PHP Singapore Podcast - Episode 2: Can rate my PHP?

Published on: Monday, 2 March 2020

Speaker:
- Zion Ng
- Hazrul Azhar Jamari
- Michael Cheng

1) PSR-2 deprecated and replaced by PSR-12 (5 mins)

As of 2019-08-10 PSR-2 has been marked as deprecated. PSR-12 is now recommended as an alternative.

- https://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-2/
- https://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-12/

2) Rating oneself in PHP or a framework (20 mins)

When you are asked in an interview to rate yourself in a programming language or framework, what answer will you give and based on what criteria?

https://blog.intzone.com/10-criteria-to-rate-oneself-in-a-programming-language-or-framework

3) The future of PHP in Asia (20 mins)

Are companies still using PHP? What are the new developments in Asia?

tl;dr:

- Yes, still big in Malaysia. Still big in Open Source.
Indonesia:
- Yes for WordPress Themes.
- More variety - Ruby, NodeJS, Go Lang
- Still big in Japan
- PHP Con JP
- WordCamp (Tokyo, etc)
- More flexibility. Simple deployment. Apache / Nginx
- Headless - PHP backend as API + SPA FE

Event Page: https://www.meetup.com/sgphpug/events/268438960/

Produced by Engineers.SG
Recorded by: Michael Cheng

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