[Nottingham] October talk

[Roger Light]

Hi all,

I've had an update about the october talk and there's been a slight
change of topic due to the conference the original talk was being
prepared for being cancelled. So David and Katherine are offering this
talk instead:

Title:
PHP:  Applying Good Practice to a Misused Language

Summary:
Over the past few years, PHP has become the tool of choice for 
aspiring web developers everywhere - picked up and misused by millions. 
As a language that is easy to get started with, through examples and 
code snippets across the web, it is cut and pasted to death, leaving 
a legacy of unreadability and insecurity and a reputation as a 'bad' 
language. This talk discusses some of the pitfalls of PHP development 
and introduces a range of tools and techniques that can be used to 
transform a lacklustre PHP amateur into a polished professional.

It will focus mainly on applying good design and testing to projects, 
and introduce some of the popular tools that will help developers to 
achieve clean, secure, maintainable code.

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As a lacklustre amateur myself, I'm quite looking forward to it.

Cheers,

Roger