Longhorn PHP 2025
23 - 25 Oct 2025 at Holiday Inn Austin Midtown

I too loved the history of the talk, I went and downloaded an EPUB of the programming book mentioned. I found it enjoyable because I also learned to program (on a TI-83+ graphing calculator) by copying programs from a book.

The talk was a bit rushed at the end, prob because conference was drawing to a close, but I didn't catch much about "how" we're supposed to save open source. I hadn't heard of src-avail licenses until this talk, but wouldn't-you-know I came across my first one yesterday. I'm not sure I love it, either.

We just got done tuning our base Docker images and CI/CD pipelines in an effort to shrink deployment times. With Chainguard images being so small (AKA small number of layers) I bet deployments are super quick. I'd be curious to try this out on our test ECS setup.

My one concern is that if you switch to CG images and make them a dependency, if it later on doesn't work out (cost, technical difficulty) then you have to get BACK into bed with CVE-riddled images. That is a scary thought, right?

It was a very interesting presentation, but I got a little bored of all the (many) deprecations being covered at the very start, when the talk was titled "New Features...". We did eventually get to the new features (which are awesome) but by that point we'd covered a dozen or more deprecations, most of which don't apply to my team.

I'm a little committed to the JetBrains ecosystem (not to be elitist) but I love DBeaver for personal use. I wish there was a way to try the AI feature out in Community Edition even if it's BYOK (Bring Your Own Keys) or just somewhat limited.

Or maybe even an "AI-add-on" tier that's less expensive than a Pro license, because like I said I'm already paying for a different database IDE. Come to think of it, I don't use the AI integration in that one either...

A very exciting presentation for an offering with a lot of promise. Keep up the good work. I look forward to using it in our GitLab CI pipelines and Docker images :)

A lot of useful info I had to learn over the past ~3 years on-the-job. I'm glad to have these slides to show to younger developers just getting into enterprise database work, where performance starts to really matter.

A very interesting talk on how to implement lots of different MFA scenarios in PHP from the ground up. But, it's a lot of work and I don't know why I wouldn't just find a plugin like [0]? It even mentions RobThree/TwoFactorAuth in the first sentence.

[0]: https://github.com/andrej-griniuk/cakephp-two-factor-auth

Two key insights: go big on 1-2 things & stop trying to do it all. A great talk, I need to make flash cards to keep the names straight on all those Laws.

I love it when Josh has a talk. You're going to learn something that was probably hard-won and has been well tested and thought out. I now know I want to try cloudflare out for myself and why we should be using it and what is possible with a zero trust setup.

Enjoyed the hamlet break in the middle. Bravo.

This talk about the command line needs info about chaining commands and directing output. It's the killer feature of the command line imho and something that can't easily be done in gui land.