Planning to Fail
Explore strategies for building highly available PHP systems through failure planning, technology choices, design patterns, and simulations.
Realtime Web Apps in the Wild
Explore the evolution and current state of real-time web technologies, including WebSockets and popular solutions, with practical demonstrations and use cases beyond chat applications.
Scaling with HipHop
Explore HipHop, Facebook's open-source PHP compiler, offering significant speed improvements and core feature support. Learn its benefits and implementation strategies for enhanced performance.
PHP Extensions
Intense introduction to writing custom PHP extensions, bridging PHP with C/C++ libraries. Covers core concepts and may include HipHop extensions if time allows.
Coding, Deploying, and Scaling with AWS
Hands-on walkthrough of building a PHP application stack in AWS, from deploying a Silex app to Elastic Beanstalk to integrating various AWS services. Includes practical configuration tips and real-world examples.
Advanced JavaScript Techniques
Explore advanced JavaScript techniques for creating responsive web apps, including OAuth2 API access, secure widget embedding, and real-time updates via WebSockets and PubsubHubbub.
Large Scale Data Processing with Hadoop and PHP
Learn to process large-scale data efficiently using Hadoop and PHP. Explore techniques for handling big data challenges and optimizing performance in distributed computing environments.
Powering Your Website with Real-Time Data
Explore XMPP implementation for real-time data exchange in PHP applications, including server setup and JavaScript integration for seamless messaging.
Profiling PHP Applications
Discover tools and techniques for identifying performance bottlenecks and optimizing PHP applications, presented by Xdebug creator and PHP contributor Derick Rethans.
PHP 5.4 - The New Bits
Explore PHP 5.4's exciting features: traits, array dereferencing, improved closures, and more. Also covers key PHP 5.3 additions like namespaces and PHAR for a comprehensive update on modern PHP capabilities.
PHP Under the Hood
Explore PHP's inner workings, including HashTables, reference counting, and executor concepts, to gain deeper understanding of the language's runtime without delving into C code.
Masterizing PHP Data Structure
Explore advanced PHP data structures beyond arrays, including SPL and extensions, to optimize code performance and efficiency in complex applications.
Advanced OO Patterns
Explore advanced object-oriented patterns in PHP with Tobias Schlitt. Learn sophisticated techniques to enhance code structure, maintainability, and reusability in complex PHP applications.
Teaching Your Machine to Find Fraudsters
Learn statistical and machine learning techniques to detect online fraud, flag suspicious activity, and protect e-commerce systems using PHP and other technologies.
SilverStripe - The Open Source PHP CMS for Teams
Discover SilverStripe: An open-source PHP CMS designed for seamless teamwork. Learn why it outperforms competitors and how it can enhance your web development experience for developers, designers, and content administrators.
From PHP to Machine Code
Explore the journey from PHP code to machine code, understanding interpreters, opcodes, and bytecode caches. Gain insights into PHP's inner workings and programming language principles.
Eating Spaghetti with Symfony
Gradual migration strategies for modernizing legacy PHP projects using Symfony, focusing on iterative improvements and continuous value delivery.
Dip Your Toes in the Sea of Security
Explore essential web application security concepts, from secure PHP coding practices to Linux server protection, providing insights for developers of all levels.
Introducing Zend Framework 3
Explore Zend Framework 3's improved architecture, performance, and PSR-7 integration. Learn about component-based development, upgrading from ZF2, and new features for modern PHP projects.
Step into Debugging
Learn step debugging in PHP with Xdebug and PhpStorm, moving beyond var_dump to efficiently identify and solve problems in your code.
MVVM and Silex - It's the Future
Explore using Silex and AngularJS to create rich web applications and APIs. Learn about frontend tools like Bower, Grunt, and MVVM frameworks, and their impact on PHP development.