2025 Meetups

What's new in PHP 9: See the future and discover the past in PHP RFCs

February 13th, 2025

Reading the comments is always a bad idea in social media; however, for a socially developed language like PHP, reading the comments will give you insight into the background of existing and upcoming features. Since version 5.3, PHP itself has had a social side to its curation and development. Features and deprecations are proposed, discussed, and voted on in the formal RFC ('Request For Comments') process before they can be implemented in the core language. Let's look at some features, includin …

WordOps Wordpress Management

March 13th, 2025

Discover the power of WordOps, a modern solution for WordPress and PHP project management, in this technical talk. We'll start by walking you through the setup process of WordOps, equipping you with the knowledge to deploy and manage WordPress sites efficiently. We will also delve into migrating existing sites to WordOps, highlighting strategies for a smooth transition with minimal downtime. We'll also explore how WordOps isn’t just limited to WordPress—it’s a robust tool that can streamline the …

Heaps of Fun in PHP

April 10th, 2025

Can PHP be performant for advanced computer science and algorithms? Yes, it can! And it's a lot easier and more fun than you might expect due to some unique data structures. A data structure is a way to organize data, and using the proper data structure for each job can make a massive difference in performance. This session will introduce some Standard PHP Library (SPL) data structures you may not have used before and where they come in handy. We'll also look into tools for testing performance t …

PHPScript (HTMX): Postmodern front end interactions in PHP

May 8th, 2025

Interactivity in applications has always been important to providing a world-class user experience, but modern frontend frameworks can make this difficult for small teams or those without frontend experience. We've been writing interactive applications for decades, so has anything changed for PHP developers? This talk will cover the history of how PHP developers have typically built applications, and how building great experiences may not always need new languages and frameworks.

Return to REST

July 10th, 2025

We don't talk about REST much these days. Why is that? Was REST too hard? Did we get tired of it? Did GraphQL win? Let's revisit REST to learn how its concepts can be put into practice to build great APIs. Along the way, we'll talk about some of the criticisms of REST and why GraphQL is an attractive alternative. We'll also discuss when it's okay to bend or break the rules, and we'll cover hypermedia, content negotiation, and API versioning pitfalls.

Vibe Coding Laravel with Claude & Devin

August 14th, 2025

When I enter the matrix, I bring two friends. It ain't Neo & Morpheus, it's my two favorite developers Devin and Claude. After helping Devin setup our codebase on his machine, he's been fixing issues quickly when we tag him in Slack and jumps on feedback in his PRs. My other developer Claude isn't as independent but charges way less than Devin. Both need to be given well-defined tasks so they don't get too off track which I've been using GPT to help me with. I've been 10x developer all my life b …

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