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At Auth0 we ❤️ developers. Serving & giving back to the community is one of the most rewarding things we do. We want to empower others to join the mission!

Auth0 Ambassador

Find out how the Auth0 Ambassador program achieved its mission of empowering the developer community in 2018.



The [Auth0 Ambassador Program](https://auth0.com/ambassador-program) was founded to empower the developer community, help make the internet safer, and allow passionate individuals to build their personal brand. The program was officially launched back in July of 2017 and to date has over 75 Ambassadors in 32 countries spanning the globe from the United States to Japan.

![Auth0 Ambassador Program astronaut icon](https://images.ctfassets.net/23aumh6u8s0i/1KyRa1D75OF3wQNtVcj9Vg/f36329e84b9da9161bb797f428e8e2ce/wallpaper)

Auth0 Ambassadors contribute by writing blog posts, giving talks at meetups and conferences, hosting workshops and webinars, and organizing local developer events in their communities and abroad. Whether speaking at a generalist conference like [CodeMash](http://www.codemash.org/) or something more specific like [ngAtl](https://ng-atl.org/), Auth0 Ambassadors share knowledge, tips, and best practices on topics relating to identity, security, and authentication.

Our ambassadors come from very diverse backgrounds and skill sets ranging from CTO’s like [Mercedes Wyss](https://twitter.com/itrjwyss?lang=en), entrepreneurs like [Dominik Angerer](https://www.dominikangerer.com/), to experienced software engineers and speakers like [Mehul Patel](https://twitter.com/rowdymehul). Each Auth0 Ambassador possesses a unique skill set that makes them invaluable to the developer community.

2018 was a huge year for the Ambassador Program. I want to share some stats and lessons learned to both celebrate and highlight the hard work and contributions our ambassadors have made. Finally, I hope this post helps others who are interested or running ambassador and evangelism programs within their companies. Collaboration makes us all stronger. Let’s first start with the stats!

## By the Numbers — Ambassadors

The Auth0 Ambassador Program went live in July of 2017. By the end of 2017 we had onboarded a total of **47** ambassadors. By the end of 2018 we had increased our head count to **75**. This represents a ~60% increase in the total number of ambassadors within our program.

![Map of Auth0 Ambassadors worldwide in 2018](https://images.ctfassets.net/23aumh6u8s0i/48XdpxjSTungbnnrBOCDzg/54558bee8de0b8e77f741588cd837b35/ambassadors-2018)

## Lessons Learned — Ambassadors

The Auth0 Ambassador program is primary run by two people, [Ado Kukic](https://auth0.com/blog/authors/ado-kukic/) (me) and [Diego Poza](https://auth0.com/blog/authors/diego-poza/). Together we coordinate the ambassador program, review applications, host training sessions, help ambassadors book travel to events, and everything else that comes with running the program. This is all in addition to our regular day to day duties of being a Developer Evangelist and Head of Content and Evangelism, respectively.

The key takeaways for 2018 for us has been:

* **Nurture** — the ambassador program is a two-way street. Ambassadors represent our company so providing them with tools, guidance, training, and mentorship they may need is key to keeping them engaged.
* **Recognition** — recognizing ambassadors that go out of their way to create contributions creates a positive feedback loop.
* **Organization** — any growing team will experience growing pains, mitigating them is what will make or break morale. Introduce new tools that simplify communication and collaboration.

## By the Numbers — Contributions

In 2017, the Ambassador Program tracked a total of **51** contributions. The majority of these contributions were ambassadors speaking at meetups, which tracked at 24 events, followed by speaking at conferences which we tracked at 23 events. Because the Ambassador Program was launched in the middle of the year, we really only had 6 months of data, but if we were to naively extrapolate that, we could assume that had the program run for the entire year, we’d be sitting at around 100 events total.

![Ambassador chart showing contributions like conferences, meetups, webinars, and more in 2018](https://images.ctfassets.net/23aumh6u8s0i/78PDOvf4iOTiSoqPAO22oq/4b6b6efb96f13e56dc3e6f4b4410b32e/contributions-2018)

In 2018, the Ambassador Program tracked a total of **204** contributions reaching over **25,000** developers in-person. The vast majority of the contributions for 2018 were conference speaking events, which accounted for over 100 contributions. Auth0 Ambassadors spoke at many major conferences this year including AngularUp, DroidCon Berlin, CodeMash, ngAtl, CodeMash, Oracle Code, API Days, FrontEnd Con, and many others.

Our ambassadors didn’t just focus on major conferences. Getting involved with local developer communities also played a pivotal role and our ambassadors participated in giving talks at OrlandoJS, LondonPHP, MadridJS, BA NodeJS, Devs+502, StahlstadtJS, ColomboJS, GDG Sri Lanka, and many other meetups just to name a few.

![Auth0 Ambassador conference and meetup contribution map, worldwide by country in 2018](https://images.ctfassets.net/23aumh6u8s0i/31ZBwQfr71wM7GanWxucqp/c223b640c43b3532611015a488796d09/contributions-by-country-2018)

*Auth0 Ambassadors have attended or organized events in over 40 countries in 2018.*

## Lessons Learned — Contributions

Each one of our ambassadors has a unique voice and preference. Some prefer speaking at large conferences with thousands of attendees, others prefer to focus on their local developer communities, and yet others prefer to write rather than speak. The key takeaways for 2018 when it comes to contributions for us were:

* **Empowerment** — each ambassador has a unique style and approach. Empower them to make contributions on their own terms and find ways to make their contributions beneficial to the overall goal.
* **Simplify** — respect the ambassador’s time. Make it easy for ambassadors to contribute as well as to track their contributions.
* **Compromise** — nothing should ever be set in stone. Be adaptable and willing to compromise to get the best out of people.

## Notable Wins

Finally, before I wrap up this post, I do want to highlight some notable wins our ambassadors achieved this year.

### Ambassador of the Month Winners

Each month we recognize ambassadors that go above and beyond and make significant contributions or do something that really stands out.

Our winners in 2018 include:

* [Anthony Brown](https://twitter.com/awefulBrown)
* [Anthony Chow](https://twitter.com/vCloudernBeer)
* [Alberto Salazar](https://twitter.com/betoSalazar)
* [Biodun Chris](https://twitter.com/biodunch)
* [Ignacio Anaya](https://twitter.com/ianaya89)
* [Md Shahbaz Alam](https://twitter.com/mdsbzalam)
* [Mehul Patel](https://twitter.com/rowdymehul)
* [Mercedes Wyss](https://twitter.com/itrjwyss) — Won Ambassador of the Month six times since the program started.
* [Takahiro Tsuchiya](https://twitter.com/corocn)
* [Vincenzo Chianese](https://vncz.js.org/)

Internally, every Auth0 employee is also eligible to participate in the Ambassador Program, and we also award internal ambassadors as well.

Our internal winners for 2018 include:

* [Jeremy Meiss](https://auth0.com/blog/authors/jeremy-meiss/)
* [Joe Brinkman](https://twitter.com/jbrinkman)
* [Kim Maida](https://auth0.com/blog/authors/kim-maida/)
* [Kim Noel](https://auth0.com/blog/authors/kim-noel/)
* [Luke Oliff](https://auth0.com/blog/authors/luke-oliff/)
* [Prosper Otemuyiwa](https://auth0.com/blog/authors/prosper-otemuyiwa/)

### Auth0 Ambassador turned Auth0 Developer Evangelist

This year we’ve had one ambassador join our company full-time as a Developer Evangelist. Ben Dechrai went from Auth0 Ambassador to Auth0 Developer Evangelist in the APAC region in Q3 of 2018. Congrats Ben!

## Auth0 Ambassador Program in 2019

I am optimistic for the future of the Auth0 Ambassador Program. The contributions our ambassadors have made in 2018 have lived up to our expectations and goals of empowering developer communities and helping make the internet safer.

![Ambassador Program badge icon](https://images.ctfassets.net/23aumh6u8s0i/5oZTne6XJiBcjZaLmq7C8J/670e49032a213a99aa9bfe45e5f13d26/ambassador-badge)

The mission continues in 2019 and we would love to have you join us along for the ride. With new initiatives such as the Identity and Security Meetups there has never been a better time to join. If interested, why not [**Join the Mission?**](https://auth0.com/ambassador-program)

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Auth0 Ambassador Program in 2018 — By The Numbers

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Prosper is a great speaker, community leader, open source hacker, technical consultant, and a fervent Developer Advocate. He is a full-stack software engineer who has worked on biometric, health and developer tools. Prosper recently co-founded a startup called Eden that’s focused on improving the quality of lives in Nigeria and currently leads the engineering team. He also co-founded forloop, the largest developer community in Africa.

Former Auth0 Employee

Prosper Otemuyiwa

Check out our summary of the Google I/O Conference 2018, Day 3.



The final day of Google I/O 18 consisted of a few talks including Node.js, Serverless deployment, Tensorflow, Android Security, etc.

Let's get started.

## Deploying Serverless Node.js microservices

[Myles Borins](https://twitter.com/MylesBorins) and [Steren Giannini](https://twitter.com/steren) gave a talk on _Deploying Serverless Node.js microservices_.

They announced that in a couple of weeks, Node.js will start running on Google AppEngine. Developers would be able to deploy a Node.js app easily to Google Cloud.

The Node.js app would simply have an _app.yaml_ file that specifies the runtime. And then the developer can run `gcloud app deploy`. That's it!

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">In a few weeks, Node.js will now run on AppEngine Standard. 👌<br><br>All it will take to have your node apps be deployed on AppEngine Standard <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/io18?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#io18</a> 🔥 <a href="https://t.co/oNPEvIZjEF">pic.twitter.com/oNPEvIZjEF</a></p>&mdash; Prosper @ Google I/O 18 🔥🚀 (@unicodeveloper) <a href="https://twitter.com/unicodeveloper/status/994709191905308679?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 10, 2018</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Node.js deployment process on AppEngine <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/io18?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#io18</a> <a href="https://t.co/TyCSbUFpLT">pic.twitter.com/TyCSbUFpLT</a></p>&mdash; Prosper @ Google I/O 18 🔥🚀 (@unicodeveloper) <a href="https://twitter.com/unicodeveloper/status/994710527518502913?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 10, 2018</a></blockquote>
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## TensorFlow without a PhD

This talk gave techniques about deep reinforcement learning with TensorFlow. There was a demo of a pong game driven by Neural network. There was also a demo of an animation character that learned how to move and jump via machine learning exposed by TensorFlow.

Check out the demo below:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="fr" dir="ltr">TensorFlow. Artificial Intelligence <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/io18?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#io18</a> <a href="https://t.co/uCVC9IdshI">pic.twitter.com/uCVC9IdshI</a></p>&mdash; Prosper @ Google I/O 18 🔥🚀 (@unicodeveloper) <a href="https://twitter.com/unicodeveloper/status/994654638816223232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 10, 2018</a></blockquote>
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The tools for the demo include:

* TensorFlow for the models
* Google ML engine for the training
* Tensorboard Visualization Kit

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">TensorFlow without a PhD. <br><br>Get the keys to the machine learning kingdom today 🔥 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/io18?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#io18</a> <br><br>1. TensorFlow for the models <br>2. ML engine for the training<br>3. Tensorboard for the Visualization <a href="https://t.co/m0Q9KU3bFA">pic.twitter.com/m0Q9KU3bFA</a></p>&mdash; Prosper @ Google I/O 18 🔥🚀 (@unicodeveloper) <a href="https://twitter.com/unicodeveloper/status/994656270601760768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 10, 2018</a></blockquote>
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## Search Friendly JavaScript-powered Websites

Several tips for building search-friendly JavaScript-powered websites were given in this talk.

* Add a robot.txt to the top level domain of your site which specifies the URLs to crawl and not to.
* Use good URLs such as `example.com/about` rather than fragmented URLs such as `example.com/#home`.
* Use consistent URLs for the same page.
* Add the critical metadata such as canonical links, viewport, title and description of each page, etc.
* Use href elements when linking between pages. Don't use non-semantic elements such as `<div onclick=goTo('/contact')></div>` if you don't have to!

Tools such as [Puppeteer](https://developers.google.com/web/tools/puppeteer) and [Rendertron](https://github.com/GoogleChrome/rendertron) were recommnended for dynamic rendering.

