Turbocharged Development with Docker, PHPStorm and Xdebug

My name is James, and I have a confession to make: I’ve been a var_dump()er my whole life. I tried Xdebug once years back, but a chance brush with social media from it’s author prompted the question: is Xdebug still relevant? Is it hard to set up?

In a modern developer world of Docker containers and advanced IDE’s, it was time to revisit how we go about writing Software at Jump24 - in this talk I’ll set up Xdebug on a test project and show you how you can turbocharge your development like we did.

## About James

Speaker, Writer, Software Engineer, Developer Relations Strategist, Podcast host. Pushing Developer Relations forward as an Advocate for Laravel Partner Jump24 in Birmingham, UK.

Host & co-organiser of Fusion Meetup, Birmingham, UK. Founder of brumPHP, Birmingham's current PHP Usergroup.

## Agenda

18:45 ~~Doors~~ Zoom Call Open
19:00 nor(DEV): Introduction - Begin streaming to YouTube Live.
19:05 Speaker Slot
19:50 Q&A
20:00 Close... Stop Stream
20:05 Bonus Round (Networking, "Private Q&A")
20:30~ Close

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