The best of strong typing in PHP
Details
Hi all,
This years autumn edition will be as interesting as always with a subject all PHP coders should be interested in!
Again we are hosted by our long-term partner Senet. Food (pizza, vegan as well) and drinks will be provided by our host as you are used to.
The lecture
Strong typing is spreading across PHP: PHP 8 has added DNF, intersection and union types. While typing goes against the initial choices of type juggling in PHP, it also brings more code consistency, auto-validation features and some strange puzzles with dependencies.
Typing lends a helping hand to quality tools, makes code validation work harder and earlier, and promotes great coding patterns like the null object. Indeed, it is a brave new tool, great for large projects and easy to use tactically.
About Damien Seguy
Damien Seguy is CTO at Exakat Ltd., a company specialized in PHP code quality solutions for the industry. He leads the development of the Exakat PHP static analysis engine, that automatically audit code for version compatibility, security and dead code. Since last millennium, Damien has contributed to PHP as documentation author, elephpant breeder and conference UFO on all continents. He also enjoys machine learning, Gremlin, 狮子头 and camembert.
About the location
The meetup is held at Senet. Senet provides us an amazing place with food (pizza, vegan as well) and drinks. Everybody is encouraged to attend about an hour prior to the lecture, 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
• attending the meetup is free (as in free beer);
• free food (pizza, vegan as well) and free drinks;
• food is available between 18:00 and 19:00;
• prize raffle (JetBrains license) every meetup;
• the lecture will start at 19:00;
• spoken language is English unless not necessary;
• the presentation is in English;
• suitable for novice to expert level;
• held at Senet HQ;
• free parking spaces are right around the building.