Name: Things I wish I knew when I started programming
Start: 2025-11-18T18:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-11-18T21:00:00+01:00
Location: Cell[0]

Our last meetup in 2025! Still just more than 2 months to go till the end of the year but to make sure you enter 2026 with a smile, we have a great speaker with a great subject at a great location. Again at [Cell\[0\]](https://cell-0.com), we are hosting our next meetup. Again, the talk will be less technical, but knowing the background of the speaker it can only be very, very interesting!

We have Brent Roose, a great developer and PHP advocate building his own PHP framework. This talk is for everyone but will be extra interesting for developers. Learn from the pitfalls, enjoy the funny parts and follow along the road of development.

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**The lecture**
Brent fell in love with code when he was twelve. Looking back, young him didn't know many things about programming, and there were many struggles to wade through during the first years of his professional career. A year or two ago he got confronted with what felt like yet another new reality: the rise of AI, and especially his struggles with it.

In this talk, Brent looks back at the things he wish he knew fifteen years ago and how that knowledge can help him (and hopefully you) find stability in what feels like a new era of programming.

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**About Brent Roose**
Brent has been programming for over 17 years; he is a developer advocate for PHP with [JetBrains](https://www.jetbrains.com/) (who sponsors our raffle!); the author behind [stitcher.io](https://stitcher.io/); the author of three educational programming books: [Laravel Beyond CRUD](https://laravel-beyond-crud.com/), [Front Line PHP](https://front-line-php.com/), and [Event Sourcing in Laravel](https://event-sourcing-laravel.com/); the author of [Timeline Taxi](https://timeline-taxi.com/), a short sci-fi novel; and finally, the creator of PHP framework [Tempest](https://tempestphp.com/).

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**About the location**
The meetup is held at [Cell\[0\]](https://cell-0.com). Cell[0] provides us an great location, food (pizza, vegan as well) and drinks. The office of Cell[0] is located inside the Klokgebouw building at Strijp-S. The entrance is in the middle of the building along Philitelaan, which is opposite the Ketelhuis.
If the door is locked, please ring the bell at number 112. Once inside, follow the signs to the second floor.

For parking, paid options are available along the road at Strijp-S and in the "Om de Hoek" parking garage. Additionally, you can find some free parking spots along the NS train station "Strijp-S" next to Dinner Time, which is a 5-minute walk. There is also plenty of free parking at the other side of the train tracks, behind the station, along the Groenewoudseweg. That's about 10-minutes walking.

Everybody is encouraged to attend about an hour prior to the lecture, so we can have a chat while enjoying our food.

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**About the meetup**
• attending the meetup is free (as in free beer);
• free food (pizza, vegan as well) and free drinks are provided!;
• food is available between 18:00 and 19:00;
• prize raffle (JetBrains license) every meetup;
• the lecture will start at 19:00;
• spoken language is English unless not necessary;
• the presentation is in English;
• suitable for novice to expert level;
• held at Cell[0];
• paid parking spaces are right around the building, free parking spaces are a 10 min. walk.

Benoît Dupont

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