> **Note:** The rendering of JavaScript-powered websites in Google search is deferred until Googlebot has resources available to process that content.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">🌟 Tips for SEO<br><br>1. Use meaningful URLs<br><br>E.g. <br>✅ <a href="https://t.co/jTx8E7mblc">https://t.co/jTx8E7mblc</a> <br>❌ <a href="https://t.co/Qo9zfpbcLH">https://t.co/Qo9zfpbcLH</a> <a href="https://t.co/NUZ1V33d3d">pic.twitter.com/NUZ1V33d3d</a></p>&mdash; Ire Aderinokun (@ireaderinokun) <a href="https://twitter.com/ireaderinokun/status/994664766571405312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 10, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Watch all the talks from Day 1 at the [Google Developers Youtube Channel](https://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleDevelopers).

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## Conclusion

It's been an amazing three days of awesomeness. A lot of talks and announcements. A lot of new kits for developers to build amazing products with. I'm stoked for all the great things that will be rolled out in the coming months. The future is A.I!

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Google I/O 2018 Summary - Day 3

Check out our summary of the Google I/O Conference 2018, Day 2.



The second day of the Google I/O 18 consisted of several talks including Web Assembly, Polymer, Chrome Dev Tools, Flutter and Artificial Intelligence.

Let's dive in to know what's new and the improvements that have been made to the web!

## What's new in Chrome DevTools

There is a new shortcut, Ctrl + F, that will pull up a new search sidebar in the Network pane of Chrome DevTools. With this search sidebar, you can search through headers and their values.

![Network Search](https://images.ctfassets.net/23aumh6u8s0i/1VOWD9cirzXmdCSM2l9top/ae746fd0ad397c3ebf7215497adb964f/network-search)

![Regex](https://images.ctfassets.net/23aumh6u8s0i/5c0P5eoibLJRO65UzqWE9T/41eec340eb3ad20bce70a5e47552ce80/regex)

The Performance panel has been improved to provide flame charts for every process. The charts show the total work each process does. You need to make sure **Site Isolation** for Chrome is enabled by heading to `chrome://flags#enable-site-per-process` and activating it.

![Performance Isolation](https://images.ctfassets.net/23aumh6u8s0i/1j4heZ9lidrx6RlTdrGKAX/cc7222c28f3dde544073d8417a91fd68/perf-isolation)
_Performance Isolation_

The Security panel now provides the ability to show the certificate transparency information of a secure website.

![Certificate Transparency](https://images.ctfassets.net/23aumh6u8s0i/7keXfaTVTb6etZsbgWLbfL/ed8b810f71b19e9634674d421a8cf69b/certificate-transparency)
_Certificate Transparency_

The Sources Panel has a _Network tab_. The Network tab is now called the Page tab.

![Sources Panel](https://images.ctfassets.net/23aumh6u8s0i/4nNsIhZXFSE4HbLsbZxxLj/3a6c5462ab79e829f6ff3a1be4409d1c/page)
_Sources Panel_

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">In Chrome DevTools you can inspect colours, see their contrast ratio, and visiblly see what colours would meet the WCAG thresholds! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IO18?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#IO18</a> <a href="https://t.co/meTJbXJdI6">pic.twitter.com/meTJbXJdI6</a></p>&mdash; Ire Aderinokun (@ireaderinokun) <a href="https://twitter.com/ireaderinokun/status/994285517784076288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 9, 2018</a></blockquote>
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## Do It Yourself Artificial Intelligence

Google introduced the **AIY Kits:** a series of open source projects that include hardware and software tools, showcasing on-device artificial intelligence.

With AIY Kits, users can use artificial intelligence to make human-to-machine interaction more like human-to-human interactions.

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The first open source project is the Voice Kit. The speech recognition ability in this kit allows you to add voice recognition to assistive robots, talk to control devices such as light bulbs and replace physical buttons on household appliances and consumer electronics.

![Introducing Voice Kit](https://images.ctfassets.net/23aumh6u8s0i/2SEjJ6SWtCXSZCCoZRUJXi/05689ee7134ef43c5a23698cbe555c57/introvoicekit)

![Voice Kit](https://images.ctfassets.net/23aumh6u8s0i/5Nf44KM9WMutWhNCHFxmWo/a6d347b7e1aea3c42752b47b5bcfc3a4/voicekit)

## Web Performance

Google analyzes a lot of sites and has learned over time how to make them extremely fast. The **Web Performance made easy** talk by Eva and Addy Osmani showed how to fix common web performance bottlenecks and take advantage of the latest browser APIs to improve loading experience.

* **New Lighthouse Web Performance Audits**
* Optimizing Caching Strategies - Cache as many resources as possible efficiently.
* Remove unnecessary bytes and don't send things twice - Optimize Caching strategies. Cache as many resources as possible.
* Remove unused JavaScript and CSS from the Critical Path.
* Eliminate unnecessary downloads.
* Don't serve unoptimized or unnecessary images to your users.
* Help browsers deliver critical resources.
* Have a Web Font Loading Strategy.

Google announced a new experimental browser feature called `Priority Hints`. It allows you to specify the importance of a resource like so:

```
<img src="kit.png" importance="high" />
```

```
<link rel="preload" as="style" href="theme.css" importance="low">
```

The browser loads the resources with high importance first before the others.

![Dont send twice](https://images.ctfassets.net/23aumh6u8s0i/5HKKPPeaoo5PAhW3dG1gx1/df23889e9d8a428accbe2d3f1656ea52/dontsendtwice)
![Remove Unused JavaScript](https://images.ctfassets.net/23aumh6u8s0i/7ofCAI5E91SwJH0Op1Bvli/aeb70a894fb4b98807f1f0396c9f1100/removeunusedjs)
![Eliminate unnecessary downloads](https://images.ctfassets.net/23aumh6u8s0i/4R5Zwz6IYRC4slZXq9IAf1/b7ecddad95c75badad34b9f577d82373/eliminateunecessarydownloads)
![Unoptimized images](https://images.ctfassets.net/23aumh6u8s0i/3gBa0sK46OHQj9jrqkLTRx/de54107094c77709ed548257f5909f4a/unoptimized)
![Web Font Loading strategy](https://images.ctfassets.net/23aumh6u8s0i/1fVHCmCGoWGCAy39BROJrq/4b6f5d5efd872f2781a63dd8cb245c82/webfontloadingstrategy)

Addy Osmani announced [Guess.js](https://github.com/guess-js/guess), a toolkit for enabling data-driven user-experiences on the Web.


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It provides the following shown in the diagram below:

![Guessjs](https://images.ctfassets.net/23aumh6u8s0i/5Hq8hRGV5VaHQYidZ0wftr/76fa4dd6dd91fb1098cff1a0531cce1a/guessjs)

Read more about [Guessjs](https://blog.mgechev.com/2018/05/09/introducing-guess-js-data-driven-user-experiences-web/)

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">‘Web Performance made Easy’<br>Lighthouse Web Performance audits in chrome Dev tools are super useful. Solutions to improve the UX of your web apps <br>Day 2 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/io18?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#io18</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AfricaAtIO?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AfricaAtIO</a> <a href="https://t.co/vgnHYlmMNR">pic.twitter.com/vgnHYlmMNR</a></p>&mdash; Sandra Israel-Ovirih (@SandraIsrael_O) <a href="https://twitter.com/SandraIsrael_O/status/994454557559148544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 10, 2018</a></blockquote>
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## Web Assembly

Google is working really hard to allow developers import web assembly modules into their JavaScript apps and have Chrome render it effectively.

With Web Assembly, software like AutoCAD and Complex3 have created complex but fast UI web experiences.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Web Assembly - The Journey <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/io18?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#io18</a> <a href="https://t.co/gDeBaLSitP">pic.twitter.com/gDeBaLSitP</a></p>&mdash; Prosper @ Google I/O 18 🔥🚀 (@unicodeveloper) <a href="https://twitter.com/unicodeveloper/status/994336938957066240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 9, 2018</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="it" dir="ltr">Autocad Web Software Stack <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/io18?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#io18</a> <a href="https://t.co/i26G6bnLoF">pic.twitter.com/i26G6bnLoF</a></p>&mdash; Prosper @ Google I/O 18 🔥🚀 (@unicodeveloper) <a href="https://twitter.com/unicodeveloper/status/994336060506173440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 9, 2018</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Figma uses C++. and WebAssembly <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/io18?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#io18</a> <a href="https://t.co/EbwAYoSGfD">pic.twitter.com/EbwAYoSGfD</a></p>&mdash; Prosper @ Google I/O 18 🔥🚀 (@unicodeveloper) <a href="https://twitter.com/unicodeveloper/status/994333999936913408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 9, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Check out some updates from my developer friend, [Ire Aderinokun](https://twitter.com/ireaderinokun), that attended other sessions below.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">With the Accessibility Object Model we can create accessible elements from previously inaccessible elements like canvas!<br><br>You can use the AOM to create elements that don&#39;t exist in the DOM, but that can be interacted with assistive technology 🔥<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/io18?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#io18</a> <a href="https://t.co/8gWHYh2S9x">pic.twitter.com/8gWHYh2S9x</a></p>&mdash; Ire Aderinokun (@ireaderinokun) <a href="https://twitter.com/ireaderinokun/status/994292868498972672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 9, 2018</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The new :focus-visible pseudoclass will only apply when a user is focusing via a keyboard or other assistive tech (or if a user opts in)<br><br>This will allow us to have more visible focus styles for users that need it and less obvious ones for mouse users 👏🏾<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/io18?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#io18</a> <a href="https://t.co/sMeRpc5oId">pic.twitter.com/sMeRpc5oId</a></p>&mdash; Ire Aderinokun (@ireaderinokun) <a href="https://twitter.com/ireaderinokun/status/994289136826703872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 9, 2018</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The &quot;Accessibility&quot; tab in Chrome DevTools shows you any properties related to an element and how it looks in the Accessibility tree <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/io18?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#io18</a> <a href="https://t.co/TaRPjBRkhE">pic.twitter.com/TaRPjBRkhE</a></p>&mdash; Ire Aderinokun (@ireaderinokun) <a href="https://twitter.com/ireaderinokun/status/994286888868429824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 9, 2018</a></blockquote>
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## Conclusion

Google I/O, Day 2 was amazing. I was able to attend a few critical sessions as seen above. Looking forward to the **#Day3**.

If you were around for _#GoogleIO - Day 2_, let me know the announcements and talks that inspired you in the comment section. 😃


Google I/O 2018 Summary - Day 2

Check out our summary of the Google I/O Conference 2018, Day 1.



The first day of the Google I/O 18 consisted of a general opening keynote by Google CEO, Sundar Pichai, a developer keynote led by Jason Titus, VP, Developer Product Group, Google, the web state of the union talk, and several others. Over 5,000 developers, designers, and managers gathered at Shoreline, Amphitheatre to witness the opening day. Let's dive into the key announcements that were made!

Google has worked hard over the last few years on improving every aspect of their products with AI and Machine Learning. And this year, they made some key announcements about new products, and existing products improved with AI.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Google fixing critical bugs <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/io18?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#io18</a> <a href="https://t.co/1lKJN77BNB">pic.twitter.com/1lKJN77BNB</a></p>&mdash; Adrián Catalán @ #io18 🇺🇸 (@ykro) <a href="https://twitter.com/ykro/status/993899819549655040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2018</a></blockquote>
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## Google AI

Google announced that its research division has been rebranded to **Google AI**. This rebranding came as a result of Google's continued focus on Computer vision, Natural language processing, and neural networks.

All the research papers and publications are now on [ai.google](https://ai.google/).

## Google Assistant

The Google Assistant has been greatly improved. 6 new voices have been added including the voice of popular musician, John Legend. Furthermore, Google announced a new technology called **Duplex** that'll enable your Google Assistant to make conversations on your behalf like a lunch reservation at a restaurant, and setting up a meeting. The rollout will be very limited.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Google Assistant making bookings already for you? 😱😱😱<br><br>Ah, this is too early oh <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/io18?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#io18</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AI?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AI</a> <a href="https://t.co/V6CpxajNJx">pic.twitter.com/V6CpxajNJx</a></p>&mdash; Prosper @ Google I/O 18 🔥🚀 (@unicodeveloper) <a href="https://twitter.com/unicodeveloper/status/993908985517326336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2018</a></blockquote>
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I'm a Google Home user. And every time I need my Google Assistant to do something, I usually start every conversation with _Hey, Google!_. Now, I don't have to do that anymore because the Google Assistant now has support for continued conversations. I could just say _Hey, Google!_ once and continue asking my Google Assistant for help on any matter.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">John Legend is going to be one of the new voices for Goole Assistant! 😍<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/io18?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#io18</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ShareTheJourney?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ShareTheJourney</a> <a href="https://t.co/XCEkJr9kKr">pic.twitter.com/XCEkJr9kKr</a></p>&mdash; Ire Aderinokun (@ireaderinokun) <a href="https://twitter.com/ireaderinokun/status/993904230598459394?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2018</a></blockquote>
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The Google Assistant has a new feature called _Pretty Please_. This feature was added to help train your kids to avoid being commanding when asking for favors. With the new _Pretty Please_ feature, kids can be taught to always make polite requests. You can enable this mode on your Google Home, or Google Home Mini.

