The goal of PHP South Africa has always been the same… The transfer of knowledge. We have always aimed to get the best of the best together in our beautiful country to share some of their knowledge and experience. In an ever growing industry it is events such as this that helps you stay sharp and craft better software.

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Tuesday, 26th September 2017

Track 1
18:30

How to get the most out of a tech conference!

Andreas Heigl

Wednesday, 27th September 2017

Track 1 Track 2
08:00

Registration

08:00
09:00

Let's Build a Chatbot!

Tessa Mero

Bending WordPress to your Will

Hugh Lashbrooke

09:00
12:00

Advanced Composer - A Lot More Than Just ‘Install’ and ‘Update’

Brad Mostert

Getting Started With Open Source on Azure

Zander Janse van Rensburg

12:00
15:00

Laravel: Idea to Product

Christopher Pitt

Intro to Magento 2: Your First Module

Ben Marks

15:00

Thursday, 28th September 2017

Track 1 Track 2
08:00

Registration

08:00
09:00

Level Up Your Career

Ben Edmunds

09:00
10:15

Nightmares and Testing

Josh Harington

Monolith to Microservices

Gareth McCumskey

10:15
11:15

How to handle ?

Andreas Heigl

Climbing the Abstract Syntax Tree

James Titcumb

11:15
13:00

Lessons Learned Building the Composer Internals

Jordi Boggiano

13:00
14:00

ReactJS and WordPress in Production

Kurt

Building an Open Source CI Tool in a Corporate Environment

Etienne Marais

14:00
15:00

Growing your Product by Building a Community

Hugh Lashbrooke

A World Without PHP

Ben Marks

15:00
16:00

Speaker Panel

Ben Edmunds, Josh Harington, Gareth Mccumskey, Andreas Heigl, James Titcumb, Jordi Boggiano, Kurt Farao, Etienne Marais, Hugh Lashbrooke, Ben Marks

16:00
17:00

Social - Shimmy Beach Club, V&A Waterfront

17:00

Friday, 29th September 2017

Track 1 Track 2
08:00

Registration

08:00
09:00

Gamify Your Growth as a Developer?

Andreas Heigl

09:00
10:15

Magento 2 Development Best Practices

Ben Marks

Building Robots With PHP

Christopher Pitt

10:15
11:15

Javascript State of The Union

Jordi Boggiano

Design Patterns in PHP – Your Time is More Valuable than Your Server’s

Brad Mostert

11:15
13:00

Nom Nom: Consuming REST APIs

Tessa Mero

HA and Elastic Scaling... It's Easy on Azure

Zander Janse van Rensburg

13:00
14:00

Taking back ownership of the word 'freelance developer'

Jonathan Bossenger

Devops for PHP Developers

Jeremy Quinton

14:00
15:00

(Cancelled )Your API Is Bad And You Should Feel Bad

Ben Edmunds

Dip Your Toes in the Sea of Security

James Titcumb

15:00
16:00

Speaker Panel

Andreas Heigl, Christopher Pitt, Brad Mostert, Zander Janse van Rensburg, James Titcumb, Ben Marks, Jordi Boggiano, Tessa Mero, Jonathan Bossenger, Ben Edmunds, Jeremy Quinton

16:00