Better Code By Making Bugs with Mutation Testing

Featuring Theo Fidry

Tests are code and as such they come with a cost. You need to write them, refactor them and maintain them. But how exactly do you know you have enough or too many tests? How do you know if your tests are properly testing your code? How do you know your tests are buggy or not? Discover Mutation...

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Getting Started With Serverless PHP

Featuring Andy Raines

In the past few years a new computing revolution has been brewing - Functions as a Service - better known as Serverless Computing. Whilst this is an extremely interesting and exciting technology, the largest provider (AWS) has yet to provide any native PHP support, leaving a huge number of...

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Symfony Nano Framework

Featuring Loic Faugeron

All frameworks seem to have their own micro framework: Zend framework has Expressive, Laravel has Lumen. But what does Symfony have? Silex? MicroKernelTrait? Hah! The stuff's as boring as a pacifist pistol. But don't worry, for I have a plan as cunning as a fox who's just been...

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Behat Best Practices with Symfony

Featuring Ciaran McNulty

Behat is widely used as part of a Behaviour Driven Development lifecycle, but it's also widely misused. In this talk Ciaran will show the best practices including: writing good scenarios, driving service development from scenarios, and fast UI testing, using Behat and the Symfony2Extension.

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Lightning Talks Session 2

Featuring Noel Welsh, Rhys Sharrem and Guillaume Masse

This session will consist of three 15-minute Lightning Talks!

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Building multiplayer game using streams - Beginner

Featuring Michał Płachta

In this talk you will learn how stream-based programming can be used to implement web frontend and multiplayer backend of the classic game: Snake.

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Crafty Communications (Scala and Pesky People) - Beginner

Featuring Asher Glynn

Effective development is all about communication - with other developers, with users, with managers(!). While this has always been true, the gap between the Scala true believers and the rest-of-the-world can sometimes feel cavernous.

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What should every programmer know about hardware - Intermediate

Featuring Dmitry Petrashko

Finding and fixing performance bugs in real-world software is a tricky task. It involves exploration and experimentation. During this talk, you will discover several performance issues found while working on Dotty as well as tools used to diagnose those issues.

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How to write maintainable Scala code - Beginner

Featuring Peter Hilton

Scala’s biggest problem isn’t adoption any more, it’s unmaintainable code. The core of maintainable code is clean code with good tests, but that by itself is not enough. During this talk, you will learn a range of techniques for writing and improving code for maintainability, including how to get...

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Teaching Scala without side effects

Featuring Benjamin Parker

For an imperative programmer, switching to a functional paradigm can be a confusing transition. It's easy to become overwhelmed by concepts such as immutability, anonymous functions, Category Theory, and application of referential transparency.

In this talk, you will explore the experience...

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