Drupal NoVA Meetup: Larry Garfield - Make your code do your job

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2016-11-15 19:00 America/New_York
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User group meeting

Join Drupal NoVA on November 15th at PHP World (https://world.phparch.com/) at 7 pm for a presentation by Larry Garfield entitled Make your code do your job!

Larry Garfield worked as a Drupal developer for 10 years at Palantir.net, before recently moving to Platform.sh, where he is Director of Runtimes, Integrations, and Services. His goal: Make running major OSS projects on Platform's infrastructure stupid-easy.

Larry is an active Drupal core contributor, including the principle architect of the Drupal 7 database system and the Drupal 8 Web Services Lead. He is also the Drupal representative to the PHP Framework Interoperability Group. He holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from DePaul University.

Larry is a co-author of "Drupal 7 Module Development" from Packt Publishing, and has also been published in Drupal Watchdog and php[architect]. He blogs occasionally at http://www.garfieldtech.com/.

Presentation Description:

Throughout history, advancement has come from reducing the amount of work that needs to be done by humans and letting technology do it for us. Long before computers, humans were letting our technology work for us in order to make ourselves better.

So too with programming. We have the ability in PHP, as in many languages, to make the language syntax itself find bugs for us. It's called "types", and is a far too under-utilized part of the language. Even many seasoned developers don't realize the benefits that come from having strict, explicit types in their code rather than relying on haphazard "duck typing".

This talk will make the case that your best way to improve your productivity as a developer is to make your language itself do your work for you. With PHP 7's improved typing support that is now even easier than ever. Look forward to seeing you there!

Please head over to the php[world] website to pick up a free meetup ticket for this meetup! Registering there will help them to reserve the correct-sized room, etc.

https://world.phparch.com/register/

This event is at the Sheraton Premiere at Tysons Corner, 8661 Leesburg Pike in Tysons Corner, next to the Spring Hill metro station on the Silver Line. Free parking under the hotel.

Carla, Mark, Anna, and Calla

Drupal NoVA Co-Organizers

Washington, DC Drupalers

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