The PHP Podcast streams live, typically every Thursday at 3 PM PT. Come join us and subscribe to our YouTube channel. Another fun episode of the PHP Podcast! Here’s what we covered: 🎿 John’s Ski Trip Adventures John shared stories from his Utah ski trip – including skiing his first green slope ever, and […] The post The PHP Podcast 2026.02.26 appeared first on PHP Architect.
We're excited to welcome Elizabeth Barron as the next Executive Director of The PHP Foundation, following a thorough process led by our search committee of Nils Adermann, Sebastian Bergmann, Lorna Mitchell, and Ben Ramsey. Elizabeth brings a rare combination of deep roots in the PHP community and proven leadership in open-source governance. She co-founded a volunteer-based nonprofit dedicated to supporting women and non-binary individuals in the PHP industry, served as Community Manager at…
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AI writes code that works. That's not the same as code that's good. The moment you merge it, you own it — the shortcuts, the weak names, the missed boundaries. Here's why clean code matters more now, not less.
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Starting January 2026, team.blue joined the PHP Foundation as a Gold Sponsor, reinforcing its long-term commitment to supporting the open-source technologies that power millions of businesses across Europe. team.blue is a leading AI-powered digital enabler serving small and medium businesses (SMBs) and agencies across Europe. With more than 4,000 experts, 3.3 million customers, and operations in over 22 countries, team.blue provides businesses with the digital tools they need to build, grow,…
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You ingest data. You model it. You transform it. You serve it. Someone asks for a change. Everything breaks. You rebuild. This is the loop. It was the loop in 2005 with SSIS and star schemas. It’s the loop in 2025 with dbt and Iceberg, or 2026 with prompting AI agents. The tools change. The loop doesn’t. The Invisible Plumbers When I started my career in 2003, there was no “data engineering”. There was no big data, no data science. We called it Business Intelligence. Data Warehouse Developer.…