Dan Blows
Dan Blows is the Head of Solution Architecture at Hyperion X. He's been working with PHP since v4, and started using Symfony v1.2 in 2008. He's already upgraded three large codebases from PHP 5 to PHP 7, including one from v5.3. After building a pension calculator he realised that he needs to give talks at conferences if he's going to eat after he retires.
Talks I've Given
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The Twelve Factor Symfony App
Featuring Dan Blows
The Twelve Factor methodology is a checklist to make your web applications more portable and resilient when deployed. How does it apply to Symfony? I’ll be suggesting bundles, configuration options, and approaches to coding to help you get a perfect 12 out of 12.
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What's new in PHP 7 and what to expect in PHP 7.1
Featuring Dan Blows
In this talk "What's New in PHP 7 and what to expect in PHP 7.1", Dan's going to show how Symfony runs quicker in PHP 7, things to watch out for when upgrading (including with Doctrine), how you can make your code more reliable with the new features, and then give a brief...
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