PHP Belfast

Watch this space for PHP meet-ups in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Supported by jetBrains PhpStorm and Used Cars NI

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PHPBelfast Meetup 22/02/24

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

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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! https://www.meetup.com/phpbelfast/events/298567478/

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PHP Collection Classes - Slides

Slides are available for the PHP Collections Talk 

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

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May Meetup

Come along to the next PHP Belfast meetup, meet other local PHP developers, talk about code, tech, and more... oh and someone will stand up and talk for a few minutes about Collection Classes.

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June Meetup - Tighten up your workflow. Front-end asset management for any web project

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 --------------------

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 --------

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  --------------

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.

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April Meetup - Thu 7th April

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

Register on meetup : http://www.meetup.com/phpbelfast/events/230095462/ Or on GetInvited To. https://getinvited.to/phpbelfast/april-meetup/

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Join us for a PHP Conference on the south coast, UK in Summer 2016!

Summer by the Sea with PHP South Coast. Tickets now on sale.

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Daycamp4Developers - Modern PHP

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

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February Meetup (2016)

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

http://www.meetup.com/phpbelfast/events/228223914/

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.

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Announcing the October Meetup

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.

  Already a member of meetup.com? You can register there if peferred

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phpbelfast at phpnw

Several phpbelfast members have made the trip to Manchester for the annual PHPNW conference. It's 2 days of intensive learning that they will bring back and be able to share. If you see any of them, please do say hello. It's the first time at a PHP conference for most of them.

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Announcing the September Meetup

Join us this September 24th, when at our meetup we have two new speakers for our group.

Local Developer Paddy Carey will give us a demonstration of Docker, and Scottish Consulant and seasoned PHP speaker, Paul Dragoonis, will tell us about the PPI Framework engine and PHP Interoperabiliy.

For free ticket registration and more information see: http://getinvited.to/phpbelfast 

Anyone who is an existing member of meetup.com can sign up there: meetup.com/phpbelfast

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Surprise Draw

The next meetup, Sept. 24th will feature a prize draw sponsored by Corvus Recruitment. The draw is open to all who attend on the night and the prize is a “fruit” related piece of technology - one that is quite suited to developers. We’d like to take this opportunity to thank Corvus for their involvement and support for the local PHP community.

SIgn up for the next meetup at meetup.com/phpbelfast OR getinvited.to/phpbelfast 

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Social Event

Since we’re temporarily homeless so to speak, our August Meetup is a social gathering.

We’ll be joined by WordPress (with a capital P dang it!) and PHP Community Leader / Speaker / Motivator and much more, Miss Jenny Wong (@miss_jwo). Jenny has come over to run a WordPress Surgery with the folks at WordPress NI. Jenny is also a former organiser of the PHPNWConf in Manchester, which is coming up soon by the way - so if you want to know more about that too, then this is the perfect opportunity to find out all you ever wanted to know about conferences.

This is your chance to hang out, talk shop, swap ideas, meet with a self-confessed Community-Junkie Half-Human developer, find out what the PHP Dev world is like over the water, and generally just have a good night out.   

Social events are a great way to get solutions to that problem that’s been bugging you.. and equally a great platform to brag about that awesome thing you recently did to people who actually understand and are interested in it.

Venue: The Bar With No Name (formerly Auntie Annies) on the Dublin Road Time: Thurs 13th Aug 7:00 Tickets: Not required, it’s just a pub gathering, but if you want to, you can register at http://www.meetup.com/phpbelfast/events/224140367/ 

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Did you know we try to video all of our talks / speakers? You can catchup with any you missed over at our YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/user/phpbelfast 

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Great read by Chris Beams - everyone should take notes.

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Graphing data with PHP and Neo4j

Slides from last months Neo4J talk are now available online.

https://speakerdeck.com/faffyman/graph-data-with-neo4j-php-and-neoxygen