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title: Croeso PHP South Wales!
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date: 2018-08-01
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excerpt:
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Last night was the first meetup of Cardiff’s PHP South Wales user group.
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tags:
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- php
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- php-south-wales
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- meetups
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---
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Last night was the first meetup of Cardiff’s [PHP South Wales user group][0]! It
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was a great first event, and it was great to meet a lot of new people as well as
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catch up some familiars within the 36 (according to meetup.com) attendees -
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including some [PHP South West][9] regulars.
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Organised by Steve and Amy McDougall, it was held in Barclays’ [Eagle Lab][1]
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which was a great space, and it was cool to be back in Brunel House having
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worked in that building previously whilst at Appnovation.
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content: '<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Pretty cool being back in the centre of Cardiff. <a href="https://t.co/kh7Oi2tPDD">pic.twitter.com/kh7Oi2tPDD</a></p>— Oliver Davies (@opdavies) <a href="https://twitter.com/opdavies/status/1024377438611156992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2018</a>',
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} %}
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## Speakers
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[Rob Allen][2] was the main speaker, who gave an interesting talk and a brave
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live demo on serverless PHP and OpenWhisk. I always enjoy watching Rob speak,
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which I’ve done a number of times at different events, and it was great to be
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able to chat for a while after the meetup too.
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content: '<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Great to see <a href="https://twitter.com/akrabat?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@akrabat</a> speaking about serverless PHP at the first <a href="https://twitter.com/phpSouthWales?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@phpSouthWales</a> meetup. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/php?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#php</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/phpc?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#phpc</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cardiff?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cardiff</a> <a href="https://t.co/Q9YaQ6O1fB">pic.twitter.com/Q9YaQ6O1fB</a></p>— Oliver Davies (@opdavies) <a href="https://twitter.com/opdavies/status/1024359937063956484?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2018</a>',
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We also had a couple of lightning talks, starting with [Ismael Velasco][3]
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giving an introduction to progressive web applications (PWAs). I can see some
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potential uses for this on my current work project, and I look forward to seeing
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the full talk soon).
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I gave an updated version of my [Tailwind CSS lightning talk][4], and enjoyed
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being able to show some examples of new sites using Tailwind such as [Laravel
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Nova][5], [Spatie][6]’s new website and PHP South Wales itself!
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content: '<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Lightning talk time, first <a href="https://twitter.com/IsmaelVelasco?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@IsmaelVelasco</a> talking about <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PWA?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#PWA</a> 😎🎉 <a href="https://t.co/KrJGZlIp7V">pic.twitter.com/KrJGZlIp7V</a></p>— PHP South Wales (@phpSouthWales) <a href="https://twitter.com/phpSouthWales/status/1024377906456420352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2018</a>',
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} %}
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## Conclusion
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It’s great to have a meetup in Cardiff again, and having thought about organsing
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something myself previously, I’m glad to see someone step forward to do so. This
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shows that there's still a strong PHP community in Cardiff and South Wales, and
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hopefully this will be the first meetup of many. I’ll look forward to seeing the
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local community grow!
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Thanks again to Steve and Amy for organising, Eagle Labs for hosting, the
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sponsors, and Rob and Ismael for speaking.
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It would be great to see even more people at the next one. If you’re interested,
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take a look at the [group’s website][0], [meetup.com group][7] and [Twitter
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profile][8]. Alternatively, get in touch with myself or one of the organisers
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for more information.
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**Croeso ac iechyd da PHP South Wales!**
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[0]: https://www.phpsouthwales.uk
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[1]: https://labs.uk.barclays/locations/cardiff-en
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[2]: https://twitter.com/akrabat
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[3]: https://twitter.com/IsmaelVelasco
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[4]: /talks/taking-flight-with-tailwind-css
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[5]: https://nova.laravel.com
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[6]: https://spatie.be
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[7]: https://www.meetup.com/PHP-South-Wales
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[8]: https://twitter.com/phpsouthwales
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[9]: https://phpsw.uk
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