> **Note:** Duplex is an AI system for natural conversations.

## Google Photos

An AI-improved Google Photos now has features such as:

* Colorization of black and white photos
* Brightness correction
* Suggested Rotations
* Conversions of paper photos to PDFs.

## Google News

Google is keen on getting users a seamless way of catching up with news all over the world. From text to audio to video. Google is rolling out a new AI improved version of the  **[Google News](https://news.google.com)** product that provides an insane way to catch up with events around the world. This improved product replaces Google Play Newsstand on mobile and desktop, and Google News app on mobile. It will be available to everyone on Android, iOS, and the web in 127 countries by next week.

## Android P

Google launched Android P, the latest version of the operating system that runs on Android devices. The Android P beta is available for certain devices such as the Essential Phone, Google Pixel 2, Nokia 7 plus, Sony Xperia XZ2, Vivo and Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S. Users of these devices can update to Android P beta immediately.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Android developers. I envy you now 😏 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/io18?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#io18</a> <a href="https://t.co/vmZzT3YAFE">pic.twitter.com/vmZzT3YAFE</a></p>&mdash; Prosper @ Google I/O 18 🔥🚀 (@unicodeveloper) <a href="https://twitter.com/unicodeveloper/status/993915423346184192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2018</a></blockquote>
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There are a bunch of features that Google added to Android P to make users have such a delightful experience. Google CEO made it clear that it's key that humans have a healthy digital wellbeing and this is paramount in the new Android P features.

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Android P helps you set limits on time spent using apps.<br><br>“Yo, go spend time with your family”<br><br>- App timer<br>- No pings<br>- No vibrations<br><br>Introducing “Shush”. 🔥 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/io18?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#io18</a></p>&mdash; Prosper @ Google I/O 18 🔥🚀 (@unicodeveloper) <a href="https://twitter.com/unicodeveloper/status/993917960887521280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2018</a></blockquote>
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* **Shush**: This feature ensures that there are no notifications coming in from your apps when your phone is turned face down.
* **App Dashboard**: This is a dashboard that shows how much time you spend on your apps each day. This allows you to know which apps you spend so much time on.
* **App Timer**: With the app timer, you'd get a notification when you spend more than the allocated time specified for engaging with an app.
* **Slices and Actions**: A slice is a piece of app content and action that can be surfaced outside of the app without opening the app itself. They are UI templates that can display rich, and interactive content from your app within the Google Search app. With Slices and actions, users can perform tasks faster on their devices.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Android P beta is available on these devices today! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ios18?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ios18</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/UpgradeTodayIfYouWant?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#UpgradeTodayIfYouWant</a> <a href="https://t.co/ip2KbAtDrL">pic.twitter.com/ip2KbAtDrL</a></p>&mdash; Prosper @ Google I/O 18 🔥🚀 (@unicodeveloper) <a href="https://twitter.com/unicodeveloper/status/993918689014525952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2018</a></blockquote>
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The Android P developer [preview](https://developer.android.com/preview/) is also available. Developers can start digging in!

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AndroidP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AndroidP</a> makes your phone easier to use. Enjoy a new system navigation, easy volume controls and much more. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/io18?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#io18</a> <a href="https://t.co/aa0o5c6uVM">pic.twitter.com/aa0o5c6uVM</a></p>&mdash; Android (@Android) <a href="https://twitter.com/Android/status/993916999922208768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2018</a></blockquote>
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## ML Kit

Google announced a new [Machine Learning Kit](https://firebase.google.com/products/ml-kit) for mobile developers. The ML Kit ships with a set of ready-to-use APIs for common use cases:

* Text Recognition.
* Face Detection.
* Barcode Scanning.
* Image Labelling.
* Landmark Recognition.
* Smart Reply as seen in Gmail.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">ML kit - ready to use models on top of TensorFlow optimized for mobile.<br><br>Cross platform. Runs on Android and iOS. This is fantastic 🔥🔥🔥<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/io18?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#io18</a> <a href="https://t.co/62mStjP9C1">pic.twitter.com/62mStjP9C1</a></p>&mdash; Prosper @ Google I/O 18 🔥🚀 (@unicodeveloper) <a href="https://twitter.com/unicodeveloper/status/993915721229914112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2018</a></blockquote>
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The Machine Learning Kit allows developers to easily add powerful machine learning features to Android and iOS apps.

*Updated*: Auth0 wrote more about ML Kit. Take a deeper look and [learn about the different APIs available in Google's ML Kit](https://auth0.com/blog/a-look-at-android-ml-kit-the-machine-learning-sdk/). As well, follow the tutorial in that article to develop a demo app that uses one of ML Kit's APIs.

## Material Theme

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Material theming ❤️ <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/io18?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#io18</a> <br><br>1. It’s extensible<br>2. It puts you in charge.<br>3. Hundreds of new examples<br>4. Very flexible. Debunks the theory of apps looking similar <a href="https://t.co/QNfJcfGE0R">pic.twitter.com/QNfJcfGE0R</a></p>&mdash; Prosper @ Google I/O 18 🔥🚀 (@unicodeveloper) <a href="https://twitter.com/unicodeveloper/status/993950735841701888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Material design is an opinionated design framework for apps designed by Google. However, developers all over the world including me have raised concerns about several apps looking similar from a design point of view. And Google decided to do something about it.

![Material Theme](https://images.ctfassets.net/23aumh6u8s0i/2dXplPiGHXV0arYPvY7hWE/68bfcd852cc44f0a730be303dcf93ac2/materialtheme)
_Material theme_

Google launched Material theming, a set of extensible and customizable theming components. Material themes give developers a lot of freedom when using Material design in their apps. Google also added a new set of icons and a Material theme editor to create and modify components to customized taste.

![Material theme 2](https://images.ctfassets.net/23aumh6u8s0i/kDecdaGNnPlA2WSizKN97/30779900f8e07c3ac29e99f6b83f5664/materialtheme2)

Get started with [Material theme here](https://design.google/library/making-more-with-material).

## Google Lens

The Google Lens shipped with some amazing new features. Now, Google Lens allows you copy-paste text from a photo in the real world to your phone. It also provides the ability to take a photo and instantly provide information about the objects and landmarks in the photo.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Google Lens on steroids. Improved AI <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/io18?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#io18</a> <a href="https://t.co/dPy2qR5w6M">pic.twitter.com/dPy2qR5w6M</a></p>&mdash; Prosper @ Google I/O 18 🔥🚀 (@unicodeveloper) <a href="https://twitter.com/unicodeveloper/status/993922700518211584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Google Lens introduced **Style Match**. With Style Match, you could take a photo of a fashion item such as a shirt, blouse, shoe, or a fancy lamp. Once captured, a blue dot appears on the photo. Tap the dot, and Google Lens will provide lists of items similar to it. What a time to be alive!

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">And Lens will soon work in real time. By proactively surfacing results and anchoring them to the things you see, you&#39;ll be able to browse the world around you, just by pointing your camera → <a href="https://t.co/A1nUSk8zsK">https://t.co/A1nUSk8zsK</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/io18?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#io18</a> <a href="https://t.co/0xNI4dZez8">pic.twitter.com/0xNI4dZez8</a></p>&mdash; Google (@Google) <a href="https://twitter.com/Google/status/993923125275340800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2018</a></blockquote>
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![Google Lens 1](https://images.ctfassets.net/23aumh6u8s0i/6FBM6LzSa2jbHaGJU3ce1y/73b3e811881259b79f5287e6fb7a6612/googlelenslandmarks)
_Landmark_

![Animal](https://images.ctfassets.net/23aumh6u8s0i/24iCxuzKHetFrNrAnXyKkW/92a18571c9bff69324cddf0b5ff53c6f/googlelensdog)
_Animal recognition_


## Google Maps

Google announced better navigation for Google Maps aided by AI. Before now, Google Maps was difficult for users that are not familiar with the _North, South, West, East_ form of directions.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Google Maps: “Head South”<br><br>Me: Where the hell is south???<br><br>Google just took care of one of my most pressing needs!!! <br><br>Google Maps enhanced with AI &amp; Computer vision! <a href="https://t.co/4W80zojuYt">pic.twitter.com/4W80zojuYt</a></p>&mdash; Prosper @ Google I/O 18 🔥🚀 (@unicodeveloper) <a href="https://twitter.com/unicodeveloper/status/993921549781487616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2018</a></blockquote>
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The new Google Maps provides a street view with a very obvious direction sign. With Google Assistant in navigation in Google Maps, it provides users a better description of routes. It also adds a cute navigation animal that allows the map user quickly identify the route to take. I'm stoked about this addition because I have always wanted a better form of navigation. I'm a nomad hence the excitement!

![Google Maps direction](https://images.ctfassets.net/23aumh6u8s0i/41HiRxgmR9AMZwo0ihfsny/cdf3aeb544804225f8aa7883443e1954/right)
_Maps direction_

![Google Maps Animal COntroller](https://images.ctfassets.net/23aumh6u8s0i/1AT6v3kz9GgBzEQQSDMnWv/2224189aa64fd06e48ef5b4887c4db9e/cuteanimalcontroller)
_Navigation animal_

## Smart Display

Google is launching its first smart display in July. Google's smart display is powered by Google Assistant and Youtube.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/io18?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#io18</a> keynote <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/sketchnotes?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#sketchnotes</a> <a href="https://t.co/ptQOHtDg0f">pic.twitter.com/ptQOHtDg0f</a></p>&mdash; Chiu-Ki Chan (@chiuki) <a href="https://twitter.com/chiuki/status/993926968440586240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Finally, the dates for Chrome Dev Summit have been announced.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Finally!!!!  ❤️❤️❤️ <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/io18?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#io18</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SaveTheDate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SaveTheDate</a> <a href="https://t.co/huYxi1Bq4o">pic.twitter.com/huYxi1Bq4o</a></p>&mdash; Prosper @ Google I/O 18 🔥🚀 (@unicodeveloper) <a href="https://twitter.com/unicodeveloper/status/993968457187147776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2018</a></blockquote>
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## Conclusion

Google I/O, Day 1 was incredible. These major announcements are signs that AI is the future. Software is eating the world. Already looking forward to **#Day2** and the fresh inspiring moments it will bring along with it!

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If you were around for _#GoogleIO - Day 1_, let me know the announcements and talks that inspired you in the comment section. 😃


Google I/O 2018 Summary - Day 1

Check out our summary of the Chrome Developer Summit 2017, Day 2.

Chrome Developer Summit 2017 Summary - Day 2

Check out our summary of the Chrome Developer Summit 2017, Day 1.

Chrome Developer Summit 2017 Summary - Day 1

Day 2 of CakeFest. Catch up on everything that went down at the 2017 CakePHP Conference.



Day two of CakeFest consisted of more talks. Several speakers took to the stage, and [Mark Story](https://twitter.com/mark_story) revealed plans for the future of CakePHP. Check out our recap of [Day One](https://auth0.com/blog/cakefest-summary-day-1/) to learn about the talks that happened on the first day.

**[Heather White](https://twitter.com/CattyHeather)** talked about **Stepping Outside Your Comfort Zone: Learning to Teach**. She spoke about the different ways of learning. She also talked extensively about adult learners.

You can listen to her session:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Stepping Outside your Comfort Zone: Learning to Teach - Heather White <a href="https://twitter.com/CattyHeather">@CattyHeather</a> <a href="https://t.co/GOLaAQY85u">https://t.co/GOLaAQY85u</a></p>&mdash; CakePHP (@cakephp) <a href="https://twitter.com/cakephp/status/873911256037576704">June 11, 2017</a></blockquote>
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**[Mark Story](https://twitter.com/mark_story)** talked about **CakePHP 3.4 And The Path To 4.0.0**. He talked about the team working towards typehinting and splitting modal methods in *3.2.x* to *3.4.x*. He mentioned that in *4.0* there would be PHP 7.1 support, support will be dropped for PHP 5, strict typehinting, and deprecation cleanup. His session reveals so many things about how CakePHP has transformed over the years and what the public should expect to see in future releases.

You can listen to his session:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">3.4 and the Path to 4.0.0 - Mark Story <a href="https://twitter.com/mark_story">@mark_story</a> <a href="https://t.co/kEB4I2OtHm">https://t.co/kEB4I2OtHm</a></p>&mdash; CakePHP (@cakephp) <a href="https://twitter.com/cakephp/status/873924077768945665">June 11, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Check out his slides: [The Road Ahead - 3.4 and the path to 4.0](https://www.slideshare.net/markstory/cakephp-the-road-ahead)

**[Viraj Khatavkar](https://twitter.com/virajkhatavkar)** talked about **Testing For People Who Hate Testing**. He evangelized the test-driven development approach (TDD). Furthermore, he live-coded a blog on stage by using the test-driven approach and made testing seem very easy to the attendees. Great session!

