Madison PHP

A talk on Madison's web/design/tech/startup community, networking, and career tips suitable for aspiring design professionals by Ben Seigel. If you're a student, shifting into a design career, or just want to avoid getting burned on projects, this talk is worth your while. Community • Meetups • Co-working • Professional development Networking: a necessary evil • Presenting yourself • Becoming a connector • Problem solving vs. pitching your skills Approach to your career • "It's all about the deliverables" (the newest hip hop jam) • Standing firm against the horror of scope creep • The beauty and magic of follow up Speaker Veteran web professional Ben Seigel has designed, developed, coded, and project managed. He remembers Photoshop when it was just a baby. Occasionally clients let him do cool stuff. He is currently marketing manager at Machinery Row Bicycles, where he plots world bike domination and longs for spring. In his spare time, Ben enjoys music, travel, spirited conversation and pretending to do Parkour. His best Halloween costumes are "Your OKCupid Nightmare" and Mr. Clean. Location and Parking Info: To park, enter the Visitor's Parking lot off of Hoffman St. (The Visitor's Parking Lot is labeled with a V on this map: http://madisoncollege.edu/files/users/CLWalker4/truaxparkingmap.pdf ). To enter the Visitor's Parking lot, just push the buzzer and let the attendant know you are attending the Madison PHP meeting). We will meet in the Health Education Building, which is the blue building labeled "C" on the map. We will be on the third floor in Room 309.

This project will focus on building a modern web-based To-Do List application. We will build it from scratch to a fully functioning modern application in just 4 hours. Part 1 will be a two hour session dedicated to modeling and building the PHP backend. We will start off discussing the domain model of a To-Do List application and come up with the functionality we'd like to implement. Then, we'll hit the code and start writing some tests and implementations. Finally, we'll add HTML output and start exercising our application code. We will be working with the following packages and tools: Composer, Symfony 4, Symfony Flex, Doctrine ORM, Doctrine Migrations, phpunit, and PHP 7.2+. By the end of the session, we will have a functional To-Do List application. But don't expect it to look pretty. We will take care of that during the next session! Speaker Beau Simensen (@beausimensen, beausimensen.com) is a Technology Strategy Consultant and has been a professional polyglot programmer since 1998. He is a Technical Product Manager for Blackfire (blackfire.io), host of Astrocasts (@astrocasts, astrocasts.com) and is co-host of That Podcast (@thatpodcast, thatpodcast.io). An active open-sourcer, he created Sculpin (sculpin.io) and helped create Stack PHP (stackphp.com). He is also a serving Core Committee member for the PHP Framework Interoperability Group (PHP-FIG) (php-fig.org). Location and Parking Info: To park, enter the Visitor's Parking lot off of Hoffman St. (The Visitor's Parking Lot is labeled with a V on this map: http://madisoncollege.edu/files/users/CLWalker4/truaxparkingmap.pdf ). To access the Visitor's Parking lot, just push the buzzer and let the attendant know you are attending the Madison PHP meeting). We will meet in the Health Education Building, which is the blue building labeled "C" on the map. We will be on the third floor in Room 309.

This project will focus on building a modern web-based To-Do List application. We will build it from scratch to a fully functioning modern application in just 4 hours. This is Part 2 of the 4 hour event which started at our April meeting). It will be a two hour session dedicated to styling and building a JavaScript-enhanced frontend. We will start off discussing the visual design of a To-Do List application and come up with the User Experience we'd like to implement. Then, we'll hit the code and start styling and writing our JavaScript. Finally, we'll end up with a nice looking and fully functional To-Do List application you can host yourself! We will be working with the following packages and tools: Tailwind CSS, Syfmony Encore, JavaScript (ES6), and axios. By the end of the session, we will have a functional To-Do List application. Not only that, but it will look nice, too! Speaker Beau Simensen (@beausimensen, beausimensen.com) is a Technology Strategy Consultant and has been a professional polyglot programmer since 1998. He is a Technical Product Manager for Blackfire (blackfire.io), host of Astrocasts (@astrocasts, astrocasts.com) and is co-host of That Podcast (@thatpodcast, thatpodcast.io). An active open-sourcer, he created Sculpin (sculpin.io) and helped create Stack PHP (stackphp.com). He is also a serving Core Committee member for the PHP Framework Interoperability Group (PHP-FIG) (php-fig.org). Location and Parking Info: To park, enter the Visitor's Parking lot off of Hoffman St. (The Visitor's Parking Lot is labeled with a V on this map: http://madisoncollege.edu/files/users/CLWalker4/truaxparkingmap.pdf ). The parking code is: # (you need to enter the "#" before the code). If you forget or don't get the code, just push the buzzer and let the attendant know you are attending the Madison PHP meeting). We will meet in the Health Education Building, which is the blue building labeled "C" on the map. We will be on the third floor in Room 309.