#18 June Meetup at Spilberg Belgium

Our June meetup will be held at Spilberg Belgium. Their offices are located on the beautiful Graanmarkt.

We're happy to announce that we will be able to feed you! At the start of the meetup there will be a foodtruck where you can get free burgers (and yes, there's a vegetarian option too, if that's how you roll). Send your thank you's to the kind folks at Spilberg who are paying for this.

Besides eating delicious burgers you'll also see some awesome talks. Tim Vermaecke will explain how you can optimize your webapp so it'll soar in the Google search results. In the second talk of the evening Joke Puts will shed light on how module development is done in Magento 2.

If you're not able to attend the meetup, we are happy to announce that the meetup will be broadcasted live on YouTube. Here is the link where you can watch the live broadcast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCltybBhPjqK-NUd1rRDrGzA/live If you're planning on watching the stream, you should not RSVP to this event.

Don't forget to rate the speakers on Joind.in (https://joind.in/event/php-antwerp---june-meetup-2017)!

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

SCHEDULE

18:30 - Doors + 🍔🍔🍔🍔🍔🍔🍔🍔
20:00 - Developing a webapp is easy, making it perform well for marketeers isn't. Or is it?
20:30 - Break
20:45 - Introduction to Magento 2 module development
22:00 - End

TALKS

Developing a webapp is easy, making it perform well for marketeers isn't. Or is it? by Tim Vermaercke (https://twitter.com/maercky)

Everyone knows (in some way) how to build a web app. Writing code isn't that hard, just visit Codeacademy to learn how.However, it's not because the code is bug-free, or your app looks great or is optimised for any kind of load, that you'll get people to actually visit your app.This talk contains some lessons learned from working together with any kind of profile: UX architects, visual designers and more importantly online marketeers, to make your site perform and compete in the Google search results.

Speaker: Tim, a 25 year old Ghent-based software engineer, started messing with code and building websites since he was only 11 years old. Studied Professional Development and graduated as a full stack developer. After leaving college, he started working at Wijs as a PHP developer, where you can still find him. Knows almost everything there is to know about Symfony and custom app development. Has a passion for search engines.

Length: 30min

Introduction to Magento 2 module development by Joke Puts (https://twitter.com/JokePuts)

Magento 2 is a commerce platform released since November 2015. In this introduction I’ll focus on the open source version, Magento Community and show you how easy it is to start creating modules for this platform. These modules can be used to customize your store or to publish on the Magento Marketplace.

Speaker: Joke is a developer from Antwerp. She works as a PHP consultant for PHPro. She started developing in Magento in 2013 and hasn’t stopped since.

Length: 30min