This week on the php podcast, Eric and John discuss PHP 8.4 and its new features, Pie, PHPStorm, PHPTek, Yazi for file management in the terminal, and more. Links from the show: PHP: PHP 8.4.0 Release Announcement GitHub – php/pie: The PHP Installer for Extensions Announcing the Pre-Release of the PHP Installer for Extensions (PIE) — The PHP Founda…

This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about New Features in PHP 8.4, The Magic Behind Laravel’s defer(), Doctrine Introduces EnumType Columns, Serialization/Deserialization, Laravel’s Nightwatch, PHPTek 2025, and more… Links from the show: PHP 8.4: new features and release date The magic behind Laravel’s new defer() helper — Amit Merchan…

This week on the php podcast, Eric and John discuss PHP Event Sourcing with Laravel Verbs, CascadiaPHP, PHPTek 2025, whats new in the latest magazine release, potentially moving the podcast to another server for hosting, and more… Links from the show: php[architect] | The site for PHP professionals, Magazine, Training, Books, Conferences Verbs PHP[…

In this episode, Scott talks to Brad Van Vugt about Battlesnake.com a competitive online game where your code is the controller. Links: Battlesnake – https://play.battlesnake.com/ HoneyBadger.io – https://HoneyBadger.io 00:00 Intro 00:31 What is Battlesnake? 02:33 What need does Battlesnake fill? 09:31 HoneyBadger 10:20 What technology is used? 14:…

In this episode, Scott talks to Alena Holligan about Cascadia PHP. Links: HoneyBadger.io – https://HoneyBadger.io Cascadia PHP – https://cascadiaphp.com/ 00:00 Intro 00:52 What is Cascadia PHP? 10:45 HoneyBadger 11:35 Tutorial Tracks/Access 18:44 What do people need to know about Cascadia PHP? 24:53 Outro The post Cascadia PHP With Alena Holligan a…

In this episode, Scott talks with JD Lein about getting into PHP, JD’s PHP Attributes article in the June 2024 issue of php[architect] magazine, and writing a couple open source projects Links: Understanding P…

In this episode, Scott talks to Ash Allen about how Ash got into PHP, Ash’s recent article in php[architect] on serialization, and findapr.io. Links: HoneyBadger.io – https://HoneyBadger.io A Guide to Serialization in PHP – https://www.phparch.com/article/2024-06-a-guide-to-serialization-in-php/ findapr.io – https://findapr.io/ 00:00 Intro 00:37 Ho…

John and Eric share more of the day-to-day behind-the-scenes work that goes on at php[architect]. This episode of php is sponsored by Mailtrap Join us as we explore the PHP community’s recent php[tek] conference insights, discussions on PHP arrays, and value objects. We also cover challenges in the tech industry, a new php[tek] conference in 2025, …

In this video, Scott discusses MergePHP with Logan Lindquist and the state of the in person PHP User Group. Links: MergePHP – https://www.mergephp.com/ HoneyBadger.io – https://HoneyBadger.io 00:00 Intro 01:14 What are AustinPHP and MergePHP? 04:31 How Often are Meetings? 06:31 Who Can Join The Meetups? 08:58 What Prevents Merge From Being In-perso…

In this episode, Scott talks to Keith “Danger” Casey about being called “Danger”, his talks at php[tek] 2024, and the benefits of going to conferences. Links: caseysoftware.com LinkedIn Learning – https://www.…