PHP UK Conference
19 Feb 2025 at The Brewery, 52 Chiswell Street, London, EC1Y 4SD

I think this could have been improved with more audience participation from the floor, especially when discussing the teaching of PHP (which does occur on some degrees). That said, it was interesting to hear the viewpoints of experienced figures in the community and I like the idea of building evangelism for PHP through a community of writers/bloggers. I already read PHP Weekly and PHP architect, and often their stuff reminds me of the simple joys of building something for fun and/or curiosity.

This talk made me realise how much better our APIs could be, having never come across OpenAPI before. I foresee a lot of work ahead, but the pay off will be worth it. I'm particularly keen to play with some of the tools that were suggested.

I could have watched this talk for hours. Some great examples of weird and wonderful edge cases that I'll be sharing with colleagues. My favourite was probably the effects of incrementing strings that appear to be denoting an exponential notation.

A wealth of examples that really made me think about our use of dependencies. I'll be doing some research into wpackagist as a result, which we use for WordPress projects, to see if it follows the same model as packagist in storing metadata but not code.

Incredibly well thought out analogies that made me realise I'm a terrible gardener and chef, but helped me to understand the beauty of Monionliths.

As someone who is making the journey from Junior Dev / recent graduate (mature student) to experienced developer, this was a great reflection on the security mistakes that can all to easily be made when you're gaining experience or making false assumptions. I'm hopeful that it will save me some embarrassment down the line...

You had me at Japanese Knotweed... Really interesting talk that I hope will be applicable to our small team.

Kevin is a machine and Frankenphp is awesome. Saw a similar talk two years ago so it was great to see what has actually improved and been achieved in this time

Learned a few interesting things but would have loved to see more issues that were not so much edge cases

Really nice summary of supply chain problems and what you can do about them