Dive Into MVC

Most developer only know how to code with framework such as laravel, zend framework, symfony but many of them still don't know about the basic specially how framework work internally. In this tutorial I will present how to create your own framework without or using minimal dependency, I will cover topic such as front controller, dependency injection and view model. This will help mid level understand how framework behave internally.

Prasetyo Wicaksono

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PHP Developer & Malang PHP Usergroup Organizer

PHP 7 Compliance Workshop

Everyone must migrate to PHP 7, take advantage of exceptional performances, cut half their hardware and enjoy the best of PHP ever. This workshop is for everyone that is still stuck with PHP 5, and wants to review his million LOC project before jumping to PHP 7.

When migrating, we need to check old code and target only the interesting issues. This session will connect the backward incompatibilities and new features to actual location in the code, relying on static analysis to process quickly large code base. Based on the accumulated experience of the tools and our own, we'll review the issues, diagnose criticality, select the best fixes and prioritize the tasks. All tools are Open Source, and ready to be integrated into your project life.

Damien Seguy

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Damien Seguy is CTO at Exakat Ltd., a company specialized in PHP code quality solutions for the industry. He leads the development of the exakat static analysis engine, that automatically review code for version compatibility, security and clear code. Over the last 17 years Damien has contributed to PHP, as documentation author, elephpant breeder, conference UFO on all continents. He also enjoys gremlin, 狮子头 and camembert.

Intro to Magento 2: Your First Module

Magento 2 is here, and it's time to dive in! Composer, PSRs, and a full test suite make Magento 2 easy & enjoyable to learn. The goal of this tutorial is to introduce the framework concepts of Magento 2 as a foundation for customizing and extending the application. There will also be plenty of commerce anecdotes to go around. Show up, participate, and walk out with both a working Magento 2 environment & module!

This talk is suitable for developers with or without Magento 1 experience. Familiarity with at least one PHP MVC framework is recommended. Source code is available, so you can follow along at your own pace.

Ben Marks

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Ben is a voting representative in the PHP FIG and has more than 10 years in open source commerce working with some of the biggest brands. He serves as an educator and mentor for Magento, having trained hundreds of developers directly as well as thousands of others through the Magento U Fundamentals series. He's always excited to meet other developers to talk about and learn from the challenges and successes of building successful commercial sites with PHP.

Understanding and Implementing PSR

PHP developers today are spoilt for choice when choosing a framework to use for their applications. Frameworks have come a long way from isolated libraries of code to embodiments of design patterns and best practices. This is in no small way due to PSR (PHP Standard Recommendation). Thanks to it, one can even mix and match components from different frameworks! This tutorial seeks to bring more awareness, appreciation and encourage adoption of PSRs as we sit down together to understand the fundamentals and try our hands at implementing some of them.

Zion Ng

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Zion Ng is a Singaporean freelance web developer at intZone.com. Programming has been his favourite hobby since his teens, a tool to create solutions for himself, family and friends. He believes in lifelong learning as passion may die off but passion for learning will keep the flame alive. He graduated from the School of Computing, National University of Singapore and is also a Zend Certified Engineer (PHP and Zend Framework).

Drupal site building for developer

There are multiple ways to build sites in Drupal but only few are considered the Drupal Way™, and it can sometimes get quite opinionated. In the end, we need to balance between requirement, technical debt, scalability, maintainability, without sacrificing security and performance.

In this tutorial, we will go through Drupal site building from a developer's perspectives. It will cover:

1. Drupal Architectural Kata workshop, similar to the one we conducted in one of our past meetups.

2. Drupal site building.

3. Drupal configuration management.

Requirement:

- No Drupal knowledge is required.

- Bring your own laptop already installed with *AMP, Drupal 8, drush (I will update details on how to install).

