Sessions

The 2024 aftermovie for Webdevcon Conference is here! Relive the conference, immerse yourself in innovation, and get inspired. Watch the highlights and get a glimpse into the future of web development.

As well as being a full-time software developer, I'm also a huge film buff. I love films from any number of countries, eras and genres. One of my favourite things though, is when [...]

Could you imagine going to the hospital in a wheelchair and not being able to get inside due to the 20 steps of stairs you have to take without the option of a [...]

The covid pandemic is over. But we are facing another from which we suffer daily. The pandemic of inactivity. However, there is a fun way to deal with it! As a team, with [...]

Do you have a multi-day ticket but is the session of your choice already fully booked and you don't like the alternatives? You can always choose the 'movie passe-partout'. Since the event is [...]

Do you have a multi-day ticket but is the session of your choice already fully booked and you don't like the alternatives? You can always choose the 'movie passe-partout'. Since the event is [...]

Do you have a multi-day ticket but is the session of your choice already fully booked and you don't like the alternatives? You can always choose the 'movie passe-partout'. Since the event is [...]

Do you have a multi-day ticket but is the session of your choice already fully booked and you don't like the alternatives? You can always choose the 'movie passe-partout'. Since the event is [...]

Do you have a multi-day ticket but is the session of your choice already fully booked and you don't like the alternatives? You can always choose the 'movie passe-partout'. Since the event is [...]

Ever felt the frustration of inheriting a codebase with introduced code that no one actually understands why they were added? Well, I get it. This is not a talk about atomic commits or [...]

You think you've made the perfect app, but take it overseas and watch things fall apart! In this talk we delve into the frequent mistakes developers make when adapting their sites or apps [...]

Do you have a multi-day ticket but is the session of your choice already fully booked and you don't like the alternatives? You can always choose the 'movie passe-partout'. Since the event is [...]

Once upon a time, developers were the unsung heroes of our world. The stereotypical developer, with glasses perched on the nose and an innate talent for science, even inspired the alter egos of [...]

About to finish my first year in my company, I caused not one but two incidents in production in one hour! Despite the tense moment, it was a huge learning. No one ran [...]

A lot of companies think contributing to open source is hard, but is it? In this talk you will hear about how Ingewikkeld, a small Dutch development and consultancy company, has built a [...]

For most of my early career, I was told the only path up was through management roles. Our market has since evolved, and Staff+ engineering roles are more common and offer us a [...]

JIRA is a widely used tool to manage software projects. Project managers LOVE it. But, what about developers? Are we really stuck in the eternal hell of pushing boxes? Let's see what could [...]

You've started a new job. As you dig deeper into the codebase, the WTFs per minute rate rapidly increases, and you're left wondering... "Where do I start?!". In this talk, I'll draw on [...]

Iterators could save your day on many occasions. Everyone has already been bothered by memory overflows when trying to manage too big collections in PHP. These are omnipresent in the most famous PHP [...]

For many years, the waterfall model was the standard way of developing software. Engineering teams could spend months or even years on the architecture of a new project, before even a single line [...]

The best way to understand application security is to try breaking into your own web applications, and there's a free open source tool with support from leading industry players to help you do [...]

Monad is a term that comes from functional programming, and some people swear by them for error handling. But what is a monad exactly? And what if told you, you may have actually [...]

There are many ways in which companies and teams operate. Over the last two decades or so, Agile and DevOps have really taken off in many people’s minds. However, are Agile and DevOps [...]

Naming namespaces, classes, and variables in code is a common and hard problem! Name something wrong and it will end up needing to be refactored. This talk will focus on the best strategies [...]

Learn the "evergreen" skills that every software developer needs to thrive in their career, regardless of the latest technologies and trends. In this talk, we'll explore some of these and how to cultivate [...]

Git is the modern-day version management system of choice. We all know how to commit, push, pull and merge. But what about (interactive) rebasing, fixing up commits, cherry picking lines and bisecting the [...]

You followed all the rules: TDD, SOLID, CUPID and of course DDD. But when refactoring time comes, you still have to touch all those pesky tests. You thought refactoring meant not changing the [...]

Generics are a programming language concept. In short, they allow you to write typed code without being specifically linked to a particular type. Many languages already support generics more or less natively: Java, [...]

