Monthly Meeting - October/2013 (with PHPBenelux)

We'll be organizing October's meeting together with PHPBenelux (http://phpbenelux.eu/)! For their meeting in the Netherlands they chose Amsterdam, and what better way to make it awesome than to organize it with AmsterdamPHP :)

September's topic will be combining PHP with C++!

Our speaker will be Emiel Bruijntjes and he'll tell us all about speeding up PHP with C++. The meeting will be sponsored by our friends at Copernica (http://www.copernica.com/).

Schedule

19:00: Welcome Drinks
19:30 - 20:30: "Speeding up PHP – mixing PHP with C++"
20:30 - 20:45: Raffle
20:45: Social, drinks and food.

Talk: Speeding up PHP - mixing PHP with C++

PHP is a language designed for creating web pages – but for running complicated CPU or memory intensive algorithms not always the most appropriate choice. In such situations you better switch to a language like C or C++.

However, although PHP offers a C API that allows one to combine PHP and C/C++, using this API is tough. The PHP C API is not very well documented - and could have a better and simpler structure. Most PHP developers therefore never consider writing in C, and stick to their PHP scripts – with good reason.

That's why the PHP-CPP library is being developed. To overcome the problems that the C API has, Copernica is building a C++ library that is easy to use, and that has an object oriented structure. This library allows developers to move their algorithms and data structures from PHP to C++, and speed up applications significantly.

Emiel Bruijntjes will show examples of how to use the C++ library, and will speak about the design of the library, and the plans he has with it. This presentation will also be the first time the library is showed to the public, so feedback and thoughts from the audience are greatly appreciated.

Speaker: Emiel Bruijntjes

Emiel Bruijntjes has been working with PHP for more then 10 years. He is one of the founders of Copernica BV. This year he has been working on MailerQ, a fast and flexible MTA that uses AMQP message queues, and PHP-CPP, a C++ library for building PHP extensions.

Raffle

We got some awesome stuff to give away this month, so make sure you CHECK IN once you arrive at the meetup if you want a shot at getting it!