Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration
At the assert(js) 2018 conference, Kent C. Dodds dissects this tweet by Guillermo Rauch:
Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration.
— Guillermo Rauch (@rauchg) December 10, 2016
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Meet the community: PHPUK 2018
Allround awesome dude Frederick Vanbrabant and I recently were at the excellent PHP UK Conference. There Frederick did some nice interviews with Marcel Pociot, Jenny Wong, Rob Allen, James Titcumb and many more.
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Videos of the phpCE conference have been released
phpCE 2017 was held last november in Rawa Mazowiecka in Poland. The organisers recently released videos of all the talks. You'll can watch them all using this YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWKBHVGdyqQKjzraZqkQ69PJQmnGdXrVa
Here's the recording of Hannes Van de Vreken's talk on IoC containers.
Lies you've been told about testing
In his excellent talk given at Laracon Online 2017, Adam Wathan argues that testing in isolation leads to brittle test and that integration tests are much more valuable.
Nordic.js 2017 videos have been released
Like the name implies Nordic.js is a conference that focuses on JavaScript. The organisers recently released all videos of the 2017 edition. Even if you're not into JavaScript I can recommend this watch this video of Harriet Lawrence on how you can use language to make your community more welcoming.
Here's a YouTube playlist with all videos of Nordic.js 2017.
My colleague Sebastian attended the conference, be sure to check out his recap.
All videos of Laracon EU 2017 have been released
Laracon EU 2017 was, like the previous years, an excellent event. Together with 700+ fellow artisans I very much enjoyed watching the talks and meeting people between them. All video's of this edition have recently been made available on YouTube. Here's a handy playlist that contains them all.
I had the honor of speaking at the event as well, here's the video of my talk:
A recap of Laracon EU 2017
Devron Baldwin wrote down a few words on the excellent Laracon EU conference, edition 2017.
The awesome talks and the amazing people made Laracon EU 2017 an experience to remember. I’ll split this up into a few sections to talk about the non-technical and the technical talks. I found myself enjoying the non-technical talks slightly more than the technical this year.
https://medium.com/@devron/7-laracon-eu-2017-talks-and-the-people-i-met-381e55ebf898
I can't believe it' already over and am already looking forward to Laracon EU 2018.
Videos of PHP Srbija 2017 have been released
The organisers of PHP Serbia have recently released all videos of the 2017 edition of their conference.
Watch them all here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfGr5rAHwhIJtdueIX5-9aEE7K94TNTqC
A recap of Laracon US 2017
Laracon US 2017 was an amazing conference. Sid published this excellent recap that contains many links to slides and related content.
I attended my first Laracon in person and I have to say I really enjoyed the experience — maybe more than I expected to. It was well organised and the talks were diverse, informative and actionable. Day 1 was all technical and mostly revolved around Laravel. Day 2 had a different mix of talks and the non-technical ones were thought-provoking and entertaining.
https://medium.com/koomai/laracon-2017-a-recap-and-links-galore-c233be2de670
DHH's opening keynote at RailsConf 2017
Like at most previous editions, DHH delivered a keynote at RailsConf 2017. This year he spoke on the importance of belong to a group, programmer values, and belief systems. I love being in the Laravel community, but one thing that annoys me sometimes is the "us" vs "them" mentality you feel here and there. What I find great about DHH's talk is that is a positive approach to the values of Ruby community. He doesn't say that the other communities are bad, or lesser then them.
Anyways, go watch this keynote, it's great.
PHP UK Conference 2017 videos have been released
PHP Uk Conference is an excellent conference where I had the pleasure of speaking this year. All sessions were recorded. Last week the organizers released all the videos. Here's the entire playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_aPVo2HeGF-_djRi_UVWWLdkVpYQFnFm
Breaking conventions with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
A few days before Breath of the Wild was released Nintendo's Hidemaro Fujibayashi, Satoru Takizawa, and Takuhiro Dohta (who all three working on various Zelda games in the past) gave at talk at the Game Developers Conference. They provide a unique look behind the scenes of this fantastic game.
Bulgaria PHP Conference 2016 videos
The Bulgaria PHP conference organizers recently released videos of all the sessions of this years edition.
