PHP Oxford meetup - Setup CI and code review in your lunch break

Schedule

Setup CI and code review in your lunch break

Presented by Dave Liddament (https://twitter.com/DaveLiddament)

Continuous Integration (CI) and code review should come as standard on pretty much any software project these days. Yet many teams are missing these valuable tools.

In the past you might just about be forgiven for not setting these tools up (ask anyone who's lost days configuring tools like Jenkins and Gerrit). However today there is no excuse. Bitbucket and Github both offer code review out of the box. CircleCI offers CI configured by a single file. They are so simple to setup you could be up and running in your lunch hour.

This talk we outline the benefits of code review and CI. It'll talk about concepts like pull requests and protected branches and why they are important. It'll take you through (in a series of screenshots) how to setup Github with CircleCI. We'll also look at a few tools like Coding standard fixers, linters, var dump checkers and how to weave them into your development process.

So if you're not using CI and code review on your current project then you should probably be at this talk.

Lightning Talk(s)?

If you'd like to present a lightning talk (5-20 minutes), please get in touch!

Pub!

After the talks we'll have some drinks at the venue and then retire to a local watering hole.

Refreshments & sponsors

Refreshments (drinks and snacks) will be provided courtesy of our sponsors Haybrook IT (https://haybrook.co.uk/). Thanks to Haybrook and our other sponsors Invitial (http://www.invitial.com/) for their support, and to OCFI for use of the venue.

Venue access

You will be able to access OCFI's main reception from 7pm. Access to The Basement is via key fob. Please wait in the reception area and someone will accompany you downstairs.

Please note that a key fob is required to exit the building after 9pm; if you leave after this time then you will need to be accompanied to reception by someone with a key fob.

Please contact Gareth on 07971 462637 in case of any problems.

Code of Conduct

Please note that this meet-up is covered by our code of conduct (https://github.com/phpoxford/code-of-conduct/blob/master/code-of-conduct.md). We request that all attendees abide by the code of conduct at all times. Thank you!