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September meetup

Sheffield PHP is a bi-monthly event, aiming to improve and build the PHP community in Sheffield.

More details will be available soon.

Thu 17th Sep 2020 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Thu 17th Sep 2020 8:00pm (Europe/London)

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A significant proportion of a developer's day is spent reading code rather than writing it. Therefore, it's important that the code we do write is easy to read; in other words clean code. By keeping our code clean and simple not only do we ensure that it is readable, but also easier to maintain, test and less prone to bugs.

Writing clean code is not easy. It takes patience and practice. However, there are some simple rules we can follow to simplify the code we develop. In this talk we will consider six rules to help us develop cleaner code. We will also take a look at some of the metrics that will help us measure the complexity of what we write.

After the event we'll head to a local pub for a chat with fellow attendees and a few drinks.

Our event is free to all but we ask that you sign up online so we have an idea of numbers for the venue. We love to hear your feedback and suggestions for future events either on Twitter or through the #SheffieldPHP channel on the Sheffield Digital Slack account.

6.00pm - 6.15pm

Arrive and take a seat.

6.15pm - 7.15pm

Clean Code - Andy Carter

7.15pm - 7:30pm

Open Mic

7:30pm onwards

Mingle and drinks at the local pub.

A significant proportion of a developer's day is spent reading code rather than writing it. Therefore, it's important that the code we do write is easy to read; in other words clean code. By keeping our code clean and simple not only do we ensure that it is readable, but also easier to maintain, test and less prone to bugs.

Writing clean code is not easy. It takes patience and practice. However, there are some simple rules we can follow to simplify the code we develop. In this talk we will consider six rules to help us develop cleaner code. We will also take a look at some of the metrics that will help us measure the complexity of what we write.

After the event we'll head to a local pub for a chat with fellow attendees and a few drinks.

Our event is free to all but we ask that you sign up online so we have an idea of numbers for the venue. We love to hear your feedback and suggestions for future events either on Twitter or through the #SheffieldPHP channel on the Sheffield Digital Slack account.

6.00pm - 6.15pm

Arrive and take a seat.

6.15pm - 7.15pm

Clean Code - Andy Carter

7.15pm - 7:30pm

Lightning Talk - Geoff Charlton

7:30pm onwards

Mingle and drinks at the local pub.

Sheffield PHP - Clean Code

Talk description to follow.

After the event we'll head to a local pub for a chat with fellow attendees and a few drinks.

Our event is free to all but we ask that you sign up online so we have an idea of numbers for the venue. We love to hear your feedback and suggestions for future events either on Twitter or through the #SheffieldPHP channel on the Sheffield Digital Slack account.

6.00pm - 6.15pm

Arrive and take a seat.

6.15pm - 7.15pm

Clean Code - Andy Carter

7.15pm - 7:30pm

Lightning Talk - Geoff Charlton

7:30pm onwards

Mingle and drinks at the local pub.

https://www.sheffieldphp.co.uk/

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/92188226467

Thu 19th Mar 2020 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Thu 19th Mar 2020 8:00pm (Europe/London)

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https://sheffield.digital/events/meetup-code-of-conduct/

Sheffield PHP - Hack your way into 2020!

Ready to start the New Year with a challenge? Join us next Thursday to test your whitehat hacking skills!

In order to build more secure web applications we must first understand how applications can be exploited. Taking vulnerabilities from the OWASP top 10 list this interactive workshop will pit two teams against each other to find the most vulnerbilities they can in 90 minutes.

Bring a laptop if you can (no additional software is needed).

After the event we'll head to a local pub for a chat with fellow attendees and a few drinks.

Our event is free to all but we ask that you sign up online so we have an idea of numbers for the venue. We love to hear your feedback and suggestions for future events either on Twitter or through the #SheffieldPHP channel on the Sheffield Digital Slack account.

6.00pm - 6.15pm

Arrive and take a seat.

6.15pm - 7.45pm

Team based hacking challenge

7.45pm - 8:00pm

Open mic

8:00pm onwards

Mingle and drinks at the local pub.

https://www.sheffieldphp.co.uk

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-php-hack-your-way-into-2020-tickets-89086075851

Thu 16th Jan 2020 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Thu 16th Jan 2020 8:00pm (Europe/London)

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https://sheffield.digital/events/meetup-code-of-conduct/

What’s in-store for PHP and the web in 2020?

