The PHP Roundtable

We discuss freelancing as a PHP developer, managing client expectations, niches, good customer service, project scope & scope creep, hourly rates vs value based pricing, and whether or not to run a SaaS.

A short afterglow discussion about the 2015 F8 Facebook Developer Conference in San Francisco, CA & a look at the new Facebook PHP SDK and where it's headed.

We discuss practical ways of dealing with legacy codebases and address the question of, "to rewrite or to refactor"? We also talk about how we should manage client expectations when working with a legacy codebase. And finally we discuss some general strategies for refactoring a codebase to good, clean, modern PHP.

You don't need to be a C programmer in order to contribute to PHP internals. We'll be discussing how you can get involved with PHP internals, the GoPHP7-ext project and how you can help get PHP 7 ready for release.

Part 2 of an on-going series on open source. We discuss a number of open source topics including what the expectations are for support of an open source project. We also discuss how to use SemVer to successfully maintain an open source package and what we can do when SemVer is not an option. And finally we take a look at licensing and discuss why we need to be concerned with it.

A live recording from Midwest PHP in Minneapolis, MN. We talk about developer burn-out, the GoPHP7-ext project, why eval() is bad, the cons of the reflection class and announce the voting phase for an RFC for PHP7.

We focus our discussion on two ideologies within the testing realm: test-driven development (TDD) and behavior-driven development (BDD). We talk about how these two methodologies bring a unique angle to testing software and how we can use them in tandem in our own PHP projects.

A live mashup of PHP Roundtable and PHP Town Hall at Sunshine PHP in Miami, Florida.

Accessibility is an important and often overlooked aspect of web development. In this episode we'll discuss why web accessibility is so important and how we can make the web more accessible.

ReactJS is not just another JavaScript framework. It's not a replacement for jQuery, Ember or Angular. But it's a library that's got one wild and crazy way to render the DOM using something called JSX. You'll hate it. Then you'll love it. Then you'll be an annoying fan-boy of it.

With big security breaches becoming the norm these days, security is something we simply cannot ignore. In this discussion we'll ask the experts how we can become more responsible developers by learning about specific security threats we should be most concerned with.

Discussing domain-driven design concepts in PHP.

Part one of a multi-part series on open source. Today we discuss open source & code management with a version control system & explore the concept of git-flow.

Taylor Otwell & Phil Sturgeon go head-to-head debating all the things.

How the sausage is made. Taking a look at PHP's history and where it's going in the future.