php[tek] 2024, where we combine leadership, expertise, and networking in one event. A relaxing atmosphere for tech leaders and developers to share, learn, and grow professionally while also providing you with the knowledge to solve your everyday problems. Join us on the journey to be excited about work again!

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Tuesday, 23rd April 2024

PHP Architect Ballroom PHPUgly Hall PHP Foundation Studio
09:00

How to Embrace Change with Curiosity, Creativity, and Compassion

April Wensel

09:00
10:00

Lift & Shift, Cut Overs, and other Bad Habits

Keith Casey

Zombie Hunt: Find and Safely Remove Undead Code

Andy Snell

APIs: A History Lesson in Industry Mistakes and Mishaps

Jim Seconde

Packaging the Monolith

Dana Luther

10:00
11:00

EXPLAIN - The Best And Worst Tool For Speeding Up SQL Queries

Dave Stokes

Shell Scripting for PHP Developers

Andrew Woods

The Dark Corners of the SPL

Omni Adams

Advanced Test Driven-Development

Scott Keck-Warren

11:00
12:00

The Simplified Sorcery of State Machines

Jake Bennett

Your backend is not your frontend: Using Data Transfer Objects to save time and hurt feelings

Kaitlyn Concilio

Yak Free Docker: Everyday Uses That Aren't Deployment

Tim Lytle

Composer Guide to Supply Chain Security

Nils Adermann

12:00
14:00

PHP Coding Competition

Mark Niebergall

Writing PHP Extensions

Derick Rethans

Domain-driven Design in PHP

Andrew Cassell

Let's Build a Composer Package

Ben Ramsey

14:00

Wednesday, 24th April 2024

PHPUgly Hall PHP Roundtable
09:00

Finding Your Perfect Place in Tech

Ume Habiba

09:00
10:00

Break loose from CRUD - use CQRS

Chris Hartjes

Data regulations for software developers

Kaitlyn Concilio

Better Debugging With Xdebug

Derick Rethans

10:00
11:00

Advanced Git Magic

Pauline Vos

Do you know where your secrets are? Exploring the problem of secret sprawl and secret management

Dwayne McDaniel

PHP Applications at Scale

Mark Niebergall

Embracing Enums

Andy Snell

11:00
12:00

Digital Whiteboarding for Developers

Susan Fung

Consulting: Coding Is Only Half the Work

Beth Tucker Long

The 2024 State of PHP

Matthew Weier O'Phinney

A Sparkle of AI

TJ Miller

12:00
14:00

How about HTML? Headless frontends for PHP explained!

Anton Komarow

Writing sustainable code in PHP

Michelle Sanver

Never* use arrays

Larry Garfield

Web Components are the Future

Chris Tankersley

14:00
15:00

Building a PHP Safety Net

Aaron Holbrook

You Can Handle APIs: Introducing API Handler

Tim Lytle

Building for the PHP Command Line Interface

Steve Grunwell

Break Off a Piece of That Monolith

Omni Adams

15:00
16:00

SDK Tuning: From Toolkit to Cool-kit

Jim Seconde

GraphQL API in PHP

Drishti Jain

CICD should be boring and run anywhere

Joe Ferguson

The Many Layers of OAuth

Keith Casey

16:00

Thursday, 25th April 2024

PHP Foundation Studio PHP Roundtable
09:00

Saving Open Source

Ben Ramsey

09:00
10:00

Rocking the Repository Pattern

Mark Niebergall

Seven Database Query Sins You Are Going To Hell For And How To Earn Redemption

Dave Stokes

PHPStan - The PHP Static Analysis Tool to make code bug free!

Drishti Jain

Five Things Every Developer Should Know About Mental Health

Sarah Savage

10:00
10:30

Getting S**t Done: Background Work in PHP

10:30
11:00

Who Goes There? Actively Detecting Intruders With Cyber Deception Tools

Dwayne McDaniel

The Ethics of Data Collection

Beth Tucker Long

PHP Foundation Q&A

Up to my Eyeballs in Technical Debt!

Steve Grunwell

11:00
12:00

SQL Database Design For Developers

Scott Keck-Warren

The Business of Bisecting

Pauline Vos

Manage Large Data Sets with Streams in PHP

Joe Ferguson

Queryable Encryption w/ MongoDB

12:00
12:15

Accessibility

Paulo F

12:15
14:00

Simple Ways to Make Webhook Security Better

Scott McAllister

WebSockets Made Easy with OpenSwoole

Savio Resende

Create Better Dotfiles

Andrew Woods

Modern SQL

Elizabeth M Smith

14:00
15:00

(Neo)Vim for PHP Developers

Chris Hartjes

Simplifying the Complex: The Clean Code Methodology

Aaron Holbrook

PHP Attributes: Let's get Meta

Larry Garfield

Accessibility

Paulo Fernandes

15:00
16:00

Community, PHP and us: Growing up

Michelle Sanver

16:00