In This Episode

This episode features Eric Van Johnson, John Congdon, Lukas Kawhe Smith, Jill Binder, and Oscar Merida.

Please support the Symfony diversity speaker mentoring initiative and mark your calendar to attend on March 24th and March 31s at 10:00 AM PST/ 19:00 PM CET. Note, the ticket you purchase through opencollective is for both days of the workshop because of the way it handles two-day events.  While you can attend for free, if you can afford it consider paying $10 for your ticket or, even better, $20 to help fund free tickets for others.

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Topics

* Eric and John discuss php[tek] 2017 and the track chairs, scaling web applications, diversity in tech, accessibility, using tmux and vim, upgrading to PHP 7.3, finding dead code, and more.

* Oscar talks about upgrading a Drupal 7 site to use PHP 7 and the performance improvement he measured and kicking off a Call for Writers for the magazine.

* Talking to Jill Binder about the workshop she created to support new conference speakers and Lukas Kawhe Smith about attracting more diverse contributors to the Symfony community.