Midwest PHP is the FUN conference. This is our fifth annual conference, and each year it gets better and better. Our goal is to share best practices, ideas, and techniques about building state-of-the-art software applications.

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Friday, 17th March 2017

Sessions
09:00

Using Open Source for Fun and Profit

Gary Hockin

10:00

Grown-up MongoDB: Schema Design

Derick Rethans

Pulling up Your Legacy App by its Bootstraps!

Emily Stamey

Principles of Unit Testing

Joseph

11:00

Graph Databases Will Change Your Freakin Life

Ed Finkler

Accessibility: Don't turn off that JavaScript just yet!

Nic Steenhout

Bringing Old Legacy Apps To PHP 7 and Beyond

Sammy Kaye Powers

13:00

Profiling your PHP application

Michael Heap

Software Management Lessons from the 1960s

Larry Garfield

OOP Is More Than Cars and Dogs

Chris Tankersley

14:00

Expressive Microservice Framework Blastoff

Adam Culp

TypeScript in Action

Doris Chen

Dev Divas: History's Heroines of Computing

Vesna Vuynovich Kovach

15:00

Intro to Laravel 5

Ben Edmunds

The Mindful Developer: Being Less Busy & More Productive

David McKay

Security Starts With You: Social Engineering

Tiberius Hefflin

Saturday, 18th March 2017

Sessions
09:00

Modern JavaScript for PHP Developers

Derek Binkley

DevOps For Small Teams

Joe Ferguson

Stepping Outside Your Comfort Zone: Learning to Teach

Heather L White

10:00

Practical PHP Deployment with Jenkins

Adam Culp

My journey to the center of PHP

Sammy Kaye Powers

Promises and Generators

Evert Pot

11:00

Kickass Development Environments with Docker

David McKay

Authenticating Against API Services

Caitlin Bales

Getting Started with Magento 2

Mathew Beane

13:00

Storing Non-Scalar Data

Derick Rethans

Status Change: Now Using Event Sourcing

Emily Stamey

Altering, Extending, and Enhancing Drupal 8

Joe Shindelar

14:00

WordPress as a 12 Factor app

Michael Heap

How to Make Your Website Not Ugly: 10 Simple UX Tenets for Non-Designers

Hilary Stohs-Krause

MVC to ADR: Refining How We Think About Web Applications

Woody Gilk

15:00

Using our Superpowers for Good

Eryn O'Neil