PhD / CTO TailorDev

Graduated from IUT, ISIMA, Blaise Pascal University. Worked at:

• Michelin (Clermont-Fd, France);
• Nelmio (Zürich, Switzerland);
• e-TF1 (Paris, France);
• Prizee.com (Clermont-Fd, France).

Open-Source evangelist:

• Lead developer of Geocoder, and several other projects;
• (Inactive?) Contributor on Symfony.

twitter.com/couac  |  github.com/willdurand  |  williamdurand.fr

Week #1

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, The PHP Syntax, The PHP Command Line, Client/Server, REST

Week #2

Autoloading, Leveraging PHP APIs, Dependency Management, Model View Controller

Week #3

Databases

Week #4

Sessions, Authentication, Writing Better Code, Testing, Awesome Projects, Embracing Open Source

• Created by Rasmus Lerdorf
• 4th language on GitHub (August 2015)
• 6th language in the world (TIOBE January 2016)
• 1st language for web development
• Running on +75% of all web servers
• 20 years old in 2015!