You can listen to his session:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Testing For People Who Hate Testing - Viraj Khatavkar <a href="https://twitter.com/virajkhatavkar">@virajkhatavkar</a> <a href="https://t.co/G8jTYTgm8D">https://t.co/G8jTYTgm8D</a></p>&mdash; CakePHP (@cakephp) <a href="https://twitter.com/cakephp/status/873957733053022208">June 11, 2017</a></blockquote>
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**[Legendary Femi Taiwo](https://twitter.com/dftaiwo)** talked about **Building for a Million Transactions Per Hour**. His talk was based around the 2015 Nigerian Presidential election case study. His team had 24 days to learn, design, develop, and deploy an election based application. Learn how his team succeeded despite the short notice and how they scaled to accomodate the large Nigerian population.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/dftaiwo">@dftaiwo</a> killing it on &quot;Building for a million transactions per hour&quot; at <a href="https://twitter.com/cakephp">@cakephp</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CakeFest2017?src=hash">#CakeFest2017</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cakefest?src=hash">#cakefest</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CakePHP?src=hash">#CakePHP</a> 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 <a href="https://t.co/g1zmkzSmYQ">pic.twitter.com/g1zmkzSmYQ</a></p>&mdash; Prosper Otemuyiwa (@unicodeveloper) <a href="https://twitter.com/unicodeveloper/status/873970685122686976">June 11, 2017</a></blockquote>
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You can listen to his session:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Building for a Million Transactions Per Hour - Femi TAIWO <a href="https://twitter.com/dftaiwo">@dftaiwo</a> <a href="https://t.co/BbHfrkhQyZ">https://t.co/BbHfrkhQyZ</a></p>&mdash; CakePHP (@cakephp) <a href="https://twitter.com/cakephp/status/873969687855456257">June 11, 2017</a></blockquote>
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**[Mariano Iglesias](https://twitter.com/mgiglesias)** talked about **Machine Learning: one step closer to J-Day**. Mariano talked extensively about Machine Learning and its application to our every day life.

You can listen to his session:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Machine Learning: one step closer to J-Day - Mariano Iglesias <a href="https://twitter.com/mgiglesias">@mgiglesias</a> <a href="https://t.co/LwCo9b7l6f">https://t.co/LwCo9b7l6f</a></p>&mdash; CakePHP (@cakephp) <a href="https://twitter.com/cakephp/status/873992535466680320">June 11, 2017</a></blockquote>
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The Core CakePHP team came on stage for a lively session of Q&A. It was informative and also hilarious. Check out the [Q & A session here](https://twitter.com/cakephp/status/874012117107580928).

Finally, the conference ended with the cutting of the Cake.

![CakeFest](https://images.ctfassets.net/23aumh6u8s0i/1HD7NMrzROvOW17KpYgSNh/9cc414c5cf70cbf2febbd1795b187f29/cakephp)

![CakeFest Attendees](https://images.ctfassets.net/23aumh6u8s0i/4C2avVhfSm5Oy0gpCf8mHd/eaaf67609e261bc89725d4a1130ddbd6/attendees)
_CakeFest Attendees_

[Larry Masters](https://twitter.com/phpnut/) has announced that next year's CakeFest will happen in Nashville.

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## Conclusion

The final day of CakeFest was amazing. The speakers were great, and the sessions were lively and very informative. Kudos to [Megan](https://twitter.com/megslalk) and the team for organizing such an amazing event.

If you are new to *CakePHP*, check out this [excellent tutorial](https://auth0.com/blog/creating-your-first-cakephp-app) that introduces you to the framework and teaches you how to create your first app as well as add authentication to it.


CakeFest 2017 Summary - Day Two

Catch up on everything that went down at the 2017 CakePHP Conference.



The annual [CakeFest](https://cakefest.org) conference is upon us again. A lot of people are excited about the various talks that are lined up. You can find the [schedule](https://cakefest.org/schedule) on the CakeFest website, where all the talks are listed.

In today's article, I'll recap all the talks that happened and the announcements coming out of CakeFest 2017.

**Larry Masters** opened the conference with his keynote.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">CakeFest 2017 Keynote Larry E. Masters <a href="https://twitter.com/PhpNut">@phpnut</a> <a href="https://t.co/ODipR2A4LJ">https://t.co/ODipR2A4LJ</a></p>&mdash; CakePHP (@cakephp) <a href="https://twitter.com/cakephp/status/873523709318799360">June 10, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Larry announced CakePHP's support for [@OSMIhelp](https://twitter.com/OSMIhelp) and talked about the CakePHP elePHPants that would be available soon for PHP developers to buy. Developers can now buy CakePHP swag from the [Official CakePHP Swag Shop](https://swag.cakephp.org).

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The <a href="https://twitter.com/cakephp">@cakephp</a> community will once again be stepping up with a special fundraiser for <a href="https://twitter.com/OSMIhelp">@osmihelp</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CakeFest2017?src=hash">#CakeFest2017</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/php?src=hash">#php</a> <a href="https://t.co/3hYwpRy9w2">https://t.co/3hYwpRy9w2</a> <a href="https://t.co/3n64hWHnD2">pic.twitter.com/3n64hWHnD2</a></p>&mdash; Ed Finkler (@funkatron) <a href="https://twitter.com/funkatron/status/873530826260189188">June 10, 2017</a></blockquote>
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![Elephpants](https://images.ctfassets.net/23aumh6u8s0i/5bgawEtewiHfgWytQILRr9/d908e47d96e8aa4994d284c9cff535f0/elephpants)


**[Jose Rodriguez](https://twitter.com/jose_zap)** - *Core Contributor to CakePHP* talked about **10 Ways to improve**. Check out his session:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">10 ways to improve Jose Rodriguez <a href="https://twitter.com/jose_zap">@jose_zap</a> <a href="https://t.co/8RbpeD2PB0">https://t.co/8RbpeD2PB0</a></p>&mdash; CakePHP (@cakephp) <a href="https://twitter.com/cakephp/status/873541328306544640">June 10, 2017</a></blockquote>
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**[Legendary Ed Finkler](https://twitter.com/funkatrin)** talked about **Mental Health in the Developer Community**. He spoke against encouraging workaholism. He talked about health issues in the work place and encouraged companies to help their employees maintain work life balance. The healthier an employee, the greater the value he or she brings to the company. You can check out his [OSMI project](https://osmihelp.org) and contribute to the cause.

You can listen to his session below:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Ed Finkler - Stronger Than Fear <a href="https://twitter.com/funkatron">@funkatron</a> <a href="https://t.co/rXzO2bi9ZJ">https://t.co/rXzO2bi9ZJ</a></p>&mdash; CakePHP (@cakephp) <a href="https://twitter.com/cakephp/status/873554203339141120">June 10, 2017</a></blockquote>
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**Stefan van Gastel** - Technical Lead, Mobile Apps Military Police at Dutch Ministry of Defence talked about **CakePHP in a containerized (CI/CD) environment**. He spoke on the benefits of managing your apps in containers. He also gave a detailed breakdown of how it works at the Dutch Ministry of Defence.

You can listen to his session:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">CakePHP in a containerized (CI/CD) environment - Stefan van Gastel <a href="https://t.co/JbbRWxyZsL">https://t.co/JbbRWxyZsL</a></p>&mdash; CakePHP (@cakephp) <a href="https://twitter.com/cakephp/status/873564361465380864">June 10, 2017</a></blockquote>
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**[Prosper Otemuyiwa](https://twitter.com/unicodeveloper)** talked about **Progressive Web Apps for CakePHP developers**. Yeah, that's me. I spoke about how CakePHP developers can latch on to Progressive Web Apps technology to build web apps that behave like mobile apps and works well across many browsers. I encouraged the developers present at the conference to learn JavaScript and take advantage of its power.

You can check out my session here:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Progressive Web Apps For CakePHP Developers - Prosper Otemuyiwa <a href="https://twitter.com/unicodeveloper">@unicodeveloper</a> <a href="https://t.co/JaZfBZMaQi">https://t.co/JaZfBZMaQi</a></p>&mdash; CakePHP (@cakephp) <a href="https://twitter.com/cakephp/status/873593311629524992">June 10, 2017</a></blockquote>
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These are my [slides](https://speakerdeck.com/unicodeveloper/progressive-web-apps-for-cakephp-developers-1).

**[Jeff Kolesnikowicz](https://twitter.com/jkolez)** talked about **Realtime PHP using Websockets**. He explained the realtime architecture and showed a live demo about implementing realtime using websockets.

Check out his session here:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="pl" dir="ltr">Realtime PHP using websockets - Jeff Kolesnikowicz <a href="https://twitter.com/jkolez">@jkolez</a> <a href="https://t.co/CjeOwAfnCf">https://t.co/CjeOwAfnCf</a></p>&mdash; CakePHP (@cakephp) <a href="https://twitter.com/cakephp/status/873605971594969088">June 10, 2017</a></blockquote>
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**[Ed Barnard](https://twitter.com/ewbarnard)**: Ed has been a programmer for over three decades. He talked about **CakePHP Prepared Statements Ease MySQL Table Design**. In my opinion, this was the most technical session of the conference. He talked about optimizing MySQL, writing great queries, utilizing prepared statements, and general database design.

Check out his session here:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">CakePHP Prepared Statements Ease MySQL Table Design - Ed Barnard  <a href="https://twitter.com/ewbarnard">@ewbarnard</a> <a href="https://t.co/0N4YoGSOsJ">https://t.co/0N4YoGSOsJ</a></p>&mdash; CakePHP (@cakephp) <a href="https://twitter.com/cakephp/status/873617478445801472">June 10, 2017</a></blockquote>
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**[Jose Gonzalez](https://twitter.com/savant)**: Jose is a CakePHP core contributor. He talked about **Open Source Infrastructure**. He informed the audience about how the **opensourceCakePHP** build process is set up, and how he automates everything in a way that newbies can get along really well.

Check out his session here:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Open Source Infrastructure - Jose Gonzalez <a href="https://twitter.com/savant">@savant</a> <a href="https://t.co/xiyeSRYZV8">https://t.co/xiyeSRYZV8</a></p>&mdash; CakePHP (@cakephp) <a href="https://twitter.com/cakephp/status/873638414813241344">June 10, 2017</a></blockquote>
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**[Sharon Steed](https://twitter.com/sharonsteed)**: Sharon gave a talk on **Building powerful relationships by communicating with empathy**. She's a stutterer and used herself as an example in many of the use cases she gave about relationships and community.

You can listen to her session here:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Cultivating community: Building powerful relationships by communicating with empathy - Sharon Steed <a href="https://twitter.com/sharonsteed">@sharonsteed</a> <a href="https://t.co/yvi8LwVA57">https://t.co/yvi8LwVA57</a></p>&mdash; CakePHP (@cakephp) <a href="https://twitter.com/cakephp/status/873646769480925184">June 10, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Day 1 ended with some [lightning talks](https://www.pscp.tv/cakephp/1lPJqykgOkNJb).

## Aside: Securing PHP Applications with Auth0

Are you building a product with PHP? We at Auth0, can help you focus on what matters the most to you, the special features of your product. [Auth0](https://auth0.com/) can help you make your product secure with state-of-the-art features like [passwordless](https://auth0.com/passwordless), [breached password surveillance](https://auth0.com/breached-passwords), and [multifactor authentication](https://auth0.com/multifactor-authentication).

[We offer a generous **free tier**](https://auth0.com/pricing) so you can get started with modern authentication.

## Conclusion

Day 1 of CakeFest was awesome. The sessions were great and the attendees really connected well.

To conclude, if you are new to CakePHP, check out this [excellent tutorial](https://auth0.com/blog/creating-your-first-cakephp-app) that introduces you to the framework and teaches you how to create your first app and add authentication to it.


CakeFest 2017 Summary - Day One

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Angular v4, realtime, rendering on the server, best practices, and more. Read about the sessions from ng-conf 2017 (April 7) Day 3.

ng-conf 2017 Summary - Day 3

Angular v4 has been released. Read about Fair Day from ng-conf 2017 (April 6) Day 2.



**TL;DR:** Learn about the "open-track" Fair Day at [ng-conf 2017](https://www.ng-conf.org/) on April 6, 2017 (Day 2 of 3).

