Summer is over and September is here. This month, Ross Tuck will tell us all about Hemoglobins and Hobgoblins, or Models and Service Layers.

Schedule  
19:00: Welcome Drinks 
19:30 - 20:30: Models and Service Layers; Hemoglobins and Hobgoblins
20:30 - 20:45: Raffle 
20:45: Pizza, Social, drinks

Talk: Models and Service Layers; Hemoglobins and Hobgoblins
Models, sure. That’s all part of MVC. Those are the objects that hold your business logic. Except…do they really? In PHP, the norm is to have an anemic domain model. Even if you want to move away from that (whatever it is), how do you do it?

In this talk, we’ll look at different schools of thought for managing your code’s truly important parts and the impact on related areas like testing or form libraries. From plain models to service layers, DDD to CQRS, we’ll try to apply them to an average application using PHP libraries and see where they stand up or fall down.

There’s no magic elixar for designing good models but sometimes all you need is a little iron in your diet.

Speaker: Ross Tuck
Ross Tuck is a senior developer in the Netherlands, despite being American. He’s currently obsessed with hypermedia, CQRS, middleware and vector graphics but this tends to change quickly. Otherwise, he’s usually trying to make time to read.

Raffle 
We got some awesome stuff to give away this month, so make sure you attend another awesome meetup!