As Freek Van der Herten mentions in his latest post, the videos for the sessions at this year's Laracon AU conference (their first year) have been posted to YouTube.

This year Laracon AU was held for the very first time. According to what I read on Twitter Michael Dyrynda did an awesome job organising it.

The organisation was so kind to record all talks. They are now available on YouTube. You'll find all talks in this playlist.

Sessions from their inaugural event included:

• A real-life journey into the opinionated world of 'utility-first' CSS
• Turning stories into software
• Understanding git - even the scary parts
• Level up with a Microservices architecture

...and many more. Check out the full playlist for all of the great sessions including a keynote from Taylor Otwell introducing the Laravel Telescope introspection tool.

As Freek Van der Herten has mentioned in a new post to his site, the videos from this year's Laracon US conference (2018) have been released.

Laracon US was held in July 2018 at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.

[...] Though there isn't a playlist to hold them yet, you can view recordings of all other talks on the StreamACon channel on YouTube. Be sure to check out the amazing talks by Jason McCreary, TJ Miller, Samantha Geitz and Caleb Porzio.

You can also check out the full list of talks and summaries on the Laracon US website to help narrow down the ones you might want to watch.

On the Laravel News site they've announced the release of the videos from Laracon EU 2017 on YouTube - perfect for those that couldn't make the event this year.

Today, Laracon EU uploaded all of the speaker videos to YouTube and here is the link to the full playlist.

The playlist features 20 videos and is sure to keep you busy for a few days. Also, be sure and join the wait list for the 2018 event.

Sessions presented at this year's event included:

• Christopher Pitt - Monads in PHP
• Rizqi Djamaluddin - Bad UX is Not an Option
• Hannes Van De Vreken - Code review beyond code style
• Taylor Otwell - State of Laravel

You can check out the full playlist for these and more great sessions.

As Freek Van der Herten has mentioned in this post on his site the videos for all of the sessions at this year's PHP UK Conference have been released over on YouTube.

Sessions at this year's event included:

• Eli White - State of the PHP Community
• Derick Rethans - It's All About the Goto
• Gareth Ellis - Introduction to SOLID
• Adam Englander - Don't Lose Sleep, Secure Your REST
• Liam Wiltshire - Introduction to Application Scaling

...and many more. Be sure to check out the full playlist with 34 videos for lots of great speakers covering lots of great topics.

As Freek Van der Herten mentions in his latest post to his site, the videos for all of the sessions at this year's Laracon EU conference have been posted on their official YouTube channel.

This year’s Laracon EU was an amazing conference. The venue was astonishing, there were lots of cool talks and interesting people to talk to. If you’re using Laravel or PHP going to this conference really is a no brainer.

If you were unable to attend or want to see the talk you missed during the conference you can now do so. The organisers have uploaded video’s of all talks to their YouTube channel.

Freek talks briefly about his presentation (covering backups in Laravel applications) and mentions some of the future plans for the backup package that he's created to make it simpler. Other sessions that were presented at the conference also included:

• Evan You - Modern Frontend with Vue.js
• Franz Liedke - Web accessibility for Artisans
• Frank de Jonge - One Box Doesn't fit all
• Geshan Manander - Embrace chatops, stop installing deployment software

The full playlist can be found on the Laracon Youtube channel.

PHP community member Cal Evans recently talked with Jessica Rose, a well-known speaker at technology conferences all about public speaking and some of her own thoughts and advice to potential speakers.

This week my guest is Jessica Rose. Jessica speaks at developers events all over Europe and the US.

She took time out from her busy schedule to join me to answer questions on public speaking. We talk abut her first talk, preparing for talks, speaking to audiences whose first language is not English, and so much more.

Their conversation was recorded as a live Google Hangout and can be viewed either through the in-page video player or by heading over to YouTube.

On Reddit.com's /r/php subreddit there's a discussion that's started up around this video that proposes some of the differences between a framework and a library.

Many people have asked me this question before. It's sometimes hard to get a straight answer, but if we remove all of moot details, use cases, and focus simply on the architectural design details the difference becomes quite clear. This video attempts to explain this difference in a relatively simple and straight-forward manner.

The conversation doesn't just talk about PHP frameworks specifically. There's also some mention of things like jQuery from other programming communities. There's plenty of suggested definitions in the conversation but most revolve around two ideas: that the library is a "tool" to use when needed and the framework is the structure of the application (hence "framework") that "uses you".

If you missed it or weren't able to attend this year's php[world] the keynote from Taylor Otwell, creator of the Laravel framework, has been posted: "Laravel - Lessons Learned".

In four years, Laravel has become one of the most popular application development frameworks for PHP. In addition to the framework itself, a vibrant community has emerged including Laracon, Laracasts, Laravel Forge, Envoyer, and more. In this session, we'll discuss the history of the framework, its core philosophies, and what makes its community so passionate.

You can watch it either though the in-page video player or directly over on YouTube. There's also other videos posted from the conference (keynotes) from Tessa Merro (of the Joomla project) and Lorna Mitchell (on open source communities).

As is mentioned in this quick post Codecourse (formerly PHP Academy) has posted a series of free videos to YouTube that aim to help you increase the security of your PHP applications. These videos go beyond the usual OWASP Top 10 you'll see in most security-related resources and dive into both some "old favorites" and some new interesting topics.

This YouTube series from Codecourse gives you a good overview of the most common PHP security issues. They use a very practical approach, showing how the attacks are done and how to protect your code from them.

Topics covered in the video series include things like:

• password hashing
• HTTPOnly cookies
• user-defined file includes
• error reporting

There's ten videos in the series with a total run time of about an hour. They're split up for great bite-sized viewing chunks, so be sure to check them all out and see what you can learn.

Edd Mann has a post to his site sharing a new screencast about developing PHP extensions by Joe Watkins, specifically about using a resizable-indexed array.

Following on from our first screencast, which touched upon how to setup a PHP extension development environment and creating a simple ‘array_sum’ like function. We now further this topic by implementing a resizable-indexed array class which supplies very similar functionality to that of the SplFixedArray class. Throughout this discussion we look into creating a custom Zend object class, using this to invoke an implemented data-structure located in another file, implementing internal interfaces, object handlers and the importance of PHP extension tests.

You can watch the video either through the in-page video player or directly on YouTube if you'd like a bit more control over the sizing. You can find the resulting code for the extension in this repository on Joe's account.