The trick here is to dr... Read More
Setting the Field of View (FOV) in Mapbox GL JS
At a client of mine, we are working with Mapbox to show a floor plan of the building. As the map needs to be as readable as possible we wanted to do an experiment by using an orthographic or ... Read More
When your template cannot be found in Symfony 4
While I was playing with GraphQL in Symfony I wanted to use a pre-symfony 4 bundle to provide a GraphQL server. When I wanted to go to a page that used a twig template I got the following error: Unabl... Read More
Installing Symfony Flex and Prooph 7
Because I love to experiment with new technologies I decided today to set up a new event-sourced project using Symfony Flex and Prooph 7. In this blog post, I am going to describe my experiences when ... Read More