Marco “Ocramius” Pivetta is a software consultant at Roave. He is an experienced PHP developer, and helps maintaining ZendFramework 2 and Doctrine ORM. Marco is also active in the PHP community as a mentor and supporter. When not coding for work, he usually hacks together new concepts and open source libraries, or simply provides Q&A on IRC.

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Talk: Extremely Defensive PHP Programming

Resistant, highly testable, safe and maintainable code… or not?

There are a thousand ways to break your code, and a lot of ways to prevent that from happening.

Let’s explore defensive programming and learn how to protect our code from invalid usage.