Extremely Defensive Programming & Doctrine ORM Good Practices and Tricks

Peytz & Co. are flying in Marco Pivetta to present two talks:

17:00: Extremely Defensive Programming

Resistant, highly testable, safe and maintainable code: or not?
There are a thousand ways to break your code, and a lot of ways to prevent that from happening.
Let’s explore defensive programming and learn how to protect our code from invalid usage.

~18:00: Sandwiches

18:45: Doctrine ORM Good Practices and Tricks
Doctrine ORM is a complex tool that enables development of very advanced applications, but are you actually using it correctly?
What if you have been using the ORM incorrectly or in an inefficient way?
We are going to inspect the advantages and disadvantages of various approaches to application design with this Data mapper, and come up with a set of best practices that will be useful for your projects.

About Marco
Marco is a software developer by day, and a passionate open source software contributor, evangelist and supporter by night.
He is part of the Doctrine team and an active Zend Framework 2 contributor.
He is constantly looking for new challenges to deal with, especially when it comes to PHP.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ocramius