#17 May Meetup at Wunderkraut

For our May meetup will be returning to the beautiful offices of Wunderkraut. A big thank you to them for hosting us again.

We've got two excellent speakers lined up. Steven will give a nice introduction on functional programming. Joeri will enlighten us about the intricacies of time. More details in the talk descriptions below.

We highly appreciate you rating the speakers on Joind.in (https://joind.in/event/php-antwerp---may-meetup-2017)!

We hope to see you there,

Frederick, Freek & Dries

SCHEDULE

19:00 - Doors
19:30 - How do we use functional programming to minimize our flaws
20:30 - Break
20:45 - What every developer should know about time, no excuses
22:00 - End

TALKS

How do we use functional programming to minimize our flaws by Steven Vandevelde (https://twitter.com/icidasset)

• Predictability
• Immutability & pure functions
• Runtime errors
• What, not how
• Type systems & data modelling
• Refactoring

Speaker: Engineer of things computational and sometimes electrical. Works remotely for MetaLab based in Canada.

Length: 30min

What every developer should know about time, no excuses by Joeri Sebrechts (https://twitter.com/joeri_s)

Physics would be easy to understand, if it were not for time messing up every equation. Similarly it goes for code. In many code bases, date and time handling is the first place to go looking for bugs. This talk covers the nature of time as it applies to software, why most platform time API's are broken in subtle ways and how to work around that, and the strategies to use when writing code that is time- and time zone aware.

Speaker: Joeri is the lead developer for the Hadoop IoT platform at MCS. Before that he spent a decade writing a PHP-based enterprise software suite. Nowadays he just does PHP for fun, not profit.

Length: 45min