Good developer experiences with Ben Ramsey

Ben Ramsey is joining us to talk to us about the box of tools he uses on a daily basis.

Congratulations, and a big THANK YOU, to Ben for being a PHP 8.1 Release Manager. The PHP Internals podcast just published a podcast talking to the team at https://phpinternals.news/84. Did you know that this is a 3 year commitment? I did not!

Ben will talk about:

• some familiar tools, such as PHPUnit and PHP_CodeSniffer;
• new tools like PHPStan and Psalm;
• how to configure these tools for better workflows through Composer scripts and plugins;
• best practices;
• how to standardize workflow with CaptainHook and GitHub Actions.

Ben Ramsey is a coder, writer, and speaker. Recently selected as a release manager for PHP 8.1, he is an avid proponent of open source software and maintains several popular open source packages, including ramsey/uuid and league/oauth2-client. In his free time, Ben enjoys beer, bourbon, board games, and TTRPGs. He co-organizes the PHP user group in Nashville, where he lives with his wife, son, and two dogs. Ben will blog again one day soon at benramsey.com and is @ramsey on Twitter.

Ben came up here in 2015 and 2016 (can it be half a decade ago?) to speak at the True North Conference.

Virtual meeting URL to be announced.

Meet-up will be recorded.

Links:

• https://benramsey.com
• https://github.com/ramsey/uuid
• https://github.com/thephpleague/oauth2-client
• https://github.com/captainhookphp/captainhook
• https://php.watch/news/2021/03/php81-release-date
• https://www.phparch.com/article/community-corner-php-8-release-managers-interview-with-sara-golemon-and-gabriel-caruso-part-three/
• https://www.phparch.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Community-Corner-September-2020-phparch.pdf
• https://speakerdeck.com/ramsey/building-great-apis-true-north-php-2015
• https://benramsey.com/talks/2016/11/tnphp-uuid/
  https://zubairmohsin.dev/blog/why-laravel-requires-ramsey-uuid-package
• https://phpinternals.news/84

For curiosity:

• https://php.watch/versions/8.1