Join us for the final Sheffield PHP of the year for an open, informal, discussion on “What’s in-store for PHP and the web in 2020?” alongside our panel of local industry experts.

Our Experts

Clive Harber

With 15 years of PHP software development experience under his belt, Clive is working as a consultant for Plusnet at present. He is co-author of two publications released this year - “Getting Mean with MongoDB, Express, Angular and Node” and “Implementing Cloud Design Patterns for AWS”.

Geoff Charlton

Geoff is a highly experienced AWS and PHP contractor who currently calls Good Things Foundation home. He has worked for countless local companies over the past decade as a freelance developer and consultant.

John Noel

Currently working as a senior PHP developer at one of our sponsors, Evoluted. After graduating from Sheffield University, John has spent 9 years working for many of Sheffield’s well known agencies. As well as web development, he has further interests in architecture, scaling, dev-ops, deployment and security.

After the event we'll head to a local pub for a chat with fellow attendees and a few drinks.

Our event is free to all but we ask that you sign up online so we have an idea of numbers for the venue. We love to hear your feedback and suggestions for future events either on Twitter or through the #SheffieldPHP channel on the Sheffield Digital Slack account.

6.00pm - 6.15pm

Arrive and take a seat.

6.15pm - 7.15pm

Open discussion - What’s in-store for PHP and the web in 2020?

7.15pm - 7:30pm

Open mic

7:30pm onwards

Mingle and drinks at the local pub.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-php-whats-in-store-for-php-and-the-web-in-2020-tickets-80559616983

Where is Web Development Going in 2020?

https://www.sheffieldphp.co.uk

Thu 21st Nov 2019 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Thu 21st Nov 2019 8:00pm (Europe/London)

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https://sheffield.digital/events/meetup-code-of-conduct/

Tests Make Good Architects

September's meet-up sees Sam Burns return with his talk Tests Make Good Architects.

This talk takes a look at the positive impacts that automated tests can have on architecture. Unit testing in PHPUnit or PhpSpec, as well as behavioural testing using tools like Behat, have a noticeable effect on software architecture. Tested (or testable) code is often easier to work with, cleaner, and has architectural advantages. We will take a look at some of the impacts that a good test suite can have on your application’s architecture, and how to let your tests be your architect.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-php-tests-make-good-architects-tickets-69182301125

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-php-tests-make-good-architects-tickets-69182301125

Thu 19th Sep 2019 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Thu 19th Sep 2019 8:00pm (Europe/London)

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https://sheffield.digital/events/meetup-code-of-conduct/

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-php-continuous-deployment-with-gitlab-tickets-64361086743

Since the beginning Gitlab have made it their mission to enable the entire devops lifecycle within a single application and it is now starting to reveal it's true potential for development teams.

Focusing on the Gitlab CI/CD pipeline and the way in which it can be used to improve your entire team's workflow. We will cover how:
- Your developers can be re-assured on every commit that the build still passes your unit tests, integration tests and performance benchmarks.
- Your QA team will be able to test the features with ease with the automatically spun up instances for each feature branch.
- And the rest of the team can be confident that feature roll-outs are smooth and consistent across all environments.

We will go through setting up a sample Laravel application and configuring Gitlab's suite of pipeline features to demostrate it's potential for your applications and teams.

The event is free, open to all and will be held in the co-working space at Sheffield Technology Parks.

Sheffield PHP - PHP Unit Testing Workshop - May 2019

We aren't going to give you a long spiel about why you should test, everywhere you look developers are shouting from the rooftops about the importance of testing as part of our daily workflow.

So you have finally given in to the chorus of developers proclaiming that TTD is the only way forward. You have perhaps tried a tutorial or two on how to setup PHPUnit and wrote unit tests for a simple calculator.

Now for the tricky bit - how do you write a test for something that isn't just a single class application? You apply your new skills to your real life code and all of a sudden it feels like the learning curve has gone vertical.

Our workshop aims to tackle the tricky subject of how to structure your objects and application to make your code more testable when your application inevitably becomes more complex than a simple calculator.

Novices and experienced testers all welcomed and encouraged. We are hoping to see some developers with prior PHPUnit testing experience and will actively encourage those to share their knowledge with others during the workshop!

Bring your laptop if possible with the ability to run PHP and PHPUnit.

After the event we'll head to a local pub for a chat with fellow attendees and a few drinks.

