Happening online

For our March 2022 meetup, after a request during a past meetup, we'll be joined online by Kat Reeve for an introduction to automated testing.

We have space for a lightning talk if anyone wants to give a short talk on another PHP-related topic.

We will also have a prize to raffle during the event.

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Abstract:

Kat will cover the basics of automated tests, how to get started and some highly opinionated suggestions on how your automated testing should run.

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Thank you to our sponsors:

For our second online meetup in 2022, we'll be joined by Thomas Stone.

We have space for a lightning talk if anyone wants to give a short talk on another PHP-related topic.

We will also have a prize to raffle during the event.

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About Thomas:

An informal online code practice session where we can work on PHP code katas and mini-projects in pairs or groups, and learn and practice new techniques and methodologies.

Happy new year, everyone, and for our first event of 2022, we're welcoming back Christopher Miller for another talk on clean, concise, and collaborative code.

We will also have some prizes to raffle during the event.

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About Christopher:

Following some great feedback from his recent talk at PHPUGFFM, we have invited Matthew Setter (@webdevwithmatt) to present his "Deployment of PHP-Apps with Docker" talk.

Abstract:

Building matching development and production environments - and any other environment for that matter - can often be a real challenge, which makes deploying PHP apps more difficult than it should be. But by using Docker Compose you can take a lot of the hassle away.

This month we have a joint meetup with PHP South Africa (https://www.meetup.com/php-south-africa), featuring two talks on PHP and security.

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Talk 1: Tapiwa Maumbe

"Introducing ways to secure web application, covering server hardening, authentication, authorization, encryption (maybe POPIA), and other general security items. The focus is on web applications. I will end with my personal views on certain things."

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Talk 2: Ismael Velasco

This month we have talk from James Jones, introducing test-driven development with PHPUnit.

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Thank you to our sponsors:

- Lexis Nexis
- Twilio

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We *always* need more speakers! Volunteer to speak or request a topic: [masked] or #speaking in Slack

Join us on Slack, our online community: https://www.phpsouthwales.uk/slack.

This month we have talk from Michael Pritchard on this approach to code katas and refactoring code.

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After the talk, we'll try something new and do some code katas as a group and put some of the techniques into practice!

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Thank you to our sponsors:

- Lexis Nexis
- Twilio

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We *always* need more speakers! Volunteer to speak or request a topic: [masked] or #speaking in Slack

Join us on Slack, our online community: https://www.phpsouthwales.uk/slack.

This month we have two talks from two guest speakers.

We're happy to have Christopher Miller (@ccmiller2018) back again to speak about PHP 8, and Matt Hunt about happy Developers and how organisations can foster the talent they have got and ultimately have a happy workforce.

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What's new in PHP 8:

An exploration of PHP 8 with Developer Christopher Miller. Chris will be guiding everyone through the latest features and will be demonstrating how you can remain compliant and not break the PHP 7 support as much as possible.

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This month we have two talks from two guest speakers:

Sebastian Feldmann (@movetodevnull): Git
Christopher Miller (@ccmiller2018): Our standards, and why we use them

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Thank you to our sponsors:

- Lexis Nexis
- Twilio

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We *always* need more speakers! Volunteer to speak or request a topic: [masked] or #speaking in Slack

Join us on Slack, our online community: https://www.phpsouthwales.uk/slack.