So you’ve moved from a legacy database-centric architecture to a brand new Domain-Driven Design approach. Your coworker told you that this would be about speaking the language of the customer and putting the [...]

PHP is nothing like compiled languages. If you make a mistake, the program will crash when the line of code with the mistake is executed. When testing a PHP application, whether manually or [...]

20 years ago I was a lonely developer sitting in a small room quietly turning out code between 9am and 5pm, Monday to Friday. Fast-forward to now and you'll see me standing in [...]

During this presentation, we are going to look at the new features that were introduced in PHP 8.3, and some in earlier versions. Join me to have a look at how the type [...]

Manually testing your own API endpoints using PostMan or an equivalent tool takes a lot of time. Testing them through unit tests will only test a part of our application, and often skips [...]

PHP is nothing like compiled languages. If you make a mistake, the program will crash when the line of code with the mistake is executed. When testing a PHP application, whether manually or [...]

In this workshop, you will learn how to write a PHP extension. We will start by converting a function that we already have in PHP code into C, which we will then wrap [...]

What do you think about when you hear the term "gamification" applied to your job? An employee-of-the-month challenge? Maybe some badges you can achieve? A public team ranking? The term "gamification" always sounded [...]

Writing effective, valuable tests is a highly sought after skill that advances a developer to leadership and mentorship roles. Dive deep into writing unit and integration tests to test PHP code with PHPUnit. [...]

What do you think about when you hear the term "gamification" applied to your job? An employee-of-the-month challenge? Maybe some badges you can achieve? A public team ranking? The term "gamification" always sounded [...]

After containerizing your application, the next step is to deploy your application containers to production. While you could start a Docker container manually on a production server, that would not be the most [...]

After containerizing your application, the next step is to deploy your application containers to production. While you could start a Docker container manually on a production server, that would not be the most [...]

Have you ever experienced bugs in production that were caused by missing PHP extensions or configuration that deviated from the development or test environment? Or have you been unable to upgrade once application's [...]

Writing effective, valuable tests is a highly sought after skill that advances a developer to leadership and mentorship roles. Dive deep into writing unit and integration tests to test PHP code with PHPUnit. [...]

The Uncon Track is designed for spontaneous collaboration, lively discussions, and meaningful connections. Unlike the other sessions, this track empowers attendees to shape the conversation themselves and explore topics of their choice. Feel [...]

Next.js, a JavaScript framework developed by Vercel, has garnered considerable attention. Offering many excellent features and advantages, it stands out as a top choice for building state-of-the-art web applications. A primary objective is, [...]

Have you ever experienced bugs in production that were caused by missing PHP extensions or configuration that deviated from the development or test environment? Or have you been unable to upgrade once application's [...]

Hey fellow web developers! Understanding how the browser does its thing is key for us. Have you ever thought about what happens when a Promise is done doing its job? Or maybe you've [...]

The Uncon Track is designed for spontaneous collaboration, lively discussions, and meaningful connections. Unlike the other sessions, this track empowers attendees to shape the conversation themselves and explore topics of their choice. Feel [...]

Netflix is a global leader in video streaming and has always been known in the valley for its culture document, a seminal work in setting the context about culture. In this session, I [...]

The Uncon Track is designed for spontaneous collaboration, lively discussions, and meaningful connections. Unlike the other sessions, this track empowers attendees to shape the conversation themselves and explore topics of their choice. Feel [...]

Well written instructions, informative comments throughout code, clearly scripted screencasts, and smart information architecture can take complex code and make it accessible to new developers. In the age of code sharing, this can [...]

In a world of 5G (no conspiracy theories please!) smartphones, smart TVs and smart homes, we're inviting more tech into our lives than ever. We're sleepwalking into a future nobody asked for, but [...]

When it comes to privacy, encrypted data-in-transit (eg: HTTPS) or encrypted data-at-rest (eg: encrypted hard-disks) schemes provide sufficient cryptographic guarantees in the battle to protect it. The unresolved problem is encrypting data-in-use. Currently, [...]

Have you ever considered securing your app data within the browser? Let’s understand how encrypting your data in the browser enhances overall security. In this talk Aakansha will be deep-diving into the world [...]

