Fabien Potencier

This has been an amazing week for me, Symfony, and the whole Symfony community. With more than 350 attendees coming from more than 30 countries, the Symfony Live conference was a blast.

My first exposure to YAML was in 2001, back in the days when I was mainly working with Perl. When I started to use PHP at the end of 2004, one of the first thing that bothered me immediately was the poor support for YAML.

This year, I traveled in 7 countries for PHP conferences, giving a total of 12 talks. It has been a very exiting year of conferences for me.

Some weeks ago during the Zend Conference, I quietly released Pirum, a simple PEAR channel server manager. As some people talk about it on "social networks", I thought I should write an official announcement on my blog to explain where I come from.

How I compiled PHP 5.3 on my Snow Leopard laptop.

This was my first Zend Conference, and I must say I had a great time there. The organization was top notch, there were plenty of good sessions, and the unconference topics proved to be very interesting.

My post about template engines in PHP had now more than 70 comments, and counting. This follow-up tries to answer the most asked questions.

So, you think PHP is a templating engine? So did I... for a very long time. But recently, I changed my mind. Here is why.

As you might have noticed, I'm the new project manager of Swift Mailer, a powerful mailing library for PHP.

During my holidays, I took the chance to step back a little and think about my day-to-day work. In this post, I try to explain why hacking is really an art.