S J

SJ eats, sleeps, and breathes Drupal. Since knowing Drupal in 2005, he has helped clients launch complex scalable platforms on Drupal. His knowledge and skills on system and large architecture design have made big complex sites like Singtel, I²R, XinMSN / Toggle manageable by a small team of people. He always strives for building platforms which help other people lead happier, more productive and more fulfilling lives. When he’s not busy with his family, he’s active in the Singapore Drupal community by organising meetups and workshops.

To Infinity and Beyond: How to Create Your First Desktop Application with PHP

On this topic I will give light tutorial to develop desktop apps with php and nightrain.

Yuri Pratama

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My name is Yuri Pratama, Pixel and Code Engineer from Indonesia. Enjoy in frontend development, also in UI/UX field. Besides of being a frontend developer, sometimes I switch to Sketch (and Photoshop!) and start to make some artwork. Have programming experience for about 6 years and 8 years in design field.

From Docker to Serverless: building a real time voting application with PHP, Elastic Beanstalk and Lambda

Alex Smith

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Alex Smith is currently Head of Media & Entertainment Solutions Architecture for Amazon Web Services, Asia Pacific. For the last 10 years he has been building end-to-end platforms for Online Video Delivery and large scale web platforms in the UK, Australia and South East Asia.

BDD with Behat for Beginners

Learn the basics of Behavioral Driven Development (BDD) with Behat to build high quality and well documented applications. You will learn how BDD can help you deliver greater business value more efficiently while accurately documenting the functionality of your application along the way. You will learn how utilize Behat as your BDD tool. With Behat, you will create tests for the features in your application by utilizing a natural language syntax called Gherkin backed by PHP code to execute the steps executed in the feature's scenarios.

This will be a hands on session. You will learn how to implement BDD for a web application. This will include utilizing Selenium WebDriver for real world multi-browser testing including introductions to Selenium Grid and hosted integration services utilizing Selenium.

Adam Englander

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Adam Englander is a seasoned developer with over thirty years of experience building scalable, manageable, and reliable systems. For the past ten years, he has been doing that with PHP. Adam is vocal advocate for utilizing Behavioral Driven Development as the driver for building great applications. His dedication to the PHP community is well known as the founder of Vegas PHP. In the past few years, Adam has been building IoT apps and has been researching ways to make this accessible in PHP.

How to Dockerize a PHP application

Kai Hendry is a DevOps specialist who has deployed Docker in Production for a about a year. In this tutorial providing you have the latest Docker install, we will run through a simple PHP application and how to Dockerize it. If there is time, he will demonstrate how to deploy on AWS or CoreOS based hosts and drop tips about issues you may encounter in your deployments.

Kai Hendry

Kai Hendry is a DevOps specialist. He runs Webconverger.

Opening Keynote

Davey Shafik

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Davey Shafik is a full-time developer with over 15 years of experience in PHP and related technologies. He is a Developer Evangelist at Akamai Technologies and has written three books, numerous articles, and spoken at conferences the world over. He is best known for his books, the Zend PHP Certification Study Guide and PHP Master: Write Cutting Edge Code, and as the creator of PHP Archive (PHAR) for PHP 5.3.

Davey is passionate about improving the tech community. He co-organizes the Prompt initiative (mhprompt.org), dedicated to lifting the stigma surrounding mental health discussions, and has worked with PHPWomen since its inception.

Stepping into the future: Migrating & Deploying PHP7

This talk covers the lessons learned on my journey of migrating small and large scale PHP platforms from PHP5 to PHP7. I will go into detail on preparing & analysing your current system to identify how ready your code is for the upgrade. Then I will show how to transition your local environment to PHP7 for testing and benchmarking. Lastly I will give tips and tricks on performing real-time deployments when upgrading your production infrastructure

Paul Dragoonis

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Paul, from Scotland, is passionate about software quality, architecture and continuous delivery. He spends his time contributing to the PHP project & php.net website, PHP-FIG, many frameworks and open source projects. He's a member of the PHP-FIG group and lead developer of PPI Framework Engine (www.ppi.io), where he focuses on multi-framework interoperability. When not working on software Paul enjoys fishing, martial arts and sleeping.

