Hull Digital Developer Group - April

We are delighted to announce, our next Hull Digital developer meetup.

Location: Fudge cafe restaurant (http://www.fudgecafe-restaurant.com/)

Date: 11th April
Time: 6:30pm

Firstly, a huge thanks to KC and KC Lightstream for sponsoring this MeetUp and the wonderful Rosie at Fudge is going to be providing drinks throughout the evening*. The drinks money will be limited to beer and soft drinks. Don't forget you can also buy snacks, or a meal on the evening, the food is highly recommended, so go for it!

The event will be held in the upstairs area of Fudge, so please go straight up.

Who will be talking?

Stephen Lewis

About Stephen

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Erstwhile designer, full-time developer, Stephen has been working on the web since the late 90s. He founded Experience in 2007, and fills his days building web apps for clients from New York to Tokyo.

When not coding, Stephen can usually be found getting himself into hot water on Twitter (@monooso (http://twitter.com/monooso)) or via the Experience blog ( http://experiencehq.net/blog/ ).

The Talk

PHP Grows Up

Perennially mocked by those damned hipster-spectacled, artisanal-coffee drinking Ruby programmers, PHP is in the midst of a revolution. The last two versions have brought some much-needed improvements, opening the door to new frameworks, tools, and practises.

Join us for a brisk run-through of the most interesting developments in the PHP world, and learn why PHP is no longer the weedy kid on the beach getting sand kicked in its face.

Duncan McMillan

About Duncan

Duncan is a web designer and developer at Art & Soul (http://www.artandsoul.co.uk/), the company he founded in 1999. Three years earlier he used Netscape Composer to publish his personal home page on the world wide web and has been finding better ways to build websites ever since.

The Talk

JavaScript MVC and how Backbone.js saved my sanity

Originally considered something of a gimmick JavaScript has become one of the world's most widely used programming languages, enhancing user experience and functionality on almost every website built today. Over the last couple of years JavaScript MVC frameworks have emerged to address the challenges faced when developing increasingly sophisticated web applications. In this talk I will explain in simple terms what an MVC framework is and when to use one, drawing on my own experience of building a web application whose complexity rapidly surpassed my ability as a programmer.

We'll have the normal great chat and networking before and after the speakers. The talks will be commencing at 7pm.

See you there!

John

*Until the cash runs out