Hello world! My name is Lennaert Ekelmans.

The best way to keep yourself up to date with your favorite PHP framework is to follow interesting people in the industry. Here’s a list of 7 twitter accounts you should follow when you develop in CakePHP. Mark Story (@mark_story) CakePHP guy, Developer at FreshBooks and sometimes designer in Toronto Ontario. Jose Zap (@jose_zap) Venezuelan [...]

Lately I’m playing with the Nginx webserver. Nginx is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server hosting 7.5% of all webservers on the internet (that’s 20.5M webservers). CakePHP plugin assets are served through PHP, which makes it obviously slower than serving it without invoking PHP. I found a little solution that speeds up every plugin asset [...]

I don’t have to explain why CakePHP is such a brilliant PHP framework, it simply is. The good part with frameworks is that they include a rich reusable API library full of functions that will make life easier for most programmers. CakePHP is such a framework with an enormous rich library. I only know half [...]

Just a short blog post about CakePHP, I see loads of people around me who don’t want any markup like DIVS or LABELS around their form input elements. There are plenty reasons you don’t want those markup, for example when you need your form in a table. I see programmers using $form->select(); or $form->radio(); to [...]

Okay, for those who don’t know Twittermail, Twittermail is an open idea by Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, he thought that it would be great if people could e-mail their tweets to Twitter.com. This is potentially very useful for people who use mobile phones. Of course you can go to the mobile webpage of Twitter, but [...]