Last week, I was in Vancouver for the FOSSY 2026 conference, where I gave a talk about my experience as a new open-source contributor. My experiences as a contributor, and previous conferences I have attended, have mostly been focused on PHP, but FOSSY is a conference about open source software more broadly. Continue reading...
Last week, I was in Chicago for the PHPTek 2026 conference, where I gave two talks, one about upcoming changes in PHP 8.6 and the other about semantic versioning. Between the formal sessions and the informal hallway track conversations, I left the conference with plenty of new ideas for both PHP applications and future language improvements. Continue reading...
Last week, I was in Montreal for the ConFoo conference, where I gave two talks, one about Rust and one about PHP. I also attended plenty of fascinating talks given by others, and absorbed some new ideas along the way. Continue reading...
Last week, I presented "PHP 8.5: New Features from the Source" for a second time, this time through MergePHP, an online meetup combining multiple PHP user groups. The talk generally went better than it did the previous time I presented on that topic, at Longhorn PHP. Continue reading...
Last week, I attended the Longhorn PHP conference in Austin, Texas. I had the opportunity to meet with a slew of open source contributors, listen to some amazing talks, and even present my own. Continue reading...