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Antonio Perić-Mažar

CEO and Co-Founder
LOCASTIC
Country or state 
Croatia
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Split
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Croatian,
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Bio

CEO at Locastic (mobile and web agency), Organizer and Co-founder at BlockSplit Conference, international speaker at many conferences, truly Entrepreneur, Co-Founder at Shift Conference

In the mission of delivering amazing mobile and web solutions to many clients worldwide

Current position (3)

CEO and Co-Founder

LOCASTIC

Co-Founder, Organizer

BlockSplit Conference

Owner

Locastic Esports

Degrees (1)
Mag. Ing.Comp
University of Split
2005 to 2010

Presentations

Presentations (18)
You call yourself a Senior Developer?

Once upon a time, Senior developer was the real role-model, a person that everyone looked up to, a developer that you seek for advice and wisdom. Nowadays, seniority is a synonym for large salaries and big egos.

Let’s have a trip down the memory lane and drift away from the money-driven mindset. Instead of that, let’s inspire you to be better developers who are fulfilled by knowledge, success, and accomplishments.

The UI is the THE application

Do you know how many designers and developers still think that UX is a myth? You would be amazed! But, let’s not dwell, we can change their mind instead.
We live in a digital world where everyone can offer a certain type of service, but there’s that small gap that shows the disparity between good and bad delivery. Your app is a collection of tiny details, and if your main goal is to have satisfied users - you’ll be interested to hear why UI/UX is the foundation of your application success.

Stop calling PWA new and trendy!

Progressive Web Apps are not a cool trend anymore as they are heading into the direction of completely replacing traditional mobile apps.

Call me a madman, but over the course of my PWA research and development, I learned that they will become a real contender in the mobile world, especially if you take into consideration that they can enhance app performance and your users’ experience.

Service workers are your best friends

The main API for PWA creation is Service Workers, they are the heart of this "new web". With Service workers, we can send push notifications to the user or do background sync and show data even when the user is offline. This not science fiction, but a script that is quite easy to use. In this talk, we will see overview what are service workers and when and how to use them properly.

Delicious recipe for solid teamwork

Almost every company leader will tell you that it’s hard to keep track of the dynamic rules that surround the digital world. With so many variables affecting your workflow, you need to focus on things that you can actually have an influence on - your employees.

We all want to have an amazing team, right? But everyone has a different vision of what an amazing team actually is. Would you hire a more skilled developer or a developer that’s easier to implement within your company culture? Is it really worth risking your company exists only to secure a few expensive billable hours?

Don’t let the business destroy your private life, integrate them!

Running your own business requires special dedication and a big learning curve during the process because at first, you have the be the one responsible for covering many fields, such as sales, marketing, and development.

A schedule like that can take a big toll on your private life - so in this talk, we will cover a few aspects that will help you balance your busy schedule and show you how to integrate your business with your private life. It can be quite challenging, but there’s a workaround.

NEVER underestimate the boarding process

Boarding a new team member is easy, especially since you sort out the procedures and you will get better with time because it’s basically the same with everyone. False! That’s what every bad executive would say!

Approaching new team members is one of the most important categories in the recruitment period, you need to learn how to show compassion and understanding and help them adapt to the new environment. It’s never easy to fit into a new company, and you have to be the person who will show interest in your new employee.

Five things to get proper feedback from user

User feedback is one of the most important things when it comes to app maintenance. You can have the world’s best development team, but you need to take into consideration that every user comes from a different background, so it’s crucial to get multiple fresh perspectives on your product so you can polish it properly.

Let’s take a look at a few clear guidelines that you can actually use to build amazing (better) software.

Is SCRUM good for agencies

In these past few years, agile methods became a vital part in the software development process, but are they really applicable for every type of project? Most companies implemented agility when they engaged their growth, but most of them use some kind of modified SCRUM methodology, but in theory - that’s not SCRUM anymore.

During the last year, our company changed the way we approach our projects using SCRUM. In this talk, I will show you have we adopted and adopted a new way of using this method, focusing mostly on problems we had and how did we resolve them.

REST easy with API Platform

The web has changed! Users spend more time on mobile than on desktops and they expect to have an amazing user experience on both platforms. APIs are the heart of the new web as the central point of access data, encapsulating logic and providing the same data and same features for desktops and mobiles.

In this talk, I will show you how in only 45 minutes we can create full REST API, with documentation and admin application build with React.

REST easy with Api Platform (workshop, hands-on)

We'll start by creating a fully-featured API in just a few minutes with API Platform, Symfony and Doctrine. The API will support pagination, data validation, access control, relation embedding, filters, and error handling. It will expose many formats (JSON-LD, Hydra, JSONAPI, HAL, JSON, XML, YAML, and CSV), will be documented with Swagger/OpenAPI and will have a nice UI done in React. Last but not least, the API will respond in a just few milliseconds thanks to its built-in invalidation-based cache mechanism.

Then, we will use the ReactJS tools provided by the API Platform to consume the exposed Hydra documentation. In a few more minutes, we will get a Material Design administration interface (a la Sonata / EasyAdmin - but 100% client-side) built with React. Finally, we'll discover 2 nice code generators to bootstrap a SPA (React, Redux and React Router) and iOS and Android mobile apps (React Native).

Certification doesn’t make a good developer.

