April Event at In The Pocket

Dear members,

We're back! After a two year hiatus we're happy to finally start organizing in-person events again. We can't wait to see you all again!

For our first meetup we're going to kick-off with where we left off: the lightning talks meetup at In The Pocket in Ghent. Expect a bunch of talks of 4-10 minutes.

In the Pocket is so kind to provide us again with drinks and hot dogs.

Venue is at the 4th floor! Take elevator 10!

We hope to see you soon,

Dries, Rias & Freek

PS: Please remember to change your RSVP if you cannot attend.

SCHEDULE

19:00 Doors Open
20:00 Start Talks

TALKS

Lightning Talks by Various Speakers

1. The C in CSS by Bramus Van Damme

CSS is short for “Cascading Style Sheets”. But what exactly is this cascade, and how does it work? Let this short talk enlighten you.

2. How to prepare for 250k connected IoT devices in 10 minutes by Robin Wijnant

After 2 years into the making of an IoT platform, the team at In The Pocket wants to share how and which tools they use to deploy their platform to production.

3. Astro: Less JavaScript, Faster website by Elian Van Cutsem

Astro is an upcoming JavaScript framework which focuses on the generation of JAMStack sites with less JavaScript. This talk is a first look on web development with Astro.

4. Implementing Lightweight Concurrency in PHP by Freek Van der Herten

Why choose between the red and the blue pill when you can just take 'em both at the same time.

-- Break

5. Forms & accessibility by Lukas Cornille

During this 10min talk, we’ll go over how we’ve handled form submission and accessibility for a client in order to make the web a better place for everyone.

6. It worked yesterday: resource management in Kubernetes by Roel Van Steenberghe

Kubernetes is your best friend to schedule resources for your beloved containers. But sometimes even good friends can make strange decisions. Let's discover the rules of the game together.

7. Quick Wins in Laravel by Bert De Swaef

Small things that boosted my code readability, code performance and reduced the issues in production.
8. All aboard the regular express by Alex Vanderbist

Regular expressions seem to be many programmer's kryptonite. Over a period of 10 minutes, I'll share some of the tips and tools that helped me understand and write regex. That way you can pretend to know regex too!

(Talks not necessarily in this order on the day of the event)