PHP London June 2013

PHP London is a non-profit group to promote knowledge sharing and best practice amongst PHP developers and web development and business professionals in London. The main product right now is a regular PHP meetup. In order to attend all you need is an interest in PHP.

Drinks at the beginning of this month's meeting are generously sponsored by Hailo (http://hailocab.com).

Hailo is the Taxi Magnet - a free smartphone app which puts people two taps away from a licensed taxi, and lets cabbies get more passengers when they want them. A Hailo hail is accepted around the world every four seconds from Hailo’s global network of tens of thousands of drivers and hundreds of thousands of passengers. Hailo is available in New York, London, Dublin, Toronto, Chicago, Boston and Madrid - and coming next to Tokyo, Washington DC, and Barcelona. Hailo has carried millions of passengers and grown to annualized sales of over $100M. Founded by three taxi drivers and three internet entrepreneurs, Hailo has raised over $50M from investors including Union Square Ventures, Accel Partners, Wellington Partners, Atomico Ventures and Sir Richard Branson.

Hailo is currently hiring software engineers and devops engineers.

Agenda:

7:00-8:00 - informal drinks and chat

8:00-8:05 - welcome by directors & any group announcements

8:05-9:00 - talk(s):

Title: Lightning Talks! About:5 minutes + 2 minutes Q&A on any topic. No slides. Submit your talk at http://bit.ly/phplontalks Scheduled Talks: Christopher Hoult - Team Building Through Deception Mat Carey - DRY & SRP as a way of life David Amanshia - Joomla Continuous Integration Derick Rethans - If you don't have anything nice to say... Jonathan Oddy - JSON with Weasel Steve Storey - Dependency Injection with Bounce If you are interested in giving a talk at a future meeting, or want to request one, please contact us (https://www.meetup.com/phplondon/suggestion/).

9:00 onwards - more drinks and chat at the Fox pub.