Code Archaeology: Becoming Indiana Jones

Code archaeology is one of the most important skills you’ll ever learn as a developer. How many times have you been thrown into projects with no environment setup, no documentation, and very little support from coworkers? Being able to quickly work out how an application is structured so that you can start making changes is a sought after skill for many employers.

In this talk, we’ll take an open source project that we’ve never seen before and work through the steps required to get it up and running so that we can start working on features. Once you know the steps, they can be applied to any project in any language to get you contributing in no time.

Michael Heap

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Michael is a fixer, working mainly with with PHP/Go/MySQL and doing bits of server administration on the side, he goes where things need working on. Currently, he's a member of the platform team at Datasift, working as part of a team that processes and augments various incoming data sources (including the Facebook firehose) before redistributing it to customers.

From PHP to Hack as a Stack and Back

Come with me on a journey to the world of Facebook's Hack language and the HHVM platform. We are going to look at how to get started with an existing PHP codebase or a new project writen with Hack from the start.

We'll dive into the do's and don't of the language and how to overcome common pitfalls.

Hack extends an already amazing language and makes it so much better. I encourage you all to join this session and learn what makes Hack so great.

Timothy Chandler

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I am the CTO and Director of Zinios Sdn. Bhd., a softeware development company focused on the creation of enterprise grade tools and platforms. I have lived and worked in the region (SEA) for the past 4 years and have been involved in several start-up and many projects. Before this I lived and worked in Australia as a Snr Software Engineer. I also helped build the now thriving Sydney PHP community. I have been involved in the setup and execution of several conferences and attended many others.

PHP 'Bolt' in Nano Server on Hyper-V on Your Laptop or Azure Cloud

Most PHP runs on Linux server, however there is a new kid from the cloud. A millennial and disruptive server technology coming your PHP way. It’s the Nano Server, who some say “was born in the cloud”, designed for performance, lightning ‘Bolt’ fast, smaller resource footprint and still able to function the same as the Windows Server heavy workload. This talk will show you how to setup the Nano Server on your laptop or on the cloud.

Riza Marhaban

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Riza Marhaban is a Microsoft Technical/Developer Evangelist at Microsoft Singapore. Riza is a long time 20+ years as developer and software solution architect. He is the co-founder of .NET Developers Community and Azure Community Singapore. He also loves and uses Open Source Software solution. He is a speaker and a trainer. He always believe that no matter what, there is no super-mega-full-stack solution in software development.

Magento in the age of 2

Magento, the powerful open-source commerce powerhouse behind 150k stores and $50B in commercial volume per year, is in its second major version. This talk presents the current state of Magento tech, community around it, and resources to get going.

Ben Marks

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Ben is a voting representative in the PHP FIG and has more than 10 years in open source commerce working with some of the biggest brands. He serves as an educator and mentor for Magento, having trained hundreds of developers directly as well as thousands of others through the Magento U Fundamentals series. He's always excited to meet other developers to talk about and learn from the challenges and successes of building successful commercial sites with PHP.

Continuous Deployment at Scale

At Etsy our approach to development is to make small, incremental, continuous changes to the site. Deploying code to production anywhere between 20 to 40 times a day requires not only technical tooling, but also a culture that allows for and encourages innovation, confidence backed by actual data and comprehensive tests, and blameless post-mortems that allow for a feedback loop we can learn from and improve.

Learn about the tools we have, and how we foster an environment where we make this possible.

Premshree Pillai

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Premshree Pillai is a senior engineer and has worked with Etsy for over five years, working on various infrastructure projects. In the past he helped build several products at Yahoo!, including Live, 360, and International Blogs. Outside of work, Premshree loves to cook, take photos, read philosophy and history, travel, and talk to people.

Slow database in your PHP stack? Don't blame the DBA!

