VI FINTECH Blog

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Our First Lecture on Symfony and PHP

Admittedly, we were a little bit nervous to hold our first lecture, but what better subject than a mini-round-up of the PHP frameworks that we have used, including a quick introduction as to why we love Symfony?

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Our First Hackathon

On the 1st and 2nd of March, we attended the Leicester Civic Hack weekend, our good friends at Dock provided the location and excellent catering for the event. We went along primed to get stuck in, eager to use our development techniques, expertise and technology to inspire and ultimately produce something functional.

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PHPStorm File Watcher for PHPSpec

Here at VI we’ve been improving some of our processes. One of the new things we’ve discovered, and immediately fallen in love with, is PHPSpec.

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Ales and Nerd-Networking in London

It's not all work here at the VI offices. We're strong believers in being part of the community, so we took a break from our busy schedule of SCRUMing, developing, and testing to go to the monthly Symfony London meet-up.

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Settling into Our New Home

Thanks to the huge success of our software, we’ve outgrown our small office at the Innovation Centre. In order to accommodate the growth of our company, we’ve moved to Leicester’s brand-new 5.9 million-pound technology hub, Dock.

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