Stephan Hochdörfer

The organizers of the PHP-Usergroup Münster are rebooting their in-person meetups again and invited me to speak at their meetup on the 26th of January 2023.

Captain Hook is my primary choice when it comes to managing Git Hooks. For a few days, Captain Hook supports PHP 8.2 - the latest and greatest PHP release.

Earlier this year we decided to test Renovate to manage automated dependency updates in our self-hosted GitLab environment. Being able to run Renovate in our own environment and configure it to our needs made a lot of sense. Since we run our internal tooling on a Nomad cluster, we had to configure a Nomad job for Renovate.

In our current Sulu CMS project a requirement was to populate default data when a content editor did not provide all needed information, e.g. social sharing information or SEO-related configurations.

For a long time, we've been successfully using Apache and mod_authnz_ldap to secure some of our legacy applications. Our employees could easily log in via their LDAP credentials. And while it worked, it had its problems.

When we made the move to Office 365, it was clear that at some point our old LDAP infrastructure will be fully replaced with Azure Active Directory (AAD) but I haven't had a good replacement for our simple mod_authnz_ldap solution until I realized that Traefik EE comes with an OIDC middleware.

A few tools, e.g. PHPStan Pro make use of the phpstorm:// protocol to be able to open files directly from your console with a click of a button.

Importing larger database dumps can take a while, especially when foreign key checks are enabled. This slowdown happens because each foreign key reference must be verified by the database server.

Back in 2020 I published our customized Magento development setup with Mark Shust's Docker Configuration for Magento and Traefik version 1. Since Traefik version 2 is now out for a while, I decided to upgrade our setup. This blogpost covers the different steps I took.

Windows Terminal is still one of my favorite and most used tools after migrating to Windows and WSL2. Besides using it to access all my WSL2 instances, I also use it to "bookmark" the most needed SSH connections.

I struggled a bit to get Xdebug working with PHPStorm on my Windows 10 development machine with WSL2 and Docker. After a bit of research, I finally found a configuration that works for me.