Upcoming talks:
🥧 A slice of PIE: revolutionising PHP extension installation (Dutch PHP Conference 2026, 13th Mar '26)
PHP Installer for Extensions (PIE) is an innovative tool I am writing for the PHP Foundation to modernise how PHP extensions are installed and managed. For decades, PECL has been the go-to mechanism, but it's time for a change. In this talk, we'll explore why PIE is poised to replace PECL, its goals, and what makes it a game-changer for PHP developers. We'll dive into PIE's features, demo its usage, and provide a glimpse of its roadmap, including exciting enhancements already in the works. Whether you're a seasoned developer or new to PHP extensions, discover how PIE is shaping the future of PHP extension installation.
Links: Dutch PHP Conference 2026
🥧 A slice of PIE: revolutionising PHP extension installation (PHP Tek 2026, 20th May '26)
PHP Installer for Extensions (PIE) is an innovative tool I am writing for the PHP Foundation to modernise how PHP extensions are installed and managed. For decades, PECL has been the go-to mechanism, but it's time for a change. In this talk, we'll explore why PIE is poised to replace PECL, its goals, and what makes it a game-changer for PHP developers. We'll dive into PIE's features, demo its usage, and provide a glimpse of its roadmap, including exciting enhancements already in the works. Whether you're a seasoned developer or new to PHP extensions, discover how PIE is shaping the future of PHP extension installation.
Links: PHP Tek 2026
I have given 108 in the past:
🥧 A slice of PIE: revolutionising PHP extension installation (PHP Conference Brasil 2025, 6th Dec '25)
Links: PHP Conference Brasil 2025
🥧 A slice of PIE: revolutionising PHP extension installation (Longhorn PHP 2025, 25th Oct '25)
Links: Longhorn PHP 2025 | Joind.in
🥧 A slice of PIE: revolutionising PHP extension installation (AFUP Forum PHP 2025, 10th Oct '25)
Links: AFUP Forum PHP 2025
🥧 A slice of PIE: revolutionising PHP extension installation (Laravel Live UK 2025, 10th Jun '25)
Links: Laravel Live UK 2025
🥧 A slice of PIE: revolutionising PHP extension installation (IPC Berlin 2025, 4th Jun '25)
Links: IPC Berlin 2025
🥧 A slice of PIE: revolutionising PHP extension installation (PHP Frankfurt am Main, 3rd Jun '25)
Links: PHPUGFFM
🥧 A slice of PIE: revolutionising PHP extension installation (phpday 2025, 15th May '25)
Links: phpday 2025
Living the Best Life on a Legacy Project (PHP Serbia 2024, 6th Sep '24)
Links: PHP Serbia 2024
Living the Best Life on a Legacy Project (Dutch PHP Conference 2024, 15th Mar '24)
Living the Best Life on a Legacy Project (Longhorn PHP 2023, 3rd Nov '23)
Links: Longhorn PHP | Joind.in
Living the Best Life on a Legacy Project (Laravel Live UK 2023, 22nd Jun '23)
Links: Laravel Live UK | Joind.in
Living the Best Life on a Legacy Project (PHPers Summit 2023, 27th May '23)
Links: PHPers Summit 2023 | Joind.in
Minimum Viable PHPipeline (phpday 2023, 18th May '23)
Links: phpday 2023 | Joind.in
Minimum Viable PHPipeline (PHPSW User Group - April 2023, 12th Apr '23)
Links: PHP South West | Joind.in
Living the Best Life on a Legacy Project (PHP UK Conference 2023, 15th Feb '23)
Links: PHP UK
Living the Best Life on a Legacy Project (phpday 2022, 19th May '22)
