Joe Ferguson

In September of 2012 David Haskins and I took over MemphisPHP from Jeremy Kendall.

In the early days of Homestead there used to be a "params" option at the top level of your Homestead.yaml file.

This year a SunshinePHP I debuted a brand new talk "Slim PHP when you Don't need the kitchen sink" Description: Full stack frameworks can often be too much for an application.

Since the release of Homestead version 7.1.0 and base box version 5.1.0 Homestead now supports the Zend Z-Ray plugin for PHP 7.2.

A common problem I run into with older applications are dependencies that have been added and loaded from the application's repository.

On my deathbed I will pray To the gods and the angels Like a pagan to anyone Who will take me to heaven To a place I recall I was there so long ago The sky was bruised The wine was bled And there you led me on 2017 was a pretty rough year for me and I'm n…

Around 36 hours post hurricane Nate.

I have been subjecting my twitter followers to some rather cryptic ranting about DigitalOcean (DO) lately.

Here's the Tiny Whoop clone setup that I'm planning on flying this upcoming season.

If you follow me on Twitter you have probably noticed I'm the main organizer for TechCamp Memphis 2017.

Nearly all the programmers I know count programming among their hobbies.

July 8th I'm giving a general PHP training day at the Fedex Institute of Technology and because I'm targeting absolute beginners I wanted to use Cloud 9.

I am giving a full day of Laravel Training before the main php[world] conference.

Interested in checking out CakePHP?

I can help your team solve interesting and complicated problems.

"If you've given a talk that's been recorded more than once. it's probably time to stop submitting that to conferences." -- an offhand comment I made on twitter.

"You can be a part of multiple communities..."

"Why does Guzzle put an underscore in my url!?"

The great nonprofit that I help out with Open Sourcing Mental Illness has an ever increasing presence at conferences.

I’m excited for php[tek] 2017.

I was invited to speak at Midwest PHP 2017 to give my “DevOps for Small Teams” talk.

Excited to be heading back to Sunshine PHP 2017 in Miami.

A few days ago an issue came across my Jira queue that mentioned odd characters showing up in the subject line of our notification system.

I always have a hard time figuring out what versions where released when and how much longer We'll have support for which versions.

GO PHP 7.1!

I've had an eye on LaravelShift.com since it first made it's way across my twitter feed some time ago.

Between the day job and the amazing week I just had at the always great php[world] conference, I finally got around to doing my first Homestead box release.

I'm really excited to be going back to Washington, DC for php[world].

If you are planning on coming to this tutorial there are a few things you'll want to have pre-installed to make the most of the tutorial.

I'm excited to be going back to Madison PHP Conference this year to give a tutorial "Create Your Own Local Development Environments With Vagrant".

The Idea I started a thread on the PHP UG Admins email list of doing a User Group sticker exchange and the idea took off pretty quickly.

On my first week at the new job I was tasked to fix some tests that were logging data.

This year php[tek] was in St.

I Don't talk about my day job here or on social media very often.

You should come to php[tek] May 23-27, 2016 As you'll learn in the video below, I'll be doing a full day in person training on Laravel.

Just the Fax Producer is a pretty neat project that wants you to release higher quality packages.

I've been a fan of SlimPHP for a really long time.

When I introduce myself before I give a talk at a conference or a user group I mention I am a user group leader and very passionate about community.

Feedback via Twitter SunshinePHP 2016 was the second time I formally gave my Acceptance & Functional Testing with Codeception talk.

Sunshine 2016 was my second year at coming to this really great conference.

Install Nginx, PHP 5.6.15 and PHP-FPM on CentOS 5.11 I know...

My last night in Las Vegas was pretty rough.

ZendCon 2015 was my first ZendCon experience.

In February 2015 when I found out Laracon US was going to be in Louisville, Kentucky I dropped everything I was doing and bought tickets.

Before starting this conversation (I really hope it becomes a conversation) I would like to concede a few points.

Really enjoy this track.

I've spent a lot of time the past few days trying to get test artifacts to upload to Amazon's AWS S3.

I have been selected to give two talks at ZendCon 2015 in Las Vegas!

I'm happy to share that I'll be speaking at php[world] 2015 in Washington, DC!

I heard this song on the HBO series True Detective, found it really haunting and it stuck with me.