Stadium Plaza

This month we have regular attendee and speakers Ismael giving us a fantastic talk he has been working on, also we have regular attendee and first time speaker Marek Varga giving us a great talk and insight into remote development. With pizzas and beers this one's going to be good! We will be starting the talk at around 18:30, but will be at the venue at around 18:00 for beers and networking.

FIRST TALK - Ismael

Back to the Future in Software Architecture: When OOP and Design Patterns First Met

At this months PHP South Wales we have a treat for you!;

4 x 20 minute talks on different topics!

Talk 1: Delivering the Six Nations using WordPress & JAMStack

Daniel Drave is the Build Team Leader at Sotic. As chief engineer of Sotic's front-end stack he talks about how they delivered this year's Six Nations website using their WordPress framework. He discusses the challenges of delivering a high-traffic, high-profile website and the technical considerations we as engineers should think about when providing performant, scalable technical solutions.

This month with have Sarah Pantry from Automattic giving us a talk on PHPCS!

# A little about Sarah:

This month we have the pleasure of PHP South West organiser David Liddament coming this side of the bridge to give us an exciting talk all about Practical Static Analysis.

Practical Static Analysis

All developers know that bugs are bad and finding them can be difficult. The good news is tools to help us find and prevent bugs are becoming more powerful...

This month we have Rob Wilson, senior PHP developer at Superdry, talking security. We also have the pleasure of Craig Marvelley, VP of Engineering at Bipsync, talking to us about Frameworks Microservices HTTP Streams Queues and more!

Rob Wilson's Talk:

Everyday, we are presented with news about a website, or service that has been "hacked". How can developers, and non-developers alike protect their applications and data from ending in such disasters?

Common mistakes are often made with applications that could lead the developer, and/or others to a security faux pas.

This month we have Dan Ackroyd giving his ExpoPHP talk on Interface segregation. Alongside Dan we have our regular Ismael Velasco, talking about Chatbots using PHP, JavaScript and ChatScript!

Using the Force (and ChatScript) to code high level chatbots:

What's the deal with chatbots: are they a passing fad or a trend to watch out for? What are the advantages and disadvantages of machine learning vs rule based systems? Is the Singularity gonna wipe us out tomorrow?