# Introductions, Microservices, Zend Certification, Standing Desks and Much More!

> This is the first of hopefully many to come. We touch on topics such as, how do we answer the question \"What do you do for work?\", Microservices and a book we are reading on that, Zend Certification the why and the benefits so far, Mocking, Standing Desks

URL: https://chat.dailyai.studio/posts/introductions-microservices-zend-e74/
Date: 2015-06-04

## Topics

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Intro who the heck are we

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How do we answer the question "What do you do for work", "Web Developer" or "App Developer"

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[Building Microservices](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00T3N7XB4/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00T3N7XB4&linkCode=as2&tag=alfnutinc-20&linkId=2AX2NVVCDIEEMFVT)

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[Zend Certification Study Guide: Third Edition](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1940111102/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1940111102&linkCode=as2&tag=alfnutinc-20&linkId=JMI4JMJIXPNG23US)

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Facades and Mocking https://goo.gl/8lSKfR talks a bit about this

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[Standing Desk with our without Treadmill](http://www.thehumansolution.com/uplift-treadmill-desk.html)

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[Vue.js](http://vuejs.org/) some Laracasts on it as well at https://laracasts.com/series/learning-vuejs

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How nice the new Artisan Console syntax is http://laravel.com/docs/master/artisan

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[PHPMagazine](http://www.phparch.com/)

## Books

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[Building Microservices](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00T3N7XB4/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00T3N7XB4&linkCode=as2&tag=alfnutinc-20&linkId=2AX2NVVCDIEEMFVT)

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[Zend Certification Study Guide: Third Edition](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1940111102/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1940111102&linkCode=as2&tag=alfnutinc-20&linkId=JMI4JMJIXPNG23US)