Tips for Tackling a Legacy Codebase (Scotland PHP 2021, 23rd Oct '21)
Links: Scotland PHP | Joind.in
Climbing the Abstract Syntax Tree (Midwest PHP 2020 (online), 4th Apr '20)
Links: Midwest PHP
Tutorial: Best practices for crafting high quality PHP apps (Bulgaria PHP Conference 2019, 8th Nov '19)
Links: Bulgaria PHP | Joind.in
Climbing the Abstract Syntax Tree (php[world] 2019, 24th Oct '19)
Links: php[world] | Joind.in
Tutorial: Best practices for crafting high quality PHP apps (php[world] 2019, 22nd Oct '19)
Links: php[world] | Joind.in
Crafting Quality PHP Applications: An Overview (remote talk) (PHP Johannesburg (Oct 2019) Meetup, 17th Oct '19)
Links: PHP Johannesburg (Oct 2019)
Climbing the Abstract Syntax Tree (PHP Russia 2019, 17th May '19)
Links: PHP Russia | Joind.in
Tutorial: Best practices for crafting high quality PHP apps (PHP UK Conference 2019, 22nd Feb '19)
Climbing the Abstract Syntax Tree (ScotlandPHP 2018, 6th Oct '18)
Links: ScotlandPHP | Joind.in
Tutorial: Best practices for crafting high quality PHP apps (ScotlandPHP 2018, 5th Oct '18)
Links: ScotlandPHP | Joind.in
Kicking off with Zend Expressive and Doctrine ORM (PHP South Africa 2018, 27th Sep '18)
Links: PHP South Africa | Joind.in
Tutorial: Best practices for crafting high quality PHP apps (4h Workshop) (PHP South Africa 2018, 26th Sep '18)
Links: PHP South Africa | Joind.in
Climbing the Abstract Syntax Tree (PHP Developer Days Dresden 2018, 22nd Sep '18)
Links: 2018.phpdd.org | Joind.in
Climbing the Abstract Syntax Tree (Southeast PHP 2018, 16th Aug '18)
Links: Southeast PHP 2018 | Joind.in
Tutorial: Best practices for crafting high quality PHP apps (full day) (Dutch PHP Conference 2018, 7th Jun '18)
Links: Dutch PHP Conference 2018 | Joind.in
Crafting Quality PHP Applications (PHPkonf 2018 - Istanbul, 20th May '18)
Tutorial: Best practices for crafting high quality PHP apps (PHP Yorkshire 2018, 13th Apr '18)
Links: PHP Yorkshire 2018 | Joind.in
Crafting Quality PHP Applications (PHP Warwickshire user group - March 2018, 29th Mar '18)
Links: PHP Warwickshire | Joind.in
Crafting Quality PHP Applications (PHPSW user group - March 2018, 14th Mar '18)
Links: PHP South West | Joind.in
Kicking off with Zend Expressive and Doctrine ORM (php[MiNDS] (Nottingham) User Group - March 2018, 8th Mar '18)
Links: PHPMiNDS
Climbing the Abstract Syntax Tree (PHP UK Conference 2018, 15th Feb '18)
Links: PHP UK 2018 | Joind.in
Crafting Quality PHP Applications (PHPem user group - February 2018, 1st Feb '18)
Links: PHPem
Crafting Quality PHP Applications (PHP Benelux Conference 2018, 26th Jan '18)
Links: PHP Benelux Conference 2018 | Joind.in
Crafting Quality PHP Applications (ConFoo Vancouver 2017, 6th Dec '17)
Links: ConFoo Vancouver 2017
Dip Your Toes in the Sea of Security (ConFoo Vancouver 2017, 5th Dec '17)
Links: ConFoo Vancouver 2017
Kicking off with Zend Expressive and Doctrine ORM (ConFoo Vancouver 2017, 4th Dec '17)
Links: ConFoo Vancouver 2017
Climbing the Abstract Syntax Tree (AFUP Forum PHP 2017, 26th Oct '17)
Links: AFUP Forum PHP 2017 | Joind.in
Dip Your Toes in the Sea of Security (International PHP Conference Fall 2017, 25th Oct '17)
