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Pass by Reference vs Pass by Value in PHP: What’s the REAL Difference?

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In this short video, we break down the key differences between Pass by Value and Pass by Reference in PHP. 🚀 Understanding these two concepts is essential for writing efficient and bug-free code. Learn how PHP handles variables when passed to functions, and see how small changes in your code can have a BIG impact on performance and behavior! 🔍

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Video: the keynotes of Full Stack Europe 2022

by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

Last year at Full Stack Europe we had two great keynotes by two amazing speakers: Jeremy Keith and Kevlin Henney. We're very happy that we can share the recordings with you.

Next month, we'll have a new edition of Full Stack Europe, you can purchase your tickets here. We have an excellent line-up featuring Justin Jackson, Una Kravets, and people that work at companies like Meta, Google, Netlify. If you're familiar with the Laravel community, you'll also probably recognize Kai Sassnowski, Tobias Petry, and a few others! Hope to see you at the conference!

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Advanced Git Magic

Here's the recording of a cool talk by Pauline Vos given at Full Stack Europe 2022. In this talk she shares a couple of cool things you can do with Git.

Together with my buddies Dries and Rias, I'm already organising the next edition of Full Stack Europe, which will be held in October 2023 in Antwerp, Belgium. You can get your early bird tickets on our website.

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The making of the WWSD videos

by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read

We published a fun series of videos as a promo for our Black Friday sales. These videos are inspired by the more recent apple announcement videos. Let's take a look behind the scenes to see how they were made! The WWSD videos We used WWSD to name our week of Black Friday discounts. It stands for…

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