The most effective way to get to know a new tool, API or library is to get some hands-on experience with using it, otherwise known as having a hack. Unfortunately, before we get stuck into writing code we often have to spend our time with setup, installation & debugging.
I’ll take us through a collaborative coding environment which optimises our time-to-hack by distributing setup & boilerplate tasks between developers: allowing us to get straight in to play with stuff.
We’ll see how this approach can be useful for hack-days, workshops, and even lightning talks!
Service workers are the new trendy disco in town that all the front-end developers are totally stoked about.
Though, if there’s a disco; PHP developers should be the party-goers that are singing karaoke and dancing on the tables.
I’ll take us on a brief (lightning) tour of service workers for back-end developers - going over some practical examples of how we can utilise them to enhance our websites.
Meetups & conferences are totally brilliant, but also kind of different.
A few years ago, we realised that our meetup was shifting into the form of a mini-conference. I’ll go over why we decided this was not for us, and what changes we made to make the most of our community.