August Meetup at These Days

Dear members,

the end of the summer is approaching fast. We hope that some of you enjoyed a good holiday in the past months and are ready to rock again!

For tonight's meetup we have two excellent speakers lined up. More details in the schedule below.

Many thanks to the awesome folks at These Days who are opening our offices to us again. There address: Generaal Lemanstraat 47, Antwerpen

Don't forget to rate the speakers on Joind.in! https://joind.in/event/august-meetup-at-these-days

We hope to see you at our meetup this evening!
Frederick, Freek & Dries

SCHEDULE

19:00 - Doors
20:00 - Start

TALKS

Understanding Internationalization & Localization by Camilo Sperberg (https://twitter.com/unreal4u)

Your site works as a train. It is perfect and it works for your main audience until your boss shows up at your desk and wants you to make some "small" changes in order to launch the site in Saudi Arabia. Suddenly, hell breaks loose: you realize that your perfect working site doesn't offer proper UTF-8 support, and neither does it support proper date or currency formatting. As a child, your mother never informed you that there are people out there with names such as "Bølla Cañiupán" (or even no names). Even worse: 5 years ago nobody thought that the site would be that successful so nobody cared to even include basic translation support. Suddenly your site becomes a derailing train before you even notice it. Our next stop? Ladies and gentleman, welcome to Internationalization.

This talk will introduce you to take into account several tips and tricks regarding not only internalization, but also localization, ranging from collation and charset usage in MySQL to some handy datetime functions in PHP. We will also be reviewing some translations quirks, not to forget plural forms, semantics and number/currency formatting. Emailing people with their Kanji name will also be a lot easier than you would think.

Speaker: Camilo started developing professional PHP in 1996, while he was living in the distant land of Chili. After a few years of studying and developing the basics, he decided to turn pro and prepared himself to become a Zend Certified Engineer, certificate he achieved in april 2011.After a while, he moved back to his homeland and became more and more involved into the open source community, where he began giving talks in order to share everything he had learned and accomplished in the past few years.
His main obsessions in the coding area consists of those that deal with automation, compatibility and standards. Besides, Camilo is continuously studying and learning new things that appear in the web development scene, implementing new solutions, testing and evaluating constantly whether those solutions could work (for the best) in the business field. As a healthy way to contribute back, he constantly tries to speak in conferences and user group meetings, sharing the findings in an objective way with the audience.

Length: 50min

JSON Web Tokens by Jens Segers (https://twitter.com/jenssegers)

We live in a world of client side applications, web and mobile, and we need a secure way to authenticate our users. Sessions id's and cookies have been around for a long time, but are they still the good solution for single page or mobile applications? And now that we're splitting up big applications into different microservices, should every microservice handle sessions individually?

In this talk I'll introduce you to JSON Web Tokens (JWT) and how they might change your view on securely transmitting data bewteen services. We'll take a look on what's inside of a JSON Web Token, what makes them secure and how you can use them in PHP applications.

Speaker: Jens is currently working as a lead developer at Teamleader where he's helping Teamleader move from a single monolith application to seperated micro services. Previously he worked for Realo, another Ghent based startup and his own WiFi analytics company called Auki. Jens is also the co-organiser of PHP Ghent and has developed quite some open source PHP packages.