We welcome Joe Ferguson back to catch up with us about PHP, his column “The Workshop”, and more Topics Covered Virtual conference experiences. Looking forward to in-person events. Laravel Homestead, which Joe maintains. Uses and tradeoffs versus Docker. Docker Performance on Mac Local Development Environments Goals for his Workshop, eventually looking at Docker Swarm and […]

This month, we chat with Mark Kelnar about his article in the April 2021 issue, Busy Worker Bees Topics Covered What he learned from beekeeping and using Agile techniques. Working at WPEngine with the LAMP stack. Working on headless/decoupled WordPress. Applying agile outside of software development projects. If/how agile has changed since its introduction. Getting […]

Eric, John, and Oscar go through the articles in the April 2021 issue, Busy Worker Bees. Topics Discussed The rogue Git Commit in PHP’s repo. Following PHP internals. Working with clients. Bref and serverless computing. Refactoring applications to use cloud services like S3 Object Stores. Yoda Conditionals and writing readable code. Preparing for when disaster […]

Eric, John, and Oscar talk about the features and columns from the March 2021 issue, Lambda PHP Topics Covered Working the Serverless computing and PHP, and the costs potentially involved. Practical applications of functional programming and misconceptions around it versus object-oriented programming (OOP). John and Eric’s attempts at the puzzle for the month about generating hashtags. […]

PHP internals contributor Sara Golemon answers questions from a panel of php[architect] and PHP Ugly contributors about the recent git compromise that affected the PHP project and what they’re doing about it. You can also watch a video of the roundtable with Sara. More on This From Rasmus Lerdorf: It wasn't, but we caught it […]

Eric and John get a chance to sit down and interview Juciellen Cabrera, on her article Refactoring—Does This Code Spark Joy? in the March 2021 issue. Topics Covered The joy of revisiting legacy code. How she started as a programmer via an internship. Moving from Brazil to Ireland via a local conference opportunity. Her involvement […]

Oscar Merida, the Editor-in-Chief, looks at the March 2021 issue, Lambda PHP.

Listen as the podcast crew got together to go through the February 2021 issue, Dealing with Data. Topics Covered Mezzio framework from Laminas (formerly Zend Framework) Functional programming and where to use it in PHP applications. Using CQRS and Event Sourcing to manage input and output data flows. How to approach the February PHP Puzzle […]

Join us for an interview with Michael Akopov, another returning guest to the podcast. Topics Covered Working with Laravel, Vapor, Forge, and Livewire. His new book, Beyond Laravel which offers an overview of the ecosystem around the framework. His six rules to keep in mind when building a business, product, or service. Using the community […]