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.
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.
Releasing open-source libraries is more than sharing your GitHub URL with the world. There are many considerations and steps involved especially for successful and long-lived projects.
In this talk, we’ll cover the principles behind creating, releasing, and maintaining high-quality libraries. Topics will include structuring the repository, implementing modern PHP standards, maintaining changelogs, using CI tests, releasing new versions, and more.
