Derick Rethans

PHP Engineer/Evangelist on MongoDB, internals expert & author of Xdebug

Talks

  • The La(te)st PHP 7 — What's new in PHP 7.4

    PHP 7.4 and OpenAPI, 11th March 2020

    We are going to look at the new features in PHP 7.4. Join me to have a look at how the type system is strengthened with typed properties and co- and contra-variance of methods, what changes to operator precedence are, and which new features, such as pre-loading classes, have been added.

  • What's new in PHP 8.*

    What's new in PHP 8.*, 11th January 2023

    During this presentation, we are going to look at the new features added in PHP 8.0, PHP 8.1, and PHP 8.2. Join me to have a look at how the type system is strengthened with Enumerations and "never", Fibers, a new closure syntax, the First Class Callable Syntax, intersection and disjunctive normal form types, readonly classes, and other smaller features. At the end you will have a good understanding about all the new and exciting features that are new in PHP 8.*.

Interested in speaking?

We’re always looking for speakers, so do drop us a line, regardless of your experience, we’re all about first time speakers.

If you’re looking for ideas, a few of the topics we’re keen to hear about are:

  • Debugging & profiling
  • Frameworks
  • Lightning talks
  • PHP7, PHPNG
  • Support tools (e.g. phplint, boris, phpsh)