Lightning talks

After the success of the night last year, this month, we're hosting another night of 5-10 minute lightning talks, this time at Brightpearl (http://www.brightpearl.com)!

• Refactoring repositories
  Gavin Davies (https://www.meetup.com/php-sw/members/91773092), Software Developer at Radify (http://radify.io) and author of Deal With It: Attitude for Coders (https://leanpub.com/dealwithit)

Sometime a repository begins to smell; it's just not set up right. How can we apply refactoring strategies to source code repositories?

• OrientDB - The First Days In A Few Minutes
  Richard Jones (https://www.meetup.com/php-sw/members/13965961), Systems Engineer at Future Publishing (http://www.futureplc.com)

OrientDB is a graphing database like Neo4j, a document store like Mongo, and you can query it with SQL. This is a brief introduction to getting a server set up, loading it with data and getting that data back out in interesting and fun ways.

• Drupal 8
  Oliver Davies (https://www.meetup.com/php-sw/members/137208052), Drupal Developer and a Linux Systems Administrator, working for the Drupal Association (https://assoc.drupal.org)

• The Promised Land
  Warren Seymour (https://www.meetup.com/php-sw/members/14077610), Software Developer at Radify (http://radify.io)

React is an extension that brings event-driven, non-blocking IO to PHP. With this new paradigm comes the 'Promise'; a fascinating and powerful pattern for handling asynchronous behaviour. I'll be using React to demonstrate how Promises rock, and why you should consider them for your own applications.

• How Much Does Your ORM Cost?
  Stu Herbert (https://www.meetup.com/php-sw/members/25201422), Freelance PHP / Architect / Quality Assurance at Ganbaro Digital (https://twitter.com/ganbarodigital)

• PHP Migrations with Phinx
  Andy Gale (https://www.meetup.com/php-sw/members/17672291), Devops Consultant at Hello Future (http://hellofutu.re)

Automated database migrations are extremely useful when doing Continuous Integration and Delivery. Phinx is a simple PHP standalone tool for writing database migrations for existing or new applications. We like it.

• Building RPM packages for yum/apt: a guide for the unwilling
  Dan Ackroyd (https://www.meetup.com/php-sw/members/39370012), Independent C + PHP developer, Imagick maintainer. That guy with the beard

• The portability problems of ordered hashes
  Tom Adam (https://www.meetup.com/php-sw/members/96221542), Developer as Instantiate (http://www.instantiate.co.uk)

• When to declare classes final
  Marco Pivetta (https://www.meetup.com/php-sw/members/4950278), Software Consultant at Roave (https://roave.com), Doctrine core team member & ZF2 contributor

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Brightpearl (http://www.brightpearl.com) have kindly offered to host the evening, providing food, beers and their office as the venue. Don't forget to check them out- and if you're looking, they are hiring (http://www.brightpearl.com/company/careers)

Afterwards, we'll head to the pub, probably the Volunteer Tavern (http://volunteertavern.co.uk/real-ales)!

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View on the PHPSW website (http://phpsw.org.uk/events/221484360-lightning-talks)