September meeting at Wijs

After taking some time off during the summer holidays, we're happy to announce our September meeting in Belgium. On Thursday September 12th, PHPBenelux is coming to Ghent and the event will be hosted at Wijs (http://www.wijs.be/).

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As an influential digital agency, Wijs has an excellent reputation in the web industry and has the credentials to prove it. They focus heavily on PHP, so there's a great match between what they do and what we believe in. This is our first user group meeting at their offices, but they are no strangers to us: Wijs has been a silver sponsor during the 2013 and 2012 edition of our conference.

We're obviously very grateful for their support!

Schedule

19:00 - 19:30: Welcome and drinks
19:20 - 19:30: Intro by PHPBenelux & Wijs
19:30 - 20:30: Migrating Fork CMS to Symfony (by Dieter Vanden Eynde (https://twitter.com/dieterve))
20:30 - 20:45: Break
20:45 - 21:45: PhpStorm productivity tips (by Maarten Balliauw (https://twitter.com/maartenballiauw))
21:45 - 22:00: Raffle, Announcements, Feedback
22:00 - ??:??: Networking and drinks

Migrating Fork CMS to Symfony

In September it will be one year since Fork CMS announced their migration to the Symfony framework. Changing the core fundamentals of your open-source application is a hard and long process. This talk gives you a front row seat to see how problems and hard decisions were tackled, including the bad and the ugly. Definitely a must see for everyone who is involved in open-source projects, interested in Symfony or is looking to migrate a PHP application.

About Dieter

Dieter Vanden Eynde (https://twitter.com/dieterve) analyses the technical aspects of digital strategies and websites at Wijs. Clients include Delta Lloyd, Rabobank, Studio Brussel, Rock Werchter, etc. Furthermore he's one of the core contributors of Fork CMS and a proud Zend Certified Engineer (Yes, with PHP elephant on his desk).

PhpStorm productivity tips

Using automatic inspections and quick fixes, PhpStorm can greatly improve code quality. It does this for PHP and web technologies. First-class Composer support provides a head start for every project. We’ll get an insight on how to use version control systems and how we can deploy our projects to remote servers. We’ll learn about the debugger and see how it can be used to provide insight into our application at runtime. This session is useful for everyone interested in or currently working with the PhpStorm IDE as there will be plenty of tips & tricks to enhance your productivity. Watch and learn how to use PhpStorm to its full potential!

About Maarten

Maarten Balliauw (https://twitter.com/maartenballiauw) is a Technical Evangelist at JetBrains. His interests are all web: ASP.NET MVC, PHP (can't choose between both platforms...) and Windows Azure. He has published many articles in both PHP and .NET literature such as MSDN magazine and PHP architect. Maarten is a frequent speaker at various national and international events such as MIX (Las Vegas), TechDays, DPC, ... His blog can be found at http://blog.maartenballiauw.be (http://blog.maartenballiauw.be/).