The new features in MariaDB 10.1

MariaDB is a drop in replacement of MySQL created by the same people that created MySQL. This talk is for MySQL users who wants to know the benefits of switching to MariaDB 10.1. The talk covers all features in MariaDB that don't exist in MySQL and all the new features in MariaDB 10.1 that should become stable (GA) when this talk is hold.

How to make money developing open source software

This talk is for entrepreneurs and developers, who would like to make a living developing open source software. The talk describes the different open source licenses and business models one can use to develop open source full time.

Behind the Scenes of Maintaining an Open Source Project

The open source world is made out of human interactions as much as it is made of code. During this session, Jordi will be sharing his experiences as the Composer Project lead. He will show you glimpses into what it means and feels like to be the maintainer of a popular open source project. By sharing his experiences, Jordi hopes that you will gain a better understanding of the human factor in the open source community.

How I learned to stop worrying and love Regular Expressions

This session will cover Regular Expressions from the basics to the darkest corners of this arcane art. Regular Expressions at the core come in handy to achieve validation and text manipulation tasks. In the day to day life of a developer, becoming comfortable with them opens up many more use cases. As one of the tortured souls that actually enjoys writing - and reading - regexes, Jordi will share his passion so that you too can see there is no reason to worry.

HHVM, PHP7 & co

PHP 7 is on track, 1st test releases are out, everyone work hard to get the next php major version out. Dozen of patches have reached the branch,amazing RFCs have been worked on and commited. Are you ready to migrate? Hopefully yes! If not and you still need to improve performances, then let take a look at the alternatives.
Be full stack alternative PHP implementations like php or small additions to speedup the critical parts of your apps.

From PHP to Go

More and more companies are using Go language in production environments. In this talk, I'll introduce you Go language comparing it with popular scripting language PHP, talk a little about working environment for Go developer, and discuss how Go can be adopted into company's existing technology stack.

Building REST API with Symfony: experience, errors and recipes.

Ever built a REST API? And did you try to do it with Symfony? I will tell the story about a small outsource team, which did all that within several projects. From handling request to generating proper responses. Through versioning, error handling, access and rights control, testing, documenting and more. With examples of our bad decisions and recipes to good ones. This talk will give you the perspective on how to use powerful tools in both good and bad ways with examples from real projects.

PostCSS in practice

PostCSS is a new tool to process CSS. It becomes more popular since Google, WordPress and Taobao have started start using it . Even Bootstrap team has plans to move to PostCSS in the next release. The Autoprefixer (PostCSS plugin) is one of the most popular CSS processors.

Supercharging your Webshop with ONGR.io and elasticsearch

You want to supercharge your Webshop? ONGR.io is an extremly fast solution based on Symfony 2 and elasticsearch which can be used to speed up e-commerce websites. The main advantage compared to other solutions is that you don’t need a full relaunch. With ONGR.io it’s possible to speed up a single pagetype of your shop while everything else stays just like it is. In this talk I’ll show you how to do this and how easy it is to use ElasticSearch with ONGR.io. Lots of code, lots of examples, that’s gonna be fun ;)

Not cool enough

Developers tend to complicate stuff because simple and straightforward doesn't feel right/cool enough. At some point it is starting to matter too much what colleagues would say about your solutions and later it often develops into fear of doing anything. The barrier has to be broken and I'll try to help with it.

Yii and PHP i18n & L10n

This is a deep dive into Intl extension. What's i18n and L10n, how to deal with it in PHP and what Yii 2 framework actually does with it.

Docker in da house

Have you ever thought about minimalistic workspace? Without spending hours to install all needed things for successful development? You want to develop in "close to production" environment locally? And share this environment with other team members easily? You know what? It's easy to do, especially when Docker comes in the house!
I will tell you a little what is Docker, how you can easily spin up NGINX + PHP + Database + Whatever (e.g. node, gulp, bower, ruby+sass, etc.) without installing ANY of these on your host system. Good practices, examples of real life use cases. All this accompanied with a live demo. Join the dark side, we have Docker :)

Monitoring by Zabbix: discovering problems long before they turn into real disasters

It does not matter how many servers or business critical applications you have. Monitoring could be your best friend when it comes to early problem detection and their automatic resolution. Zabbix provides great functionality that helps to identify existing and potential issues in an extremely efficient and smart way. No more downtimes!