As developers, we rely on our cognitive abilities to solve challenges. Stress is one of the most detrimental impairments to cognitive function. Whether you have kids or not, the stress of pandemic living has taken its toll on all of us. Is it possible (especially now) to have time and energy for both your career and your family? Discover techniques to successfully work from home, foster positive interactions, and even stop yelling at your kids! I even show you the truth and lies about multitasking!

In fact, here's just a sample of what we'll cover in this meetup:

• Gain the confidence to bring your best self to both your career and family
• How to navigate screen time and chores
• Stop nagging, yelling, or giving in to your kids
• How to use schedules, routines, and rituals to get the most out of limited time and brainpower
• Go to bed feeling productive

Join us to learn something fun while connecting with the fabulous PHP Community!

P.S. families welcome ;)

Learn something interesting while you have a great time connecting with the fabulous PHP Community!

From attributes and named arguments to union types and a JIT, there's a lot of new functionality large and small landing in PHP 8, due out around Thanksgiving. We'll take a look at the highlights, as well as backward compatibility breaks to be aware of prior to upgrading.

Learn something interesting while you have a great time connecting with the fabulous PHP Community! This month we are joined by Josh Holmes, a world class speaker and Principal Software Engineer Lead at Microsoft. He will be sharing about The Lost Art of Simplicity. Simplicity is a lost art in the application development space. The Wikipedia definition of Simplicity is “Simplicity is the property, condition, or quality of being simple or un-combined. It often denotes beauty, purity or clarity. Simple things are usually easier to explain and understand than complicated ones. Simplicity can mean freedom from hardship, effort or confusion.” This is a beautiful statement that we often lose sight of when we are building our applications. Instead we are on a never ending quest to fill out a checklist of features or to build something clever forgetting about the actual needs of our users to get a specific task done. This session takes complexity to task and challenges you to bring simplicity to the center of your development with some straightforward ideas and guidance.