January Meetup @ MCS

For our first meetup of the year we will revisit the MCS offices. We have two awesome speakers lined up: Bobby Bouwmann and Christopher Pitt, both PHP Benelux speakers. Bobby will introduce a few interesting design patterns that are used in the Laravel code. Christopher will show us how to add your own custom syntax to PHP.

Don't forget to rate the speakers: https://joind.in/event/php-antwerp---january-meetup

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

SCHEDULE

19:00 - Doors
20:00 - Start

TALKS

Laravel Design Patterns by Bobby Bouwmann

Most of us use Design Patterns on a daily basis without noticing. Design patterns are commonly defined as solutions to recurring design problems. Frameworks like Laravel use Design Patterns throughout the codebase to keep structure and maintainability. In this talk we will explore 3 to 4 Design Patterns used in Laravel. Once we have a basis of the design patterns we go into some practical examples.

Speaker: Bobby Bouwmann is a developer living in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands. He likes to play around with new front-end and back-end frameworks. He has been contributing to Laravel in the past three years on Github and the Laracasts forum.

Length: 50min

Transforming PHP by Christopher Pitt

If you use other languages, you've probably found features that you wish PHP had. Perhaps you miss that bit of C# class accessor syntax. Or perhaps you'd really like to use JS arrow functions...

You can have those things, and you don't even have to write C to do it.

I’m going to introduce you to a library that will allow you to use preprocessor macros, to turn your desired bit of syntax into valid PHP syntax. Then I’m going to show you a few libraries that use those macros to bring fresh and interesting new syntax to everyday PHP applications.

Speaker: I am a developer and writer, working at http://madewithover.com. I usually work on application architecture, though sometimes I build compilers or robots.

Length: 30-45min