Dave Liddament

There are so many benefits from code review; lower development costs, increased code quality, quick up-skilling, and onboarding of team members. Despite these benefits, many teams don’t have code review as part of their process at all. Others don’t get the gains they should from it.

This talk first outlines the business case for code review. It then explores how to make code review effective, specifically looking at:
- Expectations of what can be achieved with code review.
- What should be covered by code review (including example code)
- What should not be covered by code review
- How to write code that makes code review easy
- What makes good code review comments
- What makes good responses to code review comments

Finally, to wrap up you'll be shown how to enable a code review with Github. Spoiler alert: It can be done in under 5 mins!

Effective Code Review - Dave Liddament

Level: Intermediate/Advanced

Do you wish that PHP had features that other languages have? Have you got some great ideas about how to extend PHP’s feature set but don’t want to go through the RFC process? Great news. There is another way. It is possible to implement some new language features using static analysis. 

This talk will briefly introduce the PHP Language Extension library which offers features such as Java’s package level visibility and C++’s friend feature. Then, we’ll take a deep dive into how to create a custom PHPStan rule. By the end of the talk, hopefully you’ll be inspired to create your own enhancements to PHP, or at the very least have a starting point to write your own custom rules.

Extending the PHP Language with Static Analysis- Dave Liddament

At some point of your career you'll probably end up working on a majorly outdated version of a framework and prehistoric version of PHP. After months of whinging to the management that it really is time to upgrade, your wish is granted! You've got to take a creaking codebase to the future, or, at least the present. But how best to achieve this?

This talk tells the story of upgrading a Laravel 4 project to Laravel 9. I'll share the things we did well, and the lessons that we learnt along the way.

Regardless of framework and versions, this talk gives practical advice for planning and executing a major upgrade.

Dave Liddament

Dave Liddament

Previous talks

Effective Code Review

Extending the PHP Language with Static Analysis- Dave Liddament

Elevating Legacy: A Case Study on the migration from Laravel 4 to 9

Dave Liddament

Dave Liddament

Previous talks

Effective Code Review

Extending the PHP Language with Static Analysis- Dave Liddament

Elevating Legacy: A Case Study on the migration from Laravel 4 to 9

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