azPHP May Meetup - Refactoring

For our May meetup, we will have a special visitor from out of town coming to speak to us. Adam Culp (https://twitter.com/adamculp), from Zend, we'll be speaking to us tonight about Refactoring (more information about Adam and his presentation below).

We will also have food and drinks provided by Corporate Job Bank (http://corporatejobbank.com/), who has some good ($100K+/yr.) PHP jobs to share with us.

As usual, we will be sharing PHP news, and hosting a raffle for prizes. This month, we will have an orange php[architect] elePHPant (https://www.phparch.com/swag/plush-elephpant/), among other things.

Stick around afterwards, and we'll walk over to somewhere Mill Ave. (probably Rula Bula or Gringo Star), find something to drink, talk shop, and hang out.

Presentation: Refactoring 101

We hate to refactor. (The practice of altering code to make it cleaner, simpler, and sometimes faster, while not altering functionality.) Adam Culp will talk about how to do it better, and will discuss: When to refactor. How to refactor. Why refactor. How a refactor can help us write better code in the future. A common methodology and steps to follow while refactoring, and resources to help us all on our refactor journey.

About Adam Culp

Adam Culp (@AdamCulp) author of "Refactoring 101" and consultant at Zend Technologies is passionate about developing with PHP and contributes to many open source projects. He organizes the SunshinePHP Developer Conference and South Florida PHP Users Group (SoFloPHP) where he enjoys helping others write good code, implement standards, refactor efficiently, and incorporate unit and functional testing into their projects. He is a Zend Certified PHP 5.3 Engineer, and holds a seat on the Zend Framework Certification Advisory Board. When he is not coding or contributing to various developer communities, he can be found hiking around the United States National Parks, teaching judo, or long(ultra) distance running.

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Note: This activity is not sponsored by the City of Tempe nor the Tempe Transportation Center. Please be respectful of their facilities and other patrons.