In the fifth edition of DC4D, Cal Evans has put together a super team of speakers who will guide you through your first stage experience and beyond. If you have ever wanted to get started as a speaker, this is the place to start.

Of course, once you are done learning over there, we want you to come back and grace our stage with your new and awesome talk. So to help this plan along we will be giving away one ticket for someone to attend DC4D#5 for free! It’s an online conference so that should be no problem for anyone.

How can you win?

It’s simple: “Send out a tweet and tell us why you want to be a speaker or why you think being a speaker is important for a developer’s career, and tag it with #amsterdamPHP” (you must be following @amsterdamPHP)

On Friday the 15th of March we will choose a random tweet and award the prize, so be sure to follow us on twitter so that we can send you a DM about the prize.

The deliverables of the research will be provided in an Open Source Project at the conclusion of the research.

If you want to help, all he needs is 5 to 20 minutes of your time to answer a survey.

More about the project TSPHP.

Our speaker will be Pascal de Vink, member of the Tweakers team. He will talk about how to optimize your website for speed and performance. This month we will be meeting at Mimbee, we have limited seating so RSVP quick and please make sure to remove your RSVP if you can’t make it.

Schedule

19:00: Welcome Drinks
19:30 – 20:30: “Let’s speed it up a bit”
20:30 – 20:45: Raffle
20:45: Social, drinks and food.

Speaker: Pascal de Vink

Pascal de Vink has been a software engineer for the past ten years and is trying to focus on constantly improving both himself and others. He started working at Tweakers 1,5 years ago.

Talk: “Let’s speed it up a bit”

It is said that when asking people how a website can be optimised for speed, about 14 answers come up. For both simple HTML sites on shared hosting and advanced multi-server web applications, I’m sharing these answers as strategies to speed up your (php powered) website in this talk.

Raffle
We got some awesome stuff to give away this month, so make sure you RSVP for the meetup if you’re coming and want a shot at getting it!

Where

Mimbee
Wibautstraat 150
1091 GR, Amsterdam

This month’s meeting will be something special! We’ll be teaming up with our friends from the Amsterdam.rb user group to give you a special event that will surely spark some discussion.

The December meeting will have two talks, one selected by each group. Note that (for this time only) this meeting is on a wednesday, instead of our regular thursdays. Due to the increased content, this event will also start earlier than normal.

This event will be sponsored by our friends at WEBclusive.

Schedule

18:30 – 19:00: Welcome & Drinks
19:00 – 19:45: Talk: Your code sucks, let’s fix it! - Rafael Dohms
19:45 – 20:15: Break – Pizzas!
20:15 – 21:00: Talk: Debugging with Pry - Yorick Peterse
21:00 – 21:15: Raffle
21:15 Social, drinks, snacks.

Presentations

PHP Talk: Your code sucks, let’s fix it! - Rafael Dohms

How do you measure the quality of your code? Performance and testing are just one aspect of code, in order to meet deadlines and make maintenance quicker you also need your code to be readable, decoupled and generally easier to comprehend and work with. This talk will go over tips and exercises to help you identify trouble areas, refactor them and train you to write better code in future projects. Come make your code look and function better.

Ruby Talk: Debugging with Pry - Yorick Peterse

I aim to talk about what Pry does, what makes it cool (features, ease of use, etc) and why people should use it to debug code instead of relying on clunky tools such as IRB or Kernel#puts. Examples range from simple ones such as defining code to more complex ones such as inserting “breakpoints”, listing variables and retrieving documentation.

Raffle

As usual, we’ve got some awesome stuff to give away. Software licenses, books, and a ticket to one of the best (if not the best) PHP conference in Europe.

For more info and updates, be sure to check out Meetup.

Our speaker will be Marc Ypes, one of CakePHP’s core developers. He will guide us through the important parts of REST, like HTTP headers, caching, authentication and how we should handle them. We are also very excited to work together with this month’s host: Tweakers. Various members of their team have been active contributers to AmsterdamPHP and its great to finally visit their offices, they will of course be taking care of the food and beers!

Schedule

19:00: Welcome Drinks
19:30 – 20:30: “Create a RESTful API”
20:30 – 20:45: Raffle
20:45: Social, drinks and food.

Speaker: Marc Ypes

Marc Ypes is a salesman of car parts. In his spare time he loves to contribute to open source PHP projects. He has been using PHP for 4 years as a hobby and became core developer of the CakePHP framework 1,5 years ago.

Talk: “Create a RESTful API”

REST was first described in 2000, but just recently started gaining popularity over SOAP and RPC-style api’s. This talk will go through the important parts of REST style API’s, including topics like HTTP headers, caching, authentication and more.

Raffle

We got some awesome stuff to give away this month, so make sure you RSVP for the meetup if you’re coming and want a shot at getting it!

VENUE: Tweakers

This month’s meeting is sponsored by our good friends at PeerReach. Their awesome office in the center of Amsterdam will be the venue for this month’s meeting, and they’ll be providing us with snacks and drinks.

Schedule
19:00: Welcome Drinks
19:30 – 20:30: “Improve Your Software with SOLID Code”
20:30 – 20:45: Raffle
20:45: Social, drinks and food.

