My Talks

UpstatePHP is a quarterly PHP meetup in upstate South Carolina which aims to empower PHP developers through knowledge-sharing, collaboration, and community building. It is sponsored by Laravel, and each event includes a session on some PHP related topic. I gave the session this time around, called "You can build it with Filament!" This session was a general overview of the basics of building a Filament application.

In this episode of Voices of the Code, Steven Fox and Karl Murray welcome Alex Six, a senior software engineer at Zillow Group, to the show. The conversation covers Alex's journey into programming, his experiences with the Laravel framework, and the dynamics of working within a small team inside a large organization.

The process of building software shouldn't just be recreating the same founational solutions over and over again. Our time as developers is much better spent building the features that matter. At Filament, we believe exactly this. Filament has built a series of packages which will handle the basics of every CRUD app so you can spend more time building what matters.

Everyone was a new developer at some point, and most of us can remember a time when we needed help to keep learning or find the right path forward. Now, many of us are experienced developers with the wisdom and insight that comes from time behind a keyboard. With great power comes great responsibility, and with great mentorship can come an experience that changes the life of mentor and mentee.

Writing modern JavaScript applications can sometimes be such a pain. We know that JavaScript can be great for a user's experienxe and add whole new layers of exciting interactivity, but sometimes just the thought of having to leave our server-side PHP applications in the dust to build a single-page app can have us running for the hills. Surely there must be a better way. And there is. Enter the Modern Monolith.