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Hackathon#4 - They boost Git Projects with their GitBot

If you love Github Project, we have good news for you! Our Team with Antoine , Erwan and Albin have improved the new Git Project, they automated the status of the cards in order to move them automatically to the right column by using labels. Their code is available here for further info : https://...

Published on Dec 12, 2016

Hackathon#4 - Toy Project Sn4k3

Our next team - Adrien , Olivier , Alex and Yevhenii - wanted to create a funny Real-Time-Multiplayer (RTMP) game ! They chose the snake theme for their game. As they had only two days and a half to implement a full realtime multiplayer game, they had to pick something very simple - or even better...

Published on Nov 24, 2016

Hackathon#4 - @Edgar on steroids

For the fourth edition of our KNP Hackathon, Emma, Flo, Sylvain and Yann wanted to resurrect our Edgar bot on Slack. For the outsiders, we used for a long time Hipchat as our major communication interface and several KNPeers, mostly Flo, gave a lot of love to a bot named after our mascot Edgar. He ...

Published on Nov 17, 2016

Hackathon#4 - Out of your comfort zone in Bella Italia

For our fourth KNPHackathon, we took our KNPeers to the very beautiful Cascina Erbatici next to Milano. After a warm welcome by the hosts, and during the Aperitivo, we took time to thank our CEO Laetitia for giving us twice a year the opportunity to work together IRL in a wonderful environment. T...

Published on Oct 25, 2016

KNPLabs at the Web SummerCamp in Croatia

We are SummerCamp veterans ! Two years already that we have been going to the great WebSummerCamp in sunny Croatia, at Rovinj not far from Italy. Last year, Ryan Weaver and Saša Stamenković presented two workshops about Doctrine and best practices . In 2014 it was a hands-on Behat works

Published on Aug 31, 2016

CRON-free with MASA.io

On the last KNPLabs hackathon three teams worked hard during two days: The RADTeam has polished the KNP RAD Components , the GauffreTeam has worked on a new version of Gaufrette , using PHP streams at their best, and a third one worked on a toy project in order to experiment new technologies. They ...

Published on Apr 14, 2016

RAD Components - Smaller, Smarter, Simpler

Three years ago the RAD Bundle was born of an experiment in order to speed up our application development at KNP. As it was really successful, we decided to take some time and love during our KNPHackathon, in order to split it up and beautify the RAD components. The former RAD Bundle will be depreca...

Published on Mar 31, 2016

Gaufrette - Those who care!

During our third Hackathon, Andrew, Albin, Flo and Saša took care of the most used KNP library : Gaufrette! Their idea was to give some #LOVE to the existing project: Resolving issues, merging PRS and also to imagine some future killer features. Find out what's new : https://github.com/KnpLabs/G...

Published on Mar 17, 2016

KNPHackathon#3 - Do or do not - there is no try ;-)

This was our slogan for the third Hackathon, and Yes, We did it! We came to a beautiful chateau next to Paris... and we even had snow, which made the place more magical and mysterious. 4 days full of coding, great food and party... and sorry for the Karaoke... The next day it snowed, that is de...

Published on Mar 14, 2016

PHP Forum in Paris

Last week, Adrien, Olivier, Jeremy and me went to the PHP Forum that was held in Paris. There was a lot of great conferences about PHP and his ecosystem : Magento (damn), PrestaShop (damn²), and Wordpress (~ damn). > Behat Conference After the classic opening talk, I directly went to the Behat C...

Published on Dec 4, 2015

From Symfony Camp UA to Agile Testing Days

KNP Labs is ending this year with a number of conferences , which are always a good opportunity to meet old friends and new interesting people, while sharing knowledge and having lots of fun. I was lucky enough to participate to two of them! First one: Kiev. I am always happy to visit this beauty l...

Published on Dec 2, 2015

Save the Dates: Upcoming conferences with KNPeers

The PHPSummerCamp last September rang the start of the conference season and this year we have the chance to participate in A LOT of them! Here is the list of our next talks, workshops and interventions until the end of the year. If you are attending those conferences don't hesitate to come speakin...

Published on Sep 30, 2015