Symfony UGB March: The Spring Theory

Hello fellow Symfonians!

We are very happy to announce the next user group meeting, which will be kindly hosted by Adlogix.eu (http://www.adlogix.eu/#hq) in Brussels. We are still working out the fine details of the schedule for the entire evening, but meanwhile, we are sure you will already be very excited about our first talk and speaker!

Schedule

19h00 Welcome
19h30 1st talk: Deliving software that matters with BDD and Symfony2 - by Konstantin Kudryashov (everzet)
20h30 Break
21h00 2nd talk: How we use docker for our dev environment - by Toni Van de Voorde
21h45 Social

Delivering software that matters with BDD and Symfony2 - by Konstantin Kudryashov

Delivering projects gets easier every year thanks to great frameworks like Symfony. But often we still have to come to the conclusion that choosing the best technology does not always ensure delivery of a successful project. Even the most technologically advanced projects sometimes fail to achieve desired goals. How can we make sure that we're using all the tools available to deliver value instead of features? You will learn that and much more in this presentation about blending BDD and Symfony2.

About Konstantin

Often better known through his online handle everzet (https://twitter.com/everzet), Konstantin Kudryashov is a BDD evangelist, and the creator of Behat, Mink, Prophecy and PhpSpec2. Konstantin currently is employed as the BDD Practice Manager at Inviqa in London.

How we use docker for our dev environment

• by Toni Van de Voorde

To run the Adlogix platform we need to set up many systems and apps like Symfony 1 & 2, Composer, Phpunit, Php, MySQL, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch, Ant, Java, ... Needless to say that recreating this stack on each dev machine is a tedious job. This talk covers our experience with making that tedious job a fun one with Docker, and how we handled some issues like using composer with private repos.

About Toni

Toni Van de Voorde started his professional career working as Java developer on the Belpic project (BE eID card). In 2007 he made a career move to join the startup company Adlogix to work on a promising tool for web publishers. Symfony was among the technologies, and it was the beginning of an ongoing love story ;). Since 2011 he's CTO at Adlogix. If he's not working or learning new things, he enjoys life with his wife and 2 kids.

Please confirm your presence as soon as possible, as seats are limited! Hope to meet you there!