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Scott Keck-Warren is the Director of Technology at WeCare Connect 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.

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January 12, 2025

New in PHP 8.4: Asymmetric Visibility

One of the new features added to PHP 8.4 is the ability for us to define Asymmetric Visibility on properties inside our classes. This is done by defining the get visibility for the property as we do normally which will become the "read"...

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January 5, 2025

New in PHP 8.4: Property Hooks

One of the new features added to PHP in the 8.4 release was the ability to define property hooks in our classes. Using property hooks we can override the default set and get operations to have it do something truely...

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November 10, 2024

Running PHP 8.4RC4 in Docker

We're just a couple of weeks away from the release of PHP 8.4 and while it's still in Release Candidate (RC) stage if you're like me you at least want to experiment with the new features but you're not willing to run RC code on your day-to-day computer....

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October 24, 2024

Time, Why You Punish Me? - Cascadia PHP 2024

I presented my talk on Time in PHP at Cascadia PHP 2024. Links: Join.d Slides: Follow Scott: Mastodon: @scottkeckwarren@phpc.social X/Twitter: @scottkeckwarren (write only) Twitch: @scottKeckWarren Community Corner Podcast...

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October 24, 2024

SQL Database Design For Developers - Cascadia PHP 2024

I presented my talk on "SQL Database Design For Developers" at Cascadia PHP 2024 and these are links to more information. Links: Join.d Slides: Follow Scott: Mastodon: @scottkeckwarren@phpc.social X/Twitter: @scottkeckwarren (write...

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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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April 25, 2024

SQL Database Design For Developers - php[tek] 2024

My slides and links from my SQL Database Design For Developers talk at php[tek] 2024

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