Climbing the Abstract Syntax Tree (International PHP Conference Fall 2017, 24th Oct '17)
Dip Your Toes in the Sea of Security (PHP South Africa 2017, 29th Sep '17)
Links: PHP South Africa 2017 | Joind.in
Climbing the Abstract Syntax Tree (PHP South Africa 2017, 28th Sep '17)
Links: PHP South Africa 2017 | Joind.in
Crafting Quality PHP Applications (Nomad PHP EU September 2017, 21st Sep '17)
Crafting Quality PHP Applications (PHP Hampshire meetup September 2017, 13th Sep '17)
Links: PHP Hampshire meetups
Get Started with RabbitMQ (CoderCruise, 18th Jul '17)
Links: CoderCruise
Dip Your Toes in the Sea of Security (CoderCruise, 17th Jul '17)
Links: CoderCruise
Climbing the Abstract Syntax Tree (Dutch PHP Conference 2017, 30th Jun '17)
Links: Dutch PHP Conference | Joind.in
Climbing the Abstract Syntax Tree (CodeiD PHP Odessa conference, 25th Jun '17)
Links: CodeiD PHP Odessa conference
Kicking off with Zend Expressive and Doctrine ORM (PHP Srbija 2017, 28th May '17)
Links: PHP Srbija 2017 | Joind.in
Crafting Quality PHP Applications (Bucharest Tech Week, 26th May '17)
Links: Bucharest Tech Week
Climbing the Abstract Syntax Tree (phpDay 2017, 12th May '17)
Links: phpDay 2017 | Joind.in
Kicking off with Zend Expressive and Doctrine ORM (PHP UK Conference 2017, 17th Feb '17)
Links: PHP UK 2017 | Joind.in
Kicking off with Zend Expressive and Doctrine ORM (Sunshine PHP Conference 2017, 3rd Feb '17)
Links: Sunshine PHP 2017 Talks | Joind.in
Dip Your Toes in the Sea of Security (PHP Benelux Conference 2017, 27th Jan '17)
Links: PHP Benelux | Joind.in
Lightning: ...now write an interpreter (Part 2) (PHPem Unconference 2016, 26th Nov '16)
Links: Joind.in
Lightning: Interpret this... (Part 1) (PHPem Unconference 2016, 26th Nov '16)
Links: Joind.in
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Building a New PHP Reflection Library (Nomad PHP (Europe) November 2016, 17th Nov '16)
Bringing Modern PHP Development to IBM i (ZendCon 2016, 20th Oct '16)
Links: ZendCon 2016 | Joind.in
Kicking off with Zend Expressive and Doctrine ORM (ZendCon 2016, 19th Oct '16)
Links: ZendCon 2016 | Joind.in
Lightning: Zend Expressive (PHP Hampshire October 2016, 12th Oct '16)
Links: Joind.in
Climbing the Abstract Syntax Tree (Bulgaria PHP Conference 2016, 8th Oct '16)
Links: Bulgaria PHP | Joind.in
| VimeoTutorial: Adding 1.21 Gigawatts to Applications with RabbitMQ (Bulgaria PHP Conference 2016, 7th Oct '16)
Links: Bulgaria PHP | Joind.in
Dip Your Toes in the Sea of Security (PHPNW16 Conference, 2nd Oct '16)
Kicking off with Zend Expressive and Doctrine ORM (PHPNW16 Conference, 1st Oct '16)
Adding 1.21 Gigawatts to Applications with RabbitMQ (PHP Oxford, 29th Jun '16)
Links: PHP Oxford
Mirror, mirror on the wall: Building a new PHP reflection library (Dutch PHP Conference 2016, 24th Jun '16)
Links: Dutch PHP Conference | Joind.in
Diving into HHVM Extensions (php[tek] 2016, 25th May '16)
Links: php[tek] 2016 | Joind.in
Tutorial: Introducing Practical RabbitMQ (php[tek] 2016, 24th May '16)
Links: php[tek] 2016 | Joind.in
Dip Your Toes in the Sea of Security (phpDay 2016, 13th May '16)
Mirror, mirror on the wall: Building a new PHP reflection library (PHP Surrey, 4th May '16)
Links: PHP Surrey
