PHP UK Conference Courses

Database Schema Migrations with Zero Downtime

Learn strategies for changing database schemas without interrupting production, including non-destructive changes, large data sets, and migration tools.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

I Think I Know What You’re Talking About, But I'm Not Sure

Trace the origins and changing meanings of developers’ jargon, from recursion and lexical scope to dependency injection and inversion of control.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Regex

A developer’s guide to reading and writing regular expressions, from character classes and quantifiers to lookarounds, engine behavior, and practical text manipulation.

• YouTube
• 56 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Why Your Test Suite Sucks

Explores why healthy-seeming test suites fail to deliver TDD’s promised productivity, fewer regressions, and higher code quality.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Naming Things

Explore how meaningful names for variables, functions, and classes help developers communicate context and understanding through source code.

• YouTube
• 44 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Barely Enough Design

A short tour of object-oriented design principles that shows how better design can make test-driven development more effective.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Normalisation - Friend or Foe

A practical look at database normalization, its normal forms, and the tradeoffs between reducing repetition and performance.

• YouTube
• 36 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

How to Contribute to PHP - Writing Tests and Implementing Functions

Learn to write tests, implement functions, and use internal object hooks for PHP extensions, enhancing your ability to contribute to PHP's core development.

• YouTube
• 42 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Pairing, Sharing, Caring - One Team's Journey to Pair Programming

Explore the benefits of Pair Programming, including constant code discussion and problem-solving. Learn from one team's experience implementing this collaborative development approach.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Business of Bisecting - Mastering Git's Powerful Debugging Tool

Discover the power of `git bisect` for efficient debugging and history navigation. Learn practical techniques to leverage this underutilized Git feature in your development workflow.

• YouTube
• 52 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Alias WP-CLI - Enhancing Remote Server Management

Discover how to harness the power of WP-CLI aliases for remote server management, enhancing efficiency and streamlining WordPress administration tasks.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

10 Things That Helped Me Advance My Career

Insights on career advancement through passion, communication, empathy, and creativity. Practical tips for professional growth based on personal experiences and mindset shifts.

• YouTube
• 35 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Community Driven Data Collection and Consent in AI

Exploring ethical AI data collection through community-driven models, focusing on consent and linguistic diversity. Examines Common Voice project and alternative approaches for a more inclusive AI future.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Documenting Laravel APIs with Scribe

Generate API documentation effortlessly with Scribe, a powerful Laravel package. Learn to create up-to-date, human-readable docs from your code, including a live demo on an existing project.

• YouTube
• 54 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Beyond Relational: Data Storage for Modern Applications

Explore alternatives to relational databases for modern PHP applications, including queues, key-value stores, and document databases. Learn when and how to implement these solutions for improved scalability and performance.

• YouTube
• 52 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video