TALK TITLE

Ben Ramsey (@ramsey) will be presenting a talk on 'Cool Tools for PHP Development'

"Good developer experience (DX) is critical in the tools we use, whether external- or internal-facing. The easier it is for your team to do their job, the happier and more efficient they'll be. So far, the JavaScript community has cornered the market on developer tooling, but the PHP community is catching up.

In this talk, I'll crack open my toolbox and share some of the tools I use in daily development and why I think they improve the DX of projects I work on. We'll look at some familiar tools, such as PHPUnit and PHP_CodeSniffer, along with new tools like PHPStan and Psalm. I'll show how to configure these tools for better workflows through Composer scripts and plugins. We'll also see how to standardize your team's workflow with CaptainHook. By the end, I hope you'll leave with some good ideas for improving your team's DX."

THE VENUE

The Arise Centre, ARU, CM1 1SQ will be the Essex Web Developers Meetup location however, due to the continuation of COVID19, we will be conducting the meetups remotely for the foreseeable.
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ROUGH AGENDA

7:15 - Log on
7:30 -
TALK
Ben Ramsey (@ramsey) presenting 'Cool Tools for PHP Development'
8:45 - onwards - Group discussion

(Please note, this will be recorded for future viewing)

AND FINALLY.....

The Essex Web Developers Meetup group is kindly sponsored by Enovate, an Essex-based web design agency: https://www.enovate.co.uk/