Community, PHP and us: Growing up
summary
Starts programming at 11 with functions.php then functions2.php and renames databasefunctions.php to database.class.php, learns object orientation reluctantly, and says autoloading changed my life. Builds IRC bots, ships a three‑day web shop (first paid project, 2006) deployed over FTP and admits it fails, submits a first open‑source change adding a GitHub icon, faces harassment on IRC and finds community support through user groups, PHP Women, Composer, Laravel, Symfony and Livewire.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:59Early PHP struggles
- 7:59Finding PHP community
- 12:20First paid project
- 16:36Overcoming self-doubt
- 20:08Open source contributions
- 21:53PHP’s full-stack potential
- 24:49Lessons from growth
- 27:40Diversity in community
- 30:12Growing up in PHP
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