Arne Blankerts

Arne Blankerts has already dealt with computers when networking was still an adventure. As long-standing head of development of an internet agency, he has created solutions far ahead of the times already years ago. As Co-Founder and Principal Consultant of The PHP Consulting Company (thePHP.cc), Arne helps clients to develop software successfully. He is (co-)author of various Open Source tools, and is a regular presenter at conferences. In his free time he reads fantasy and likes to cook.

Montreal 2024 sessions

Automating Everything with GitLab CI

English training

In a world with complex software projects, distributed development teams and constantly recurring manual tasks, the pressure to automate processes quickly increases to painful levels. A very common and successful means of introducing automation is the use of continuous integration.

In this workshop, you will discover what continuous integration means and how to get the most out of GitLab CI to automate all the things by taking a hands-on deep dive. We'll start from a basic GitLab installation to setup our build environments and create our pipeline from scratch! We'll explore various options to have pipelines build, get our tests run, assets compiled, and the software nicely packaged, containerized and even deployed.

Can your software travel in time?

English session - Beginner

Dealing with time can be challenging: The reliance on the system's clock - a barely controlled global state - hampers accurate testing - or makes it impossible. Instead of leaving these aspects untested, in this talk, we'll explore alternative approaches. Including the intriguing concept of "time travel", to finally have reliable tests! Join us to conquer the challenges of time in software development and ensure your code stands the test of time.

Live in 60 Minutes: Automated Deployment from Scratch

English session - Beginner

Manually performing repetitive tasks like running tests, compiling assets and deploying software
to production are a serious waste of time. Not to mention annoying. So, best we just automate it away.

Using Gitlab CI, in this session we'll setup a pipeline from scratch to have the tests run, assets compiled as well as our software nicely packaged, containerized and deployed.

Impossible to do in less than 60 Minutes? Challenge accepted!