A practical guide to building modern web applications in Drupal, Symfony & .NET

(This presentation will be given in German or English, depending on the Audience)

Our projects often span multiple servers, operating systems and technologies. A typical project might include Linux PHP-based eCommerce & Drupal CMS applications, together with a legacy Windows ERP system and a .NET-based data interchanger.

This has traditionally made it very challenging to find a standard development approach or to share resources between platforms & languages.

Fortunately, the maturing of the PHP and .NET ecosystems, has led to the emergence of fantastic second generation frameworks such as Symfony2 and Web Api, which has dramatically changed this scenario.

These frameworks have remarkably similar concepts for Entities, database interfaces, MVC, Dependency Injection & REST Interfaces. These similarities have allowed us to adopt a common set of development patterns and techniques for both PHP and .Net applications. And now we see front-end frameworks, like AngularJS, following a similar path.

This talk will use examples taken from our customer projects, to illustrate how similar these worlds have become. These examples will include Drupal 8, OXID & Pimcore extensions, and stand-alone Symfony & .NET applications. They will demonstrate these common development patterns, and explain a simple approach to managing projects across disparate technologies and platforms.