A 3-day conference to help PHP developers level up their craft and connect with the larger PHP community, in Austin, TX.

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Thursday, 19th April 2018

Stadium Longhorn Bevo
09:00

Pentesting For Developers

Chris Cornutt

Start Testing Your PHP Code

Jason McCreary

Better and Faster: TDD-ing a Ride-Hailing Application w/PHPUnit, Symfony, and Doctrine

Chris Holland

09:00
13:00

Hands On API Design

Tim Lytle

Practical hands-On Accessibility Testing

Nic Steenhout

Deep Dive into Codeception Testing

Michael Bodnarchuk

13:00

Friday, 20th April 2018

OpenShift Balcones Stadium Tower
09:00

Stop Doing It Wrong

Boyd Hemphill

09:00
10:00

Understanding Docker for Development

Jessica Mauerhan

Essential AWS for PHP Applications

Michael Moussa

Open Source Commerce Melee

Ben Marks

10:00
11:00

Yak Free API Tip & Tricks You Can Use Right Now

Tim Lytle

Introduction to PHP Extensions

Derick Rethans

The Container is a Lie!

Larry Garfield

11:00
13:00

Friday Afternoon Keynote

Samantha Quinones

13:00
14:00

Lessons Learned Building the Composer Internals

Jordi Boggiano

Go Fast with PHP Prepared Statements

Ed Barnard

MySQL Without The SQL -- Oh My!

Dave Stokes

14:00
15:00

Writing Code That Lasts…

Jason McCreary

Succeeding as a Freelance Programmer

Stefka Newman

Securing Legacy Applications

Chris Cornutt

Composer yourself: a reintroduction to composer

Eric Poe

15:00
16:15

Listen to the Difference: Using a Screenreader to Compare Before/After Code of 5 Top a11y Barriers

Nic Steenhout

Move Over Graphite, Prometheus is Here

Michael Heap

Immutability to Save an Ever-Changing World

Andrew Cassell

REST API Best Practices

Mike Stowe

16:15
17:15

Empathy as a Service: Supporting Mental Health in the Tech Workplace

Nara Kasbergen

Testing Your APIs with Postman

Terry Matula

I Didn’t Know Laravel Could Do That!

Josh Butts

17:15

Saturday, 21st April 2018

OpenShift Balcones Stadium
09:00

Extreme Team Building: Surviving an Ocean Crossing

Stephanie Evans

09:00
10:00

(Mis)using and Abusing APIs

Keith Casey

Meet Terraform

Michael Heap

CI/CD for PHP on AWS

Michael Moussa

10:00
11:00

Time Zones and Calendars are a PITA

Derick Rethans

The Many Layers of OAuth

Keith Casey

The Basics with a Side of Crypto: Shifting and Masking in PHP

Ed Barnard

11:00
13:00

Using Our Superpowers For Good

Eryn O'Neil

13:00
14:00

Designing Test Architecture That Does Not Suck

Michael Bodnarchuk

Simplified Continuous Deployment with Laravel and Jenkins

Lane Staples

Go for PHP Developers

Terrence Ryan

14:00
15:00

Event Sourcing a Small Library

Emily Stamey

Kubernetes for PHP Practitioners

Paul Czarkowski

Papers, Please! Authentication with Laravel Passport

Hunter Skrasek

15:00
16:15

Becoming a Polyglot: Lessons from Natural Language Learning

Rebekah Post

Hands-on Kubernetes with OpenShift

Grant Shipley

Making a Sports Car From a Horse-Drawn Carriage

Patrick Guevara

16:15
17:15

Uncle Cal's Career Advice for Developers

Cal Evans

17:15