Scott Keck-Warren

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Scott Keck-Warren is a Senior Software Engineer at Activated Insights and is also a published author, podcast host, conference speaker, consultant, and producer of education content for web application developers. He's been a professional PHP developer, DevOps engineer, and team lead for over a decade delivering solutions for his clients that produce real-world results.

Recent Posts

June 9, 2025

Why You *Really* Need a Pre-Commit Script for Your PHP Projects

Git Hooks can super charge your development flow

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June 7, 2025

Bulk Creating Thumbnails at the Command Line

I've been working on wrap-up articles for my days at phptek 2025 and as part of those posts I've been including some of the pictures I took. As a "lazy programmer," I'm always looking to automate even the smallest thing like creating 25 thumbnails so...

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June 2, 2025

What is the `make` Command in Linux?

If you've ever worked on a project that uses a compiled language like C or C++, you've probably bumped into the make command. It's been built to be used for projects that have a complex build, test, and install process. However, even in...

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May 26, 2025

Why Consistency Is Everything in Software Engineering

If there’s one soft skill that quietly saves you from a mountain of bugs, confusion, and late-night debugging sessions, it’s consistency.

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May 22, 2025

Reducing Bugs With Static Code Analysis - php tek 2025

My slides and links from my Reducing Bugs With Static Code Analysis talk at php tek 2025

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May 20, 2025

SQL Database Design For Developers - php tek 2025

My slides and links from my SQL Database Design For Developers talk at php[tek] 2025

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May 20, 2025

php tek 2025 Day One Notes

My notes from

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May 16, 2025

What Is the Purpose of Git Hooks? A Beginner-Friendly Guide

Git Hooks can super charge your development flow

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February 24, 2025

PhpStorm: Refactoring With Extract Variable

PHPStorm has some amazing refactoring support build into it. One of the refactoring tools I reach for on a common basis is the the extract variable refactoring which allows us to take a statement and turn it into a variable. For example, we may have...

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February 17, 2025

PhpStorm: Refactoring With Inline Variable

One of the code smells that drive me up the wall is when there's a variable that exists just to pass around a value. For example in the code below we're setting $value to 42 and then returning $value. The...

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February 10, 2025

PhpStorm: Paste History

PHPStorm, like most text editors, has the ability to copy and paste text using Command-C to copy and Command-V to paste. Normally this gets saved to the computer's clipboard and we can only have a single piece of data on the clipboard at a time. The...

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February 3, 2025

PhpStorm: InlineError Plugin

I love PhpStorm, but one of the things that really drives me nuts is the fact that I can type errors and it'll just put this little squiggly guy underneth the error but I don't know what that actually means without hovering my mouse over this I'm not...

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January 21, 2025

Speaking at php[tek] 2025

I'm excited to annouce I will speaking at php[tek] this year on database design and static code analysis. There are still tickets available and there are some really great speakers that will be in attendence. https://phptek.io/

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July 8, 2024

Make for Web Development

Check out my new video on using Make for Web Development over at the php[architect] YouTube Channel. https://youtu.be/TqxJOYsdigs

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