PHPSW: Lightning Talks, April 2018
11 Apr 2018 at Desk Lodge

Static Site Generators, PHP, and The Cuban Revolution

Which which stands for "getting SPA-like experience while sticking with server-side rendering"

I will deliberate on the importance of stress-testing an application before launch and also introducing a very simple helper package that I made to speed up bulk inserting thousands of rows of test data. The package is Laravel-specific but the general concept is tech agnostic.

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For both the frontend and backend there are many frameworks that allow for the rapid and solid build of web applications. Many projects require the knowledge of a framework. In some cases this leads a developer to be more understanding of a framework instead of the language that the framework is written in. Should every application be built using a framework and if not, when is it OK not to use a framework?

When I talked to my colleagues I couldn't believe some of the stories they had of awkward, backwards or just plain silly technical tests. This talk is a big, fat example of what NOT to make your prospective developers do, along with a couple of reasons why.

Let Nigel explain why you shouldn't use the Git command line.

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We are still not working together on our projects. And that leads to frustration and hinders productivity. See how by using a common developer tool you enforce a common process and a common language, boosting your projects and making developers happier.

We've got a large team at Hello Future and because nobody, not even Dan, is perfect we often forget to do some required procedural things. Fortunately, we now have a friend from the Cretaceous period to keep us on our toes.