#13 Pre-PHPBenelux Meetup at MCS

We couldn't find any speakers for the meetup in time...

But instead of cancelling we decided to do this ourselves! 💪
Presenting you Dries, Freek & Frederick: the PHP Antwerp organizers.

Don't forget to rate the speakers on Joind.in! https://legacy.joind.in/event/view/6267

We hope to see you soon!
Frederick, Freek & Dries

SCHEDULE

19:00 - Doors
19:50 - Intro
20:00 - Testing your Laravel API with Apiary and Dredd
20:30 - Break
20:45 - GoPHPer: A guide to Go for PHP developers
21:15 - Monitoring uptime with Laravel
21:45 - Social

TALKS

Testing your Laravel API with Apiary and Dredd by Dries Vints (https://twitter.com/driesvints)

In this short presentation I'm going to show you how you can set up a specification for your api with API Blueprint and validate that specification against your Laravel app using Dredd & Apiary.

Speaker: Dries works at BeatSwitch (https://beatswitch.com/), maintains Laravel.io (http://laravel.io/forum) and organises meetups for PHP Antwerp (http://phpantwerp.be/).

Length: 20min

GoPHPer: A guide to Go for PHP developers by Frederick Vanbrabant (https://twitter.com/theedonian)

Let's get Go'ing with a quick look at what Go is. This talk wil give an introduction to Google new programming language Go. We'll take at the different parts of Go and see what makes it such an interesting language. The talk aims to compare some techniques used in PHP to the Go counterpart. Any prior knowledge in Go is not needed.

Speaker: Frederick is a less then 30 year old developer from Antwerp with a passion for API's and everything that surrounds them. He works as a Software Engineer at madewithlove (http://www.madewithlove.be) and is co-organiser of PHP Antwerp (https://www.meetup.com/phpantwerp/).

Length: 30min

Monitoring uptime with Laravel by Freek Van der Herten (https://twitter.com/freekmurze)

Last year Spatie released a package called laravel-uptime-monitor (https://docs.spatie.be/laravel-uptime-monitor/). This powerful piece of software can check the health of hundreds of sites in a few seconds. Not only the uptime can be checked but also if there's a valid ssl certificate installed. Unlike the alternatives, the package is absolutely free no matter how many sites you wish to monitor.
In this talk I'll give you an overview of the package. You also learn how to install it from scratch. After that we'll walk through the code and discuss some tricks that we used to automatically test the package.

Speaker: Freek Van der Herten is a partner and developer at Spatie (https://spatie.be), an Antwerp based company that specializes in creating Laravel apps. The company has an open source first mentality. Freek is the author of many packages that Spatie releases. According to GitHub awards (http://github-awards.com/users?utf8=%E2%9C%93&type=world&language=php) Spatie is in the top 10 of PHP developers worldwide.
After hours Freek writes about modern PHP and Laravel on his blog (https://murze.be) and is a co-organizer of PHP User group in Antwerp, Belgium (http://phpantwerp.be). When not coding he's probably rehearsing with his kraut-rock band (https://jarenduren.bandcamp.com/).

Length: 20min