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I speak at conferences and user groups around the world on PHP, static analysis, testing and code quality. My talks aim to be informative and engaging, leaving audiences with practical takeaways they can apply straight away. If you're organising an event, I'd love to hear from you.
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Bio
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Dave is a director and developer at Lamp Bristol, a software consultancy. He's been writing software commercially for over two decades in many languages including C, Python, Java and PHP. Dave specialises in static analysis, automated testing and code review — helping teams keep large, long-lived codebases safe to change.
Dave is keen to pass on his knowledge. He speaks at conferences and user groups and also is the organiser of PHP-SW.
He is also the author of a couple of libraries:
When not busy coding Dave enjoys scuba diving and running.
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Talks on video
- Extending the PHP Language — watch the recording (PHP UK 2023, Feb 2023)
- Practical Static Analysis — watch the recording (PHP UK 2022, Feb 2022)
- PHP Generics Today (almost) — watch the recording (PHP UK 2020, Feb 2020)
- Practical Static Analysis — watch the recording (PHP Russia 2019, May 2019)
- Effective Code Review — watch the recording (CODEiD 2018, Dec 2018)
- Practical Static Analysis — watch the recording (IPC (Munich) 2018, Oct 2018)
- AssertTrue(isDecoupled("my tests")) — watch the recording (Dutch PHP Conference 2018, Jun 2018)
- Effective Code Review — watch the recording (phpDay 2018, May 2018)
At a glance
I've given 81 talks and workshops at conferences and user groups.
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