Handling media in Laravel & How to survive legacy code
Details
For the third time we will host a double lecture by the Belgium Dream Team! We have Frederick Vanbrabant and Freek Van der Herten coming over to talk about two different subjects. Frederick will talk about surviving legacy code, Freek will explain how to handle media in a Laravel application.
As always, we have some prizes to give away! :)
The lectures
How to survive the endless fun that is a legacy codebase
So you inherited a legacy code base, how bad can it be? After actually taking a look at the code you realize that it is actually kinda bad, very bad. Well no turning back now, let's make the best of this. You have a battle plan sorted out, but how will you actually keep going? This and more general tips will be answered. Cause you might not be working on a legacy project at the moment, but maybe tomorrow you will!
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media in a Laravel application
In most CMS kind of projects you're going to let a user upload all sorts of images and files. Storing those files, associating them with models, creating thumbnails for them and optimizing images can be a lot of work. Luckily laravel-medialibrary can do all that for you.
In this talk you'll see a practical demo of how to get started with the medialibrary. You’ll learn how to store files, generate URLs to them, how to use different image profiles, how to use external filesystems to store big assets and much, much more.
About the speakers
About Frederick Vanbrabant:
Frederick is a less then 30 year old developer from Antwerp with a passion for API's and everything that surrounds them. He works as a Software Engineer at madewithlove (https://madewithlove.be/).
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About Freek Van der Herten:
Freek Van der Herten is a partner and developer at Spatie (https://spatie.be/), an Antwerp based company that specializes in creating Laravel apps. The company has an Open Source first mentality. Freek is the author of many packages that Spatie releases. According to GitHub awards (http://github-awards.com/users?utf8=%E2%9C%93&type=world&language=php) Spatie is in the top 10 of PHP developers worldwide.
After hours Freek writes about modern PHP and Laravel on his blog (https://murze.be/) and is a co-organizer of Full Stack User Group in Antwerp, Belgium (http://fullstackantwerp.be). When not coding he's probably rehearsing with his kraut-rock band (https://jarenduren.bandcamp.com/).
About the location
We are back at Senet (http://www.senet.nl/) HQ. Senet provides us a marvelous place with food (pizza) and drinks. Everybody is encouraged to attend about an hour prior to the lectures, so we can have a chat while enjoying our food.
Senets nice building is located just outside the Ringweg in the south of Eindhoven, near the gorgeous Genneper Parken. Loads of free parking spaces are available around the building.
About the meetup
• the meetup is free (as in free beer);
• free (vegetarian) food (pizza) and free drinks are provided!;
• food is available between 18:00 and 19:00;
• prize raffle every meetup;
• the first lecture will start at 19:00;
• spoken language is English unless not necessary;
• the presentation is in English;
• suitable for novice to expert level;
• hold at Senet HQ;
• free parking spaces are right around the building.