Linux systems performace
Brendan Gregg, a Netflix engineer, gave this talk at this years Percona Data Performance Conference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbmEDXq7es0
Talk videos from PHP UK Conference 2016 are now available
I had a blast at this year's PHP UK Conference. There were some amazing sessions and interesting people to talk to. Together with Hannes, I even started a little hobby project.
If you weren't able to attend, you'll be glad to know that all talks were recorded and are available now on YouTube.
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Take a deep dive in Laravel's router
Over at Envato Tuts Matthew Machuga published a video explaining Laravel's router code. Going over Laravel's internal code (and other people's code in general) is always good method of learning new bits 'n' tricks.
In this lesson, we’ll explore the intricacies of Laravel Router. We’ll talk about the fundamentals of HTTP routing, before we go on to analyze some of the decisions and nuances in the design of Laravel Router. We’ll also talk about some of the awesome features that have been recently added to the router.http://code.tutsplus.com/courses/how-its-made-laravel-router/lessons/how-its-made-laravel-router
Can't get enough Machuga? Then listen to the Full Stack Radio podcast, he's been a guest there several times. He's also one of the speakers of this year's Laracon US.
Video and slides of the 3th PHP Antwerp meetup
Yesterday our local user group, PHP Antwerp, held it's third meetup. There were two excellent speakers and a bunch of familiar faces.
First up was Gabriel Somoza who talked about his project Baleen. It's goal is to provide an intuitive framework to migrate almost anything. You can view his slides on Speakerdeck.
The second speaker was Marco Pivetta, better known on the interwebs as Ocramius. He is a member of the Doctrine core team. His talk was about best practices when using Doctrine. His slides can be found on GitHub. Here's the video of the talk:
https://youtu.be/j4nS_dGxxs8?t=6m44s
Spatie, of which I'm a partner, sponsored the meetup. Before Marco's talk I got the opportunity to talk a bit myself about why my company is sponsoring the local user group. My short talk can be viewed on YouTube.
The organisers announced that the next meetup will be held at the end of March. If you're living in the vicinity of Antwerp, you should definitely attend.
Hello, PSR-7
Beau Simensen gave a good overview of PSR-7 at the recent PHP North West conference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZhcM0NH6J8
Learn React.js in just a couple of afternoons
Wes Bos released a series of videos on React.js.
Together, we will build “Catch of the Day” — a real-time app for a trendy seafood market where price and quantity available are variable and can change at a moments notice. We will build a menu, an order form, and an inventory management area where authorized users can immediately update product details.Wes has released some really learning resources on, amongst others the terminal, sublime. A while ago he also appeared on Full Stack Radio. I'm pretty sure his new batch of videos will be top notch!
The link that could crash Chrome
In this video Tom Scott explains why Chrome couldn't handle http://a/%%30%30 :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fw5Cyh21TE
Functional programming design patterns
Watch it on Vimeo.In object-oriented development, we are all familiar with design patterns such as the Strategy pattern and Decorator pattern, and design principles such as SOLID.
The functional programming community has design patterns and principles as well.This talk will provide an overview of some of these, and present some demonstrations of FP design in practice.
Extract till your drop
Watch a very instructive live coding session with Matthias Verraes.
Under the pressure of deadlines and endless change requests, under the weight of years of legacy, code becomes unmaintainable. With the right tools, techniques, and mindset, any codebase can be brought under test, and be refactored towards a better architecture. Let's skip the theory and dive straight into the spaghetti code. In a live coding session, I will demonstrate how you can start refactoring your way out of a mess today.
Using Go at The New York Times
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAQ9ShmXYLY
Tesla Energy
Tesla is not just an automotive company, it’s an energy innovation company. Tesla Energy is a critical step in this mission to enable zero emission power generation.http://www.teslamotors.com/presskit/teslaenergy
Watch Elon Musk announce the Tesla Powerwall.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKORsrlN-2k
PHP UK Conference 2015 videos
The PHP UK Conference had a great schedule this year. Most sessions were recorded and are now available on YouTube. Happy viewing!
Some interesting videos on PHP
A list of interesting conference talks and videos on PHP.
Building Gistlog
Matt Stauffer shows how he built Gistlog in under two hours.
Gistlog is a blogging "platform" for people who want to quickly write and publish content, in Markdown, and don't want to bother with yet another platform and yet another login and yet another group hoarding their content. With Gistlog, you use your pre-existing Github login, you store the data in your own Github account, and you can publish with a single click.A must see if you want to know how to get things done quickly in Laravel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4BbeHYCR1E
Also make sure you check out his blogposts on the new features of Laravel 5.