Your users complain about the bad performance of your app or website? Developers blame the database? How can we find the cause for the performance hotspot?

Far too often the database is held responsible for performance or scalability problems. It seems to be main contributor to the overall web request response time. However, in many cases it’s not the database itself, but the way, how the application is using the database! Too many database statements, inefficient queries and poor index selection are among the common problem patterns.

Based on real life examples, you will learn how to approach performance problems, how to figure out if the database is really to blame and how to end the finger pointing between developers and DBAs.

Harald Zeitlhofer

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Harald Zeitlhofer has 15+ years of experience as an architect and developer of enterprise ERP solutions and web applications with a main focus on efficient and performant business processes, usability and application design. As a Technology Strategist in Dynatrace's Innovation Lab he influences the Dynatrace product strategy by working closely with customers and driving their performance management and improvement at the front line. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and meetup groups around the world.

Journey as a web developer

This talk covers my journey as a web developer -- what made me started developing web applications, why I learn and who mentored me. Later, it will also cover what inspired me to contribute to the opensource communities. Hopefully, it can deliver the message that code can change lives and also inspire people to contribute to FOSS.

Huiren Woo

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Fullstack PHP Developer, Opensource Evangelist

How I learn good programming by learning Drupal

I coded Mastermind) on BASIC when I was 12.

I embedded Star Wars opening theme on the 8080 board during the wire wrapping and assembly language lab in university.

Sometimes I wonder if my geekiness is a blessing or a curse. On hindsight, it may have been a curse that it inflated my ego not to take the computer science / engineering course, thinking that I could learn all these by myself.

Fast forward to present day. I'm responsible for a team who builds some of the largest Drupal sites in Singapore, and beyond, in a world where web development is getting more complex and getting closer to software development workflow. With Drupal, we can build some sites without writing any single line of custom code. But with more complex UX design requirement, it is getting harder not to customise Drupal core functions. When Drupal 8 architecture allows customisation without hacking the core modules, there is little excuse for me not to learn good programming skills.

In this session, I will share:

• How I learn good programming skills by learning Drupal, especially Drupal 7 and 8.
• The single most important skill to have for becoming better programmer, and how to train that skill.
• New concepts in Drupal 8 which may put off people coming from hobbyist background like me: OOP, services, containers, dependency injection.
• If there is enough time, I will share configuration management, Twig template engine and how Drupal Console keeps us happy as Drupal developer.

S J

SJ eats, sleeps, and breathes Drupal. Since knowing Drupal in 2005, he has helped clients launch complex scalable platforms on Drupal. His knowledge and skills on system and large architecture design have made big complex sites like Singtel, I²R, XinMSN / Toggle manageable by a small team of people. He always strives for building platforms which help other people lead happier, more productive and more fulfilling lives. When he’s not busy with his family, he’s active in the Singapore Drupal community by organising meetups and workshops.

Introduction to web security

In recent years, there are many great tools and services available to create websites easily by non technical users. Unfortunately the other side, they might not aware of how to secure their website. Lets go through the basic website security flaws and how to prevent it.

Jeya Selvi R

IT Manager at Sprim with over a decade commercial experience building solutions with PHP. Before Sprim, working as Application Developer at VMware, IT Analyst at Tata Consultancy Services. Apart from coding, would like to hack new technologies and open source libraries.

Hello World, I'm Laravel

A 20-something Project Manager, Web Developer, Blogger, Yogi and leader of the PHPWomen Society of SG telling us about Laravel.

April Kwong

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"Cum Laude" Graduate at university and an accomplished PM having completed her Project Management Professional course at SP Pace Academy. A 7 year developer of PHP who is now working as a Project Manager in FunctionEight. She has developed and maintained many of the chamber of commerce websites in Singapore and Hong Kong such as British Chamber of Commerce for both. In addition, she is currently managing a fintech start-up which is a crowdfunding website for female entrepreneurs and women-owned businesses.

