Author Archives: James Mills

May: An introduction to Eloquent

Posted on May 13, 2013 by James Mills

With the launch of Laravel 4 at the end of the month. Now is the perfect time to take a look at one of its biggest features, Eloquent. This talk will cover the basics of Eloquent demonstrating how to define relationships, pivots and scopes. We’ll also explore the schema builder and how use Eloquent in your own apps. Continue reading →

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February: PHP Extensions

Posted on February 13, 2013 by James Mills

PHP: Extensions – by Harry Lawrence Tuesday 19th February 2013 @ 6pm Click to register now PHP extensions are used frequently, many of which come bundled with PHP, others we download and configure manually. In this talk I’ll be going … Continue reading →

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January: PHP, Handle with Care

Posted on January 10, 2013 by James Mills

This talk will cover the pros and cons of the four most common handlers used today – suPHP, DSO, CGI and FastCGI – touching on the performance and security of each one. Continue reading →

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December: Lightning Talks

Posted on December 14, 2012 by James Mills

Lightning Talks by the @phpne community
Tuesday 18th December 2012 @ 6pm Continue reading →

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November: Using Beanstalkd to spread the work of your PHP application

Posted on November 5, 2012 by James Mills

We are pleased to announce the November (Tuesday 13th) event for PHP North East.
Beanstalkd is a lightweight and easy to use job queue. In this
overview we will look at the features of Beanstalkd and how we can use
it to run time-consuming tasks asynchronously. Continue reading →

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PHPNE Conference 2013

Posted on October 29, 2012 by James Mills

That’s right, a PHP conference. A PHP conference right here in the North-East. Continue reading →

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October: Using Composer to manage dependencies and distribute your code in style

Posted on October 14, 2012 by James Mills

We are pleased to announce the October (Tuesday 16th) event for PHP North East.
Using Composer to manage dependencies and distribute your code in style by Matt Kirwan. Continue reading →

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July: Refactoring

Posted on July 16, 2012 by James Mills

We are pleased to announce the July (Tuesday 17th) event for PHP North East. Refactoring by Oli Wood (@coldclimate) Oli started his career in Java and Oracle development, but is now a PHP dude mostly working in CodeIgniter. He started weddingtales.co.uk, … Continue reading →

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June: Refactoring

Posted on June 18, 2012 by James Mills

Apologies for the late notice, but we have had to cancel this month’s event as we do not have a suitable venue. Anthony will contact Oli to discuss rescheduling his talk for a later date. We will update the website once we have more information. Continue reading →

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Virtualized Development Environments with Vagrant

Posted on May 16, 2012 by James Mills

Talk made on Tuesday 16th May 2012 by Ian Chilton
Video & Slides available
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