Lightning Session by one of Minus40's digital problem solvers, Paul McBride.
Paul will give us a brief run-through of PHP 7's new features, deprecated things to watch out for and of course tell us all why we need to make the move to PHP 7 (hint the answer may have something to do with Sandra Bullock, Keanu Reeves and a runaway bus)
Dependency Injection / Service Containers for beginners
David Frame of 31interactive will be giving a short talk on Dependency Injection: what it is, its benefits, when to make use of it and how additional concepts such service containers can aid your development!
Open Discussion
If you've ever fancied giving a talk, then this is your opportunity.Why not start your speaking career with a 15min lightning session.
Here's a list of suggested topics for discussion or lightning talks, come prepared with one of these or one of your own and we'll try to squeeze you in.
• Composer for beginners • Creating a Composer Package • Composer + Puli • Dev environments, e.g. Vagrant / Vaprobash / Ansible / Otto • Git for beginners • Deployment strategies • NGINX / Varnish • NoSQL Options • Angular JS • Search - Sphinx, Solr, Lucene • Non Basic Wordpress • Hacking the Raspberry Pi with PHP
Food kindly supplied by Tibus Networks & Hosting
Door Raffle sponsors Corvus Recruitment
Networking Opportunities
As usual there will be opportunity to catchup and discuss any and all things after the talks are finished, The Duke of York is the usual venue for that.
Lightning Session by one of Minus40's digital problem solvers, Paul McBride.
Paul will give us a brief run-through of PHP 7's new features, deprecated things to watch out for and of course tell us all why we need to make the move to PHP 7 (hint the answer may have something to do with Sandra Bullock, Keanu Reeves and a runaway bus)
Open Discussion
If you've ever fancied giving a talk, then this is your opportunity.Why not start your speaking career with a 15min lightning session.
Here's a list of suggested topics for discussion or lightning talks, come prepared with one of these or one of your own and we'll try to squeeze you in.
• Composer for beginners• Creating a Composer Package• Composer + Puli• Dev environments, e.g. Vagrant / Vaprobash / Ansible / Otto • Git for beginners• Deployment strategies• NGINX / Varnish• NoSQL Options• Angular JS• Search - Sphinx, Solr, Lucene• Non Basic Wordpress• Dependency Injection / Service Containers for beginners• Hacking the Raspberry Pi with PHP
Food kindly supplied by Tibus Networks & Hosting
Door Raffle sponsors Corvus Recruitment
Networking Opportunities
As usual there will be opportunity to catchup and discuss any and all things after the talks are finished, The Duke of York is the usual venue for that.
Testing with PHP Spec =======================
There are many PHP testing frameworks and methodologies available to choose from. This month Minus40 CTO Darren Craig talks about developing using PHP Spec.
PHPSpec helps you write clean working PHP code using behaviour driven development, resulting in customer focused code.
Real time notification SMS's with Twilio, Laravel and AWS/SQS==============================================
Chris McCabe (@chris_mc_cabe) from ExcelleratedApps will be delivering a talking on implementing SMS messaging using the Twilio platform using Laravel and Amazon Web Services.
Message queues are great for offloading the work that doesn't need to be carried out by your application right away. This enables you to respond to your users faster and protect your server from excessive load. In this talk, Roger Simms will demonstrate one such message queue system called ZeroMQ or ØMQ
You may not realise it, but most apps could take advantage of implementing a queue somewhere, whether it's for sending susbcriber alerts, image resizing or video format conversion & processing, we all do something that can be handed off to a background process.
Talk 2 - PHP, By The Book
Like most tech, the world of PHP has moved pretty fast. In this short talk we take a look back at the textbooks that helped launch some of our early careers, how some of that advice still holds true but so much of it is really bad advice.
Although tongue in cheek, this talk by Ryan Kilfedder senior developer at Learning Pool, highlights the dangers of ease of access to out-of-date information for the new developer.
Talk 3 - Symfony Demonstration
Symfony is quite possibly the granddaddy of the PHP frameworks, it's components are tucked under the hood of so many other systems, applications, frameworks and micro-frameworks; and although version 3 is still not out, it's 10years old this year.