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## ng-conf 2017: Fair Day

Day 2 of ng-conf 2017 was Fair Day. There were workshops and sessions running simultaneously with other activities and entertainment such as combat bots, board games, VR park, Prison Escape Bus, Experts Rooms, and lounge/hack rooms. In addition to general fair activities, I attended sessions on ngrx, Apollo and GraphQL, machine learning with Angular, and improving components. You can check out summaries of these sessions below.

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## ngrx

[Ngrx](https://github.com/ngrx) consists of small, concise libraries built with RxJS to solve problems such as state management and side effect management in Angular.

### ngrx/store

Ngrx/store is an [RxJS state management container](https://auth0.com/blog/managing-state-in-angular-with-ngrx-store/) heavily based on Redux. It uses actions, reducers, and a single store. A reducer is a function of state. The initial state goes in, then handles each action and returns the new state. Reducers are pure functions. ngrx/store abstracts away the application reducer so that child reducers only handle one piece of the state. New reducers can be added to manage their own individual slices of state.

The `dispatch()` and `select()` methods are used to send actions to the reducer to update state, and return an observable of only changed state, respectively. We may want to write concise components and refactor `select()` out to _selectors_. This way, we can share the selectors across the application. Selectors should be stored where our state is defined. Abstracting the selectors puts less responsibility on the component to know how to get the selected data.

### ngrx/effects

Any code that interacts with the outside world is a [side effect](https://auth0.com/blog/glossary-of-modern-javascript-concepts/#purity). We don't know how they're going to behave when that code is run. For example, API calls are side effects. Isolating side effects out of the component tree makes them easier to test.

Ngrx/effects is a side effect model. With it, we can listen for certain actions, perform side effects, and deliver new actions back to the store. The `@Effect()` decorator hints to tell the store to subscribe and returns an observable of an action. This can be mapped to its payload. When implementing ngrx/effects to manage side effects, we've performed the same action but the component has a lot less responsibility. Components are now a pure representation of state.

### ngrx Performance Improvements

Reducers are pure, so we don't need Angular to perform any deep dirty checking. Angular only needs to check if the reference has changed.

### Redux Devtools Extension

We can also wire up the Redux Devtools Chrome extension in our ngrx application. Importing `StoreDevtoolsModule` provides a bridge to the Chrome extension, and we can then instrument store in the `app` module. Doing so incurs a performance penalty, so it's important to only use in development. The Redux Devtools extension provides an interface to see what the state of the application looks like, complete with a time traveling debugger.

> _"Redux is not great for making simple things quickly. It's great for making complex things simple."_ —Brandon Roberts & Mike Ryan

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## Managing Data with GraphQL

Angular has solved developer issues and concerns with initial loading and size, prerendering, rendering, transitions, and animations. These are no longer concerns.

However, we are still left with a concern regarding network latency. Users expect instant feedback, ie., when liking something on Facebook. Caching and prefetching can reduce network latency. When looking for a library that handles network and data management problems, [Apollo](http://dev.apollodata.com/angular2/) offers solutions along with its dev tools.

Improving network performance is not an all-or-nothing solution. Think about data and the network when creating your apps. Every effort makes your app a little bit faster, so anything you do helps. Here are two things we can address:

* Send fewer requests.
* Send less data in the requests.

When using REST APIs, particularly those we have little control over, we call the server and can frequently get a _lot_ of information back. This can be a mess, but we can use [GraphQL](http://graphql.org/) to describe what info we want and get just this information at the field level.

With GraphQL and Apollo:

* It doesn't matter how many resources we query, we'll get everything in one single response in the structure desired.
* We can create an Apollo query with the exact structure we want back and it returns an observable.
* We can take advantage of code autocompletion with the data that could come back from the server; this creates a good separation of concerns regarding the front end and back end.
* We can also change data with post and put requests (mutation).

By using queries inside components, we create a "super Redux or ngrx" that understands the larger picture and brings back only what we need from the server. Within components, we can query only for what is needed for that particular component.

We do _not_ need a GraphQL backend in order to take advantage of GraphQL on the client. We can achieve the benefits without touching the server at all, _or_ we can build middleware that can query any data sources.

Check out [urigo's repos on GitHub for examples](http://github.com/urigo).

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## Build, Measure, and Machine Learn with Angular

### Build Measure Learn

**Conversion** refers to crafting solutions that lead to users doing what you want them to do. For example, this might be downloading an ebook, subscribing to your service, signing up for a newsletter, etc.

We build features and then we want to measure the features and see if visitors like the features or not. We then learn about the visitors and using this information, build better features in the next cycle to increase conversion.

The most important part of any data analysis is how the data captured. [Redux Beacon](https://github.com/rangle/redux-beacon) is an open source library created at [Rangle](http://rangle.io). Redux Beacon wiretaps Redux sections in an app and sends them to a target of your choice for conversion and reporting purposes, allowing you to map Redux or ngrx actions and state to your analytics data model.

### A/B Testing

When just gathering data is not enough, A/B testing can also be performed with [feature toggles](https://github.com/rangle/feature-toggle-ng2-redux). Almost anything on your website that affects visitor behavior can be A/B tested. This includes features, colors, buttons, CTAs, headlines, etc. The problem with A/B testing is that we learn the more successful option, but we don't know the user demographic that caused this result, and analysts want to know this information.

Regionally, visitors might pick different options. For example, if  a visitor is close to your office geographically, they might choose an "In Office Training" call to action whereas people located far away may only select "Online Training".

### Machine Learning

A custom Redux Beacon target sends raw data set for each user showing the pages they visited, their location, and more. This data can be passed to a machine learning algorithm that can use patterns to generate a model. This can then show scores with a probability of given user behaviors. This is called a **decision tree model**. Machine learning can predit the probability of which decision a user will make based on the user's behavior.

In a nutshell, the steps to do this are:

* Save the data.
* Convert that data to vectors.
* Train the predictive model.
* Generate the rules.
* Do the predictions.

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## Using Directives

Mike Brocchi talked about utilizing directives in Angular. When building out an application, we build out a component tree, but where do we go from there? If we want to reuse logic, we factor it out into a service. What happens if we have behavior in the component that we want to be able to use elsewhere? The answer is directives, which are underused in the current version of Angular.

There are three types of directives:

* Attribute-based, ie. `[ngClass]`
* Structural, ie. `*ngFor`, `*ngIf`
* Components

Mike focused on attribute-based directives. With directives, we can add behaviors just by adding an attribute to an existing element. We can then pass values in using `@Input()` and use host binding to access DOM properties and manipulate them. We can also use host listeners to handle events, such as clicks. After applying a directive, we can expose events by emitting them to the parent component with event emitters and outputs.

Directives provide a way to share both logic and behavior throughout an application _without_ the burden of unneeded templates. They are underused in the current version of Angular, but can provide powerful shared functionality.

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## Aside: Auth0 for Angular

It's a great time to explore Angular for your single page JavaScript applications. Auth0 can help out by providing authentication, a JWT library, Quick Start documentation, and tutorials. Check out some of the following resources:

* [JWT library for Angular](https://github.com/auth0/angular2-jwt)
* [Angular 2+ Quick Start with Auth0](https://auth0.com/docs/quickstart/spa/angular2)
* [Migrating an AngularJS App to Angular eBook](https://auth0.com/e-books/migrating-to-angular2)
* [Managing State in Angular with ngrx/store](https://auth0.com/blog/managing-state-in-angular-with-ngrx-store/)
* [Angular 2 Authentication Tutorial](https://auth0.com/blog/angular-2-authentication/)

You can <a href="https://auth0.com/signup" data-amp-replace="CLIENT_ID" data-amp-addparams="anonId=CLIENT_ID(cid-scope-cookie-fallback-name)">sign up for a free Auth0 account here</a>!

> Auth0 provides the simplest and easiest to use [user interface tools to help administrators manage user identities](https://auth0.com/user-management) including password resets, creating and provisioning, blocking and deleting users. [A generous **free tier**](https://auth0.com/pricing) is offered so you can get started with modern authentication.

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## Conclusion

Day 2 of ng-conf 2017 was packed with workshops, networking, and fun activities. Day 3 will be normal single track sessions.

You can tune into the [ng-conf 2017 livestream here](https://www.ng-conf.org/livestream) as well as watch recorded streams from previous days.


ng-conf 2017 Summary - Day 2 (Fair Day)

Angular v4 has been released. Read the major takeaways from ng-conf 2017 (April 5) Day 1.

ng-conf 2017 Summary - Day 1

Check out our summary of the recently concluded Chrome Developer Summit.

Chrome Developer Summit 2016 - Summary

The final day of Laracon focused on design, performance, software estimation and much more. Check out our summary of Laracon US day three.



Day Three of [Laravel US Conference](http://laracon.us/) consisted of talks about design, performance tuning, software estimation, API tools, and Laravel. Seven speakers took to the stage and it was a scintillating experience. Currently, a specific date has still not been set on the release of Laravel 5.3. Taylor made it known to everyone that it will be released in a couple of weeks. Check out our recap of [Day One](https://auth0.com/blog/laracon-summary-day-1/) and [Day Two](https://auth0.com/blog/laracon-summary-day-2/) in case you missed them.

**[Adam Wathan](https://twitter.com/adamwathan)** was back again with a presentation on *Curing the Common Loop*. He talked about how for-loops and conditionals can be totally eliminated from a piece of code, instead using higher-order functions that allow for elegant code expression. Adam did a live coding session where he eliminated for-loops, conditionals, and temporary variables in an app and replaced them with Laravel Collection methods. Check out the slides from his workshop [here](https://speakerdeck.com/adamwathan/curing-the-common-loop).

**[Fabien Potencier](https://twitter.com/fabpot)**, creator of Symfony and founder of Sensiolabs, gave a talk on *PHP Performance Tuning with Blackfire*. He talked about performance issues with PHP and PHP frameworks. And he gave insightful advice about how to track down these issues with [Blackfire](https://blackfire.io/). Check out the turorial he made on using Blackfire in your applications [here](https://blackfire.io/docs/24-days/index). Blackfire is available now on [Laravel Forge](https://forge.laravel.com).

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**[Chuck Reeves](https://twitter.com/manchuck)** gave a talk on *Practical Software Estimation*. Chuck dropped nuggets of wisdom on how to provide estimates for a software project. He emphasized why developers should estimate because they are the ones writing the code. Chuck compared developers to cardiologists and gave an example of how the latter cannot be coerced into performing a surgical operation for five hours instead of eight. As a developer, if it takes you eight hours to complete a task, do not negotiate for less! Check out the slides [here](http://www.slideshare.net/manchuck/stop-multiplying-by-4-laracon).

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">No estimation talk ever will be complete without Bayes Theorem. When you get new info, the level of uncertainty will decrease <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/laracon?src=hash">#laracon</a></p>&mdash; Michael Dyrynda (@michaeldyrynda) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeldyrynda/status/759057447898054656">July 29, 2016</a></blockquote>
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**[Jason McCreary](https://twitter.com/gonedark)**, creator of [laravelshift.com](https://laravelshift.com/), gave a talk on *YAGNI With Laravel*. **YAGNI**, an acroynm for *You Aren't Gonna Need It*, is a principle of extreme programming that states a programmer should not add functionality until deemed necessary. He advocated *KISS* - "Keep it simple, stupid!" He talked about how programmers are always tempted to over-engineer solutions and how developers pride themselves on complex architectures. With **YAGNI**, you will:

* Know when to defer decisions until tomorrow
* Trust your ability to pivot quickly
* Write less code

You need to upgrade your Laravel app without moving a muscle? check out [laravelshift.com](https://laravelshift.com/).

**Note**: Don't call **YAGNI** on security features

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Don’t customize your app namespaces. Just leave it app, it’s short and sweet. KISS — <a href="https://twitter.com/gonedark">@gonedark</a></p>&mdash; Laravel News (@laravelnews) <a href="https://twitter.com/laravelnews/status/759090695604797441">July 29, 2016</a></blockquote>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">“…perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to remove” <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/laracon?src=hash">#laracon</a></p>&mdash; Michael Dyrynda (@michaeldyrynda) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeldyrynda/status/759089775856889856">July 29, 2016</a></blockquote>
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**[Colin DeCarlo](https://twitter.com/colindecarlo)**, gave a talk on *Keeping Eloquent Eloquent*. Eloquent is Laravel's ORM. He talked about the mistakes he's made using Eloquent. He advocated the following when using Eloquent:

* On every model, create a defaults property and populate it with key value pairs of attribute and value. Merge with set values
* Don't circumvent the abstraction layer provided by Eloquent
* Use the source!