Speaker: Freek Lijten
Freek Lijten is currently working as a developer for Procurios. He has been writing code professionally for almost 5 years and privately ever since his first encounter with BASIC. His special interests are software architecture and patterns.

Talk: “Improve Your Software with SOLID Code”
You might have heard of the acronym SOLID and the five principles it consists of. Sadly the concepts are very abstract and can be difficult to really understand, while they are so important to writing good object oriented code. This talk will not only deal with the theory behind SOLID and explain why SOLID is important. Better yet, we will be looking at code (lots of it!) and how it can be improved by applying one of the SOLID principles.

Raffle
We got some awesome stuff to give away this month, so make sure you RSVP for the meetup if you’re coming and want a shot at getting it!

Better late than never, so we have locked down the details of our September meeting. In our September meeting, the topic is now “Quality Assurance”.

Our speaker will be Willem Stuursma, he will give us a inside look at how Continuous Integration happens inside of Mollie with all of their PHP projects.

This month we are once again back with our good friends at True, so if you were there for our first meeting you know they are wonderful hosts. It will all go down on the 20th of September, you can see details on the meetup page

We also managed to secure a few O’Reilly books to raffle them off, so stick around until the end of the talk, and make sure you have RSVP’d on Meetup!

Schedule

19h: Welcome Drinks
19h30 – 20h30: “Continuous Integration at Mollie”
20h30: Social, drinks, food and raffles!.

Speaker: Willem Stuursma

Willem works as a developer at Mollie and has worked at Hyves in Amsterdam and at iWink in Groningen. He likes back-end development, as well as developing for mobile devices and equally loves product and programming.

Talk: “Continuous Integration at Mollie”

In this talk, I will discuss our experiences at Mollie with setting up the Jenkins Continuous Integration server for all our PHP projects. The talk will be aimed at developers with little or no experience with CI.

We look forwardto seeing you again this month! We are looking for our October hosts and speaker, if you are interested, get in touch with us!

VENUE: True

TNW will kickoff by hosting our August meeting at their offices. This month we will have Joshua Thijssen, renown PHP Speaker and upcoming author of “A guide to PHP Standard Library”, bringing up a very important topic: Security. In his talk “A history on security and how to win the battle”, Joshua will make us rethink how we design our applications and make sure security is in the from the beginning.

Last month we had a full house, so make sure to secure your spot by RSVPing on our meetup page. As usual our schedule is as follows:

• 19h: Welcome Drinks
• 19h30 to 20h30: “A history on security and how to win the battle” by Joshua Thijssen
• 20h30 onwards: Social, drinks and food, mingle and get to know new people

Additional information

Speaker: Joshua Thijssen

Joshua Thijssen is a freelance consultant, systems administrator anddeveloper. His passion lies in designing and working with complexprojects, working on high scalability and availability projects andhelping other to achieve higher standards in both coding and thinking.
He’s the author of the upcoming book “A guide to PHP Standard Library” and is regular speaker on both webdevelopment and system administration conferences. He is currently certified as a Zend PHP5, PHP5.3, Zend Framework, LPIC2, Ubuntu, MySQL DBE & MySQL DBA and has a wide range of programming skills. You can find his technical blogs on www.adayinthelifeof.nl

Talk: “A history on security and how to win the battle”

Keeping our systems secure is a thing that already starts at the lowest levels of your CPUs. Security measurement after security measurement must be passed before your software or webapp is actually allowed to run or your data is allowed to be processed. And yet every day we keep hearing more and more stories about security leaks and data breaches.
Why is this happening? Are we such bad programmers? Are we not capable enough to write “secure web applications”? We are loosing this battle if we don’t change our security model and the way we deal with security radically. Here’s how…

Venue: The Next Web

This month we are going to meet in the WEBclusive offices in the famous Rozengracht.

Rozengracht 133-3hg
1016LV Amsterdam

Get more information and RSVP over on meetup

Schedule

19h00 – 19h30: Welcome Drinks
19h30 – 20h30: “Going Responsive for Developers” by Mike van Riel
20h30 – ??: Socializing, beer and food

Talk

“Going Responsive for Developers”

Designing and creating a website that is suitable for both the desktop and mobile is a unique kind of challenge. In the past years we have seen the rise of Responsive Design; a methodology and mindset on how to make a website suitable for both platforms.

During this talk we’ll design a new website using Responsive Design and show what considerations and design decisions are to be encountered along the way.

About Mike van Riel

Mike van Riel is a Senior Software Developer at Unet B.V., an ISP for the corporate segment based in the Netherlands. In his spare time he is also Lead Developer of phpDocumentor, an API Documentation Generator for PHP.

With a passion for industry standards and Quality Assurance he loves nothing more than to discuss methods to improve code and ways to ‘Do-It-Better’™ in general.

This month we will be giving the PFZ group our support and helping them organize, in our backyard, a June PHP TestFest. Its very simple, if you wish to come, let them know bu registering here (in dutch, but quick and easy), bring you own laptop and come willing to learn and help. Three mentors will be available to help: Derick Rethans, Rafael Dohms and  Felix de Vliegher. They will help people get started and guide them towards finding areas to test and getting tests written.

This is a great way to give back and a great learning experience, so join us at the WEBclusive office (Rozengracht 133-3hg) on the 23rd of June at 10 am.