Symfony sets also the standards in terms of PHP development practices. In this talk, Stephen McAuley from BRS Golf will give a run through of the Official Symfony bests practice derived demo app and show you just how easy it is to get up and running with a full stack framework.
PPI Framework Talk and Introductinon to Docker talk.
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The PPI Framework Engine is the next evolution of framework development. Why limit yourself to just one framework when you can very easily use parts of many, to create something truely unique! PPI is the practical side of the PHP-FIG (PSR) standards and will show you how it's defining the future of application development. Paul will be showing off the brand new PPI Framework Engine, and you will most definitely want to come along to see how PPI will put you in the driving seat, allowing you to easily consume the PHP eco-system into your project.
Paul, a full-stack software consultant from Glasgow, Scotland, is a long-term php community member whom spends his time mentoring fellow PHP'ers, contributing to PHP internals, extensions and the php.net website.
He is the lead developer of PPI, where he focuses on framework interoperability and multi-framework co-operation. Since PPI and PHP-FIG share a common goal, he focuses his time maintaining & participating in the PHP-FIG group to help drive PHP-FIG forward and uses PPI to help drive PHP-FIG standards forward.
Docker - Paddy Carey
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A very highly anticipated and requested talk brought to you by local speaker Paddy Carey (@paddycarey) who will give us an explanation of how to get to grips with Docker.
- How does this container led approach to your environment work in development and in production?
- How do you leverage it to spin up a new instance of your app with a new provider
- Why bother with it at all?
Paddy is here to answer these questions and more.
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IN honour of Belfast Big Data week, we're rapidly trying to pull together An introduction to working with "Big Data" or graph databases with PHP.
This intro level talk will show you how to install the Neo4J graph database. To create and search nodes.
NB - This talk is yet to be confirmed.
Should this talk not proceed, the slot will be filled with extra lightning speakers.
LIGHTNING SESSIONS
Following on from the success of last months lightning talks, we will have a new set of 4 short talks this month.
What is a lightning talk?
Well, did you fix a problem recently? did you fix a bug, find a new (to you) useful library on github, maybe you discovered a cool plugin that saved you 2 days of development.... Thing is - everybody knows something, everybody can share something. It is the collective sharing that makes a community stronger. Lightning talks are the perfect vehicle for sharing those little gems.
This month, our lightning sessions include:-
Value Objects - Darren Craig (Minus40)
Speed v Scale - Ryan Kilfedder (Learning Pool)
Traits - Andy Graham (31 Interactive)
Clockwork - David Frame (31 Interactive)
DIRECTIONS
To find us, head in the main entrance to the University of Ulster (Belfast Campus) on York Street. More directions can be found at:
Once inside someone you’re there for PHPBelfast, they’ll give you access and directions to the room. You need to go up to floor C in the lift, turn left out of the lift, 82C02 is the first door on the right.
Whats New with Laravel 5
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January 2015 saw the release of the eagerly anticipated Laravel 5 framework, which comes bundled with a whole host of new features. Exploring some of the more interesting features, we’ll discuss how Laravel is deliberately trying to challenge developers to think harder about their architecture to create better applications.
Over the course of his career, @MinusDarren has been lucky enough to work with some of the largest companies in Northern Ireland, delivering a mix of digital strategy and hands-on web solutions. In August 2014, he co-founded MINUS40, a new Belfast-based digital agency, where he acts as CTO.
LIGHTNING SESSIONS
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Did you fix a problem recently? did you fix a bug, find a new (to you) useful library on github, maybe you discovered a cool jQuery plugin that saved you 2 days of development.... Thing is - everybody knows something, everybody can share something. It is the collective sharing that makes a community stronger.
We're opening the floor for 5-10min talks to anyone that can bring along an idea. Send us a tweet to @phpbelfast with your #TenMinTalk title so we can get a running order for the evening.
DIRECTIONS
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To find us, head in the main entrance to the University of Ulster (Belfast Campus) on York Street. More directions can be found at:
Once inside someone you’re there for PHPBelfast, they’ll give you access and directions to the room. You need to go up to floor C in the lift, turn left out of the lift, 82C02 is the first corridor on the right.
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