In this episode, Scott talks to Mark Niebergall about his talks at php[tek] 2024, preparing to do a 3-hour tutorial track talk, his work as a PHP-FIG Secretary, and the current opening as a PHP-FIG Secretary.  Links: PHP-FIG: www.php-fig.org Tickets to php[tek] 2024 – http://tinyurl.com/tek-2024-tickets

In this video, Scott talks to Nils Adermann about composer, Private Packagist, and Nil’s talk at php[tek] 2024.  Links: Private Packagist – https://packagist.com/ Tickets to php[tek] 2024 – http://tinyurl.com/tek-2024-tickets

In this video, Scott talks to James Seconde about what services Vonage provides developers and his talks at php[tek] 2024. Links: Tickets to php[tek] 2024 – http://tinyurl.com/tek-2024-tickets

In this video, Scott talks to Tim Lytle about tips for new conference attendees and his talk on Docker at php[tek] 2024.  Links: Dev Friday Show – https://devfridayshow.com/ Tickets to php[tek] 2024 – http://tinyurl.com/tek-2024-tickets

Scott talks to Larry Garfield about his talks at php[tek] 2024 and the open source projects he’s created and maintained for the community. Links: Larry’s Blogs – https://www.garfieldtech.com and https://peakd.com/@crell Serde – https://github.com/Crell/Serde AttributeUtils – https://github.com/Crell/AttributeUtils Tickets to php[tek] 2024 – http://tinyurl.com/tek-2024-tickets

Scott talks to Scott McAllister from ngrok about some of the features ngrok can provide to its users and Scott’s talk about webhooks at php[tek] 2024 Links: ngrok – https://ngrok.com/ Webhooks.fyi – https://webhooks.fyi/ Tickets to php[tek] 2024 – http://tinyurl.com/tek-2024-tickets

In this episode, Scott talks to April Wensel from Compassionate Coding about empathy in coding and her keynote at php[tek] 2024.

Docker is one of the best ways to have a consistent environment across multiple computers, but for new developers (and even not-so-new developers), it can be hard to understand and set up. Thankfully, the Laravel team has created Laravel Sail to make Docker a much easier tool to use when we’re working on Laravel projects. […]

“Works on my machine” it’s a common refrain before closing out a bug ticket. This hides the fact that something is different between your development and production environments. There are a bunch of ways to resolve this problem but one of the easiest is to use a solution like Docker to make sure our development […]

As developers, we’re constantly managing where entities are in some flow. Entities like blog posts, multi-step user registration, and even UI elements can exist in multiple states, and we’re responsible for making sure that they’re always in a valid state. If something unexpected happens in those flows, it can cause bugs, which can cause us […]