For our March meeting we are pleased to announce Lightning Talks. Thanks to our sponsors whose financial support make our events possible: Sharpe Recruitment who provide the pizza, Campus North who provide the venue, Opia and Karma Computing who help us out, and Pearson Frank who are providing the drinks.

The event will take place in the main space at Campus North, Carliol Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 6UF (map).

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 catering. Feedback, suggestions and ideas for future topics are welcome on Twitter.

Mental Health in Engineering

Harry Lawrence is going to talk to us about mental health issues faced by those working in engineering, what to look out for and what we can do to improve our mental health.

Content Security Policies

Jack Wagstaffe will be giving us an introduction to Content Security Policy headers, what they are, why we should use them, how to test we have them setup correctly, and how to implement them in our Laravel applications.

Building a PHP SDK with HTTPlug

Building SDKs can sometimes be challenging, especially surrounding how to suitably test them. HTTPlug allows you to write reusable libraries that need a HTTP client without binding to a specific implementation. ‎In this talk, Nathan will be demonstrating how he built a simple PHP SDK with HTTPlug, along with how it is tested and what's included out-of-the box.

Nathan Dunn is a Software developer at papertrail.io, a Software-as-a-Service product which helps companies comply with health and safety legislation.

Symfony Workflow Component

Michael Peacock will be introducing us to the Symfony Workflow component to create and manage workflows that "define a process or a life cycle that your object goes through".

After the event, many of us will be going to the Warerooms next door, for some liquid refreshments, don't forget your discount cards (we should have some on the day if you didn't get one last month).