Dip Your Toes in the Sea of Security (PHP UK Conference 2016, 19th Feb '16)
Links: Joind.in
| PHP UK Conference | YouTubeLightning: Mirror, mirror on the wall (PHP Benelux 2016 Unconference, 29th Jan '16)
Links: Joind.in
Dip Your Toes in the Sea of Security (PHPMiNDS January 2015 meetup, 21st Jan '16)
Links: Joind.in
| PHPMiNDS (Nottingham)Lightning: Mirror, mirror on the wall (Nomad PHP December 2015, 17th Dec '15)
Links: Joind.in
| Nomad PHP Lightning Talks | Nomad PHP December 2015 | YouTubeLightning: Mirror, mirror on the wall (PHPem Unconference 2015, 21st Nov '15)
Dip Your Toes in the Sea of Security (OWASP Bristol November 2015 meetup, 19th Nov '15)
Links: OWASP Bristol
Dip Your Toes in the Sea of Security (PHP Berkshire November 2015 meetup, 18th Nov '15)
Links: Joind.in
| PHP BerkshireDiving into HHVM Extensions (BrnoPHP Conference 2015, 14th Nov '15)
Links: Joind.in
| BrnoPHP Conference 2015Lightning: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall (PHPSW, 14th Oct '15)
Links: Joind.in
| PHPSW OctoberDiving into HHVM Extensions (PHPNW15, 3rd Oct '15)
Links: Joind.in | PHP North West Conference 2015 | YouTube
Tutorial: Adding 1.21 Gigawatts to Applications with RabbitMQ (PHPNW15, 3rd Oct '15)
Links: Joind.in
| PHP North West Conference 2015Diving into HHVM Extensions (PHP Dorset, 7th Sep '15)
Links: Joind.in
| EventbriteAdding 1.21 Gigawatts to Applications with RabbitMQ (PHP Warwickshire, 30th Jul '15)
Links: PHP Warwickshire
Adding 1.21 Gigawatts to Applications with RabbitMQ (Dutch PHP Conference, 27th Jun '15)
Links: Joind.in
| Dutch PHP ConferenceDip Your Toes in the Sea of Security (Dutch PHP Conference, 26th Jun '15)
Links: Joind.in
| Dutch PHP ConferenceAdding 1.21 Gigawatts to Applications with RabbitMQ (PHP UK Conference, 19th Feb '15)
Links: Joind.in
| PHP UK Conference | YouTubeDip Your Toes in the Sea of Security (PHP Cambridge, 27th Jan '15)
Links: PHP Cambridge | Slides
Practical Message Queueing Using RabbitMQ (Nomad PHP December 2014, 18th Dec '14)
Adding 1.21 Gigawatts to Applications with RabbitMQ (PHPNW December 2014, 2nd Dec '14)
You'll Never Believe How Easy Deployments Can Really Be... (PHPSW November 2014, 12th Nov '14)
Links: PHPSW | Meetup.com | Slides
Lightning: Practical Message Queueing Using RabbitMQ (PHPNW 2014 Uncon, 4th Oct '14)
Low Latency Logging with RabbitMQ (Brno PHP Conference 2014, 20th Sep '14)
Links: Joind.in | Brno PHP Conference | Slides
Low Latency Logging with RabbitMQ (PHP London, 4th Sep '14)
Links: Meetup.com | Slides
Practical Message Queueing Using RabbitMQ (PHPem, 3rd Jul '14)
Links: Meetup.com | PHPem | Slides
The State of PHP in 2014 (Portsmouth Linux User Group, 21st Jun '14)
Links: Portsmouth LUG | Slides
Dip Your Toes in the Sea of Security (PHP Dorset, 2nd Jun '14)
Lightning: What RabbitMQ Can Do For You (Nomad PHP, 22nd May '14)
Lightning: What RabbitMQ Can Do For You (PHP Hampshire April 2014, 9th Apr '14)
Lightning: What RabbitMQ Can Do For You (PHPNE14 Uncon, 18th Mar '14)
Low Latency Logging (BrightonPHP, 18th Nov '13)
Errors, Exceptions & Logging (PHP Hampshire, 9th Oct '13)
Lightning: Errors, Exceptions & Logging (PHPNW13 Uncon, 5th Oct '13)
Composer (PHP Hampshire, 11th Sep '13)
Links: Joind.in | YouTube | Slideshare