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Cannot believe I am in the same room as big cat demarco!<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Laracon?src=hash">#Laracon</a></p>&mdash; Rob Drimmie (@RobDrimmie) <a href="https://twitter.com/RobDrimmie/status/759099135152840704">July 29, 2016</a></blockquote>

**[Jeremy Lindblom](https://twitter.com/jeremeamia)**, an active contributor to [Guzzle](https://github.com/guzzle/guzzle) and [AWS SDK](https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-php) and creator of [Superclosure](https://github.com/jeremeamia/super_closure) talked about *Lumen, Guzzle & Swagger*. He talked about API endpoints, HTTP methods, and how developers can leverage Swagger, Lumen, and Guzzle to develop great RESTFUL APIs and microservices. Check out the slides [here](https://speakerdeck.com/jeremeamia/apis-with-lumen-guzzle-and-swagger).

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">&quot;Swagger is a representation of your representational API that is a representation of your data&quot; <a href="https://twitter.com/jeremeamia">@jeremeamia</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Laracon?src=hash">#Laracon</a></p>&mdash; Sara Bine (@sara_bine) <a href="https://twitter.com/sara_bine/status/759126262937812992">July 29, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Documentation still doesn’t help us cross the bridge between client and server but the bridge is there <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/laracon?src=hash">#laracon</a></p>&mdash; Michael Dyrynda (@michaeldyrynda) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeldyrynda/status/759128479853981696">July 29, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Which of the hundred different ways would you like to implement JSON? HATEOAS, HAL, JSON-LD, JSON-API, something else? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/laracon?src=hash">#laracon</a></p>&mdash; Michael Dyrynda (@michaeldyrynda) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeldyrynda/status/759121971137228800">July 29, 2016</a></blockquote>
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**[Ryan Singer](https://twitter.com/rjs)**, product strategist at Basecamp, gave a talk titled *Design: Case Study*. He talked about the processes involved in creating a product, from rough sketch to a functional UI that's finally handed over to the developers.

![Tower of Interface Design](https://images.ctfassets.net/23aumh6u8s0i/7x7d5qEQVm7KKFV9EALYz8/4c44a906bdf9ce641195941e6548011b/CokFDq6UkAA7Gtl)
_Tower of Interface Design_

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Flows -&gt; Affordances -&gt; 2D layout<br><br>The layout isn’t important; you won’t have to rewrite any code. Views are separate <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/laracon?src=hash">#laracon</a></p>&mdash; Michael Dyrynda (@michaeldyrynda) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeldyrynda/status/759138285738274816">July 29, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A real concrete UI is good for giving developers requirements <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Laracon?src=hash">#Laracon</a>  - <a href="https://twitter.com/rjs">@rjs</a></p>&mdash; Prosper Otemuyiwa (@unicodeveloper) <a href="https://twitter.com/unicodeveloper/status/759145459172708356">July 29, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/rjs">@rjs</a>&#39;s &quot;Tower of Interface Design&quot;<br><br>Domain experience<br>Situations (withdrawal)<br>Flows (fast cash)<br>Accordances (inputs)<br>2D Layout<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/laracon?src=hash">#laracon</a> 💎</p>&mdash; Troy Harvey (@troyharvey) <a href="https://twitter.com/troyharvey/status/759150508867215360">July 29, 2016</a></blockquote>

## Conclusion

Laracon US 2016 is actually the first Laravel Conference to be 95 percent technical talks. All the speakers were great and the talks were educational and insightful.

If you are just getting started in developing Laravel 5 apps, check out our [Laravel app tutorial](https://auth0.com/blog/2016/06/23/creating-your-first-laravel-app-and-adding-authentication/). Need an alternative means of adding authentication and authorization to your Laravel apps? <a href="https://auth0.com/signup" data-amp-replace="CLIENT_ID" data-amp-addparams="anonId=CLIENT_ID(cid-scope-cookie-fallback-name)">Sign up</a> for a free Auth0 account and get your user authentication set up in few minutes using our [Laravel quickstarts](https://auth0.com/docs/quickstart/webapp/laravel). Building an API using Laravel and wondering how to add authentication using JWT? Auth0 has got you covered. Check out our [Laravel API quickstarts](https://auth0.com/docs/quickstart/backend/php-laravel) to implement that in less than 10 minutes.

Many developers are already getting their hands dirty with Laravel 5.3 using the *dev* version. You can also try it out and tell us what you think in the comment section! Hopefully, about two weeks from now, Laravel Scout, Laravel Passport, Laravel Notifications, Laravel Mailable, and Laravel 5.3 will be officially released to the public.

Laracon 2016 Summary - Day Three

Laravel 5.3 is here. Learn more and get caught up on all the news coming out of Laracon US 2016.



Day Two of the  [Laravel US Conference](http://laracon.us/) consisted of more talks and workshops. Seven speakers took to the stage, and we had the first soft talk of the conference. Check out our [recap of Day One](https://auth0.com/blog/laracon-summary-day-1/) to learn about the Laravel 5.3 overview by Taylor Otwell and the technical workshops that happened on the first day.

**[Evan You](https://twitter.com/youyuxi)** was back again with another live demo on *Single-Page Applications with Vue, Vue Router & Vuex*. He demonstrated the importance of Vuex to Vuejs in relation to Redux with React. Check out the slides for his Vue.js workshop [here](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1wZWkSkMBsPtUmiGY8T4MnjCZ6xaKjElkK1MjJoj9C48/edit#slide=id.p).

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">In Vue devtools, you can actually export the state of your app as a json file to send to another developer 😱😱😱😱😱😱 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Laracon?src=hash">#Laracon</a></p>&mdash; Prosper Otemuyiwa (@unicodeveloper) <a href="https://twitter.com/unicodeveloper/status/758668716808761344">July 28, 2016</a></blockquote>

**[Jack McDade](https://twitter.com/jackmcdade)** presented the first soft talk of the conference. His presentation was on *Wizards, Lawnmowers, and Hovercrafts*. Very insightful presentation about product design, people culture, and work perspectives. Check out the slides [here](https://speakerdeck.com/jackmcdade/wizards-lawnmowers-and-hovercrafts).

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Failure is an EVENT not a person. <a href="https://twitter.com/jackmcdade">@jackmcdade</a> at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/laracon?src=hash">#laracon</a></p>&mdash; John Kary (@johnkary) <a href="https://twitter.com/johnkary/status/758678689953349632">July 28, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">You don&#39;t need to wait for managers and execs to change company culture. Start with yourself <a href="https://twitter.com/jackmcdade">@jackmcdade</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/laracon?src=hash">#laracon</a> <a href="https://t.co/yiazTsSg00">pic.twitter.com/yiazTsSg00</a></p>&mdash; Wade Urry (@iWader) <a href="https://twitter.com/iWader/status/758678224188510208">July 28, 2016</a></blockquote>
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**Note:** Of all the presenters today, he had the finest slides!

**[Ben Ramsey](https://twitter.com/ramsey)**, creator of the popular [UUID PHP library](https://github.com/ramsey/uuid) covered a lot about the history of HTTP and HTTP/2. He talked about the challenges and processes that occurred from the initial version of HTTP up until HTTP/2 came about. Check out the slides [here](https://speakerdeck.com/ramsey/http-is-dead-long-live-http2-laracon-2016). **HTTP is Dead. Long live HTTP/2!**

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">No more image sprites or inline images with HTTP2 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/laracon?src=hash">#laracon</a></p>&mdash; Michael Dyrynda (@michaeldyrynda) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeldyrynda/status/758697391167897600">July 28, 2016</a></blockquote>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The new HTTP 👇👇👇👇 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Laracon?src=hash">#Laracon</a> <a href="https://t.co/MLMrgXnYWN">pic.twitter.com/MLMrgXnYWN</a></p>&mdash; Prosper Otemuyiwa (@unicodeveloper) <a href="https://twitter.com/unicodeveloper/status/758690621750177792">July 28, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">&quot;HTTP is dead&quot; simply means RFC 2616 is dead <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Laracon?src=hash">#Laracon</a> <a href="https://t.co/xhuOrY42b1">pic.twitter.com/xhuOrY42b1</a></p>&mdash; Prosper Otemuyiwa (@unicodeveloper) <a href="https://twitter.com/unicodeveloper/status/758689045568520192">July 28, 2016</a></blockquote>
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**Note:** The sound of Ramsey's voice has a strong resemblance with that of Tom Hanks!

**[Zeev Suraski](https://twitter.com/zeevs)**, co-architect of PHP, talked about the *PHP 7 Story*. He talked about the history of PHP from the initial version up to PHP 7. He also highlighted benchmark performances of each major PHP version.

**Note:** Zeev is crazy about spicy foods!

**[Amanda Folson](https://twitter.com/AmbassadaorAwsum)**, developer advocate @ Gitlab. Her talk was on building APIs with Lumen. Check out the slides [here](https://speakerdeck.com/afolson/zero-to-api-with-lumen).

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="und" dir="ltr">Example Pokédex API by <a href="https://twitter.com/AmbassadorAwsum">@AmbassadorAwsum</a> with <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LumenPHP?src=hash">#LumenPHP</a>. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/pokemon?src=hash">#pokemon</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/php?src=hash">#php</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/laracon?src=hash">#laracon</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LaravelSF?src=hash">#LaravelSF</a> <a href="https://t.co/WqgVG5YCoG">pic.twitter.com/WqgVG5YCoG</a></p>&mdash; Paul Foryt (@pauly4it) <a href="https://twitter.com/pauly4it/status/758745145667747843">July 28, 2016</a></blockquote>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">It’s a good idea to hide id’s in API results — <a href="https://twitter.com/AmbassadorAwsum">@AmbassadorAwsum</a></p>&mdash; Laravel News (@laravelnews) <a href="https://twitter.com/laravelnews/status/758745219944685571">July 28, 2016</a></blockquote>
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**[Matthew Machuga](https://twitter.com/machuga)**, senior developer at *Think Through Math*, gave a talk on **Tests Should Tell a Story**. He gave some really good tips and tricks for testing, like the ones below:

* Write a failing test first
* Write the smallest amount of code
* Listen to feedback and refactor code and test in pieces.

He also talked about a **feature-first** approach in building software.

* Build only what your client needs at that moment
* Support slice plans
* Waste few resources to test and idea
* Provide readable, agreed-upon specs for stakeholders
* Encourage collaboration

Check out the slides [here](https://speakerdeck.com/machuga/tests-should-tell-a-story).

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">When we&#39;re building software, we need to ask the stakeholders questions. Details, details, details! <a href="https://twitter.com/machuga">@machuga</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/LaraconUS">@LaraconUS</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Laracon?src=hash">#Laracon</a></p>&mdash; Caryn Humphreys (@LadyCarni) <a href="https://twitter.com/LadyCarni/status/758764162977705985">July 28, 2016</a></blockquote>

**[Sandi Metz](https://twitter.com/sandimetz)**, popular Rubyist and author of *Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby* gave a talk on **Get A Whiff of This**. She talked about the various types of code smells and a practical object-oriented approach in writing good code. She also mentioned that every code smell can be mapped to a recipe that cures it via refactoring. Check out the slides [here](https://speakerdeck.com/skmetz/get-a-whiff-of-this).

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I could seriously sit and listen to <a href="https://twitter.com/sandimetz">@sandimetz</a> talk about programming all day. This talk is _ultra_ illuminating. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Laracon?src=hash">#Laracon</a></p>&mdash; CS (@cschmitz81) <a href="https://twitter.com/cschmitz81/status/758781530072289282">July 28, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">&quot;Testing is like a canary in a coal mine. If your testing is hard that means your code is bad&quot; <a href="https://twitter.com/sandimetz">@sandimetz</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Laracon?src=hash">#Laracon</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/whoa?src=hash">#whoa</a></p>&mdash; Jon (@jfarl5) <a href="https://twitter.com/jfarl5/status/758779731550605314">July 28, 2016</a></blockquote>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">“Code smell.” Does NOT mean “I don’t like the code you wrote and I can’t explain why.” <a href="https://twitter.com/sandimetz">@sandimetz</a></p>&mdash; Eric L. Barnes (@ericlbarnes) <a href="https://twitter.com/ericlbarnes/status/758773060182810624">July 28, 2016</a></blockquote>

**Note:** This is the first PHP conference Sandi has ever attended!

## Conclusion

Day Two of Laracon US has been awesome. Two speakers actually used Ruby code to drive home points in their presentations today. It amazingly brought a fresh perspective to the way we use code in the PHP land. I'll update this post as soon as I lay my hands on speaker slides that are currently not referenced here. There are seven speakers lined up for the final day of Laracon US 2016. There will be more technical talks and hopefully Taylor will unveil some other Laravel and open-source goodness!

