Small footprint libraries and so-called micro frameworks are a newer development in the PHP community. In this session we'll look at the MicroPHP Manifesto and go over building an application focused on the ideas presented by it. We'll look at a couple micro frameworks and other tools including Slim and Breeze as well as concerns with implementing your frontend with Backbone.js and other techniques. We'll also cover simple ways to organize your application and manage dependencies using Composer.

Maintaining a consistent development environment is hard—especially for junior developers and designers with no interest in system administration.

In this one-hour talk, I'll show you how my team develops locally, in VPN (Virtual Private Network) connected Virtual Machines, and how we make a team distributed in 5 cities feel a little like we're all working in the same room.

We'll touch on VirtualBox, Puppet, Vagrant, dpkg/APT, Amazon AWS (EC2, especially), IRC, HTTP Proxies, and lots of other fun tech.

Testing is a part of your development workflow even if you've never written a single unit test. Automated testing will definitely help improve the quality of your code. This is not a surprise to most of us. Today we have access to tools and frameworks that make writing automated tests easier. In this session we'll look at when and how to use tools available for web developers including PHPUnit, Mockery, Behat, Mink, Jasmine, zombie.js, Siege, Sproxy, and more.

Paradoxically, Symfony2 is not only a full-stack framework. Its underlaying architecture relies on standalone, decoupled and cohesive components. This session will focus on the use of the most interesting components of Symfony like the Dependency Injection Container, Event Dispatcher, Console, HttpFoundation, HttpKernel, Routing, Browser Kit, Css Selector & Dom Crawler, and much more...

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We all talk about how to best structure our projects and how to write ‘clean code’ for new projects, but what do we do for legacy systems? How do we explore an existing codebase, detect problem areas, find the specific problems, and fix them responsibly? This will be a detailed walk through, analysis, and review of our work on the open source project web2project and how it can apply these lessons to your projects.

To many, "Machine learning" seems like a magical black box that somehow tells us what books we're interested in buying on Amazon, what movies we'd like to watch on Netflix, or what coffee shops we'd like to visit on Foursquare. In this 50 minute session, we'll attempt to demystify some of the ML techniques that are employed in building a recommendation engine for a product catalog, discuss some of the capabilities and limitations of recommender systems, storage and querying solutions for millions of rows and millions of columns, all while avoiding the inevitable rise of SkyNet.

One of my favourite things about meeting up with other developers to hack on a project is that they'll see how I'm doing things and chime in "hey, did you know that you could use ($someTool) to do that better?" I've been doing this web thing for a long time, and thus have built up a significant bag of tricks. In this talk, I'll share as many of these tips, tricks and tools as I can, as quickly as possible. The goal: leave with new ideas.

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Stateless.. Nouns & Verbs.. Idempotent.. HTTP Auth.. Tokens.. We’ve all heard those phrases thrown around when we talk about REST. We’ve been told our systems have to include these characteristics or they’re not RESTful. We’ve talked over and over again on how to implement them. Unfortunately, somewhere along the way, we lost the answer to “why?” What’s the point? What value do we gain by doing things the “right” way?

Composer provides you with a new and simple way to describe and install a project's dependencies. Finally using 3rd party libraries in PHP projects is as easy it should be. Composer was inspired by concepts from Node.js npm, Ruby's Bundler and other package management systems. In this talk shows how Composer can help you with your next project and how you can make your libraries available for others. It'll demonstrate the advantages Composer has over other PHP package management tools.

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Propel is one of the oldest PHP ORM frameworks inspired by Java frameworks. It was originaly built on top of PHP4 and was then migrated to PHP5 to support the PDO native extension. This ORM has become successfull and famous thanks to the symfony framework in 2005. This talk introduces and shows some of the best Propel tools like code generation, behaviors, table inheritance and active queries.

This talk introduces the basics of the REST architecture. We fill focus on the main concepts of REST like HTTP methods, URIs and open formats. Then, we will see how to deploy REST services using most of interesting Silex tools like database abstraction layer, template engine, input validation, unit and functional testing with PHPUnit and HTTP caching with ESI for better performances.

The Symfony2 framework is on its way for the 2.1 version, which will be the longtime supported version for the next 5 years. In this session, we will introduce the Symfony2 framework by looking at its underlying architecture based on standalone and decoupled components, and the MVC implementation. Then, we will focus on the most interesting features that Symfony provides out of the box to help developers be more productive and efficient in their day to day work. These features include cascading configuration, database abstraction layer, forms management, HTTP caching, unit and functional testing and security (authentication & authorization).

Facebook figures out people that you might already know, LinkedIn tells you how many degrees of separation there are between you and the CEO of Nokia, and LastFM suggests music based on your current listening habits. We'll take a look at the basic theory behind how some of these features work (no comp. sci. degree required!), and show how you can implement some of these features in your application.

This talk teaches you the important concepts behind Backbone.js. Backbone.js is a lightweight javascript framework for MVC development.

We'll be teaching you the basics and theory behind Backbone.js, and why using Backbone or a similar framework is important to build a maintainable Javascript application.