Our event is free to all but we ask that you sign up online so we have an idea of numbers for the venue. We love to hear your feedback and suggestions for future events either on Twitter or through the #SheffieldPHP channel on the Sheffield Digital Slack account.

6.00pm - 6.15pm

Arrive, take a seat and power up your laptop.

6.15pm - 7.15pm

PHPUnit Testing Workshop

7.15pm - 7:30pm

Open mic.

7:30pm onwards

Mingle and drinks at the local pub.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-php-php-unit-testing-workshop-tickets-61693879053

Thu 16th May 2019 7:30pm (Europe/London)

Sheffield PHP - July 2019

The event is free, open to all and will be held in the co-working space at Sheffield Technology Parks.

https://www.sheffieldphp.co.uk

Thu 18th Jul 2019 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Thu 18th Jul 2019 8:00pm (Europe/London)

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https://sheffield.digital/events/meetup-code-of-conduct/

Sheffield PHP - May 2019

The event is free, open to all and will be held in the co-working space at Sheffield Technology Parks.

https://www.sheffieldphp.co.uk

Thu 16th May 2019 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Thu 16th May 2019 8:00pm (Europe/London)

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https://sheffield.digital/events/meetup-code-of-conduct/

Sheffield PHP - Object Reorientation

Join Chris Riley, one of the organisers of PHP Yorkshire, in March for his Object Reorientation talk. The event is free, open to all and will be held in the co-working space at Sheffield Technology Parks.

We are all SOLID developers who like to keep DRY, these are rules we stick to to try keep our code clean. Despite this, we often end up writing procedural code wrapped up inside objects. This code can be hard for our colleagues and collaborators to get to grips with and understand.

Join Chris for this object reorientation as we take a look at how we can leverage the power of object oriented design to write code which is not just SOLID, but easy to reason about and easy for others to understand.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-php-object-reorientation-tickets-56781947333

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-php-object-reorientation-tickets-56781947333

Thu 21st Mar 2019 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Thu 21st Mar 2019 8:00pm (Europe/London)

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Real time web applications with Websockets

The event is free, open to all and will be held in the new co-working space at Sheffield Technology Parks.

Our first meet-up of the new year sees Mike Lehan join us to deliver his talk; Real time web applications with Websockets.

https://www.sheffieldphp.co.uk/

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-php-real-time-web-applications-with-websockets-tickets-51398835300

Thu 17th Jan 2019 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Thu 17th Jan 2019 8:00pm (Europe/London)

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Lightning Talks Round 4

Join us on Thursday 15th November along with Amanda Cookson and Lorna Mitchell for our next round of lightning talks at the new Sheffield Technology Parks co-working space.

Amanda Cookson joins us for the first talk of the evening to share how "9/10 conversations miss the mark". Amanda is followed by Lorna Mitchell who is joining us to speak about the usefulness of Webhooks in modern web development.

https://www.sheffieldphp.co.uk/

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-php-lightning-talks-round-4-tickets-51398639715

Thu 15th Nov 2018 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Thu 15th Nov 2018 8:00pm (Europe/London)

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Our code of conduct can be found at http://confcodeofconduct.com/

Sheffield PHP - API Development with Laravel

The event is free, open to all and will be held in the new co-working space at Sheffield Technology Parks.

September's meet-up bring us a talk entitled API Development with Laravel from Michael Peacock. More information on the talks contents to follow.

After the event we'll head to a local pub for a chat with fellow attendees and a few drinks.

Our event is free to all but we ask that you sign up online so we have an idea of numbers for the venue. We love to hear your feedback and suggestions for future events either on Twitter or through the #SheffieldPHP channel on the Sheffield Digital Slack account.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-php-api-development-with-laravel-tickets-48277191379

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-php-api-development-with-laravel-tickets-48277191379

Thu 20th Sep 2018 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Thu 20th Sep 2018 8:00pm (Europe/London)

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Automate, Automate, AUTOMATE!

Stuart Herbert talks us through the importance of automation.

http://www.sheffieldphp.co.uk

http://www.sheffieldphp.co.uk

Thu 19th Jul 2018 8:00pm (Europe/London)

Web Security and Vulnerabilities

Investigating the top 10 most common web application vulnerabilities and how to fix them. An interactive event pitting teams against each other, so bring your laptop!

