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abstracts/deploying-php-ansible-ansistrano-vault.md

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+title: Deploying PHP applications with Ansible, Ansible Vault and Ansistrano
+url: https://www.oliverdavies.uk/talks/deploying-php-ansible-ansistrano
+tags: [ansible, php]
+---
+Great! You’ve built your website, and now you just need to deploy it. There are various ways that this could be done - from (S)FTP, to SCP and rsync, to running commands like `git pull` and `composer install` directly on the server which is not ideal.
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+As well provisioning and maintaining your server configuration and running commands, you can also use [Ansible](https://www.ansible.com) to deploy your PHP application - leveraging relevant Ansible modules such as Git and Composer, custom Ansible roles, [Ansible Vault](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/vault.html) for managing secrets, and features such as idempotency out of the box to build a simple deployment playbook.
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+We can then extend that and make it more robust by adding [Ansistrano](https://ansistrano.com) - a port of [Capistrano](https://capistranorb.com) - which adds extra features such as storing multiple builds for each project and the ability to roll-back if needed, customising your build steps using built-in hooks, multi-stage environments and more.
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+I've been using Ansible and Ansistrano to deploy a variety of PHP projects - including Drupal 7 & 8, Symfony, Laravel and Sculpin, as well as basic HTML websites, and found it to be very flexible and easy to install and use, and by the end of this talk we will have a fully working deployment playbook, deploying real code onto a real server.

abstracts/having-fun-with-drupal-8-php-libraries-drupalorg-api.md

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+title: Having Fun with Drupal 8, PHP libraries and the Drupal.org API
+url: https://www.oliverdavies.uk/talks/drupal-8-php-libraries-drupalorg-api
+tags: [drupal, drupal-8, php, composer]
+---
+A demo of some of the open source projects that I’ve been working on lately that are based on information from the Drupal.org API, including a PHP library for the API itself as well as some Drupal 8 modules that use it.

abstracts/taking-flight-with-tailwind-css.md

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+title: Taking Flight with Tailwind CSS
+url: https://www.oliverdavies.uk/talks/taking-flight-with-tailwind-css
+tags: [css, front-end, tailwindcss]
+---
+An introduction to utility class and component based styling, and how to soar with [Tailwind CSS](https://tailwindcss.com).
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+Things we’ll cover:
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+- Advantages and disadvantages to utility based styling and Tailwind.
+- How to install Tailwind and add it to your build process using tools such as Symfony Encore and Laravel Mix.
+- How to configure and customise Tailwind for your project.
+- How to promote repeating classes into re-usable components for better maintainability.
+- Strategies to control the file size, and using external tools like PurgeCSS.
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+Also, if time allows:
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+- How to extend Tailwind and add extra classes with community written plugins.
+- How to write and test your own custom plugins.

abstracts/using-illuminate-collections-outside-laravel.md

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+title: Using Illuminate Collections... Outside Laravel
+url: https://www.oliverdavies.uk/talks/using-illuminate-collections-outside-laravel
+type: short
+tags: [php, composer, laravel]
+---
+Laravel's [Illuminate Collections](https://laravel.com/docs/collections) are a powerful object-orientated way of interacting with PHP arrays, but did you know that they can be used outside of Laravel, in any PHP project?
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+This short talk shows how we can use Composer to include Illuminate Collections within a non-Laravel project and put them to use within your own code.