Midwest PHP 2018 Notes
Last weekend I was lucky enough to attend Midwest PHP 2018 in Bloomington, MN (the hotel was attached to the Mall of America so it’s at the Mall of America). I wanted to make sure I was attentive to the speakers so I did the best possible job taking notes (the after lunch sessions were the hardest). My plan over the next couple days is to publish my notes (in a cleaned up version) both so I have an easy reference to them and so I can refer to them in later posts. My plan is to back date the published dates on the posts so they’re “published” when they started.
I enjoyed the conference and venue and would wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone who’s a PHP developer. The sessions were mostly well planned out, they provided a decent breakfast and lunch, the venue was VERY clean, and everyone seemed to have an excellent time. If time and budget allow I would love to go back next year.
As part of the experience I gave myself some homework so plan on seeing posts about the topic below soon.
My homework from #mwphp18
— Scott Keck-Warren (@warren5236) March 10, 2018
1. Make my sites #a11y
2. Look into AWS a solution
3. Upgrade to MySQL 5.7 everywhere
4. Play with Kubernetes and Docker
5. Try building a site with Laravel
Day 1
- Community by Margaret Staples (@dead_lugosi)
- BASHing at the CLI by Chris Tankersley (@dragonmantank)
- Conquering Continuous Integration & Deployment by Tessa Krisel (@tessak22)
- Getting Rolling Fast with Symfony Flex by Beau Simensen (@beausimensen)
- Cryptography for Beginners by Adam Englander (@adam_englander)
- Intro to Laravel and getting started in the Laravel Ecosystem by Joe Ferguson (@joepferguson)
Day 2
- Essential AWS for PHP Applications by Michael Moussa (@michaelmoussa)
- Diving into MySQL 5.7 by Gabriela Ferra (@gabidavila)
- VM, Serverless, or Containers by Terry Ryan (@tpryan)
- Technical Annotations and Estimations by Jessica Feigal
- Developing a Culture of Mentorship by Tessa Kriesel (@tessak22)
- Open Source, accessibility, and you - the superhero! by Nic Steenhout (@vavroom)
Scott Keck-Warren
Scott is the Director of Technology at WeCare Connect where he strives to provide solutions for his customers needs. He's the father of two and can be found most weekends working on projects around the house with his loving partner.
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