Videos

Published: November 19th, 2015

In this talk, Daniel Leech will try and convey the concept of comparative benchmarking in PHP and present a tool with which to do it: PHPBench.

Published: October 15th, 2015

Developers progress from direct SQL to ORMs. This talk will explain what ORM's bring to the table, give overview of different ORM patterns and go through several popular ORM's. A minimalistic ORM called Idiorm will be presented. Idiorm is ideal for beginners learning the basics and for small projects.

Published: September 17th, 2015

Published: September 17th, 2015

Haproxy is a TCP/HTTP load balancer. Learn what that exactly means and how you can leverage it to increase your web sites availability or distribute the load between multiple servers.

Published: June 18th, 2015

Slides

Published: June 18th, 2015

Sitting at your desk all day is terrible! Here are some easy stretches and exercises you can do at your desk. Please take breaks and save your back. Mine is very painful and I hope you don't make the same mistakes that I have. Slides: https://github.com/stevetauber/talks/blob/master/Programming%20back.pps

Published: June 18th, 2015

Generators are a cool, relatively new addition to PHP, we all know that. However, real world usage seems to still be pretty low. Many PHP devs are happy just using arrays, like they have done since the olden days.

This talk explains how generators work (spoiler: it's very simple) and then covers several real-world use cases.

Slides here

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Published: May 21st, 2015

Steve Tauber talks about building a REST JSON API the right way. This is the first part of his talk dedicated to this subject so we will focus on RESTful design techniques, the verbs, the nouns, and logic in MVC environments.

Published: May 21st, 2015

While Behat is meant for behavior driven design, a lot of developers started using it as a tool for integration and regression testing. In a format understandable not only to developers you can easily test behaviour of your existing application (any web app, doesn't have to be written in PHP) utilising different scrapers/crawlers/browsers.

Published: April 16th, 2015

Have you heard of ZeroMQ? Do you know what are Request-Reply, Publish-Subscribe or Pipeline patterns? How routing and transport works? Silvio Marijić, developer from Zagreb and fan of latest and cutting-edge technologies will let you know more about it.