The Laracon EU 2016 videos are now available
This year's Laracon EU was an amazing conference. The venue was astonishing, there were lots of cool talks and interesting people to talk to. If you're using Laravel or PHP going to this conference really is a no brainer.
If you were unable to attend or want to see the talk you missed during the conference you can now do so. The organisers have uploaded video's of all talks to their YouTube channel.
I had the honor speaking there as well. My talk was about managing backups with Laravel. Here's the video of my first ever conference talk:
At one point during my talk I show this slide on future plans for the package:
I'm proud to say that all that work is already done: version 3 of laravel-backup was made Laravel 5.3 compatible. Version 4 of the package uses Laravel 5.3's native notifications and uses PHP 7 features to keep the code clear. The db-dumper package, which is used under the hood, was rewritten and is now easier to use.
I'll definitely go to the next Laracon EU conference and hope to see you there too.
Laracon EU recap day 2
Here's Simon Nicklin's recap of day two of the excellent Laracon EU conference: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/laracon-eu-2016-conference-day-2-simon-nicklin
Personally I had a great time at Laracon. I couldn't relax that good until after I delivered my own talk. Luckily it went well and I got some good feedback. It was very good to see both new and familiar faces. Most talks were excellent, and the venue was amazing. Just look at this picture:
I'll be sure to attend next year's Laracon!
Laracon EU recap day 1
The Laracon EU conference is happening right now. Talking to other developers is a joy like always, the speakers are great and the venue is amazing. Here's a good recap written by Simon Nicklin of the first day of the Laracon EU conference.
We entered the building and joined the back of the queue. I say we, even though I travelled on my own I already felt part of something. The queue snaked around a mood light corner to the awaiting registration desk where we are split into last name lanes. A pleasant volunteer welcomed me as I showed her my ticket. After a quick flick through the name cards I'm registered. For me this was the start of Laracon EU 2016.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/laracon-eu-conference-2016-day-1-simon-nicklin
Joind.In Needs Help
Joind.in is a website where attendees can leave feedback for speakers delivering talks and conferences and user groups. This feedback is very useful for the speakers who which improve their skills. In my mind it is an essential part of the PHP ecosystem.
For the last 6 years Lorna Jane Mitchell and Rob Allen have maintained the project. They are now looking for others to take over their duties.
This post is about the open source project, Joind.in. Joind.in is a tool to allow attendees at conferences or other events to offer immediate public feedback to speakers and organisers at those events. Joind.in is an open source project run by volunteers. For the last 6 years I've been a maintainer of this project, following a year or two of being a contributor. Over the last few months, myself and my comaintainer Rob Allen have been mostly inactive due to other commitments, and we have agreed it's time to step aside and let others take up the baton.
How we talk about tech
Ross Tuck gave a one of kind closing keynote at this year's (excellent) Dutch PHP Conference. Clear your schedule for the coming hour and watch the video of the talk with full attention. It's really great.
At the conference there were a lot of talks on events sourcing. The two talks with that subject that stood out for me were Shawn McCool's (where he applied event sourcing to the board game Quantum), and Greg Young's opening keynote. Watch the latter one here:
Best of Frontend United Conference 2016
A few weeks ago the Frontend United Conference was held in Ghent, Belgium. The entire development team at Spatie attended the conference. Though it certainly was fun to go to a conference with the entire team we were left a bit underwhelmed. Some of the talks were very short and some speakers seemed a bit unprepared.
The organisers have begun posting video's of all sessions to YouTube. In my opinion the following three talks rose above the rest.
1: Harry Roberts gave a talk were he demonstrated that programming best practices apply to writing CSS as well.
2: Christian Heillman talked about web obesity and gave a few tips on how to optimize the size of images.
3: Mathias Bynens showed how unicode support in JavaScript is broken and what common pitfalls are when working with special characters. Rather than just complaining about it, he offered some kick ass self-made solutions.
(the video for this session hasn't been posted yet, this is a video of the same talk at another conference)
The website obesity crisis
This week an article on WIRED informed us that the average webpage is now the size of the computer game 'DOOM'.
Maciej Ceglowski gave an excellent talk on this subject at this years Web Directions conference. His keynote title "The website obesity crisis" is available on Vimeo.