Bristol Skillswap: Thursday 26 July

DARREN'S PRESENTATION, SCRIPT AND CODE: On his blog here

What: A pragmatic look at Symfony (the PHP web application framework)

Who: Darren Beale from Siftware. No, not the guy from Kosheen, the other one, but it's OK, he's a Bristolian...
 
Main topics:
 

1) MVC in a nutshell

2) Best practice without too much effort
3) How to knock up an admin system in no time
4) Easy Ajax
5) Push-button deployment

What will we learn:

There are a bunch of PHP frameworks that recently hit the mainstream. The ones most have heard of include Cake, Symfony, Zend & Seagull. I chose Symfony off the back of its documentation alone and have since embraced it for new builds.

What you will get is a run-though of the key points of the Symfony framework and how it applies to producing contemporary web applications. We'll throw together a quick application and then deploy to test and live.

What you will not get is an evangelistic and blinkered talk. I like Symfony, but that's because I now know enough to be productive with it. I'll also mention a few areas where I think Symfony could improve.

The talk will suit developers looking to either choose a PHP framework or see what all the fuss is about. There will be coding on-the-fly and a Q&A at the end though don't expect guru level Symfony knowledge.

When: 

Thursday 26 July                   

18:00 – 18:30: grub (and hopefully beer please sponsor us) available on arrival
18:30 – 19:30: presentation
19:30 – 20:00: Q & A
 
Where:

Waterside 2
Watershed
Bristol
BS1
Google map link

Registration: Please register on our registration page 

Sponsors:  Beer soundly sponsored by  Lightenna:

Room and food kindly sponsored by Knowledge West