20th June 2016: Powerful & Flexible SQL Generation — Without the Hassle

June 14, 2016 Article

This month’s meeting is on third Monday of the month, at our usual venue provided by The Student Room, but this month we have something a bit different: a video from the great NomadPHP “virtual user group” of Matthew Setter talking about Powerful & Flexible SQL Generation — Without the Hassle. There will be free beer, pizza and technical chat as always, and we’d like have pizza and discuss changes to the group. It would be great to get people’s feedback about changes coming in, ideas and future talks people would like to see. Read More

16th May 2016: Imposter Syndrome and the IoT

May 9, 2016 Article

Thanks to everyone that came along to last month’s meeting and hope you all enjoyed the lively panel debates. This month’s meeting is on Monday May 16th, from 6.30pm (talks start at 7.15pm) at The Student Room Group. This month we welcome along Mark Bradley – software engineer for Sainsburys, along with BrightonPHP regular Julian Blundell.

As usual, we’re listed over on Lanyrd and joind.in – please mark yourselves as attending if you’re planning to come. Please note as well, that due to pizza and drink capabilities, we currently have a limit of 30 attendees so it’s definitely worth signing up sooner rather than later… Read More

18th April 2016: It’s time to debate!

April 15, 2016 Article

This month’s meeting is on Monday 18th April 2016, 6.30pm onwards at The Student Room HQ in Brighton. See venue details.

This month we’re going to take a slightly different tack and rather than having prescribed talks, the meeting will take the form of a few short panel sessions where everyone’s encouraged to bring ideas that will rally or divide the troops… :-) Read More

21st March 2016: Database Schema Design for MongoDB, and Pick ‘n’ Mix Frameworks

March 15, 2016 Article

This month’s meeting is on Monday March 21st, from 6.30pm (talks start at 7.15pm) at our new location at The Student Room Group. This month we welcome PHP internals, Xdebug and MongoDB virtuoso Derick Rethans back to BrightonPHP to talk about Schema Design for MongoDB; as well as Simon Downes from Brighton-based games media company Gamer Network, who will be talking about Pick ‘n’ Mix Frameworks. Read More

SQL optimisations of high traffic sites, and 10 years in: should I refactor?

November 10, 2015 Article

Thanks to everyone that came to the relaunched BrightonPHP last month, at the home of our brand new sponsor, The Student Room Group :-) This month we have two talks as normal for you. Chris Perman, a senior developer at The Student Room Group, will be speaking, as will Rich Sage (of BrightonPHP). SQL optimisations Read More