
What’s in a title? How thinking of ourselves as Engineers can lead to problems
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Special thanks to our sponsor php[architect] https://www.phparch.com/ !
News and Happenings
PHPArch
Reminder PHP World
Washington, DC - November 16-20, 2015
https://world.phparch.com/
- PHP In the Cloud (Training Day)
- Building Testable Extensions Sebastian Bergman (phpunit!) Test
- Create Secure Repeat
- 2FA
- PHP At Google
Remote Year
http://www.remoteyear.com/
Things I was unprepared for as a lead developer
http://dev-human.com/entries/2015/09/07/things-i-was-unprepared-for/
- Way less developing
- Delegating
- Financial management / budgeting
- Hiring/Firing
- Culture
- Motivating
- Mentoring
- Feedback
- Planning
- People Skills
- Lead by Example
Sublime Text Power User
https://sublimetextbook.com/
Ghost Inspector
https://ghostinspector.com/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=TW_KW
I started making something like this as a poc https://github.com/alnutile/gherkin-generator
and hope to come back to it.
Introducing Laravel Spark
https://mattstauffer.co/blog/introducing-laravel-spark-a-deep-dive
Why I wouldn’t use rails for a new company
http://blog.jaredfriedman.com/2015/09/15/why-i-wouldnt-use-rails-for-a-new-company/

“If you want to future-proof your web application, you have to make a bet on what engineers will want to use in three years”
ActiveRecord and the Beauty Lost in Translation
http://matthewmachuga.com/blog/2015/activerecord-and-the-beauty-lost-in-translation.htm
Great Oo training by Matthew Machuga who wrote the above article
http://code.tutsplus.com/courses/object-oriented-design-in-php
Sometime in 2014, PHP-land started to debate whether Active Record was a tolerable ORM pattern, and whether one should use Active Record or Data Mapper ORMs
Latest Readings
Agile Estimating and Planning
Crazy math to figure out your project buffer!
Functional Programming
https://www.phparch.com/books/functional-programming-in-php/
Q & A / Main Topics to Discuss
The term DHH coined “Software Writer”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LfmrkyP81M
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