Past meetups
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10 October 2019
Tests Make Good Architects
Sam Burns
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This talk takes a look at the positive impacts that automated tests can... -
05 September 2019
Developing Symfony applications in 2019
Fabien Potencier
Symfony has evolved a lot during the last few years. Developing applications from Symfony...
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01 August 2019
Learn By Doing (It Wrong)
Mike Lehan
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As developers we should always be keen to learn more about the work... -
04 July 2019
Bro, you even code? The politics of tool shaming
James Seconde
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We've all heard it: 'What?! You're using X framework/language/tool? You must suck at... -
06 June 2019
Preemptive multitasking using coroutines in PHP Swoole
Bruce Dou
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PHP Swoole enables PHP developers to write high-performance, scalable, concurrent TCP, UDP, Unix... -
09 May 2019
How MySQL can boost (or kill) your PHP application
Federico Razzoli
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The database is typically the most critical part of a system. It is... -
04 April 2019
Running your PHP site on AWS Lambda with Bref
Neal Brooks
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Ever find yourself deploying your PHP app to your EC2 boxes and wondering... -
07 March 2019
Test Driven Development: Dipping your toe into tests first
Mark Bradley
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Writing tests before you write production code can be an intimidating concept, but... -
07 February 2019
The Web API
Mike Oram
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The web API has been a vital part of the JavaScript ecosystem for... -
03 January 2019
Let's get you geared up to tackle legacy code
Frederick Vanbrabant
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The first step of working with legacy code is realizing the incredible amount... -
01 November 2018
Scraping with PHP
Adam Cable
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This talk will be a short introduction to scraping, and how to do... -
04 October 2018
Move your apps into containers
Gregorz Drozd
This talk will be a short introduction to docker, containers and other buzzwords. -
06 September 2018
Squash Bugs with Static Analysis
Dave Liddament
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All developers know that bugs are bad and finding them can be difficult.... -
02 August 2018
Lightning Talks
Lightning Talks
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This month we have decided to change things up from the normal format... -
05 July 2018
Progressive Web Apps and offline development
Mike Oram
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There is a lot of talk about Progressive Web Apps at the moment.... -
07 June 2018
BDD in Practice
Ciaran McNulty
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We'll look at some common Behaviour Driven Development practices, and show how you... -
03 May 2018
Dr Sheldon Cooper Presents: Fun with Flags
Michael Heap
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No no, not country flags, feature flags! Feature flags are a powerful technique... -
05 April 2018
Machine learning and trend analysis in PHP
Michael Cullum
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The world we live in is one where data is one of the... -
06 March 2018
Five Tips for Aspiring Tech Team Managers
Rob Waller
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Management isn't a topic that developers like to discuss a lot, it simply... -
01 February 2018
Online schema migration: a real world case study
Diego Mariani
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In this talk, we will see a walkthrough of the online schema migration... -
04 January 2018
Introduction to PHP Extensions
Derick Rethans
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In this presentation, we take a first look at writing PHP extensions. Using... -
02 November 2017
Graphs are Everywhere
Christopher Hoult
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No - not charts! Graphs are a data structure that are more than... -
05 October 2017
Back to school: Sorting algorithms
Jelena Kosakovskaja
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Sorting is the fundamental and the most common used operation in our everyday... -
07 September 2017
Content Security Policies: Let's break stuff
Matt Brunt
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Content Security Policies are another tool we should have in our security toolbelt... -
03 August 2017
An Introduction to Lean and Functional Domain Modelling
Marcello Duarte
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Rich domain models, inspired by imperative objective-oriented approaches, dominate our industry. But lean... -
06 July 2017
The Philosophy of Programming
Michael Burgess
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What is programming? What are programs? What are programmers doing when they write... -
01 June 2017
Functional Programming in PHP
Zsolt Szende
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It's becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the term 'Functional Programming' while reading online... -
04 May 2017
Enterprise Service Bus Implementation
Maciej Rudnicki
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What is ESB?
Why use it?
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06 April 2017
Building an e-commerce platform for 2 million shoppers with Symfony
Daniel James
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A luxury e-commerce platform for 2 million users from scratch, how hard can... -
02 March 2017
OOP is not dead
Marco Troisi
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Is Object Oriented Programming still worth the effort? Many seem to think it's... -
02 February 2017
Open API
Billie Thompson
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During this talk I will introduce you to the concepts of publishing an... -
05 January 2017
PHP Zend Certification. What? How? Why?
Jelena Kosakovskaja
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Zend Certifications set the industry standard for PHP certifications, recognizing outstanding expertise and... -
07 December 2016
December Social
PHP London
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After a really good year in the world of PHP, we'd like to... -
03 November 2016
Real world deployments - Empowering developers, delivering features
Rob Elkin
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Real world deployments - Enabling engineers to ship code to users quickly and... -
06 October 2016
Event Driven Architecture
Loïc Faugeron
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Have you ever wondered what ReactPHP meant by 'non blocking I/O'? Or why... -
01 September 2016
Grown-up MongoDB: Schema Design
Derick Rethans
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Although MongoDB is a non-relational database, it is still very important that you... -
04 August 2016
Getting started with Test-Driven Laravel
Amo Chohan
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"Amo was recently asked by a developer who is new to the Laravel... -
07 July 2016
Docker in Production
David McKay
Docker - the awesome utility that allows you to create a single, runnable, distributable...
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02 June 2016
How I built a commercial side project, on the Tube
Rik Heywood
Join Rik Heywood as he will be talking about a side project that he...
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05 May 2016
Shipping Faster With Storyplayer
Stuart Herbert
In the Autumn of 2015, Stuart took on a project to upgrade a payment...
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07 April 2016
Dockerizing your CI/CD pipelines
Paul Dragoonis
This talk is intermediate level and should have a bit of something for everyone...
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04 February 2016
Lightning talks
Various Speakers
PHP London is a volunteer organised community group to promote knowledge sharing and best...
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07 January 2016
Imposter Syndrome: Am I Faking It?
Mark Bradley
Do you feel like you're faking it? like you don't feel good enough to...
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03 December 2015
PHP 7
Derick Rethans
With PHP 7 being released today, it is time to show what's in there....
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05 November 2015
Breaking boundaries with FastCGI
Andrew Carter
Efficient and performant applications are fantastic; they keep server load, costs and response times...
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01 October 2015
Kubernetes
Billie Thompson
During this talk I will give you a guide from a developers perspective of...
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