The operators of the PHP.RUHR conference and heise Developer have again entered into a partnership. The Heise Medien online channel was already involved in the concept of the multi-day PHP.RUHR conference last year. Developers can now benefit again from this collaboration. Because the result is a combination offer for participation in this year’s special edition of Bits & Currywurst on November 5th as well as in the betterCode () PHP 8 on 26. November 2020.

This year, the multi-day PHP event will not take place in the Signal Iduna Arena in Dortmund as usual. Instead, the operators are organizing a hybrid edition of the networking event “Bits & Currywurst”, which has always followed the developer conference in the evening. Hybrid means in this context that there is a limited number of tickets (for 100 euros excluding VAT) for the event on site in the Warsteiner Music Hall.

The main topics of the event starting at 15 o’clock include Data Driven Commerce and the Impact of Financial Technology on E-Commerce. “On Top” this year there is a panel discussion by and with the blogger and journalist Sascha Lobo.

The online event: betterCode () PHP 8 Developers who are interested in PHP now have the chance to use the heise Developer anyway thanks to the partnership To keep up to date. Because on 26. November 2020 there will be an online conference on the then current eighth major version of the programming language, which in all probability will be released on the day.

In cooperation with the experts from thePHP.cc heise Developer has put together a program that provides interested parties with information about the new features of PHP 8 and the current state of development should. Experts such as Nikita Popov (JetBrains), Sebastian Bergmann, Arne Blankerts, Stefan Priebsch (all thePHP.cc), Benjamin Eberlei (Tideways) and PHP release manager Sara Golemon (MongoDB) provide insights into the new features and show how Migration succeeds in practice.

The title of the lectures read as follows:

Tracing JIT in PHP 8 Nuclear disarmament thanks to type-safe PHP Metadata in PHP 8: language feature instead of Docblocks hacks Autumn makes everything new: Modernize the infrastructure Migration: Make the code fit PHP: How the Sausage Is Made Final speaker panel Offer for developers Both events are on the conference websites (Bits & Currywurst, betterCode () PHP 8) book. But if you are interested in both events, you can benefit from a discount of around 30 euros when booking. The combination booking is made via Bits & Currywurst.

(mdo)