Laracon EU 2013
2013-08-30..2013-08-31
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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who it's for
Laravel developers, PHP developers, backend web developers, package maintainers, testing engineers, devops engineers, technical leads
topics
Laravel 4 service providers; facades versus singleton pattern; composer.lock for deployments; composer global CLI tools; SQLite in-memory test database; acceptance-first testing strategy; mockery shouldReceive mocking; AspectMock for legacy static code; ETag and If-None-Match caching; Vary header and proxy caching; Artisan commands with IoC injection; Beanstalkd queue processing
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Software Design Patterns in Laravel 4 | Phill Sparks | 21m |
Walks through concrete Laravel 4 examples and makes testable claims: the vendor code has 14 abstract classes out of 128; iterators lean on PHP’s builtins… | ||
| Laravel Testing Tips, Techniques and Pitfalls | Jeffrey Way | 52m |
Practical claims and tools: replace manual checks with acceptance tests backed by faster unit/integration layers, run migrations before each test on SQLite in… | ||
| In Depth Composer | Jordi Boggiano | 47m |
Explains concrete Composer workflow tricks: how composer global installs CLI tools, how to commit composer.lock for repeatable deployments and speed, how to… | ||
| Standardization, the Symfony Way | Fabien Potencier | 01h 00m |
Symfony 2 splits into 25+ reusable components (Finder, HTTP Foundation, HTTP Kernel, Console, Debug) that claim to make HTTP handling testable, cacheable and… | ||
| Objects, Testing and Responsibility | Matthew Machuga | 58m |
Argues that clear object responsibilities and tests make PHP code debuggable and maintainable, demonstrates PHP features (namespaces, traits, late static… | ||
| Bridging the Gap | Ben Corlett | 52m |
Claims that Composer plus framework-agnostic design fixes the add-on fragmentation: about 540 packages still require laravel/framework unnecessarily; century… | ||
| HTTP and Your Angry Dog | Ross Tuck | 52m |
Explains concrete HTTP mechanics: using the Accept header for content negotiation instead of URL extensions, teaching how the response Vary header lets proxies… | ||
| Building Artisan Commands | Taylor Otwell | 53m |
Creates and runs concrete Artisan commands that actually parse arguments and options, show Tinker REPL use, and prompt for secret input; demonstrates using the… | ||
| Engineering Complex Applications with Laravel 4 | Kapil Verma | 40m |
Argues that plain MVC breaks for nontrivial products and shows exactly how Laravel 4 gets bent: concrete use of facades + service providers to register… | ||
| The Knowledge of Others | Frank de Jonge | 57m |
Argues that actionable specifics beat vague topics and shows concrete experiments: uses Symfony EventDispatcher then identifies collision and API awkwardness… | ||
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