What’s the big Idea? PHPStorm for Vim Users
I started my IT career in system operations. I spent many days in a cold data center, racking and stacking servers, installing operating systems, and configuring routers. That’s when I started using Vim. It was nice to sit in my cubicle outside the data center and access my servers to do everything I needed in […]
Interview With JD Lien
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 PHP Attributes – https://www.phparch.com/article/2024-06-understanding-php-attributes/ JD’s GitHub – https://github.com/jdlien resume.md – https://github.com/jdlien/resume.md validator – https://github.com/jdlien/validator HoneyBadger.io – https://HoneyBadger.io 00:00 Intro 00:52 Getting […]
Intro Interview With Ash Allen
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 How Did You Get Into PHP? 01:52 Serialization in PHP 04:32 HoneyBadger.io 05:22 findapr.io […]
Running PHPCBF Automatically with GitHub Actions
As developers, we each have a specific way that we like to format our code and we can have extremely strong feelings about our preferences. This is fine if we’re the sole developer working on a project but it can be a real problem when you’re working with a team of developers. In this situation, […]
Make for Web Developers
Make for Web Developers The command line, it’s a powerful tool for us developers but it’s not the most user-friendly way to interact with a computer. It can be hard to remember steps in a multi-step process, hard to remember all the command line switches we need to have for our commands to run successfully, […]
Creating Sequence Diagrams with mermaid.js
As maintainers of open source projects, it’s important to try and bring people into our project so that we’re not the only ones maintaining the project. There are lots of ways to do this like creating blog posts about the project, contributing articles to magazines, or talking about the project at conferences. Another option is […]
MergePHP with Logan Lindquist
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-person? 10:23 What Qualities […]