Johan Janssens
Johan is a passionate technologist with a knack for creating captivating digital experiences. With a career spanning over two decades, Johan has carved out a niche as an innovative Fractional CTO, Chief Architect, and an ardent advocate for free software.
As a co-founder of Joomla and the lead developer of Joomla 1.5, Johan has left an indelible mark on the open-source community. His journey is fueled by a relentless drive to build, connect, and automate “things".
Montreal 2025 sessions
Building Desktop Apps...with PHP?
English session - Advanced
PHP is traditionally known as a server-side language. But what if you could use PHP to build desktop applications that run on Windows, Linux, and macOS?
This talk will delve into two different solutions to create true cross-platform, desktop apps with PHP. We'll explore NativePHP, a tool that allows developers to build desktop apps using PHP and Electron and show how to integrate WebView directly with PHP using FFI or a custom extension.
WebAssembly, Extend Anything with Everything, Everywhere!
English session - Beginner
Imagine being able to create extensible software allowing plugins to be written in nearly any language to execute arbitratry, untrusted code in a safe way. This is now possible thanks to Wasm and the Extism project.
In this talk, we'll write a Wasm plugin with Extism in Javacript, Rust and Go and demonstrate how to effortlessly integrate it into an application written in JavaScript, Python, PHP, Go, Ruby, ... in just a few lines of code!
