Coding + Development

You’ve written the code. It’s running and you’re not seeing any errors, but somehow you’re not getting the output you expected. Something’s happening in there, but what? If only you could freeze time...

Having the right tool for the job makes everything easier. But what do you do when your project’s budget doesn’t cover “the right tool” -- or even any tools at all? 

Those among us who have coded...

Now we're gonna have some INTERMEDIATE FUN!

• I'll share some of my favorite things to do (cherry-pick, blame, change the author so it looks like my coworker did something I just did)...
• Wait, what's a...

*Composer Beginners, that is ;-)

​​In this session, you'll learn the basic basics (technical term) of using composer to manage a Drupal 8 site.

There's a steep, painful learning curve for many stron...

Drupal includes a powerful toolset for building and extending out-of-the box content types. Content architectures are typically designed around the features of nodes, taxonomy, media, and other core...

This presentation is about code quality, and finding bugs before they hit production. Also, PHPStan is great for finding problems caused by future Drupal updates, ahead of time.

I will show how to...

If you’re a new Drupal 8 developer or you aspire to be one, you should seriously consider learning Symfony first! In this presentation, I will share eight reasons why.

With the adoption of the Symfony...

A brief introduction to Symfony and demonstrate how it can be used to build modern and performant PHP applications.

This session will focus on Symfony 4 which according to https://dri.es/drupal-7-8...

Are you keeping up with PHP versions? PHP's maintainers have kept to their annual release cycle with the 7.x branch. Already, The 7.1 branch only receives security fixes, and it will be EOL'ed by the...