Robert Stoll, an ICT student from Switzerland is researching type safety in PHP for his undergraduate study. This is a very interesting topic and he wants to see how the community deals with this in its day to day development.
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.
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.
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.
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.
PHP needs contributions, and you can help. Writing tests for PHP is very simple and all you need to know is PHP, and what to test. This is where the PHP TestFest comes in.
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.