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PHPArch

Reminder PHP World

Washington, DC - November 16-20, 2015

https://world.phparch.com/

• PHP In the Cloud (Training Day)
• Building Testable Extensions Sebastian Bergman (phpunit!) Test
• Create Secure Repeat
• 2FA
• PHP At Google

Remote Year

http://www.remoteyear.com/

Things I was unprepared for as a lead developer

http://dev-human.com/entries/2015/09/07/things-i-was-unprepared-for/

• Way less developing
• Delegating
• Financial management / budgeting
• Hiring/Firing
• Culture
• Motivating
• Mentoring
• Feedback
• Planning
• People Skills
• Lead by Example

Sublime Text Power User

https://sublimetextbook.com/

Ghost Inspector

https://ghostinspector.com/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=TW_KW
I started making something like this as a poc https://github.com/alnutile/gherkin-generator
and hope to come back to it.

Introducing Laravel Spark

https://mattstauffer.co/blog/introducing-laravel-spark-a-deep-dive

Why I wouldn’t use rails for a new company

http://blog.jaredfriedman.com/2015/09/15/why-i-wouldnt-use-rails-for-a-new-company/

“If you want to future-proof your web application, you have to make a bet on what engineers will want to use in three years”

ActiveRecord and the Beauty Lost in Translation

http://matthewmachuga.com/blog/2015/activerecord-and-the-beauty-lost-in-translation.htm

Great Oo training by Matthew Machuga who wrote the above article

http://code.tutsplus.com/courses/object-oriented-design-in-php

Sometime in 2014, PHP-land started to debate whether Active Record was a tolerable ORM pattern, and whether one should use Active Record or Data Mapper ORMs

Latest Readings

Agile Estimating and Planning

Crazy math to figure out your project buffer!

Functional Programming

https://www.phparch.com/books/functional-programming-in-php/

Q & A / Main Topics to Discuss

The term DHH coined “Software Writer”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LfmrkyP81M

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