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Second Wednesday
of every month
since 2011
Previously
Every talk →
Oct 2026
jj: another way to Git
Oliver Davies
Sep 2026
Vibing with Pikachu
Ade
Sep 2026
Raising the profile of PHP today
Mike Page
Jul 2026
Improving code quality under pressure
Speaker TBC
Jul 2026
Meet with Tech: Building the platform for tech communities
Tamas Erdelyi
Jun 2026
50 Tips for Any Laravel Application
Liam Hammett
Apr 2026
Microservices and Monolithic architectures in Laravel
Joshua
Apr 2026
MCP servers in Laravel - How to trust AI with your service
Tom
Mar 2026
Escaping the Code Maze
Yannick Chenot
Feb 2026
Securing Your API: The OWASP Top 10
Rob Allen
Jan 2026
Nix for PHP Developers (and everyone else)
Oliver Davies
Oct 2025
Scaling Writes on MySQL
Graham Campbell
Sep 2025
Introduction to Filament
Dan Harrin
Aug 2025
Agentic Applications with Symfony
Christopher Hertel
Jul 2025
Observing your PHP Application with OpenTelemetry
Jess Smith
Jun 2025
PHP, Value Objects and You 🫵
Daniel Leech
May 2025
Beyond Requests: Supercharging API Monitoring with Guzzle Middleware
Liam Hammett
Mar 2025
Turbocharging your API development
Nigel Dunn
Feb 2025
Mock REST APIs with Mockoon
Adrian Groves
Feb 2025
Introducing PHPStan to a legacy code base
Chris Ballard
Feb 2025
The Right Kind of Wrong: When ‘Good’ code Isn’t Worth It
Ben Lumley
Feb 2025
Using Blueprint for rapid application development with Laravel
Mike Karthauser
Jan 2025
Q&A: How can developers be product-minded
Emily Cook
Jan 2025
Writing an Expression Language from Scratch in 45 minutes
Daniel Leech
Nov 2024
Q&A: Transitioning to Management
Lee Stone
Nov 2024
Scratching an Itch: Scratch File Superpowers
Liam Hammett
Oct 2024
Not another talk about testing!
Jon White
Sep 2024
Software vs Web: What Sets Them Apart?
Adam Tomat
Aug 2024
The current state of the PHP market
Beya Durante
Aug 2024
Scaling Personal Projects
Ferdie De Oliveria
By the numbers
More stats →- Meetups
- 159
- Talks
- 342
- Speakers
- 171
- Years
- 15
Wanted:
Speakers
No experience needed. Lots of our regulars gave their first ever talk here.
10 minutes (lightning) or 30–40 minutes (full). Anything PHP or near it.
Apply to: info@phpsw.uk