Monthly Meeting - November/2013

November's topics are Vagrant and Puppet!

Our speaker will be Jelrik van Hal and he'll tell us all about making Vagrant and Puppet work for your project.

The meeting will be sponsored, for the first time, by our friends at EyeOpen (http://www.eyeopen.nl/).

Schedule

19:00: Welcome Drinks
19:30 - 19:45: Opening
19:45 - 20:45: "Environments, line up! Vagrant and Puppet 101"
20:45 - 21:00: Closing & Raffle
21:00: Social, drinks and food.

Talk: "Environments, line up! Vagrant and Puppet 101"

Cut on the time you and your whole team spend on setting up a development environment for every new project. Take away the differences between your development systems and the production machine. Get rid of all the different PHP versions on your local machine. Vagrant and Puppet help you standardize and isolate the software you need to run your application in development mode.

When leaving this session, you know how to keep your development environment clean and standardized through your team. And with any luck, you’ll do the same as I do: fire up a Vagrant box for every project you work on!

Speaker: Jelrik van Hal

Jelrik van Hal is a Software Engineer at Ingewikkeld. He is a community enthusiast, long-time enabler at PFZ.nl and event manager for PFCongres . Although his experiences take him far and wide, Jelrik specializes in data architecture, REST APIs and Symfony development. Jelrik loves to work with the best tools out there and makes a habit of refining and renewing his toolkit every day. Vagrant, Puppet, PHPStorm, Composer, Capistrano, Git and Github are just some of the tools of the trade that he came across. He tweaks them and incorporates them into his daily work.

The Venue

EyeOpen is located in Pand Noord. You can reach it quite easily by taking bus 32 or 33 from Central Station, or by taking the ferry to IJ-plein and walking for 15 minutes. More instructions here (http://pandnoord.nl/contact/#routebeschrijving) (in Dutch).

Please keep your RSVP up to date, and we hope to see you there!