Good to Great

What do you need to be a better programmer? Practice is key, but there are other tricks that will help you. For example, how to work on small steps and have faster feedback. Do pair programming. Avoid manual testing. Balance perfectionism and getting things done.

Alejandro Marcu

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Alejandro worked for six years at Facebook using PHP and Hack on projects such as: large data migrations, pages timeline, photos, the ORM system used internally, code generation and the external Ads API. Prior to Facebook, he worked for TopCoder for four years, doing mainly web development in Java. He recently presented at PHP conferences in Argentina, New Zealand and Netherlands. He genuinely enjoys speaking at conferences and contributing his knowledge and expertise in PHP and other technologies.

10 Awesome things that most people won't notice in PHP

We all know the magic tricks, we all know the cool little functions. Way to make the dates look cool and numbers look awesome. But there are things most people don't think about.

Britta Jaison

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I am working with Yale-NUS College as Web Developer. I have been twiddling with PHP for more than 7 years. I have worked with both corporates and start-ups prior to joining Yale-NUS. I have played the roles of developer and lead at various level of my career. At Yale-NUS we are a very small agile team and I am part of the team developing the in house application/websites for administering the daily needs of the college and also manages the vendors for the certain vendor driven applications. I love my career and finds joy in everything I do in my career life.

PHP FIG: Helping communities work together

Beginning with PSR-0, the PHP Framework Interoperability Group (PHP FIG) has been producing standards for PHP for almost 7 years now and now can boast a complement over a dozen specifications in progress or complete. Its goal is to make your life, as a developer, easier, whether that be through providing a common coding style guide to reduce cognitive friction or interfaces for interoperability. This has not always been easy, but slowly and gradually the FIG is stamping down boundaries between projects and people in the name of interoperability, cohesion and collaboration. Join me for a tale of how the FIG has grown, and continues to grow, whilst trying to bring the PHP community together.

Michael Cullum

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Michael Cullum is a backend PHP developer from the UK, working particularly with Symfony, and has been for about nine years. He is an official team member and member of the management team at phpBB where he has been a contributor for over half a decade. More recently he founded the new PHP Surrey User Group and joined the organising team of the PHP South Coast Conference. Michael is passionate about open source software and is an advocate of modern development principles & methods, open source project co-operation, and the active development of standards. He is actively involved in the PHP FIG previously as editor of PSR 12 and he now runs the administration of the FIG as the PHP FIG Secretary.

Teaching PHP new tricks with machine learning

Machine learning is teaching the computer how to learn by itself. It is far easier to be done, especially when you have small data set and a good level of expertise in your field. Classifying objects, predicting who will buy, spotting comments in code is achieved with grassy algorithms like neural networks, genetic algorithms or ant herding. PHP is in good position to make use of such teachings, and take advantages of related technologies like fann. By the end of the session, you'll know where you want to try it.

Damien Seguy

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Damien Seguy is CTO at Exakat Ltd., a company specialized in PHP code quality solutions for the industry. He leads the development of the exakat static analysis engine, that automatically review code for version compatibility, security and clear code. Over the last 17 years Damien has contributed to PHP, as documentation author, elephpant breeder, conference UFO on all continents. He also enjoys gremlin, 狮子头 and camembert.

The sound of PHP

PHP has been around for many years and has been used any number of ways and in projects large and small, one of its little known and seldom used functions is in that of raw audio generation and output.

In a show of its extreme versatility for the awesomeness that is PHP, we are going to hear what php code can sound like helping push one of the little known and often rarely used functions to create music from elegant symphonies to some of the latest tunes. We will also hear what code from some of the more well known platforms sounds like.

Steven Cooper

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Xero Dev Evangelist. Kini Swimwear CTO. Kingdom Hack founder. Hackathon MC/Mentor/Judge. Geek tech-head able to code tall buildings in a single bound. Prev PayPal Braintree.