I’ve spoken at events all around the world and been interviewed for many podcasts.

One of my favorite ways to share my ideas is live on stage, where there’s so much more communication bandwidth than there is in writing, and I love podcast interviews because they give me the opportunity to answer questions instead of just present my opinions.

Modern API Workflows in Laravel

Over time your code gets more and more complicated, and new features are added each sprint. How can you scale your code base to achieve more, without making it harder to manage? In this talk I will walk you through the lessons learned from scaling code and teams successfully over the last 5 years.

Conference Talk at Laracon EU, Lisbon - 2023

From Artisan to Badass

In this talk Steve will walk through refactoring a CRUD application in Laravel, making the code cleaner and more testable.

Meetup talk at Leeds PHP

How to do API integrations in Laravel

There are many different ways to work with 3rd party Services - find their official SDK, write manual http requests in place, build your own API integration. Today we are going to go through building our own integration, directly in our Laravel Application.

Conference Talk at Laracon Online Winter 2022

Building APIs with Laravel - demo

In this talk Steve will talk you through how to build an API using the Laravel framework.

Meetup Talk at Laravel Worldwide Meetup, PHP South West, PHP Cambridge

Working with third party services in Laravel

There are many different ways to work with 3rd party Services - find their official SDK, write manual http requests in place, build your own API integration. Today we are going to go through building our own integration, directly in our Laravel Application.

Meetup talk at PHP Dublin

Building PHP Packages

In this talk Steve will take you the idea of a package all the way to testing using GitHub actions and publishing on packagist.

Meetup Talk at Nashville PHP

Learn PHP - the basics

In this talk Steve will walk you through how to get started with backend server language PHP. With this session you will learn what PHP is, how you can use it, and what you can create with it.

Livestream at WeStryve

A Whale and an Elephant

In this talk Steve will talk about introducing Docker to your PHP applications with ease. Using the right tooling and a little know how, docker can be easily added to any PHP appplication - simple.

Conference Talk at Blue Conf 2019