I help accelerate business outcomes by increasing software teams’ efficiency, effectiveness, and empowerment at Wayfair. When I'm not solving tough problems for other engineers at work or via my open-source projects, you can find me speaking at conferences all around the world. In my free time, I also like to tinker with Arduino and home automation.
I'm also a Certified Symfony Expert, a Magento Certified Developer, and a Zend Certified PHP Engineer.
Like any good project, this one started with a problem: how do I let my wife know I'm in a meeting so she doesn't let the dog barge in? (I work remotely and my office is the only way to get to the backyard.)
The solution: build my own "On Air" light that turns on/off automatically when I'm in a meeting! Sure, there are commercially-available products that do exactly this, but where's the fun in buying something when I have the skills and equipment to build my own? Just how hard could it be? (famous last words)
Matt and Ben are joined by Colin O'Dell, staff engineer at Wayfair and supporter of the twitter dividing Dynamic Properties RFC to discuss what this RFC really means for PHP going forward and if its really a good idea.
Simple PHP-based utility to download all Advent of Code puzzles and inputs locally.
A super tiny HTTP server that always returns the same response written in Go. Perfect for replacing a decommissioned service with a redirect, 404 error, or blackhole.
ASCII is so 1963. Nowadays, computers must support a broad range of different characters beyond the 128 we had in the early days of computing - not just accents and emojis but also completely different writing systems used around the globe. The Unicode standard packs a whopping 143,859 characters into an elegant system used by over 95% of the Internet, but PHP's string functions don't play nicely with Unicode by default, making it difficult for developers to properly handle such a wide array of possible user inputs.
