Jim Seconde

A trained actor with a curious background: from Theatre Studies, to Q/A, to Business Intelligence development, to full stack web development, Jim the resident specialist PHP Developer Advocate at Global Cloud Communications giant Vonage. He founded Birmingham, UK’s current PHP usergroup BrumPHP, as well as being on the Fusion Meetup team. He mentors, writes and speaks on PHP, Javascript, DevOps, DevRel and tech culture. He also pretended to be a DJ on the way.

Articles

PHP is Legacy…in 2025

By Jim Seconde

> We travel in our jobs a lot at Vonage. I speak to plenty of developers from all walks of life, and I can confidently say one of the most asked questions I get is: Why do you still do PHP? Variations of this question can be “PHP supposed to be bad, right?” On several occasions, the person I spoke to did some PHP in 2012 or 2010 – I forget. For reasons I do not understand, we are going through another spate of this in online forums a lot, so more “PHP is terrible” comments are coming out of the woodwork. > >What causes this phenomenon? Why is PHP “bad”? by Jim Seconde

Published in Knock It Out Of The PHPark, April 2025