Failing facial recognition, assimilation of black people to gorillas on Google… Racism in the user experience can sometimes manifests itself in a spectacular way. However, it is not only in these examples that [...]

The Uncon Track is designed for spontaneous collaboration, lively discussions, and meaningful connections. Unlike the other sessions, this track empowers attendees to shape the conversation themselves and explore topics of their choice. Feel [...]

As developers, we usually work on fancy devices with super fast and stable internet connections. It might be a complete shock for you, but most of your users aren’t. With the incredible power [...]

The Uncon Track is designed for spontaneous collaboration, lively discussions, and meaningful connections. Unlike the other sessions, this track empowers attendees to shape the conversation themselves and explore topics of their choice. Feel [...]

As wikipedia states: chindōguis the practice of inventing ingenious everyday gadgets that seem to be ideal solutions to particular problems, but which may cause more problems than they solve. The term is of [...]

In the dynamic world of software development, ensuring the quality and reliability of applications is crucial, and test automation plays a vital role in achieving this. However, with a multitude of test automation [...]

Join us for a deep dive into web performance optimization where JavaScript execution meets real-world responsiveness. Explore the inner workings of the V8 engine, dissect TBT and long tasks, and understand the delicate [...]

As of 2024 it is entirely normal to ship software as 350MB containers, or to have code with 1600 dependencies. This is already not great, but the growth in code size has been [...]

The Uncon Track is designed for spontaneous collaboration, lively discussions, and meaningful connections. Unlike the other sessions, this track empowers attendees to shape the conversation themselves and explore topics of their choice. Feel [...]

Common patterns implemented with JavaScript are being replaced with "native" CSS and HTML equivalents that end up being more performant, more accessible and more resilient. Features like accordions, Autosuggest, smooth scrolling, dialogs, parallax [...]

In the modern API economy, ensuring the reliability and stability of APIs is crucial. While the testing pyramid is a well-established framework for creating high-quality software, API testing adds a different dimension, especially [...]

Profiling is commonly associated with performance optimization, but its applications extend far beyond that. One other use case of profiling is that it can help you understand how a language works. In this [...]

The Uncon Track is designed for spontaneous collaboration, lively discussions, and meaningful connections. Unlike the other sessions, this track empowers attendees to shape the conversation themselves and explore topics of their choice. Feel [...]

CSS is constantly evolving, and with each passing year, new features are being added. In the last couple of years, there are a few new features that you simply can't afford to ignore [...]

Get ready to embark on a journey into the depths of TypeScript. We'll be exploring the often overlooked, yet powerful, features that lie beneath the surface of this versatile language. But we're not [...]

Security can often feel like an unapproachable and mysterious part of an organisation – the department of work prevention, the department of “nope.” But it doesn’t have to be that way. In this [...]

Tailwind CSS is not just a hype or a trend. The approach of this framework has worked for both new and seasoned developers. Without having to think of class names, worry about cascade [...]

Are you a Front-End Engineer looking to level up your TypeScript game? If you're currently working on a modern front-end application and working with TypeScript everyday, this is your chance to take your [...]

Are you a Front-End Engineer looking to level up your TypeScript game? If you're currently working on a modern front-end application and working with TypeScript everyday, this is your chance to take your [...]

Have you ever wondered how full-text search engines such as ElasticSearch or Algolia works? Let's find out! In this talk, we will build a RESTful full-text search engine from scratch, understanding how to [...]

We all want to be better persons in a better world with better technology, but that means we have to become active. This is not easy, especially when our technology does not have [...]

When you've been tasked with creating an HTTP API, the fundamental decision you need to make is which architecture to choose. Should your API be RESTful? What about GraphQL? or RPC? In this [...]

What do cars, chess and Peter Griffin have to do with decision-making? Decision-making is a complex process, we go through it multiple times per day. Everything from micro-decisions like deciding how to write [...]

Kotlin Multiplatform is reaching maturity as a platform for mobile development. As a highly flexible solution to code sharing - while retaining full access to native code - the sky is the limit [...]

The first thing I do at work every day 📈 is to review all open pull requests. Likewise, I try to open ☑️ a pull request before I complete my day. One day [...]