This is the sixth annual Midwest PHP Conference located in Bloomington, Minnesota at the Radisson Blu Mall of America. This is a two day PHP conference put on by the Minnesota PHP User Group. Tickets will go fast so make sure to get yours as soon as possible. For more information about the conference please visit midwestphp.org.

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Friday, 9th March 2018

Main Ballroom Ballroom C Ballroom D
09:00

Community

Margaret Staples

09:00
10:00

Writing Clean Code

Jason McCreary

BASHing at the CLI

Chris Tankersley

Y2K and Other Disappointing Disasters: Risk Reduction and Harm

Heidi Waterhouse

10:00
11:00

Conquering Continuous Integration & Deployment

Tessa Kriesel

Banishing Loops with Functional Programming

David Hayes

Magento 2 Module in 50 Minutes or Bust

Ben Marks

11:00
13:00

Make It Searchable

Josh Butts

Don’t Eat Grandma: Common Grammatical Issues in Technical Writing

Kara Ferguson

Get Rolling Fast with Symfony Flex

Beau Simensen

13:00
14:00

Cryptography For Beginners

Adam Englander

Go for PHP Developers

Terrence Ryan

Make your Application Zend Expressive

Christian Varela

14:00
15:00

Test Driving Test Driven Development

Jason McCreary

Managing the extreme client: PM 101 for devs

Brent Peterson

Intro to Laravel and getting started in the Laravel Ecosystem

Joe Ferguson

15:00

Saturday, 10th March 2018

Main Ballroom Ballroom C Ballroom D
09:00

Essential Tools for Modern PHP

Alex Weissman

Essential AWS for PHP Applications

Michael Moussa

Hypermedia: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Mike Stowe

09:00
10:00

Practical API Security

Adam Englander

Diving into MySQL 5.7: advanced features

Gabriela Davila Ferrara

Open Source eCommerce Melee

Ben Marks

10:00
11:00

Virtual Machine, Container, or Serverless

Terrence Ryan

Demystifying Algorithmic Complexity

John Bafford

Welcome to Our Product: Hospitality, Experiences, and Documentation

Heidi Waterhouse

11:00
13:00

APIs, Chains, & Graphs

Mike Stowe

Improving Technical Annotations and Estimates for Your Projects

Jessica Feigal

Puppets, Chefs, and Ansibles - Making sense of the provisioning circus

Joe Ferguson

13:00
14:00

Developing a Culture of Mentorship

Tessa Kriesel

They Are Watching You

Chris Tankersley

Introduction to Event Sourcing and CQRS

Beau Simensen

14:00
15:00

Open Source, accessibility, and you - the superhero!

Nic Steenhout

15:00