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CLI's Aren't As Easy As You Might Thinkphpday 20252025-05-15
Built Vonage CLI v3 for thousands of developers, this talk gives concrete failures and fixes: surprising parity problems like git’s -d vs -D and Docker’s -p vs…
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You're not Jesse JamesLaracon India 20242024-03-23
Agencies routinely cut corners and that produces real failures: projects with FTP upload of controllers, exposed artisan routes and no source control lead to…
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A History Lesson in Painful Industry MistakesPHP UK Conference 20242024-02-15
Timeline of real API mistakes with concrete examples: JSON‑RPC, RPC and RabbitMQ usage, SOAP’s verbosity, Fielding’s REST and HTTP verbs, HATEOAS…
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What is Performance Driven Development and why aren't you doing it?PHP UK Conference 20232023-02-14
Asserts performance failures live in code not caches, demonstrating a legacy CRM wired through Solr and custom Redis layers that ships 286 queries and takes…
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From Betamax to VCR: harden your API integration testingPHP UK Conference 20222022-02-16
Mocking hand‑written JSON fixtures causes silent false positives when the external API quietly changes; the practical fix shown is PHP-VCR which records real…
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NorDevCon2020 Day 2 - Part 8 - James SecondeNor(DEV):con 20202020-02-27
Argues that tool shaming (mocking languages, frameworks or IDEs) damages hiring, retention and cross-team collaboration, with concrete examples: being told…
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