# What’s in a title? How thinking of ourselves as Engineers can lead to problems

> Are we Engineers or Software writers, Plus news and more.

URL: https://chat.dailyai.studio/posts/whats-in-a-title-how-thinking-of-4b3/
Date: 2015-09-22

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# News and Happenings

PHPArch

Reminder PHP World

Washington, DC - November 16-20, 2015

https://world.phparch.com/

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PHP In the Cloud (Training Day)

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Building Testable Extensions Sebastian Bergman (phpunit!) Test

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Create Secure Repeat

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2FA

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PHP At Google

Remote Year

http://www.remoteyear.com/

Things I was unprepared for as a lead developer

http://dev-human.com/entries/2015/09/07/things-i-was-unprepared-for/

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Way less developing

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Delegating

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Financial management / budgeting

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Hiring/Firing

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Culture

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Motivating

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Mentoring

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Feedback

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Planning

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People Skills

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Lead by Example

Sublime Text Power User

https://sublimetextbook.com/

Ghost Inspector

https://ghostinspector.com/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=TW_KW
I started making something like this as a poc https://github.com/alnutile/gherkin-generator
and hope to come back to it.

Introducing Laravel Spark

https://mattstauffer.co/blog/introducing-laravel-spark-a-deep-dive

Why I wouldn’t use rails for a new company

http://blog.jaredfriedman.com/2015/09/15/why-i-wouldnt-use-rails-for-a-new-company/
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“If you want to future-proof your web application, you have to make a bet on what engineers will want to use in three years”

ActiveRecord and the Beauty Lost in Translation

http://matthewmachuga.com/blog/2015/activerecord-and-the-beauty-lost-in-translation.htm

Great Oo training by Matthew Machuga who wrote the above article

http://code.tutsplus.com/courses/object-oriented-design-in-php

Sometime in 2014, PHP-land started to debate whether Active Record was a tolerable ORM pattern, and whether one should use Active Record or Data Mapper ORMs
# Latest Readings

## Agile Estimating and Planning

Crazy math to figure out your project buffer!
## Functional Programming

https://www.phparch.com/books/functional-programming-in-php/
# Q & A / Main Topics to Discuss

The term DHH coined “Software Writer”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LfmrkyP81M