In this session you will see some of the new services that you can spin up on Microsoft Azure as a managed ones. We will see services that allow you the option to create Search experiences, giving you the power to tune into it, geo-spatial search and multilingual capabilities via simple REST API, moving to […]

The common mantra is “Community Works”, but does it? How does burning vacation days to speak at a conference “work”? How does staying up until the wee hours of the morning working on a project, just to turn around and go work your day job “work”? Exactly how does community pay the bills each month? […]

The open source world is made from human interactions as much as it is made of code. During this session, Jordi will be sharing his experiences as the Composer Project lead. He will show you glimpses into what it means and feels like to be the maintainer of a popular open source project. By sharing […]

This talk will introduce you to modern PHP deployments. We shall walk through Docker as a tool for container management. We will find out that we need more than Docker to manage more complex deployments and we shall introduce Kubernetes to help us with that. Best on the clustered deployment, we shall wrap it whole […]

Yii2 was released at the end of 2014. In this talk we investigate what is new, what is better, what is worse and how to use it all in the real world.

Continuous integration is a big idea, but what if your projects – and availability to implement new things – aren’t big? Is continuous integration worthwhile for every day projects? Learn more about what continuous integration actually is, what tools are available to help you implement it, and how you can make it work for you, […]

Sometimes simple unit testing is not enough. There is more to it than that when you want to test JavaScript and the rendering of your page. In this talk I will show you how you can use Behat+Mink+PhantomJS to accomplish screenshot comparison, test your JavaScript implementations and your PHP code using the same human-readable language: […]

Developers and shop owners are looking for alternatives to complex and monolithic solutions. Sylius is built on top of the latest technologies in PHP world and is one of the most promising e-commerce platforms.In this talk I will introduce the ideas & philosophy behind the project and show how easy it is to customize Sylius.

In this Talk, we are going to dive into Doctrine 2 ORM’s feature set.We’re going to see the advantages and disadvantages of each functionality, with a particular focus on use-cases that each functionality attempts to solve, which features should be used with care (or avoided completely) and which ones should be used even more.

PSR-7 HTTP Message Interface has been kicking around in one form or another since March of 2012. Get a brief history of how PSR-7 evolved from its humble beginnings as a simple HTTP client interface to the game-changing PHP-FIG proposal we have today. Learn how to work with the HTTP Message Interfaces and how they […]

One of PHP’s most popular frameworks has undergone a major version upgrade! Join us to explore what’s new in Laravel 5.0. We’ll explore putting your Controllers on a crash diet with Custom Request Objects and Method Level Dependency Injection, increasing contextuality with Route & Event Annotations, managing 3rd party authentication with Socialite, understanding the new […]

Is a SpecBDD tool the same as a TDD tool, or something quite different? This talk will answer these questions, and show how PhpSpec can be integrated into your development workflow to drive quality in your Object Oriented design.

You’ve likely heard of Zend Framework, and possibly used versions 1 or 2. In January, the Zend Framework team announced plans for version 3, to be released this year, with major changes, including:- Splitting components into their own repositories and versions.- Evolving the ZF2 MVC framework to depend on the new, standalone components.- Supporting PSR-7 (HTTP […]