Thu 19th Jul 2018 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Thu 19th Jul 2018 8:30pm (Europe/London)

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Web Security and Vulnerabilities

Investigating the top 10 most common web application vulnerabilities and how to fix them. An interactive event pitting teams against each other, so bring your laptop!

http://www.sheffieldphp.co.uk

http://www.sheffieldphp.co.uk

Thu 17th May 2018 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Thu 17th May 2018 8:30pm (Europe/London)

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Sheffield PHP - March 2018

Join us on the 15th March for our next event at The Showroom Cafe. We'll be hosting three talks;


“I’m British So I Know How To Queue”
The talk will cover most chapters of the book, topics such as what are queues useful for, configuring queues, handling errors with dead letter queues and more. The book on offer at the moment in the current 5 for $30 bundle from NomadPHP.


“The Chimp Paradox : How to keep it cool”
This quick talk is based on the mind management book called The Chimp Paradox written by Dr. Steve Peters. It lays out simple models and strategies that we could use to

- Recognise how your mind is working - Understand and manage your emotions and thoughts - Manage yourself and become the person (or PHP Developer) you would like to be

“Nuclear powered software security”
It seems to be almost a weekly occurrence that another company makes the news headlines for being hacked and in the process disclosing sensitive user data and company secrets. These security meltdowns can cause catastrophic effects to the company in lost user trust and huge costs putting things right.

A nuclear power plant is considered one of the most dangerous things mankind has built, yet they very rarely go wrong. The systems engineering that goes into making nuclear power plants safe is a fascinating topic to study but on the surface it seems entirely irrelevant to PHP developers.

In this talk I'm going to show you how this level of safety is achieved, what happens when it goes wrong and then see what lessons we, as PHP developers, can learn from it to help us secure our applications from meltdown.

https://www.sheffieldphp.co.uk/

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-php-round-4-tickets-42497741890

Thu 15th Mar 2018 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Thu 15th Mar 2018 8:30pm (Europe/London)

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Lightning Talks Round 2

Our event is free to all but we ask that you sign up online so we have an idea of numbers for the venue. We love to hear your feedback and suggestions for future events either on Twitter or through the #SheffieldPHP channel on the Sheffield Digital Slack account.

For more information visit our website https://www.sheffieldphp.co.uk

https://www.sheffieldphp.co.uk/

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-php-lightning-talks-round-2-tickets-41698101143

Thu 18th Jan 2018 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Thu 18th Jan 2018 8:30pm (Europe/London)

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Sheffield PHP - Lightning Talks

Join us on the 16th November for our next event in our new venue; The Showroom Cafe. We'll be hosting a series of lightning talks offering insights into Composer, Spryker, and Server debugging! We're also giving away a free PHP Storm licence to one of our attendees who live tweets from our event!

Our first talk of the evening will be by Carl, his talk will be on quick and dirty tips for debugging PHP hosting environments.

Ben's talk will teach us more about Spryker with insights into it's architecture, code structure, and patterns.

Sam will conclude our talks with a quick overview of composer and why there is no excuse not to use it, before diving into some of it's more powerful features!

https://www.sheffieldphp.co.uk/

https://www.sheffieldphp.co.uk/

Thu 16th Nov 2017 6:30pm (Europe/London)

Thu 16th Nov 2017 8:00pm (Europe/London)

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Intro to Laravel and the Laravel Ecosystem

September sees the second Sheffield PHP since our relaunch and we are happy to announce that we have Rob Deniszczyc joining as our latest speaker to take us through an Introduction to Laravel and the Laravel Ecosystem.

https://www.sheffieldphp.co.uk/

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-php-intro-to-laravel-and-the-laravel-ecosystem-tickets-36351283668

Thu 21st Sep 2017 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Thu 21st Sep 2017 8:00pm (Europe/London)

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Sheffield PHP - Driving Design with Behat Test Automation

Behat is a great test automation tool, but its true benefit to developers comes when the tests are written first. Behat can support the requirements gathering and BDD process, provides a natural framework for modelling by example, and can guide the software architecture and design process. Discussing how to build the right thing right with Behat, we will look at how to write a good scenario, and how to use service-level testing in Behat to drive good domain design.

https://www.sheffieldphp.co.uk/

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-php-driving-design-with-behat-test-automation-tickets-35816733815

Thu 20th Jul 2017 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Thu 20th Jul 2017 8:30pm (Europe/London)

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