PHP CONFERENCE

@phpconfnz 

http://www.phpconference.co.nz/

Why we wanted to attend ?

• PHP is the base language that we use
• We can understand where PHP is going
• We can learn new ways to do stuff
• What are the market trends

Angularjs

Workshop

- More trainning for project 7 apps 

- The new features that are coming

- Lifetime support with @nateabele , developer of the AngularUI framework

The conference

Mr PHP

Rasmus Lerdorf

• Recomends to upgrade 5.6 to get that extra perfomance 
• New version improve speed of search data and display
•  Simplified password hashing API
• Explained new features of the versions 
  • Important Asynchonous Postrgres connections
  • Non-blocking Postrgres queries
  • Support for 2gb file uploads

Scaling PHP 

• Get cached to improve speed
• Tweek the framework (do not leave all the default options)
• Apache Proxy Cache
• Varnish
• Squid
• Expiration & Validation
• Code performance with a profile 
• Use google Page Speed
• XDEBUG + WEBGRIND
• XHPROF + XHPROF GUI

Google Speed test

How to avoid failing in IT projects

- 70% of IT projects fail
• 66% of projects go over budget
• 33% go over schedule
• 17 % under deliver value 

Solutions

• Get stakeholders to agree and sign a contract
• Kickoff meeting to explain the goals
• Print the goals on a poster hang them in your office
• Communicate them to all team members
• Plan time for the unexpected
• Weekly release and demo
• Request developers to give development URL
• Follow the GIT commits
• Yellow-flag task at 50% of completion time
• Red-flag task at 75% of completion
• Break your projects into smaller ones

Improve Team Spirit

• Improve colaboration
• remove negative attitude
• Get to know your team members
• Improving the quality of the software
• We need time for quality assurance
• We need performance testing

Security

• Everytime a user generates content should be sanitize further using it the content.
• Do not use the standard randomize functions instead use the new and more complex one.
• Improve security certificates (https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/) 

APIgility

• Made in Zend Framework 2 (Our tool for project 7 )
• Build to create fast API services
• It has GUI for fast development 
• New trendi way of view json code
• The Hal specification (http://stateless.co/hal_specification.html)

New tools for continous delivery & continuos integration

• TravisCI
• Vagrant
• Coverall
• TeamCity

Thank you