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Jenny Shen is a Senior UX/Product Designer who has worked with startups and brands including Neiman Marcus, Crate&Barrel, eBuddy, IBM and Randstad. She is a member of Toptal, a global talent network and she has received a Top 40 under 40 honour from Girls in Tech Taiwan. In her spare time, she is mentoring designers and working on global strategy as the Regi…

From humble beginnings as a PHP4 web developer in grade school, Amanda now works as a Developer Relations Manager at Nexmo where she gets to share her passion for technology and education with others. In addition to consuming APIs and IPAs, she currently serves as a co-host for the PHPTownHall Podcast and is involved in Open Sourcing Mental Illness. In her s…

With devices such as Amazon’s Alexa or Google Home, voice assistants have gotten into our lives. It’s undisputed that voice-powered applications can have a tremendous impact on your life and your business. Let’s try and build a voice-powered application ourselves and even summon Alexa on stage.

If you resent your codebase because it’s hard to track down bugs, stuff works on your laptop but not in production, or deploying an update requires a full day’s work then it’s time to step back and embrace some industry best practises. The Twelve-Factor App is a design pattern to built resilient, portable and scalable web applications. This session will expl…

Our clients come to us to solve their problems using software. We listen to their pitch, we read their emails, have a meeting or two, and then we take out our favourite code editor, framework and database, and start pounding at the keyboard. Few weeks, months later, we come back with a solution to all of their problems. Or is it, really? Our solutions should…

Laravel already comes packed with numerous features and adapters for several services. But sometimes, even these are not enough. You may want to integrate your own mail provider, use another template engine, implement your own validation rules or even access a yet-unsupported database. How do you do that while still benefiting from Laravel's cohesive and ele…

ProcessMaker BPM is a fully functional Open Source BPM Suite installed on-premise and in the cloud for businesses small and enterprise. However, the technical debt accumulated made it harder and harder to adjust to growing customer demands. In this case study, learn how we are migrating our product to Laravel and taking advantage of all the features it's giv…

Maybe you’re the only coder on a project. Maybe you’re on a small team and carrying the majority of the server knowledge. For one reason or another, there are times when if we don’t setup our own deploy process, there simply isn’t one. No one wants the headaches that come from a my-machine[s] to production direct deploy process, so let’s go a step better wit…

Remember when the internet was pure and unspoiled? In our innocence we saw the promise of renewal of the world through connecting, sharing, and creating online. We became developers and hackers because we wanted to understand how things work, to take them apart, and build quirky (and sometimes useful) things just for the pleasure of it. In the earliest decad…

In most kind of projects you're going to let a user upload all sorts of images and files. Storing those files, associating them with models, creating thumbnails for them, optimizing images, can be a lot of (boring) work. Luckily laravel-medialibrary can do all that for you. In talk you’ll see a practical demo of how to get started with the medialibrary. You’…

Docker is a tool that allows you to package your application up into a single-runnable, distributable, binary; which is great for deploying your applications to production ... but what about local development? Allow me to introduce you to Docker and it's fundamentals, before quickly moving on to crafting great development environments, with Docker Compose, t…

The daily struggles of software engineering can often make us forget what made us fall in love with coding for the first time. Some will blame the routine, some will blame the poorly-documented-and-untested-code, but one thing is certain: a change in the scenery is a great way to sparkle the romance back in any long-term relationship. This talk will extrapol…

Data is important. It's the biggest resource of the 21st century, it can be processed to incredibly precise and powerful ends, and it can be used in many ways, good and bad. Yet we're treating data as rows in a database or files on a hard drive. In 2050, you can probably look up a presidential candidate's facebook feed from 2007. People today are happily upl…

This talk dives deep into a topic that I believe developers don't know enough about: database indexing. There are four sections to this talk: - What's an index? * How to create an index? * Understanding the execution plan * Common pitfalls What's an index In the first part we will learn what an index actually is. And we're talking data structures. How is an …

Using PHP and Laravel to build a Data Consolidation Framework sounds like the most amazing idea ever, we know. Considering obvious alternative Technologies like Airflow, Spark and so on, why did we decide two years ago to make this move from our previously used Hadoop System and venture into these unknown territories. Let’s take together this journey we were…

This session will explain the basics and fundamentals of Linux: how does SSH key authentication work? How are processes forked? How does PHP-FPM receive requests? How can you troubleshoot processes that are stuck?

PHP 7.2 includes the libsodium cryptography library by default in the base language - the first time that a popular language has shipped with strong, modern crypto support as standard. Everyone can build secure apps without the risks of rolling your own crypto or using outdated libraries. So what's in libsodium? What kind of things can you do? What risks rem…

Sick and tired of "X technology is only good for starting out; after you do, move to Y"? Good news: you don't need to move away, you just need to get in further! In this talk, you'll learn about improvements in the newest version of the most used database in the world. What are Window Functions? How do you use CTEs? How can the new default encoding help me (…

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 the Design Patterns used in Laravel. Once we have a basis of the design patter…

Creating an application can be a daunting prospect for the single developer, especially if said project is larger than anything previously undertaken. The margin for error and scope creep are bigger than they are normally. Why is this and why should it be harder? What can we do to minimise the risks for the project over running and over taking our lives? How…

Working with companies from early-stage startups to Fortune 500, I've experienced both the struggle of continuing someone else's work and the joy of it. The difference is only in their approach towards the design of their code. It's a minor effort if done on time, with a huge impact on the overall development of the software. In this presentation, we'll focu…

Working with companies from early-stage startups to Fortune 500, I've experienced both the struggle of continuing someone else's work and the joy of it. The difference is only in their approach towards the design of their code. It's a minor effort if done on time, with a huge impact on the overall development of the software. In this presentation, we'll focu…