Zuzana didn’t grow up coding at age 10, she came to development later in life, looking for flexible work she could do around raising three kids. A chance encounter with an online bootcamp that happened to use PHP (not JavaScript like most today) set her on a path she never expected. WordPress meetups and […]

 The Bored Sysadmin Who Chose PHP Over .NET a young Linux sysadmin whose job involves kicking the mail server once a week and spending the rest of the time playing Call of Duty. Steve watched the dev team actually creating things and decided to join them. JavaScript looked “kind of cool,” PHP “made sense,” […]

 Matt takes us back to the mid-90s, learning HTML and PHP alongside his older brother – back when there was no CSS or JavaScript, and getting a header and footer to include across multiple pages felt like magic. Fast forward to today, and that early foundation still influences how he codes and thinks about […]

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 From wannabe teen hacker to 20+ years in PHP, AI Lead at Laravel, and producing Laravel Boost – come and hear about Ashley Hindle and his journey. Laravel Boost Deep Dive Makes AI code better with context-aware docs, guidelines, and tools Auto-detects your packages/versions (Laravel, Pest, Filament, Tailwind, etc.) Born from Ashley’s earlier project […]

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 In this episode of “PHP Alive and Kicking,” Mike and Chris engage in a discussion with Sara Golemon, a prominent PHP Internals developer and release manager. The conversation kicks off with Sara sharing her unique journey into PHP development, which began unexpectedly from a tech support role for the US government, ultimately leading her […]

 This pilot episode of PHP Alive and Kicking was pre-recorded. Sadly, since recording, we have lost a wonderful soul within our community, Ryan Weaver. Our thoughts go out to his family. Ryan had a profound impact on the lives of people in the community and, I am sure, beyond. He will be sorely missed. […]