In this episode, Scott talks with Chris Morrell about PHPxWorld and a hopeful return to in-person User Groups.

Links:

• PHPxWorld – https://phpx.world/
• Chris on BlueSky – https://bsky.app/profile/cmorrell.com
• HoneyBadger.io – https://HoneyBadger.io

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This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about PHP Tek 2025, Home Row Mod, Glutton Malware, Larave Visual Code Extension, Free Copilot, Free Webstorm, and more…

Links from the show:

• PHPTek 2025 – May 20th to 22nd, 2025
  
• A guide to home row mods
• New Glutton Malware Exploits Popular PHP Frameworks Like Laravel and ThinkPHP
• GitHub – laravel/vs-code-extension
• Laravel – Visual Studio Marketplace
  
• Announcing 150M developers and a new free tier for GitHub Copilot in VS Code – The GitHub Blog
• WebStorm and Rider Are Now Free for Non-Commercial Use | The JetBrains Blog
• Home — JetBrains Merchandise Store

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• Eric Van Johnson | Mastodon: @[email protected]
• John Congdon | Mastodon: @[email protected]

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This week on the php podcast, Eric and John talk about Load Balancers, Ethics in Tech, Quantum Computing, and more…

Links from the show:

• AtlantaPHP December 2024 Online Meeting, Thu, Dec 12, 2024, 7:00 PM | Meetup
• PHP TEK 2025 – May 20th to 22nd, 2025
  
• 8 Type of Load Balancing – DEV Community
• Discord
• The Essential Software Engineering Code of Ethics | Institute of Data
• Code of Ethics in Software Engineers – GeeksforGeeks
• Google unveils a quantum chip. Could it help unlock the universe’s deepest secrets? : NPR
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In this episode, Scott talks with Nelson Isioma about his article in the November 2024 issue of the php[architect] magazine about Serverless Architectures.

Links
pScan – https://github.com/Nelwhix/pScan
Article – https://www.phparch.com/article/2024-11-building-serverless-php-applications/

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This week on the php podcast, Eric and John talk about Lazy Object in PHP 8.4, php[tek] 2025 first round of speaker selection is done, PHP Architect is now on Bluesky (@phparch.com), join the PHP Architect Squad on daily.dev. CPX, Security issues with RCS, and more…

Links from the show:

• PHP: Lazy Objects – Manual
• PHP[TEK] 2025 – May 20th to 22nd, 2025
  
• @phparch.com on Bluesky
• https://app.daily.dev/squads/phparchitect
• PHP Object Lazy-Loading is More Than What You Think – JoliCode
• https://dailyrefactor.com/exploring-php-lazy-objects-practical-implementation
• cpx — The npx counterpart of the PHP ecosystem — Amit Merchant — A blog on PHP, JavaScript, and more
• Derick Rethans: “ The PHP manual has learned a new trick, you ca…” – PHP Community on Mastodon
• FBI Warns iPhone And Android Users—Stop Sending Texts

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In this episode, Scott talks to Florian Engelhardt about concurrency in PHP.

Links

• Florian on Mastodon – https://phpc.social/@flowcontrol
• Florian’s Website – https://dotbox.org
• Article – Concurrency in PHP: What are my options?

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This week on the php podcast, Eric and John discuss PHP 8.4 and its new features, Pie, PHPStorm, PHPTek, Yazi for file management in the terminal, and more.

Links from the show:

• PHP: PHP 8.4.0 Release Announcement
• GitHub – php/pie: The PHP Installer for Extensions
• Announcing the Pre-Release of the PHP Installer for Extensions (PIE) — The PHP Foundation — Supporting, Advancing, and Developing the PHP Language
• What’s New in PhpStorm 2024.3
• PHPTEK 2025
• GitHub Receipt
• New Array Functions in PHP 8.4 | Ash Allen Design
  
• @ericvanjohnson.bsky.social on Bluesky
• https://yazi-rs.github.io/docs/installation

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This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about New Features in PHP 8.4, The Magic Behind Laravel’s defer(), Doctrine Introduces EnumType Columns, Serialization/Deserialization, Laravel’s Nightwatch, PHPTek 2025, and more…

Links from the show:

• PHP 8.4: new features and release date
• The magic behind Laravel’s new defer() helper — Amit Merchant — A blog on PHP, JavaScript, and more
• Doctrine enum implementation in Dotkernel – DotKernel PSR-7 Middleware Applications
• GitHub – Crell/Serde: Robust Serde (serialization/deserialization) library for PHP 8.
• Laravel Nightwatch
• PHPTEK 2025 – May 20th to 22nd, 2025
• Fundraiser by Ryan Weaver : Support Ryan’s Brain Cancer Battle
• The US government wants devs to stop using C and C++ • The Register
• Product Security Bad Practices | CISA
• PERT

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This week on the php podcast, Eric and John discuss PHP Event Sourcing with Laravel Verbs, CascadiaPHP, PHPTek 2025, whats new in the latest magazine release, potentially moving the podcast to another server for hosting, and more…

Links from the show:

• php[architect] | The site for PHP professionals, Magazine, Training, Books, Conferences
• Verbs
• PHP[TEK] 2025
• WordPress ready for php 8.4
• How to turn off password managers for fields | Stefan Judis Web Development
• Switch podcast hosting platforms without losing subscribers

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In this episode, Scott talks to Brad Van Vugt about Battlesnake.com a competitive online game where your code is the controller.

Links:
Battlesnake – https://play.battlesnake.com/
HoneyBadger.io – https://HoneyBadger.io

00:00 Intro
00:31 What is Battlesnake?
02:33 What need does Battlesnake fill?
09:31 HoneyBadger
10:20 What technology is used?
14:46 What else should people know about Battlesnake?
15:51 Outro

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