10 Pieces of PHP Developer Advice in 2022: Advice #4: Share Nice Tutorial Articles that Other Developers Want to See to Learn from You - 4 minutes - Lately in PHP Podcast Episode 90 Part 4

By Manuel Lemos

Every developer needs to learn how to solve programming problems to become a better developer.

If you are good at solving a programming problem, you will be more appreciated if you share what you learned to solve that problem.

Teaching in a way that is efficient to pass your programming knowledge is a problem that you need to solve.

Many developers try to teach what they know using tutorial articles. Unfortunately, not every developer knows how to create good tutorial articles that help other developers solve the programming problems they know how to solve.

Fortunately, there is an excellent method to teach how to solve any problem. The explanation of that method is the advice given in part 4 of the Lately in PHP podcast episode 90.

Read this article, watch a 4-minute podcast video, or listen to this podcast episode to learn more about this teaching method using tutorial articles.

10 Pieces of PHP Developer Advice in 2022: Advice #3: Share Reusable Classes with Simple Documentation and Example Code - 3 minutes - Lately in PHP Podcast Episode 90 Part 3

By Manuel Lemos

Sharing PHP code projects with simple examples and documentation will help you to have your project more users because users need to learn about the benefits and how to use the project before they decide to use it.

The explanation about this advice to any PHP developer is the main topic of part 3 of the Lately in PHP podcast episode 90.

Read this article, watch a 3-minute podcast video or listen to this podcast episode to learn more about the importance of using a readable and consistent coding style.

10 Pieces of PHP Developer Advice in 2022: Advice #2: Use a Readable PHP Coding Style - 3 minutes - Lately in PHP Podcast Episode 90 Part 2

By Manuel Lemos

Using a PHP coding style that is readable and consistent in all your PHP projects is a significant factor in increasing the chances of your PHP Open Source project being adopted and used by other PHP developers.

The explanation about this advice to any PHP developer is the main topic of part 2 of the Lately in PHP podcast episode 90.

Read this article, watch a 3-minute podcast video or listen to this podcast episode to learn more about the importance of using a readable and consistent coding style.

10 Pieces of PHP Developer Advice in 2022: Advice #1: Be a Good Community Member Sharing Your Open Source Work in Community Sites

By Manuel Lemos

A few months ago, the PHP Classes site completed 22 years of existence thanks to thousands of developers of the PHP community that shared their work on the site and many hundreds of thousands of other developers that benefited from contributors' work.

While the site is getting closer to celebrating its 23rd anniversary, I am publishing a series of small articles to give ten pieces of advice on becoming a better PHP developer by following modern and efficient practices.

This article is a way that I found to retribute to you that helped make the PHP Classes site a fantastic community of PHP developers.

One type of advice is about technical practices. A different kind of advice is about your quality of life as an individual that participates in society. Other advice is about good business practices.

Read this article to learn about the more exciting advice types for you.

How to Become a PHP Hero Fulfilling the Dreams of Other Developers - 29 Minutes of the Lately in PHP Podcast Episode 89 part 5

By Manuel Lemos

A hero is a person that helps others have a better life with good quality and makes it viable for them to fulfill their dreams.

Becoming a hero for other developers is one of the main topics commented on by Manuel Lemos and Mike Stowe of the NomadPHP fame in the fifth part of episode 89 of the Lately in PHP podcast.

Listen to the podcast, watch the video with manually edited subtitles in English, read the transcript to learn more about how you can become a hero to other developers.

How the PHP Classes Marketplace Will Bring More Freedom and Pleasure to Many PHP Developers - 18 Minutes of the Lately in PHP Podcast Episode 89 part 4

By Manuel Lemos

The PHP Classes site Marketplace will allow many PHP developers to sell their products and services to many users who visit the site.

This way, developers may work for themselves and the customers of their products and services. They will have more freedom and pleasure to be PHP developers.

The plan for the PHP Classes marketplace is one of the main topics commented on by Manuel Lemos and Mike Stowe of the NomadPHP fame in the fourth part of episode 89 of the Lately in PHP podcast.

Listen to the podcast, watch the video with manually edited subtitles in English, read the transcript to learn more about this exciting plan for the PHP Classes marketplace.

How to Motivate Developers to Collaborate in Your PHP Projects - 29 Minutes of the Lately in PHP Podcast Episode 89 part 3

By Manuel Lemos

Successful projects around Open Source technologies require a lot of collaboration between many developers.

Knowing how to motivate so many developers around a PHP-based project is one of the main topics commented on by Manuel Lemos and Mike Stowe of the NomadPHP fame in the third part of episode 89 of the Lately in PHP podcast.

Listen to the podcast, watch the video with manually edited subtitles in English, read the transcript to learn more about these exciting PHP community topics.

How to Turn an Open Source PHP Project into Your Own Business - 14 Minutes of the Lately in PHP Podcast Episode 89 part 2

By Manuel Lemos

Many developers publish their work as Open Source projects to share them with many other developers.

Turning an Open Source project into a successful business is one of the main topics commented on by Manuel Lemos and Mike Stowe of the NomadPHP fame in the second part of episode 89 of the Lately in PHP podcast.

They also have commented on why they have not yet upgraded all their projects to use PHP 8.

Listen to the podcast, watch the video with manually edited subtitles in English, read the transcript to learn more about these exciting PHP community topics.

How to Manage a PHP Project that Will Have a Long Life - 10 Minutes of the Lately in PHP Podcast Episode 89 part 1

By Manuel Lemos

PHP is a project started many years ago. The PHP Classes site also started a long time ago.

The secret of the long life of these projects is related to the attitude of the PHP developers that started them and many others that collaborated to its success.

The attitude of the developers that participated in these PHP projects is one of the main topics commented on by Manuel Lemos and Mike Stowe of the NomadPHP fame in the first part of episode 89 of the Lately in PHP podcast.

Listen to the podcast, watch the video with manually edited subtitles in English, read the transcript to learn more about these exciting PHP community topics.

Improving Your PHP 8 Function Parameters Using Trailing Commas: The Wonderful PHP 8 Features and Changes Part 6 - 8 Minutes Lately in PHP Podcast Episode 88

By Manuel Lemos

PHP 8.0 introduces a new improvement that allows PHP developers to add a trailing comma to the last parameter of function calls.

Manuel Lemos and Samuel Adeshina comment specifically about the benefits of PHP 8 function parameter lists using trailing commas in the sixth part of this podcast episode.

Listen to the podcast, watch the video with manually edited subtitles in English, read the transcript to learn more about these exciting PHP 8 topics, and find where to buy the original PHP elePHPants shown in the podcast video.