The past few days, I have had several reasons to celebrate.

Last friday, my sister Debby got married. She got married to my colleague and good friend Peter, who some of you know from his Achievo and/or ATK contributions. He's the original author of, among other things, the atkDateAttribute, the locking feature, the PostgreSQL abstraction layer and his latest achievement for ATK was the atkMetaNode. And now he married my sister. Where is the world going...

I got to be her witness, and I drove the wedding car. They both looked really nice in their wedding suits, and they had a very nice party (pictures online soon). Congratulations can be sent to debby at debby.org and peter at achievo.org.

A few days earlier, I passed my Zend Certification Exam. Although I'm not a fan of the questions in the exam (they tend to demonstrate ones ability to learn things out of a book, rather than ones ability to write good code), I'm happy that I didn't flunk it.
My employer decided to get all their php developers certified. I think this will be a strategic advantage over our competition. Right now, of the 27 certified engineers in The Netherlands, 9 work at ibuildings, with 3 more colleages getting ready for their exam next week. We rule!