Gary Hockin
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where they keep going back
- PHP UK Conference6 editions2014–2026
- phpday4 editions2017–2023
- Dutch PHP Conference2 editions2017–2024
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on a stage with
- Anna Filinaonce
- Michael Kafkeonce
- Ralf Eggertonce
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who talks about the same things
- Michelle Sanver11 talks
- Anna Filina17 talks
- James Titcumb13 talks
- PJ Hagerty26 talks
- Marco Pivetta12 talks
- Enrico Zimuel13 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| It Depends | PHP UK Conference 2026 | 2026-02-20 |
A consultant-sized set of tradeoffs with concrete data and tools: a live voting app written by Claude Code in Laravel plus React and Reveal.js polls that… | ||
| Opening Keynote | Dutch PHP Conference 2024 | 2024-03-12 |
A developer traces a path from playing MAME and building a Counter‑Strike clan site to shipping digital signage and Facebook game features using PHP + MySQL +… | ||
| Step into debugging | phpday 2023 | 2023-05-18 |
Walkthrough of installing and configuring Xdebug (xdebug.mode=debug and xdebug.discover_client_host=1), hooking it to PhpStorm, setting breakpoints and… | ||
| Lessons Learned Live Coding in Public | phpday 2022 | 2022-05-19 |
Names actual tools and workflows: uses make files to standardize start test deploy, demos a BattleSnake JSON handler converted into immutable value objects via… | ||
| Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Playing "Developer" | phpday 2020 | 2020-09-08 |
Concrete takeaways: prioritize unit tests as a quicksave regularly habit so changes feel reversible, make code reviews a learning shortcut not a shove-it-off… | ||
| Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Playing 'Developer' | PHP UK Conference 2018 | 2018-02-14 |
Career shortcuts backed by actual choices: use version control as a quick save and commit frequently; add automated tests (start with browser acceptance tests… | ||
| Panel Discussion: The Future of PHP | code.talks 2017 | 2017-09-28 |
Panelists report concrete shifts: PHP 7 delivers roughly 2x+ throughput on real projects, PHP 6 was abandoned during Unicode work, and HHVM pushed performance… | ||
| PhpStorm Tips Tricks | Dutch PHP Conference 2017 | 2017-06-29 |
Fast-paced demo of 43 tips (ends up at ~59) that actually shows keystrokes and tools: Search Everywhere (double Shift), Navigate to Test, inspections with… | ||
| Using Open Source for Fun and Profit | phpDay 2017 | 2017-05-12 |
A tiny three-character fix plus copied unit tests added gets merged the next day and becomes the hinge for a career shift: PHP sites, a counter‑strike clan… | ||
| Using Open Source for Fun and Profit | PHP UK Conference 2017 | 2017-02-16 |
Tracks a concrete career path: using PHP and Zen Framework 1 and 2, building a Clan site, a Flash promotion for Intel, a digital‑signage backend that replaces… | ||
| Step into Debugging | PHP UK Conference 2016 | 2016-02-18 |
Installs and configures Xdebug, configures PhpStorm to listen, and actually steps through PHP scripts to find bugs, replacing var_dump driven development with… | ||
| Understanding the OWASP Top 10 | PHP UK Conference 2015 | 2015-02-18 |
A straight run through the OWASP Top 10 with concrete examples: a demo site shows unvalidated redirects and the simple fix of whitelist redirects; composer… | ||
| Maximising Performance With Zend Framework | PHP UK Conference 2014 | 2014-02-21 |
Claims concrete wins: baseline with siege and XHProf exposes where time goes, composer autoload and file lookups eat ~40% of requests, and simple fixes give… | ||
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