George Buckingham

FrankenPHP moving under the PHP GitHub organization - Externals #externals - Opening PHP's #internals to the outside

Exciting news - FrankenPHP will now be directly supported by the PHP foundation and moved under the official PHP GitHub organisation; externals.io/message/127347 #php

Looking forward to it!

Who else is heading to the #PHPUK conference next week? I'll be there for my first time - looking forward to getting to know some more PHP devs in-person! #php

🎙️ I had a great time giving my first ever talk at a local tech meet-up last night - explaining why #PHP isn't dead and is a great choice for dev projects in 2025! I was pretty nervous in the run-up to the event, but it was alright on the night ☺️. I've already committed to my next talk too!

Having lightly tinkered with it before, I'm finally getting to stuck into building a @filamentphp.com project. Super impressed so far building CRUD tooling. Looking forward to seeing how easy it is to go beyond that. #laravel #php

Release 0.6.0 · php/pie 0.6.0 Total issues resolved: 4 Total pull requests resolved: 4 Total contributors: 3 documentation 179: Added PECL comparison thanks to @asgrim enhancement 178: Remove php-standard-library/psa...

I've just released 🥧 PIE 0.6.0! This release adds commands to manage repositories, allowing maintainers/users to test with local paths, add VCS repositories, and Private Packagist!

github.com/php/pie/rele...

#phpc #phpfoundation #phppie @thephpf.bsky.social

And PixelFed, a decentralised photo sharing network (touted by the media as a potential Instagram killer) that’s built on Laravel.

I of course already have NativePHP and the work @simonhamp.me is doing for iOS.

I need some examples of awesome PHP projects for an upcoming talk. Things that are pushing the boundaries / a little unexpected from PHP. Things that solve interesting problems. Things that have impressive scale. #php

Thanks for the offer, I really appreciate that. I’ll see how much progress I make on it over the next few days. All good practice for another one I’ve got in March 😃.

I'm (nervously 😬) giving my first talk at a tech meet-up exactly 2 weeks today. If you're local to #Bournemouth, come along to TechTonic and hear me try to answer the question "Is PHP Dead?". 🎟️ Tickets available here; www.tickettailor.com/events/silic... #php #phpcommunity

Ha, yes, even my commute at 45mins is enough for me! I'd recommend having a chat with Paul @ ByteHire - he's always got some interesting PHP roles available.

Hey Robin 👋. It is an office based role, we’re actually in the process of renovating a new office at the moment, however it’s WFH on Fridays.

This is going to be the perfect ending to the talk I’m giving at a local meetup soon 😍

Even with a large tech based company shutting up shop and leaving #Bournemouth, and whatever your opinions on their outspoken announcement are, the local dev community is strong 💪

Who’s heading to PHP UK next month? Looking at coming along for my first time 💪 #php #phpuk

The Call for Speakers for reconnectconference.co.uk is open. Come and spend July 4th on the South Coast of UK, and perhaps stay the weekend on the beach afterwards.

@chrissainty.com @jonhilton.net @danclarke.com @rendle.dev @carlcod.es @petecodes.co.uk @jonskeet.uk

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I'm on the lookout for a senior #PHP / #Laravel developer to join the team at Yammayap. It's an office based position in sunny #Bournemouth / #Poole. Full details available here: www.yammayap.com/jobs/ - or message me if you fancy a chat!

Another issue I commonly see in Laravel projects is trying to access the session from queued jobs - which of course is the same root problem.

I always encourage devs to try and only use the session / auth helpers from the HTTP layer (i.e. controllers / middleware / requests).

@markoliver.website I've just came across www.digitalskillshub.org.uk/tech-talks - possibly another candidate for your list of other local events on the @devdottalk.uk site?

👋 We are! For our projects with a larger test suite, we do as much as we can to keep the running time low, so pay for GHA runners with more cores.

Designing Data-Intensive Applications book by Martin Kleppmann

Picked up a new book for some light reading over the festive period!

Welcome 🎉

Ummm 🤔 #linux #unix

📚 I'm looking for some new suggestions for my reading list - physical or digital. Anything PHP / Laravel / Software Architecture / Software Engineering Leadership are particularly welcome - but very keen for some "wildcard" entries too. #php #laravel #softwareengineering #leadership #books #reading

Oh wow, can't wait to try this! 😍 If this is as good as the write-up suggests, this could be a game changing component for us - I'm yet to see a rich editor that ticks all the boxes (performant, customisable, markdown + HTML support & security).

In this case, soft deleting for instant user feedback, with the expensive / slow "permanent" deletion handled by a background job can work very well. It can also act as a safety net, with the permanent deletion occurring X time after the initial request - giving the opportunity to undo if needed.

In this case, soft deleting for instant user feedback, with the expensive / slow "permanent" deletion handled by a background job can work very well. It can also act as a safety net, with the permanent deletion occurring X time after the initial request - giving the opportunity to undo if needed.

Of course passing this off to the database to deal with via "ON DELETE CASCADE" rather than the ORM is a possibility, but this isn't always practical, especially if the data hierarchy is using polymorphic relationships in Eloquent.

The one thing that I do think the native soft delete functionality is good for is "temporary" deletions.

A simple delete request at a high level of a deeply nested data set might result in many expensive DELETE queries across a large number of tables.