Achieving High-Quality Code Standards

Talk:
We all want want high-quality code. Standards keep things consistent and make it easier to identify potential problems, but if you want high-quality code, you need high-quality standards. We'll dive into PHP-FIG's PSRs as well as other popular coding standards and investigate how PHP_CodeSniffer can automate enforcement to make standards compliance easy to achieve. We'll even cover docblocks so you can create functional documentation of classes and methods using phpDocumentor. This talk will prepare you to write clean, consistent code so you can easily navigate and share between developers.

Speaker:
Patrick Schwisow

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Bio:
Patrick has been into web technologies since the "bad old days" when animated GIFs were required on all sites and the BLINK tag still had some supporters. He suffered through several years of procedural programming in PHP4 before discovering the glories of OOP in PHP5. Patrick is a Software Engineer at Shutterstock, with experience in Doctrine, Symfony, and several less fun technologies. After hours, he's the founder and organizer of the Lake / Kenosha County PHP Users Group.

Location Info:
To park, enter the Visitor's Parking lot off of Hoffman St. using this access code #2921. (The Visitor's Parking Lot is labeled with a V on this map: http://madisoncollege.edu/files/users/CLWalker4/truaxparkingmap.pdf ). If you forget the code, just push the buzzer and let the attendant know you are attending the Madison PHP meeting). We will meet in the Health Education Building, which is the blue building labeled "C" on the map. We will be on the third floor in Room 309.

After the Talk:
Please join us for some social time after the talk. We will be heading over to Karben4, which is on the corner of Kinsman and 51.