You can now watch the Videos from our last meetup on YouTube

Meetup - 24th Feb 2024

Join us for the return of PHPBelfast, where developers and enthusiasts come together to ignite their passion for coding, exchange ideas, and bask in the thrill of technological innovation.

When

Thu 24th Feb, 7pm-9pm

Speakers

Eddie Rusinskas, Lead Engineer at Evouchers will be guiding us through the features of Filament, a series of tools and components for building Laravel projects in lightning-quick time! ⚡

Andy Graham, co-founder of PHPBelfast will be gracing the stage to introduce us to Laravel Herd - a local development environment tailored for PHP & Laravel applications! 🐄

David Frame, Senior Software Engineer at GOLFNOW will be chatting to us about a very important topic in any software business - the art of Clean Coding.

Register Today!
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Slides are available for the PHP Collections Talk 

https://speakerdeck.com/faffyman/php-collection-classes-phpbelfast 

At this month’s meetup, Andy Graham (@4nd) will take us through the features of Laravel Elixir, and we’ll see why its not just for Laravel and how it can help streamline your workflow on almost any project.

Lightning Talks
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David Frame (@DaGrFr) talks about the importance of, and methods to achieve, backwards compatibility in PHP projects.

Darren Craig (@MinusDarren) has been doing some Laravel/Wordpress integration and will give us a rundown on his findings.

More To be confirmed…

NOTE
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PHPBelfast this month will be in a different room than previously, so if you walk past the previous room, take first right, its on your left.  
We’ll signpost as best we can.

Open Floor 
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Come prepared with your own 5-15min talk and have your say on any topic related to web development. maybe you discovered a new library on Packagist you think we should all know about. Maybe you want to have your 2 cents worth on the 11 lines of code that brought down NPM - whatever it is, if you have the slides, you can have the floor.

To keep transitions between speakers simple, please bring your presentation on a USB stick in either PDF, Keynote, HTML or, if you really must, Powerpoint and a laptop will be available on the night.

Networking Opportunities  
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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.

ADDITIONAL
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Don’t forget you can watch previous talk on our YouTube channel.

Can’t get enough of this? Catch up with other local developers on the N.I. Tech & Design Slack.

Follow @PHPBelfast on twitter.

This month, we mostly open the floor to new speakers with no minimum talk length lightning sessions, seriously - if you only have 1 slide you can still give a talk.

Community

The session will open with a talk by Tim from Ardmore, with a talk on getting involved with and contributing to the open source community.

Open Floor

Come prepared with your own 5-15min talk and have your say on any topic related to web development. maybe you discovered a new library on Packagist you think we should all know about. Maybe you want to have your 2 cents worth on the 11 lines of code that brought down NPM - whatever it is, if you have the slides, you can have the floor.

To keep transitions between speakers simple, please bring your presentation on a USB stick in either PDF, Keynote, HTML or, if you really must, Powerpoint and a laptop will be available on the night.

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.

ADDITIONAL

Don’t forget you can watch previous talk on our YouTube channel.

Can’t get enough of this? Catch up with other local developers on the N.I. Tech & Design Slack.

Follow @PHPBelfast on twitter.

REGISTER

The next Day Camp 4 Developers is coming up on April 22, 2016. This time
around, the topic is Modern PHP.

Remember when all you had to to do is shoehorn some PHP into your HTML
page, rename it .php and you had a dynamic web page? Those days are long
gone. These days PHP is a sophisticated language and is the basis for many
of the largest websites. These days PHP developers can create advanced
applications on top of PHP. Applications that run fast and are horizontally
scalable.

If you still think that PHP global and mysql_real_escape_string, you need
to take another look. Join in with Day Camp 4 Developers: Modern PHP.

Invest a day in your career.
http://daycamp4developers.com

What’s New in PHP 7

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!

REGISTER NOW

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And bring a friend!

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.

Three Talk Thursday

Talk 1 - ZeroMQ

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.

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