title	conference	date
Saving Time by Using a Debugger	PHP UK Conference 2026	2026-02-20
Concrete Xdebug 3.5 details and demos: how Xdebug 3.5 Native Path Mapping puts path maps in a .xdebug directory so mappings are commitable, how Xdebug info and… Talk on
What's New in PHP 8.5	Forum PHP 2025	2025-10-09
PHP 8.5 adds concrete, usable features: closures in constant expressions plus a pipe operator for single-argument chaining and debugger support that lets you… Talk on
What's new in PHP 8.4 (and 8.5)	phpday 2025	2025-05-15
Shows that PHP 8.4 actually ships Property Hooks and Asynchronous Visibility with working getter/setter hooks that create storage only when needed, an opt‑in… Talk on
What's new in PHP 8.4	ConFoo 2025	2025-02-26
PHP 8.4 adds concrete features: Property Hooks let typed properties run custom getter/setter code so you can implement virtual properties and enforce value… Talk on
What's new in PHP 8.3	phpday 2024	2024-05-16
A concrete changelog: PHP 8.3 (and nearby 8.1–8.4 items) adds Typed Class Constants, readonly classes that forbid dynamic properties, true class-constant… Talk on
What's new in PHP 8.3.	Dutch PHP Conference 2024	2024-03-12
PHP 8.3 and near-future changes focus on concrete, usable features: warnings for creating dynamic properties (phasing out by PHP 9), typed class constants and… Talk on
What's New in PHP 8.3	PHP UK Conference 2024	2024-02-15
Concrete changes and how they behave matter: PHP 8.3 tightens typing with Typed Class Constants and Readonly Classes, adds Arbitrary Static Variable… Talk on
What's New in PHP 8.1 and 8.2	PHP UK Conference 2023	2023-02-14
Enumerations with backed values and Enumerations with backed values become real types usable in constructors and format helpers, Fibers land as Fibers for… Talk on
What's New in PHP 8.1	PHP UK Conference 2022	2022-02-16
Covers concrete, engine-level changes with code examples and demo outputs so watchers learn what actually works now: Enumerations with backed values and… Talk on
What's new in PHP 8.1	phpday 2021	2021-06-08
Enumerations become real objects with backed enums (string/int values), .from and .tryFrom, per-case methods, static factories and a .cases listing; Fibers run… Talk on
Xdebug 3	ConFoo 2021	2021-02-24
Xdebug 3 is a new major release of the Xdebug PHP extension that changes how developers debug, profile, and trace PHP applications. The interview covers the… Talk in French on
What's new in PHP 8	phpday 2020	2020-09-08
PHP 8 adds concrete features not buzzwords: union types (including built‑in mixed) let arguments and properties accept multiple concrete types, attributes… Talk on
What's new in PHP 7.4, and coming up in PHP 8	Dutch PHP Conference 2020	2020-06-26
Covers concrete changes in PHP 7.4 like typed properties with uninitialized-read errors and invariant property rules, plus method covariance and contravariance… Talk on
Introduction to PHP Extensions	PHP fwdays'20 online	2020-05-30
Shows how a real geospatial PHP extension wraps a C implementation of the RDP/Douglas‑Peucker algorithm, with build files (config.m4, config.w32)… Talk on
Xdebug 3.0	Dutch PHP Conference 2019	2019-06-06
Xdebug 3.0 is a near-total rewrite that refactors the codebase, separates features into cohesive modules, and adds modes… Talk on
Time Zones and Calendars are a PITA	Dutch PHP Conference 2019	2019-06-06
Time handling is full of gotchas: half hour offsets and leap seconds exist, DST rules change with little or no notice so the tz database updates 5–25 times a… Talk on
Xdebug 3.0	phpDay 2019	2019-05-10
Xdebug 3.0 is a near total rewrite that simplifies a messy 17‑year codebase, replaces 65 configuration options with mode-based settings, and fixes the… Talk on
Storing Non-Scalar Data	PHP UK Conference 2019	2019-02-20
Compares concrete storage and query behavior across Redis, MongoDB and PostgreSQL rather than restating topics: shows Redis sets/hashes and atomic ops (SADD… Talk on
What's New in Xdebug?	PHPConf.Asia 2018	2018-09-27
Covers concrete Xdebug updates: v3 adds abort-on-error and force_error_reporting so scripts stop and errors aren’t hidden; adds branch/path analysis for real… Talk on
Panel Discussion: PHP - The journey so far (and what's ahead)	PHPConf.Asia 2018	2018-09-27
Panel gives concrete takeaways: PHP keeps growing but not because of prettiness; JIT speeds hot CPU‑bound loops (not typical DB‑heavy WordPress requests), and… Panel on
Getting the Most out of MongoDB	PHP fwdays'18	2018-06-10
Shows concrete, runnable specifics: PHP uses the MongoDB extension (install with pecl install mongodb) plus the composer library, collections auto-create on… Talk on
What's New in Xdebug	PHP fwdays'18	2018-06-10
Xdebug 2.6 adds concrete, usable features: forced_error_reporting and forced_display_errors that override PHP.ini; configurable connection timeout and… Talk on
Introduction to PHP Extensions	PHP UK Conference 2018	2018-02-14
Converts a PHP function into a loadable C extension, showing the actual build steps (phpize, configure, make), the API calls used (zend_parse_parameters, PHP… Talk on
Locate all the things	Dutch PHP Conference 2017	2017-06-29
Imports OpenStreetMap extracts (Amsterdam) into MongoDB, handling about 12 million nodes and 1.2 million ways, and stores geometries as GeoJSON… Talk on
It's All About the Goto	Dutch PHP Conference 2017	2017-06-29
Explains how PHP turns source into tokens then an AST then opcodes that Zend executes, and that control flow is implemented as jumps/goto-style opcodes (so… Talk on
Its All About The Goto	PHP UK Conference 2017	2017-02-16
Shows exactly how PHP transforms code: tokenizer → AST → opcodes → execution, and why control flow becomes jumps. Demonstrates concrete numbers: 500 parser… Talk on
HHVM and MongoDB — the perfect combination	PHP UK Conference 2016	2016-02-18
An HHVM extension for MongoDB exists that mimics the PHP extension API, backed by a C driver for connection and BSON handling, plus a composer-ready PHP… Talk on
Debugging: past, present and future	PHP UK Conference 2015	2015-02-18
Covers concrete tools and results: Xdebug’s HTML and CLI var_dump enhancements, command-line color hooks implemented in about 10 lines of C that save days, and… Talk on
PHP In Space	PHP UK Conference 2014	2014-02-21
Uses PHP for concrete space math: a PHP geospatial extension with a dms_to_decimal helper, haversine and Vincenty distance routines that accept GeoJSON and a… Talk on
OpenStreetMap for the Web	PHP UK Conference 2013	2013-02-21
OpenStreetMap is a downloadable geographic database under a free license and the demo shows concrete tooling and limits: client maps via Leaflet, search and… Talk on
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