Posts Tagged ‘move’

Somebody just kindly reminded me that it's been over 3 months since I last posted on my blog. Oh my.

What kept me busy mostly the past months is my new home. I moved to Utrecht (which is more in the center of The Netherlands, so I can get around more easily) with Leoni, and as developers say, the house is "90% done". So it'll keep us busy for a few months.

Things at Ibuildings are hectic as always. Our UK office is growing like crazy and is nearly half the size of our NL operation already. And we're working hard to get our Italian office up and running. Behind the scenes we're already working on things there, so if you're looking for a cool PHP job in Italy, drop me an email (ivo at ibuildings dot com). (Actually Ibuildings NL and UK are looking for senior developers too, if you're interested). After a succesful DPC back in June, we're planning a few more events so keep an eye on the Ibuildings website for news on those.

Another thing that has kept me busy is one of my personal pet projects, Flackr, a twitter based breaking news aggregation site. It has fairly basic functionality at this point (we've been mainly working on the news aggregation and event detection algorithms), but will eventually grow into a 'newsroom 2.0' type application with pro features for journalists. Here's an example of how it tracks tweets related to the Hurricane Bill including pictures. Contrary to many twitter aggregators, it doesn't follow the masses, but trusted sources only.

Finally, I'm happy to announce that I've started work on a new book. Enterprise PHP sold very well and it's not outdated yet, but writing it was addictive and now I just feel like writing another one. The book will be about PHP and Cloud Computing. This time around I'm not working on it alone, I'm co-authoring it with Vito Chin, author of the GMagick PHP extension, among many other things. The expected publication date is early 2010.

That's it for now; I hope to pick up blogging with more actual content after summer.

I used to host my blog on achievo.org/blog. Since the blog didn't really have a relationship to the Achievo project management tool anymore (except for the occasional release announcement), and since Achievo.org will soon be completely redesigned, I decided to move my blog over to a new domain.

The new design was created by Almer Kaasschieter. I think he did a great job. Almer, thanks!

If you subscribed to my previous blog, I would like to advise you to update the feed url to http://www.jansch.nl/feed (or click on the subscribe link in the upper right corner).

There are times when I don't blog about PHP but about other subjects, so I've created a separate PHP category so readers of planet-php or other sites that syndicate my blog can use the separate PHP feed:

http://www.jansch.nl/category/php/feed

I also switched from Serendipity to WordPress. It's not that I'm unhappy with Serendipity, far from it (still using it for our corporate blog) but I wanted to gain some experience with WordPress as well.

Any feedback on this new blog (negative or positive) is very welcome.