Last week I attended PHPTek 2024 in Chicago, this was my first time in a PHP Conference. It was such an extraordinary experience that I’m looking forward to make the flight from Quito, Ecuador to the US again next year for PHPTek 2025. #phptek#phptek24
Thank you very very much to the sponsors @compassioncode@packagist@zend@sensiolabs@Vonage@OSMHhelp@PubNub@vehikl@FusionAuth and @DevITjobs as they make this conferences possible!! See you again next year!!
At #phptek I had a chance to talk with @mwop and @naderman about the PHP Foundation and a bunch of other stuff and conversations I’d had with @ralphschindler — gonna start working on presenting new ideas for the PHP web site to change the marketing messages and let everyone out there know what #php can do these days
I’ve seen a number of folks get excited about contributing to #OpenSource since #PHPTek, and that’s amazing!
My advice: pace yourself, and start small. Give yourself a long runway, and if you don’t contribute at the level you were hoping, don’t count that as a failure, and don’t beat yourself up over it.
It’s easy to burn out quickly if your expectation is to jump head-first into open source. Every contribution, no matter how tiny you perceive it, is a success.
One of the best things about #phptek is getting home and seeing all of the open tabs in my browser of things I need to read and research. One of the worst things is how long it'll take! The highest number of open tabs is from @ramsey's talk on building a Composer package.
Spent the morning teaching my youngest son how to write CLI scripts in PHP to do math and ask him math questions. Used some of what I learned from @awoodsnet at #phptek too. Good times!
Heading back ORD-AUS soon. Thanks to everyone who organized, sponsored, spoke at, or attended #phptek! It's great to see the in-person community growing again, including a bunch of new faces to the PHP conference scene, plus another bunch of folks who I haven't seen in awhile.
A day after @vanamerongen taught my colleague Andrés about git bisect, we are using it to find which commit introduced a failing test! #phptek#CommunityWorks
I won’t normally boost without alt text, so lemme summarize: four photos of several dozen #phptek attendees enjoying a meal at Portillo’s after the conference. Some are wearing novelty hot dog hats, and all appear to be having a great time. https://phpc.social/@ramsey/112335942159436451