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PHP Alive And Kicking: Episode 29 Elizabeth Barron
Elizabeth Barron returns to the show just four weeks after her debut appearance for a wide-ranging follow-up on her first months as Executive Director of the PHP Foundation. Elizabeth shares the key findings from her community listening tour, covers the upcoming PHP community survey in partnership with JetBrains, talks about the Foundation’s plans for […]
PHP Alive And Kicking: Episode 22 Sara Golemon
Sara Golemon returns to the show — her first appearance was way back in Episode 2 — for a deep dive into Git Worktrees, a powerful but underused Git feature that lets you work on multiple branches simultaneously without the overhead of stashing, context-switching, or rebuilding from scratch. The episode covers practical real-world use cases, […]
PHP Alive And Kicking: Episode 26 Elizabeth Barron
In this episode of PHP Alive and Kicking, hosted by Mike and Chris (from PHP Architect), featuring their guest Elizabeth Barron, the newly appointed Executive Director of the PHP Foundation. The conversation covers Elizabeth’s origin story in PHP (self-teaching in the late 1990s), her vision for the Foundation beyond just funding core developers […]
PHP Alive and Kicking Episode 20 – Ash Allen
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PHP Alive And Kicking – Episode 19 – Jim Seconde
Jim’s opening gambit? “Can you buy elephants on the merch store? Also, it’s giving me a 403 error.” Chaos ensued. Accusations were thrown. Then Jim realized: he was on his work machine. His company VPN doesn’t trust PHP Architect merchandise. The store works fine. Everyone move along. Fifty Elephants and a Woolly […]
PHP Alive And Kicking – Episode 17 – TJ Miller
PHP Architect Social Media: X: https://x.com/phparch Mastodon: https://phparch.social/@phparch Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/phparch.com Discord: https://discord.phparch.com Subscribe to our magazine: https://www.phparch.com/subscribe/ Partner This podcast is made a little better thanks to our partners. Displace Infrastructure Management, Simplified Automate Kubernetes deployments across any cloud provider or bare metal with a single command. Deploy, manage, and scale your infrastructure with […]
PHP Alive And Kicking – Episode 16 – Wendell Adriel
Wendell joins the show with a literal fire background (the “this is fine” meme), which he admits he can’t use anymore because of company backgrounds. But it’s an accurate representation of daily developer life, and we can all relate. Teaching PHP Six Months After Learning It At 16 years old, working in a small-town […]
PHP Alive and Kicking Episode 15: Below Deck with Frank Wallen
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PHP Alive and Kicking Episode 14 – Dan Newns
Dan’s programming journey started in secondary school with Visual Basic—specifically building a cinema booking system. But it was university where things got real: HTML with tables (no CSS!), lots of style tags, and a very old version of PHP. If you’ve been around long enough to remember that era, you know exactly what he’s […]
PHP Alive And Kicking Episode 13 – Shane and Simon
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