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Laracon 2016

(Short talk given to coworkers after the fact)

Laracon 2016 was held in Louisville from the 27th to the 29th at the

It's hard to pin down a general recap for the event

  • 18 talks over 3 days
  • 16 different speakers
  • Topics ranging from performance tuning PHP to interface and application design
  • Not really one specific theme; Not even Laravel

There were a few sponsors there, including Nexmo which we already use in the MI PIM to send texts.

Sentry and bugsnag both look like they sort of do the same thing - error reporting. Personally, Sentry looked more polished and simpler to plug in to multiple languages/projects.

Topics

  1. Testing
  • There were two talks given about various testing strategies
  • One talk was on TDD (Test Driven Development) and the other was on BDD (Behavior Driven Development)
  • The TDD talk was a little easier to follow, but BDD seems interesting with more expressive tests
  1. API's
  • There was an interesting talk about Lumen, a lightweight version of Laravel
  • It doesn't have a few pieces - Facades are missing, as are views
  • These speed it up, but make it less versatile. You can add them back in if you need them though.
  1. Vue
  • Vue.JS is a javascript library similar to Backbone and others where you create templates and manipulate them bases on application state
  • It has grown in popularity in the Laravel community. I don't see a need to switch to it from Angular for us.
  1. Refactoring and code cleanliness
  • There were a number of talks about how to clean up code and write cleaner code to begin with
  • Tests help, but things can still get messy
  • Laravel collections provide a lot of powerful functionality to help reduce loops
  • Code Smells - they're bad but they're fixable. Every smell has a fix. (Break up methods, decouple classes, etc)
  1. Miscellaneous Technical talks
  • Really cool talk on HTTP/2
  • Server Push is a new technology that lets the server send resources before the client asks for them
  • It's available now for some servers, and packages exist for it already.
  • There was a good talk about the history of PHP
  • Co-creator of the language talked about how it came to be
  • Graphs of historical speed increases on benchmarks
  • PHP7 is 30% or more faster than PHP 5.6 on real world benchmarks. (I've seen this on my tests)
  • Interesting talk on server security
  • A lot of it kind of went over my head, but Chris Fidao has a lot of the information up on his website
  • All about whitelisting certain ports and protocols for your internal and external web traffic
  • Dropping packets instead of erroring on them to keep port information secure
  1. Design talk
  • Ryan Singer from Basecamp gave a very interesting talk on design
  • Design hierarchy, (Domain Experience -> Situations -> Flows -> Affordances -> 2D Layout)
  • Start with Flows to determine Affordances.
  • Domain Experience lets you figure out what Situations are likely to come up, which can inform you of useful Flows.