PHPNE: Lightning Talks

PHP North East is a user group for any one in North East England interested in PHP. Our attendees range from students and graduates to seasoned developers and freelancers, all looking to learn more about PHP and related technologies.

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<DIV STYLE="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">For our March event we are pleased to announce<STRONG> Lightning Talks!</STRONG> With Pizzas provided by <SPAN STYLE="color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.8px; text-decoration: underline;"><SPAN STYLE="color: #0000ff;"><A STYLE="color: #ee6600; text-decoration: none;" HREF="http://www.twitter.com/sharperecruit" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer"><SPAN STYLE="color: #0000ff;">Laura Sharpe</SPAN></A></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.8px;"> of </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.8px; text-decoration: underline;"><SPAN STYLE="color: #0000ff;"><A STYLE="color: #ee6600; text-decoration: none;" HREF="http://sharperecruitment.co.uk/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer"><SPAN STYLE="color: #0000ff;">Sharpe Recruitment</SPAN></A></SPAN></SPAN> and venue provided by Campus North. </DIV>
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<P STYLE="color: #222222; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px;">The event will take place at the <STRONG>The Auditorum, Bunker Coffee,</STRONG><SPAN STYLE="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><STRONG> Carliol Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 6UF (location map at bottom of <A HREF="http://ignite100.com/" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Ignite</A> site)</STRONG></SPAN>.</P>
<P STYLE="color: #222222; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px;">The event is free and open to all, but please sign up online so that we have an idea of numbers for the venue, and how much Laura needs to cough up for the pizzas.  Feedback, suggestions and ideas for future topics are welcome on our <SPAN STYLE="text-decoration: underline;"><SPAN STYLE="color: #0000ff;"><A STYLE="color: #ee6600; text-decoration: none;" HREF="http://groups.google.com/group/php-north-east" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer"><SPAN STYLE="color: #0000ff;">Google Group</SPAN></A></SPAN></SPAN>.</P>
<P STYLE="color: #222222; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px;"><STRONG>A brief overview of common Anti-patterns and unit testing by <A HREF="https://twitter.com/aidangustard" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Aidan Gustard</A></STRONG></P>
<P STYLE="color: #222222; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px;">The subject of this talk is to clearly define the difference between functional testing and unit testing and to look at the most common anti-patterns that developers fall into that make unit testing a harder task than it should be.</P>
<P STYLE="color: #222222; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px;">Aidan is an experienced PHP Development and Agile continuous delivery life cycle consultant with a passion for high quality code, test driven development and Linux based infrastructure.</P>
<P STYLE="color: #222222; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px;"><STRONG>SSL with Lets Encrypt by<A HREF="https://twitter.com/pincombe" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> Keith Pincombe</A></STRONG></P>
<P STYLE="color: #222222; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px;">SSL has quickly become a required part of building a site these days but setup has always been a hassle and and a rip off. Times have changed and the EFF, Mozilla, Facebook and a large number of other sponsors have helped build something amazing! Lets Encrypt is a new, completely free service which makes generating SSL certificates super quick. In my talk i'll walk you through the painless process of installing Lets Encrypt on your server so you can make it part of your next build process.</P>
<P STYLE="color: #222222; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px;"><SPAN STYLE="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: Arial;"><B>Super sentiments using the Google Prediction API by <A HREF="https://twitter.com/nathanjdunn" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Nathan Dunn</A></B></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<DIV STYLE="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: Arial;"><SPAN STYLE="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); line-height: 19px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #fafafa;">During this lighting talk, Nathan Dunn will be taking us through how to use Google's Prediction API for basic sentiment analysis and how it can be used in your applications.</SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV STYLE="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: Arial;"><BR STYLE="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); line-height: 19px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #fafafa;"><SPAN STYLE="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); line-height: 19px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #fafafa;">Nathan has recently joined Opia, a sales promotion consultancy based in Gateshead, as a Web Developer.</SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV STYLE="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><STRONG><SPAN STYLE="font-family: Arial;"><SPAN STYLE="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); line-height: 19px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #fafafa;">Laravel Architecture by <A HREF="https://twitter.com/JasonDJudge" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Jason Judge</A></SPAN></SPAN></STRONG></DIV>
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<P STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Segoe UI', Arial, freesans, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25.6px;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: small;">This short talk aims to quickly pull together the concepts of some of the building blocks of a Laravel 5.1 application. They include features that have been in Laravel for some time, in various forms, but which some people may not be familier.</SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Segoe UI', Arial, freesans, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25.6px;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: small;">The Laravel documentation goes into detail in how to use these features, but leaves out any wider descriptions on how to recognise when you need to use them.</SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Segoe UI', Arial, freesans, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25.6px;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: small;">The features include:</SPAN></P>
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<LI><SPAN STYLE="font-size: small;">Commands</SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN STYLE="font-size: small;">Jobs</SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN STYLE="font-size: small;">Scheduled Tasks</SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN STYLE="font-size: small;">Events</SPAN></LI>
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<P STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Segoe UI', Arial, freesans, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25.6px;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: small;">The code samples leave out various sections for clarity, so use them in conjunction with the officials Laravel 5.1 documentation.</SPAN></P>
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<DIV STYLE="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: Arial;"><SPAN STYLE="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); line-height: 19px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #fafafa;"><BR></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV STYLE="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: Arial;"><SPAN STYLE="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); line-height: 19px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #fafafa;">Details of the fourth talk are to be confirmed.</SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV STYLE="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: medium;">After the event, many of us will be going to the Warerooms next door, for some liquid refreshments.</SPAN></DIV>

Auditorum, Bunker Coffee

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