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Community Corner: Kubernetes With Eric Mann

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10 Dec 2025 • 30 min

PHP Alive and Kicking Episode 20 – Ash Allen

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10 Dec 2025 • 1 hr 5 min

The PHP Podcast 2025.12.04

This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about PhpStorm Plugins, Open-source IntelliJ IDEA, JetBrains AMA, PHP Foundation looking for a Executive Direstor, watch John NOT mention Eric in his latest podcast interview, and more…

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4 Dec 2025 • 59 min

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PHP Alive And Kicking – Episode 17 – TJ Miller

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3 Dec 2025 • 1 hr 14 min

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Recent Guests

Wendell Adriel

Experienced PHP developer, author, and package maintainer

Episode: PHP Alive And Kicking – Episode 16 – Wendell Adriel

Kyrian Obikwelu

Back-end developer at Astaro, creator of PHP MCP Suite and advocate for PHP in AI integration.

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Episode: Community Corner: The Official PHP SDK for MCP With Kyrian Obikwelu

Frank Wallen

Former video game developer turned PHP developer

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Episode: PHP Alive and Kicking Episode 15: Below Deck with Frank Wallen

Dan Newns

Co-founder and developer at Jump24

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Episode: PHP Alive and Kicking Episode 14 – Dan Newns

Rob Allen

Independent API consultant

Episode: PHP Alive And Kicking – Episode 12 – Rob Allen

Bert De Swaef

YouTuber, entrepreneur, and sportsman

Episode: PHP Alive and Kicking – Episode 11 – Bert De Swaef

Jasper Willems

Co-organizer at Laracon EU and involved in Laravel certification programs

Certification for Laravel

Episode: PHP Alive And Kicking – Episode 10 – Jasper Willems

Edward W. Barnard

Expert in PHP applications and AI, author of multiple articles and a book on AI

PHP Architect and author

Episode: Community Corner: N8N With PHP With Edward Barnard

Zuzana Kuchnova

Founder of Laravels

Laravels

Episode: PHP Alive And Kicking 8 – Zuzana Kuchnova

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Mike Page

One of the hosts and a developer at PHP Architect.

Eric Van Johnson

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John Congdon

One of the hosts.

Chris Miller

Co-host and long-time contributor to PHP Architect magazine.

Reviews

4.2 out of 5 stars from 16 ratings

Alive & Kicking is exciting!
As a late 40's PHP developer, listening to the stories of the hosts of Alive&Kicking was very inspiring and refreshing. Thanks!
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coolfactor
Canada3 months ago
Nice technical php podcast
Learning new stuff in php ecosystem. Happy subscriber and purchaser of some books on phparch website. The book on timezones is just pure gold. If you did not already. Give phparch a try you won't lose your money. Good stuff. Thanks again.
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France5 years ago

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The PHP Podcast 2025.11.13

Q: What advice would you give to someone starting as a PHP developer today?

Join a community and don't start your own business right away.

PHP Alive and Kicking – Episode 11 – Bert De Swaef

Q: What is happening in the PHP world today that excites you?

Bert mentioned using Prism for creating integrations with AI, facilitating interactions between different data points, and automating workflows. He sees it as a game-changer for PHP development with AI.

PHP Alive and Kicking – Episode 11 – Bert De Swaef

Q: What was the choice for going down the route of using JSON in your game rather than normalizing databases?

Bert explained it wasn't a specific choice; he ran his JSON object into his SQL database due to how it fit his needs, especially handling large data volumes from devices.

PHP Alive and Kicking – Episode 11 – Bert De Swaef

Q: How did you get into PHP?

Bert got into PHP during university when they were teaching Flash, and he became interested in animations, which led him to try PHP for web development.

Community Corner: N8N With PHP With Edward Barnard

Q: Can you talk to us a little bit about what it is that your column generally constitutes?

Edward discusses the focus of his back-office column on backend considerations and the need to address problems within PHP development, specifically related to workflows and data handling.

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