I'll leave you with a list of additional resources and links to help you both learn Laravel and stay up to date with the latest news and announcements.

 * [Laravel news](https://laravel-news.com/) - Latest Laravel news, also maintains a live blog for Laracon
 * [Laracasts](https://laracasts.com/series/whats-new-in-laravel-5-3) - Learn everything about PHP and what's new in laravel 5.3
 * [Matt Stauffer's blog](https://mattstauffer.co/blog/series/new-features-in-laravel-5-3) - Learn about the latest Laravel 5.3 features

Laracon 2016 Summary - Day Two



The annual [Laravel US](http://laracon.us/) conference is upon us once again. Everyone is excited about the upcoming release of Laravel 5.3. Taylor Otwell and several Laravel Community members have been tweeting about changes and salient new features for weeks now.

In today's short post, we'll recap all the big announcements coming out of Laracon US 2016. Four incredible speakers mounted the stage today, and there were lots of wonderful moments all through their talks. Three of the speakers broke the *no live coding in a presentation* rule today and it was awesome!

**[Adam Wathan](https://twitter.com/adamwathan)** opened the Laravel Conference with his workshop on **Test Driven Laravel**. He literally created a simple twitter clone using test-driven development. Adam also talked about his new side project-[Building Robust Laravel applications with TDD](https://adamwathan.me/test-driven-laravel/). Like I said earlier, no slides, just live coding!

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Programming by Wishful thinking, Let the tests guard you - <a href="https://twitter.com/adamwathan">@adamwathan</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Laracon?src=hash">#Laracon</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TDDInLaravel?src=hash">#TDDInLaravel</a></p>&mdash; Prosper Otemuyiwa (@unicodeveloper) <a href="https://twitter.com/unicodeveloper/status/758293597892579328">July 27, 2016</a></blockquote>
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**[Evan You](https://twitter.com/youyuxi)** did a live demo on the new [Vuejs 2.0](https://vuejs.org/). Check out his slides for his Vue.js workshop [here](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/16MpK3I2LZz47QdLg3uMNkCC3PqmM0znXF3-FdCEpics/edit#slide=id.g15faa8fa0f_0_60).

<blockquote>
    Every component can be seen as a ViewModel, connecting a piece of DOM and a piece of state - Evan You
</blockquote>

Want to learn how to build a Vuejs 2.0 app? Check [here](https://auth0.com/blog/2016/07/14/create-an-app-in-vuejs-2/). If you want to learn how to add authentication to a Vuejs app, check out our [quickstarts](https://auth0.com/docs/quickstart/spa/vuejs).

<include src="TweetQuote" quoteText="Re-rendering entire chunks of DOM is expensive and disruptive - Evan you"/>

**[Chris Fidao](https://twitter.com/fideloper)** covered a lot about **Servers for Hackers**. He talked about Security, Firewall, ipv6, iptables, and Supervision. All the things he talked about can be found on [serversforhackers.com](https://serversforhackers.com/). You can also get his [book](https://book.serversforhackers.com/). Check out his slides [here](https://speakerdeck.com/fideloper/server-survival). However, with [webtask](https://webtask.io/), you can write serverless apps. You don't need to worry about server provisioning and scaling, **Auth0** takes care of that for you!

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Sitting in <a href="https://twitter.com/fideloper">@fideloper</a>&#39;s presentation on server admin grok-ing stuff that the server admin at a prev job told me I wouldn&#39;t get. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/laracon?src=hash">#laracon</a></p>&mdash; CS (@cschmitz81) <a href="https://twitter.com/cschmitz81/status/758381036027973636">July 27, 2016</a></blockquote>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">As a 20+ year SysAdmin, I can say that <a href="https://twitter.com/fideloper">@fideloper</a> is doing a fantastic job talking about all these server things in his talk at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Laracon?src=hash">#Laracon</a>.</p>&mdash; Bill Wheeler (@phpdreams) <a href="https://twitter.com/phpdreams/status/758377870704074756">July 27, 2016</a></blockquote>


**Note:** Chris actually smashed a spider on stage. Call that **Live debugging**!

## Taylor Otwell Laravel 5.3 Overview

**[Taylor Otwell](https://twitter.com/taylorotwell)** actually closed Day 1 talks with some pretty impressive announcements about new features coming to Laravel 5.3 and four major open source projects that will scale up the development time of any Laravel developer. I'll cover these new features a bit here.

### Laravel Scout

Laravel Scout is an optional drop-in package that offers full-text search for Eloquent Models. It ships with Algolia and offers a driver-based system so that anyone can actually integrate other full-text search systems. With Scout, after adding the `ScoutServiceProvider`, you'll be able to add a `Searchable` trait to your model and do something like so:

```php

Post::search('Prosper')->get(); // normal search
Post::search('Prosper')->paginate(20); // pagination option is also available
Post::search('Prosper')->where('category_id', 2)->get(); // inclusion of simple where clauses too

```

```php

Post::all()->searchable();
User::posts()->searchable();

```
### Laravel Passport

Laravel Passport literally blew my mind. Creating an OAuth2 Server can really be daunting. There are a few PHP packages out there that you can use, but they still involve a lot of work for the developer. Laravel Passport is an optional drop-in package that allows you to create an OAuth2 Server in about five minutes.  With Laravel Passport, you can get personal access tokens for users right from an Artisan command. It ships with Vue components for token generation, revocation, and a robust API authentication out of the box. You can easily set scopes by just enabling the scope middleware.

Want a single API for both mobile and internal web app calls? Laravel Passport will take care of it via [JWT](https://jwt.io) tokens.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I&#39;ve been more excited this year about things coming out of <a href="https://twitter.com/LaraconUS">@LaraconUS</a> than of Apple&#39;s WWDC... Excellent work <a href="https://twitter.com/taylorotwell">@taylorotwell</a></p>&mdash; Martín Peverelli (@MartinPeverelli) <a href="https://twitter.com/MartinPeverelli/status/758459310267633664">July 28, 2016</a></blockquote>
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### Laravel Notifications

Laravel Notifications allow you to send quick updates to your users via services like SMS, email and Slack. In your Notification class, you have a `via` and `message` method like so:

```php
.....
public function via($notifiable)
{
    return ['mail', 'slack', 'sms']; // notification drivers
}

public function message()
{
    // If it's a notification success message, here you go
    $this->line('You can now use webtask.io for your serverless apps')
    ->action('Button Text', 'http://auth0.com')
    ->line('Please check it out!')
    ->success()

    // If it's a notification error message, here you go
    $this->line('We had a problem with your intro mail')
    ->action('Button Text', 'http://support.com')
    ->error()
}
```

Notifications also come with a responsive email template that detects email type (info, success, error) out of the box!

### Laravel Mailable

In Laravel 5.3, there's a less busy way to send emails. You can now send emails like so:

```php

// To one address
Mail::to($user)->send(new EmailClass($someParameter));

// To multiple addresses & queueing at the same time!
Mail::to('prosper@example.com')->cc('johndoe@example.com')->queue(new OrderComplete);
```

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Big fan of that new mail api. The closure way always felt a bit clunky <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/laracon?src=hash">#laracon</a></p>&mdash; Freek Van der Herten (@freekmurze) <a href="https://twitter.com/freekmurze/status/758405374143819776">July 27, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Other notable things Taylor mentioned are as follows:

* Single route file getting split into web.php and api.php in Laravel 5.3,
* Elixir 6.0 ships with Laravel 5.3. Supports rollup and webpack by default.
* Timeouts in queue worker will not make it frozen. Instead, it will *let it go* and keep processing the next
* Auth scaffolding moved from inline script/css with CDNs to a compiled js/css file
* Queueing greatly improved in Laravel 5.3
* Laravel 5.3 sets you up with boilerplate to work with Vue.js straight out of the box
* Laravel 5.3 packages will be able to register migrations to run with no work from the package user.

Want to learn how to build your first app using Laravel? Check out this [tutorial](https://auth0.com/blog/2016/06/23/creating-your-first-laravel-app-and-adding-authentication/).

<include src="TweetQuote" quoteText="This hopefully will make your life a lot easier - Taylor Otwell"/>

## Conclusion

Day 1 of Laracon US has been incredible. Laravel 5.3 will no doubt attract more PHP developers to use Laravel to build their next set of applications because of all these insane features and packages that Laravel and its community provides. Laravel 5.3 will be released a few weeks from now because Taylor wants the documentation to include all the improvements and new features.

 To conclude, I'll leave you with a list of additional resources and links to help you both learn Laravel and stay up to date with the latest news and announcements.

 * [Laravel news](https://laravel-news.com/) - Latest Laravel news, also maintains a live blog for Laracon
 * [Laracasts](https://laracasts.com/series/whats-new-in-laravel-5-3) - Learn everything about PHP and what's new in laravel 5.3
 * [Matt Stauffer's blog](https://mattstauffer.co/blog/series/new-features-in-laravel-5-3) - Learn about the latest Laravel 5.3 features


Laracon 2016 Summary - Day One

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I'm currently a Senior Developer Advocate at MongoDB. I'm also a Google Developer Expert for Web Technologies and spend most my time giving talks at conferences and meetups, mentoring developers and running workshops, and creating online content to help technology professionals.

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The final day of ng-conf focused on reactive programming, Firebase and much more. Check out our summary of ng-conf day three. 



Day three of ng-conf consisted of a single track of talks. The topics covered today included reactive programming, Firebase, Angular 2 form validation and animations amongst others. The question on everyones mind at the end of day three was **"When will Angular 2 be released?"** and we still don't have a definite date. One thing we do know for sure is that the Angular 2 offline compiler is one of the key missing pieces, so as soon as it lands, we'll know the release is imminent.

<include src="TweetQuote" quoteText="One of the key missing pieces to the final release of Angular 2.0 is the offline compiler."/>

If you missed our previous recaps of ng-conf, you can check out the big announcements from [day one](https://auth0.com/blog/2016/05/05/ng-conf-summary-day-1/) and [day two](https://auth0.com/blog/2016/05/06/ng-conf-summary-day-2/).

## Reactive Programming

Angular 2 has fully embraced [reactive programming](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive_programming) patterns. The [**ngrx**](https://github.com/ngrx) GitHub group has already released a number of libraries that enable Angular 2 components to implement reactive functionality. These include the [ngrx/store](https://github.com/ngrx/store), [ngrx/router](https://github.com/ngrx/router), [ngrx/db](https://github.com/ngrx/db) and [ngrx/devtools](https://github.com/ngrx/devtools), with more libraries to come.

## AngularFire 2 Enters Beta

If you've worked with Angular and Firebase, there's a good probability you've interfaced with the [AngularFire](https://www.firebase.com/docs/web/libraries/angular/) library. [AngularFire 2](https://github.com/angular/angularfire2) provides an easy to use API for interfacing with Firebase with your Angular 2 applications. Firebase is a real-time database that allows automatic syncing across all connected devices. It was announced that as of today, AngularFire 2 is available to download and use in a public beta state.

## Angular 2 Form Validation

We took a deep-dive into the different ways to create and validate forms and user input with Angular 2. Developers can choose to implement forms via a **template driven** or **model driven** architecture. Template driven allows the developer to define the form in the actual view layer, while model driven forms are defined programmatically and generated by Angular 2 itself.

## Codelyzer

Codelyzer will save Angular 2 developers a ton of time when building applications. Codelyzer examines the developer defined rules and requirements that are set up via JS or TS lint files as well as the Angular 2 style guide, and when the standards are not adhered to, Codelyzer will complain and let the developer know of the rules they are violating. Codelyzer is also built into the Angular CLI and can be used starting today.

## Animations

There are many ways to handle animations on the web. You can do pure CSS animations, JavaScript animations or a mix of the two. The Angular team is aiming at making animations simpler but more powerful with Angular 2. Within Angular 2 components, developers will be able to define and implement different types of animations. This abstraction will allow for a greater increase over control as well as performance, which will be a great benefit, as traditionally animations on the web have been difficult to implement properly.

## Angular CLI

Angular CLI solves the problem of diving into Angular 2 app development. Where in the past, you would have a lot of manual configuration and setup, with the CLI, scaffolding and starting an application can be done in as little as three terminal commands:

```bash
ng new PROJECT_NAME
cd PROJECT_NAME
ng serve
```

The Angular CLI will simplify many tasks including: project scaffolding, creating of new services and components, running linting and other tasks as well as handling build and deploy of Angular 2 applications. You can get started with the Angular CLI by running the `npm install -g angular-cli` command from a terminal window. *NodeJS and npm are required.*

## Conclusion

The conference may have ended but the Angular 2 journey has just begun. With the release candidate out in the wild, developers can finally start developing Angular 2 applications with a certain level of confidence that the API will not change drastically before the final 2.0 release. Brad Green, the managing director of the Angular project, has stated in the Q&A panel that he believes that Angular 2 is production ready and references several use cases where Angular 2 is already used in production including Google AdWords, Capital One and the Weather Channel.

