Ben Ramsey

I speak at conferences and organize user groups, and I spend a lot of that time encouraging people to contribute to PHP and other open source projects.

I’ve been dealing with a frustrating issue in a Symfony application hosted on DigitalOcean App Platform.

PHP Tek always feels like a homecoming.

I’ve been fascinated with copyright since high school and with open source licensing for most of my career.

Note This post was originally published on DEV.

Note This post was originally published on DEV.

Note This post was originally published on DEV.

Note I originally posted this as a thread on Twitter in response to a #DevDiscuss topic.

For those who’ve been around the PHP community for a while, you’ll recall the successful PHP TestFest events that began after a discussion at PHP Quebec in 2008.

I’ve had a great time at AWS re:Invent this week, attending sessions and hanging out with some of the ShootProof team.

This week, I’m attending php[tek].

I’ve published my first article in php[architect] magazine since 2009!

I’m a tad late to this discussion, but I think it’s still pertinent today—perhaps even more so—and Jordi Boggiano’s recent post, “Common files in PHP packages,” got me thinking about the lack of open source licenses in public repositories.

It seems quite absurd for me to introduce ramsey/uuid, a library that saw its 1.0.0 release on July 19, 2012, and is now at version 3.4.1, having had 35 releases since its first, but what’s even more ludicrous is that I haven’t once blogged about this lib…

It was dark when I pulled into the parking lot of the middle school where I would spend the next hour volunteering for the Hour of Code.