PHP-FIG Panel

Room: Crater Lake

We will discuss the current state of PHP-FIG and PHP with actual FIG members

Our panelists:

• Adam Culp

• Ian Littman

• Korvin Szanto

• Larry Garfield

Peeling Back the Magic: Modern PHP Without a Framework

Room: Multnomah Falls

As new programmers mature beyond their first simple PHP scripts, many immediately adopt a framework-specific way of development and find themselves unsure how to move forward when presented with an existing application not written in their favorite framework.

In this talk, I'll use the latest PSR standards and packages from a variety of vendors to put together a simple bootstrap for a modern PHP application (based heavily on my tutorial Modern PHP Without a Framework). By peeling back that layer of framework magic, attendees will see what's going on under the hood and discover tools to better prepare them to take on any PHP project in the future.

Saving Babies' Butts with Vue.js and Symfony

Room: Willamette Falls

Vue.js can do some great things and can be really easy to use in small scale projects, but what about something full-sized like inventory tracking?

Vue.js has the capability to build large scale applications using Vue routing, Vuex datastores, and Vue component files. Learn how all of these and Symfony API backend were used to provide HappyBottoms (Kansas City's diaper bank) a snappy front end to their custom (and open source) diaper inventory system.

Dev Parent

Room: Crater Lake

Do you struggle with “work-life balance”? Can you “have it all”? What does that even mean? Is it possible that parenting can make you a better developer? And being a developer can help you to be a better parent? Whether you have children or are considering children, we’ll explore the good, the bad and the wonderful rewards of parenting in tech while sharing real tools to navigate the parenting journey. You don’t have to give up yourself, or the things you really want, you can build a life that works for YOU.

Full-time software engineer, conference speaker, leader of the Portland PHP User group, President of Cascadia PHP and Mom of three young children; Alena shares her own journey and what she has learned along the way, including having nine younger siblings. Find encouragement and tools for your own parenting journey.

Wrapping Legacy Apps to modernize your workflow

Room: Multnomah Falls

Are you stuck maintaining a legacy application and wish that you had the modern tooling that Laravel provides? In this talk I'll show how we went from a cowboy coded prod only PHP application stuck on a VPS with PHP 5.4, to an application wrapped in Laravel, bootstrapped with Terraform, tested with Selenium, and the bumpy road that got us there.

The Future of the Web is Low-tech

Room: Willamette Falls

This session will cover use cases, user groups, and a few proposed techniques for making both content and publishing tools available to those without high-speed Internet, 3G/4G connectivity, or traditional desktop publishing tools. It will also delve into some of the emerging technologies that make content more accessible to those with limited access (and the controversy surrounding them).

Attendees will achieve a deeper understanding of potential, unreached user demographics and the tools/techniques they can use to reach these groups.

Simplifying Infrastructure With Terraform

Room: Crater Lake

In this day and age of technology we want services that can scale. Come learn how a developer learned and found simple ways to convert their infrastructure into code. Find components from the open source community to just simply building complex architectures that work cloud agnostic. Afterwards, learn how to integrate terraform with any build pipeline.

Putting legacy to REST with middleware

Room: Multnomah Falls

We've all got legacy applications, and fear the daunting task of modernizing them. Let alone trying to leverage the modern way of going API first. But it's not as futile as you might think. With modern microframeworks geared toward middleware it can be a breeze.

OK, now the truth: It is a terribly difficult job, and rife with pitfalls. But I will share how to do it in a step-by-step method that makes it much more approachable, and enable you to be a super hero.

Blazing fast websites with Gatsby

Room: Willamette Falls

Thanks to the JavaScript renaissance, modern front-end development has never been easier. It’s changing the way we build websites, from the underlying back-end frameworks like Laravel and Symfony that characterize many PHP projects, to the way developers handle CSS and other presentational concerns in a JavaScript-powered front end.

The emergence of the JAMstack has revolutionized how websites are built, and the excitement surrounding this new architectural paradigm is palpable across the industry. Rather than using an often complicated JavaScript framework to build a website consuming a PHP back end, projects like Gatsby act as a web compiler to facilitate websites that are performant out of the box, agnostic to any web service or CMS, and maintain tenets of the open web such as semantic markup and web accessibility.

Gatsby is a free and open-source project with a rapidly growing community and ecosystem, with first-class support for common PHP-driven CMSs like Drupal and WordPress. In this session, we’ll talk about how modern front-end development has evolved, what makes Gatsby so different from other JavaScript frameworks that have come and gone, and how to build a simple Gatsby-powered site supported by a Drupal back end.

Here’s what we’ll cover:

• The history of modern front-end development
• What is, and why use, the JAMstack?
• Gatsby: A web compiler for blazing fast websites
• How to build a simple website with Gatsby
• The Gatsby ecosystem: plugins and themes
• Decoupling the Drupal CMS with Gatsby
• Epilogue: What’s next for Gatsby?

While some knowledge of JavaScript development is presumed and some background in React development is helpful, this session has something for practitioners at all levels.

Stepping Outside your Comfort Zone: Learning to Teach

Room: Crater Lake

As a developer, you spend your entire life learning. But what happens when the tables are turned and you become the teacher? Do you want to become a conference speaker or a mentor, talk at your local user group, give presentations at work, or become a technical trainer? As a previous classroom teacher with a Master's Degree in Curriculum Development, I will take you on a journey to understand the various learning styles and how to effectively reach everyone. We will look at how to present your information, best ways to structure it and learn ways to reach all students no matter their level. We will also cover a number of best practices for crafting your presentation decks themselves. Join me for this exploration into the inner workings of the human mind.

Xdebug will forever change the way you debug your PHP code

Room: Multnomah Falls

We've all used echo, printr, and vardump to figure out why our code doesn't work. But did you know there's an easier way? This talk will demonstrate the use of two popular PHP tools: Xdebug and PhpStorm. Instead of littering your code with statements to send variable values to the browser, using these tools it's possible to pause script execution on a specific line, allowing you to view and edit any variable as well as arbitrary code. Never again will you forget to remove test code before sending it to production!

Building an Alexa audio streaming application with PHP

Room: Willamette Falls

While Alexa is more popular than ever, many PHP developers are scared from a lack of documentation, a complex API, and general unfamiliarity. We’ll walk through a real world PHP powered Alexa application for a popular independent radio station.