Now is the right time to jump into Angular 2 development. If you are already developing an Angular 2 app or are just getting started, chances are you will need an authentication system and Auth0 has you covered. Check out our [Angular 2 JWT](https://github.com/auth0/angular2-jwt) helper library that works with both Auth0 and any other implementation of JSON Web Token (JWT) authentication. To quickly get started, <a href="https://auth0.com/signup" data-amp-replace="CLIENT_ID" data-amp-addparams="anonId=CLIENT_ID(cid-scope-cookie-fallback-name)">sign up</a> for a free Auth0 account and get user authentication setup with your Angular 2 app in minutes.

ng-conf 2016 Summary - Day Three

Day two of ng-conf 2016 was Fair Day. We got to deep dive and learn more about what's in the pipeline for Angular 2.



Day two of ng-conf was titled **Fair Day**. Fair day consisted of a brief keynote in the morning and then a series of breakout sessions and workshops allowing developers to deep dive into all the new technologies announced on day one. Check out our [recap of day one](https://auth0.com/blog/2016/05/05/ng-conf-summary-day-1/) to learn about these technologies which include Angular Universal, Material, CLI, Augury and Mobile Toolkit. Day 1 was all about big announcements, [day three](https://auth0.com/blog/2016/05/07/ng-conf-summary-day-3) went hands-on on how to work with Angular 2 and associated projects.

## The Future of Angular 2

It may be a bit early to discuss the future of Angular 2 when it's not even out yet officially, but a key theme of today's keynote was the future of Angular 2. Angular offline compiling, advanced Material Design components and effortless upgrades for the future were discussed.

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### Offline Compiler

Offline compiling is what allows the Angular 2 library to become smaller than Angular 1. This is done through a custom compiler that the Angular team built, which is invoked through the `ngc` command once installed, which examines your apps code and does tree shaking to remove any unnecessary modules. The ng-compiler is one of the key features of Angular 2 that is required before Angular 2.0 can be delivered but as of today it is not ready.

### Advanced Material Components
The Material Design team gave a brief talk about the future of Material Design with Angular 2. The team has already committed to parity with the existing Material 1 for Angular 1.x, but talked about future potential with components that could include components such as `<md-map>` which would embed a Google Map or `<md-chart>` which would be used for charting UI. The coolest potential component discussed was `<md-text-editor>` which would create a WYSIWYG text-editor which have traditionally been difficult to implement, especially with Angular 1 applications.

### Seamless Upgrades

Finally, the team discussed effortless future upgrades and even joked about Angular 3. The goal here is to give developers a seamless path to upgrading once future 2.x versions of Angular are released. The Angular team is already doing extensive testing to ensure that any change to the core Angular libraries does not break compatibility with existing modules. 
 
## Angular 2 Workshops
  
There were plenty of Angular 2 workshops that took a deep dive into some of the technologies announced on day one of the keynote. Ionic had a great presentation on building hybrid mobile apps with Ionic 2 and Angular 2. The Telerik team took to the stage again and gave a detailed walkthrough of how to build native mobile applications with Angular 2 and NativeScript. Sean Larkin did a great workshop on integrating Angular 2 with Webpack.
 
 Auth0 hosted a workshop on integrating JSON Web Token (JWT) authentication with both Angular 1.x and Angular 2. The workshop highlighted the benefits of JWT authentication as well as differences in implementation between the two frameworks. If you would like to learn how to implement JWT authentication in your app check our guide for both [Angular 1](https://auth0.com/docs/client-platforms/angularjs) and [Angular 2](https://auth0.com/docs/client-platforms/angular2). If you don't already have an Auth0 account, <a href="https://auth0.com/signup" data-amp-replace="CLIENT_ID" data-amp-addparams="anonId=CLIENT_ID(cid-scope-cookie-fallback-name)">sign up</a> for free and get started today.
 
## Conclusion - Day 3 Preview
 
 Tomorrow is the final day of ng-conf 2016. TypeScript, Animations, React Native and AngularFire are just some of the talks in store. We can't wait to learn more about Angular 2 and will be sure to give a detailed summary of day three. You can follow the live stream tomorrow on the ng-conf official [website](https://www.ng-conf.org/). 

ng-conf 2016 Summary - Day Two

Angular 2 has reached the release candidate milestone. Learn more and get caught up on all the news coming out of ng-conf 2016.



The annual [ng-conf](https://www.ng-conf.org/) conference is upon us once again. This year, Angular 2 is all the rage. Angular 2 has entered [release candidate](https://github.com/angular/angular/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#200-rc0-2016-05-02) and is inching ever-closer to a final 1.0...err...2.0 release.

In today's short post, we'll recap all the big announcements coming out of ng-conf 2016. Be sure to check out the big announcements from [day two](https://auth0.com/blog/2016/05/06/ng-conf-summary-day-2/) and [day three](https://auth0.com/blog/2016/05/07/ng-conf-summary-day-3/) as well.

## Keynote

[Brad Green](https://twitter.com/bradlygreen) opened up ng-conf this year with some pretty impressive announcements. Over 360,000 developers are already using Angular 2 in some capacity. Angular 2 is five times faster than Angular 1 and is already smaller than Angular 1 by almost 20kb which will help reduce load times of Angular 2 developed apps. Brad also announced a variety of Angular products that will truly make Angular 2 a leading platform for developing web and mobile applications. We'll examine these in depth below.

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### Angular Universal

![Angular Universal](https://images.ctfassets.net/23aumh6u8s0i/3Q44br69UZgGdoceGb1p30/3b2e347f95541162f7f517d0c5f88cce/universal)

[Angular Universal](https://universal.angular.io) will allow developers to run their Angular 2 applications directly on the server. With Angular 1, the applications always ran on the client side, which made things like search engine optimization (SEO) and social sharing links difficult to implement as web crawlers generally do not execute JavaScript before scraping a webpage. When a user would share an Angular 1 app to Twitter for example, rather than seeing the title and description of the post they would instead see angular bindings `{title}` and `{description}` unless the developer spent extra time implementing a prerenderer.

Angular Universal currently works with [NodeJS](https://nodejs.org/en/) and [ASP.NET](http://www.asp.net/), with more frameworks and languages supported in the future. Applications are built just as they would be on the front end with some slight changes to accompany features that servers do not have available such as setting up a redis store instead of localstorage. Angular Universal apps are rendered on the server and then sent to the client. This greatly decreases load times on mobile devices and makes the apps feel snappier.

### Angular CLI

![Angular CLI](https://images.ctfassets.net/23aumh6u8s0i/edtMqHyhZZ8DYqivUaXWJ/6a2e3a72714fc29a45ad2c3f5ee1b610/cli)

[Angular CLI](https://cli.angular.io) aims to simply the way developers build Angular 2 apps. Where in the past you'd have to do a lot of the manual configuration to get up and running, with Angular CLI, you can type simple commands in your terminal such as `ng generate component` and the CLI will scaffold a new component for you.

The Angular CLI will do more than just scaffold new components and services for you though. It will help with both the build and deploy stages as well as linting, testing and formatting your applications.

### Angular Mobile Toolkit

![Angular Mobile](https://images.ctfassets.net/23aumh6u8s0i/6U5bPSOpT0ZtDxbrNAXPCL/3ecc8851990c99d35189ddbdcbb0a6ee/mobile)

[Angular Mobile Toolkit](https://mobile.angular.io) will allow developers to build progressive mobile apps with Angular 2. Progressive mobile apps are an evolution of mobile apps built with HTML, CSS and JavaScript with a few key features: **instant loading**, **offline support**, **installable** and **handle notifications**.
 
 The debate between building native vs progressive mobile is heavily debated and both have their pros and cons. Native apps have **better performance**, **re-engagement** and **access to hardware APIs**. Web apps on the other hand have **searchability**, **shareability** and **less friction/wider marketshare** going for them.
 
 The good news with Angular 2, you can build both native mobile apps, which we'll get to in a bit, as well as progressive mobile apps.
 
 <include src="TweetQuote" quoteText="Angular 2 allows developers to build both native and progressive mobile apps."/>
 
### Material 2

![Angular Material](https://images.ctfassets.net/23aumh6u8s0i/1QpphjaXgdm9wjNgVkD3A6/d9c7f8959a29ff2583eca55a8666ef89/material)
 
The de-facto design language for Android is [Material Design](https://www.google.com/design/spec/material-design/introduction.html), which is slowly making it's way to the web. Angular 1 already has a great library which implements a variety of Material Design patterns and Angular 2 is getting the same treatment. [Material 2](https://material.angular.io/) is in an early alpha state at present but already has a variety of components implemented including checkboxes, form input elements, buttons and more.
 
Material 2 will allow developers to quickly build beautiful user interfaces without having to write a lot of custom CSS. The Material 2 team has also announced that they are working on a "Component Toolkit" which will implement best practices for building user interfaces with Angular 2 that will be decoupled from Material Design itself.
 
### Augury for Angular 2

![Angular Augury](https://images.ctfassets.net/23aumh6u8s0i/7bGlZy92HMw8xmawiamiGM/247a435b6c0bce9f27684c5bffa446a7/augury)
 
 [Augury](https://augury.angular.io/) (formerly Batarangle) is a Chrome extension that will help developers debug and understand how their Angular 2 application is running in real time. The app is built by [Rangle.io](http://rangle.io/) and offers a whole suite of features to help developers understand their apps component relationships, get detailed component info as well as understand the component hierarchy. Augury will also help developers understand how routing is affecting their app as well as allow developers to edit component attributes on the fly and see those changes reflected in real time.
 
## Angular 2 Becomes A Platform
 
 If there's one key takeaway from today, it's that Angular 2 is a platform for app development. The core library has been broken up and modularized into logical components, tooling has greatly improved and extending Angular 2 to support other frameworks is becoming a reality. Let's look at some of the other announcements made today.
 
### Native Mobile Applications with NativeScript 2.0
 
 [NativeScript 2.0](https://www.nativescript.org/) was announced today with support for Angular 2. NativeScript 2.0 allows developers to build native mobile applications with Angular 2. Nativescript converts Angular 2 code into the native iOS and Android API calls which are then executed as if you were writing a native mobile application in Objective-C or Java. A huge feature that Nativescript also supports is the ability to use existing native iOS Cocoa Pods and Android Gradle plugins directly in your TypeScript code.
 
### Component Router
 
 The Router in Angular 2 is very powerful. Misko Hevery, the father of Angular, gave a presentation on the new router and how it will improve performance of Angular 2 applications. The Angular 2 Router will only load components when it absolutely needs them. The componetized router also handles the declaration of routes in a unique way. Rather than have a single route definition file that lists all the possible routes your app will have, you declare routes in each of your components. This way, you separate the routing concerns to individual components.
 
## Aside: Auth0's Angular 2 JWT Library
 
 Now is the perfect time to deep your feet into Angular 2 development. If you are building a consumer facing app, you are likely to need a user authentication system. Here at Auth0, we've built a [helper library](https://github.com/auth0/angular2-jwt) for handling JSON Web Token (JWT) authentication. The Angular 2 JWT library can help you integrate JWT authentication with both the Auth0 platform or your own authentication system. If you don't already have an Auth0 account, <a href="https://auth0.com/signup" data-amp-replace="CLIENT_ID" data-amp-addparams="anonId=CLIENT_ID(cid-scope-cookie-fallback-name)">sign up</a> for free and get started today.
 
 If you would like a crash course into Angular 2, check our Ryan Chenkie's Angular 2 series starting with [Angular 2 Pipes](https://auth0.com/blog/2015/09/03/angular2-series-working-with-pipes/).
 
## Conclusion and Additional Resources
 
 Day 1 of ng-conf has been exciting. Angular 2 is shaping up to become a great platform for building both web and mobile applications that can run on both the server and client. This is a highly ambitious goal by the team, but one that seems attainable after today.
 
 To conclude, I'll leave you with a list of additional resources and links to help you both learn Angular 2 and stay up to date with the latest news and announcements.
 
 * [ng-conf Live Stream Day 2](https://www.ng-conf.org/#/) *(starting at 9am PST)* - tune in Day 2 of ng-conf for more talks
 * [Angular 2 Style Guide](https://angular.io/styleguide) - learn Angular 2 best practices
 * [Angular 2 TypeScript Snippets](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=johnpapa.Angular2) - written by [John Papa](https://twitter.com/John_Papa), a collection of snippets to help you write Angular 2 code faster
 

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