Longhorn PHP

It's official: this year's conference dates are Thursday, October 15 for Tutorial Day and Friday, October 16 for keynotes, talks, open spaces, and more! Two days rather than three, still multi-track, still here for the community. Grab a ticket at https://longhornphp.com, or submit to speak at https://cfp.longhornphp.com.

Our next keynote speaker is Cori Lint. Cori Lint is a software engineer with experience as a full-stack engineer, backend engineer, and web developer. Previously, Cori spent a decade in the classical music industry as a professional cellist and orchestra manager.

Cori is keynoting with "Work Smarter: Code Like a Musician" - What if we approached software development the way classical musicians approach learning a piece of music?

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Time for our 2025 speaker announcements, starting with Ben Ramsey keynoting with "Saving Open Source". With many projects foregoing traditional open source licenses for "source-available" licenses, are we in a post-open source era?
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A huge thanks to our Platinum sponsor Roave!

The Roave consortium offers PHP teams best-in-class development talent—when they need it—to help master complex technology challenges, modernize code bases, or simply lend a hand with projects.

https://roave.com/expertise

We may be starting to wrap things up, but this amazing event is far from over! Huge thanks to #VonageDev for sponsoring our second after party! #LonghornPHP wouldn't be possible without our sponsors, so please make sure to thank them!

The #longhornphp 2025 tutorial day is underway! @alena@phpc.social is presenting on BDD, @flowcontrol@phpc.social is walking through building an observability extension with Rust, and @DaveLiddament@phpc.social is diving into building custom Rector rules.

Joining our keynotes lineup is Cory House, author and international speaker, presenting "The Immutable Laws of Software and Life: Code Accordingly".

In this session, we'll explore how changes in software design can have unexpected, profound impacts. This session will give you new mental models for thinking about the tradeoffs we make in software... and life.

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The 1st (zero-indexed) day of #longhornphp is well underway! After an opening keynote by Cory House, we have Janani Subbiah talking about API specification, @manchuck@phpc.social walking through PHP security mechanisms, and @scottkeckwarren@phpc.social explaining database design for developers.

Despite our best efforts, it’s difficult to future proof our digital assets and
open source projects for accessibility standards. Our code and design may follow
current standards, but will your careful compliance become obsolete when new
guidelines are released? Join AmyJune Hineline for "Beyond Compliance:
Navigating the Accessibility Evolution" - get tickets at longhornphp.com

This year we are excited to have @ahoylemon@mastodon.social joining us, with his talk "How To Make Your Website A Progressive Web App (And Why You Might Want To)" In this talk, Lemon will take you through the process of starting with a simple HTML website add add features like caching, notifications, desktop installation and offline mode to create an app that’s as interesting and dynamic as you’d want it to be.

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Closing out #longhornphp for this year is @ramsey@phpc.social talking about Saving Open Source.

After an insightful keynote from @Coriography@phpc.social, #longhornphp afternoon sessions have commenced. Daniel Scherzer is walking through new PHP 8.5 features, @cabbey@phpc.social is unearthing advanced shenanigans of the Rector variety, and @scottkeckwarren@phpc.social is speaking of taming time itself.

Thanks to our 11am hour #longhornphp presenters: @asgrim@phpc.social talking about PIE, @EvanHahn@bigshoulders.city walking through Unicode, and Keith Davis explaining the machinations of a multi-version, multi-step PHP upgrade.

We're well into our first multi-track #longhornphp sessions of the day, after a keynote from @flowcontrol@phpc.social. We have @DaveLiddament@phpc.social talking about decoupling tests, @ericpoe@phpc.social walking through the command line, and Nočnica Mellifera explaining how to monitor synthetics with Playwright.

A bit late, but this hour's #longhornphp sessions are courtesy Bree Hall talking about Git, @lotharthesavior@phpc.social on building resilient event-driven applications, and @mikemiles86@drupal.community talking about shifting left by incorporating testing earlier in the development process.

Our next set of afternoon #longhornphp sessions is a rundown of what happens when you inherited a legacy application by @joepferguson@phpc.social, a discussion of local development via DDEV with Bernardo Martinez, and a digression into writing SQL with AI by Dave Stokes.

Friday afternoon #longhornphp sessions are commencing. We have "Love your Monolith" from @m1ke@phpc.social, "AI Agents in Drupal" by @marcusjohansson@drupal.community, database optimization strategies by @alena@phpc.social, and a special uncon presentation about HTTP/3 by Paul Dejean.

Next up at #longhornphp, we're navigating the #a11y evolution with @volkswagenchick@drupal.community using network magic to do zero trust with @josh@joshbutts.social, and doing @phpunit@phpc.social database testing with @cspray@phpc.social

If you haven't seen the full schedule yet, please check it out! Tickets are still available at Early Bird prices - you can get Conference & Tutorial day, just the conference, and even get virtual tickets for the conference if you can't make it to Austin!

https://longhornphp.com/schedule

Our final set of multi-track #longhornphp sessions consist of David Kerber talking about IAM, @ahoylemon@mastodon.social explaining the benefits of progressive web apps, and Ben Batschelet describing how to create developer-friendly projects.

Thanks to all of our fantastic speakers today, and our sponsors as well! Ready for the After-Party? Tonight's party is sponsored by @roave@mastodon.social - come hang out in the Main Ballroom to socialize, enjoy some tasty beverages, and play games! As always, Code of Conduct applies!

For our final #longhornphp sessions of the day we have @Crell@phpc.social getting meta about PHP attributes, Mandy Hubbard talking about software supply chain security, and @OGProgrammer@phpc.social vibe coding it up with Claude.

Lunch today is sponsored by @phparch@phparch.social - Thanks so much PHP Architect! Head over to the hallway just across from registration - and enjoy! #LonghornPHP

The morning tutorials at #LonghornPHP are concluded! Please join us for lunch in Hill Country C, then get ready for the afternoon sessions!

Good Morning #LonghornPHP attendees! Today is a beautiful day here in Austin - if you're attending tutorials today, remember to dress in layers - the venue is WELL air-conditioned.

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