The inspiration for this talk was sparkled over a simple dinner. One of the guests asked whether the quality of developers is in any correlation with education and certification. There’s no point addressing that everyone had a different view regarding the topic.

In this talk, I will try to address all those standpoints and I’m hoping for a productive Q&A session where you can share your insights on the matter. Do you think that the certification is proof that you are a good developer, or there’s more to talk on the matter?

Where the f..k we are?

I was lucky enough to be a part of the generation that followed the internet growth from day one. In this keynote talk about the digital world, I will dissect this interesting journey that changed humanity forever.

The market has changed, our surrounding is different, we are having an enormous tech advancement, but it changed us. Why did we stop being human in the meantime?

Symfony 4: A new way to develop applications

Symfony4 is here and it is better than ever. With Flex it can be a micro framework and an amazing beast with any feature you want. What changed from version 3, what are new best practices, what are new components and why Symfony is moving PHP world forward once again you can find in this talk.

Using API platform to build ticketing system (translations, time zones, ...)

Why is API platform a way to go and the new standard in developing apps? In this talk, I want to show you some real examples that we built using API platform including a ticketing system for the world’s biggest bicycle marathon and a social network that is a mixture of both Tinder and Facebook Messenger.

We had to tackle problems regarding the implementation of tax laws in 18 different countries, dozens of translations (including Arabic), multiple role systems, different timezones, overall struggle with a complicated logic with an infinite number of branches, and more. Are you interested? Sign up for the talk.

Web Payment API a new way of paying online

Purchasing experience on the mobile web is broken! Every time you want to do payment on a mobile device you get stuck with the payment form, tapping n clicks and filling endless forms.

Imagine if you can make only one click and that ’s it - your payment is done. Yes, that is possible and you need only a few lines of code. In this talk, I will give you an introduction to new Web Payment API works and how you can improve your users’ experience with it.

365 days of PWA

It’s been a year since my team started researching and creating Progressive web apps - and the results are stunning!

The idea behind PWA is to replace native mobile apps. In this talk, I will show you what can be builtwith PWA, what are the limitations and how can you make your client satisfied by the usage of Progressive Web Apps.

Progressive Web Apps use modern web capabilities to deliver an app-like user experience. They evolve from pages in browser tabs to immersive, top-level apps, maintaining the web's low friction at every moment.

They are reliable, fast, engaging and delivering amazing UX to end users. And they are here!

How to handle clients and deadlines with better QA?

Usually, teams are ignoring the importance of QA and using it at the end of the project. In this talk, I want to show you how you should QA your projects from the beginning and how that will save you a lot of time, nerves and money. Also, I will show you why QA is a must have for every team and in the end, it will make you happy and your client also.

Team often do a rookie mistake by not using their QA team until the end of the project. Let’s take a look at the benefits that Quality Assurance can bring during the development period. The results will amaze you - and your client.

Past talks (49)
Using API platform to build ticketing system (translations, time zones, ...)
Symfony Day
Verona, Italy
October 17, 2019
Are you failing at being agile?
Digital Labin
Labin, Croatia
October 27, 2019
Web Payment API a new way of paying online
Kulendayz 2019
Osijek, Croatia
September 6, 2019
Is SCRUM good for agencies?
Kulendayz 2019
Osijek, Croatia
September 6, 2019
Symfony4: a new way of building web applications
Phpers Summit 2019
Poznan, Poland
September 5, 2019
REST easy with API Platform (Handson workshop)
Phpers Summit 2019
Poznan, Poland
September 4, 2019
The UI is the Application
Tinel Meetup
Split, Croatia
June 26, 2019
The UI is THE APPLICATION
DutchPHP Conference 2019 (DPC19)
Amsterdam, Netherland
June 6, 2019
A Year with Progressive Web Apps
Webinale 2019
Berlin, Germany
June 3, 2019
Symfony 4: A new Way to develop Applications
International PHP Conference Berlin 2019 (IPC19)
Berlin, Germany
June 3, 2019
Panel discussion: How to start working globally from Split?
Shift Developers Conference
Split, Croatia
May 29, 2019
Symfony 4: A new way to develop applications
PHP Serbia 2019
Belgrade, Serbia
May 25, 2019
A year with progressive web apps
Weblica 2019
Čakovec, Croatia
May 10, 2019
The UI is the Application
Weblica 2019
Čakovec, Croatia
May 10, 2019
REST easy with API platform
DevConMU
Mauritius
April 11, 2019
A year with PWA
DevConMU
Mauritius
April 10, 2019
Why Symfony2 framework is good choice?
Web Strategija
Zagreb, Croatia
June 13, 2012
Why Symfony2?
ZGPhp
Zagreb, Croatia
September 20, 2012
Symfony workshop
PHP Conference Croatia
Zagreb,Croatia
September 16, 2013
Sylius - a new way of developing ecommerce solutions
PHP Conference Croatia
Zagreb, Croatia
September 18, 2013
Symfony workshop
eZ Summer Camp
Bol, Croatia
September 3, 2013
Building Single page application with Symfony2 And AngularJS
PHPDay, Verona
Verona, Italy
May 12, 2014
Sylius as Ecommerce solution
PHPDay, Verona
Verona, Italy
May 13, 2014
Sylius as Ecommerce solution
WebCamp LJubljana, Lighting talk
Ljubljana, Slovenia
October 4, 2014
Mentoring Startups at Shift Conference
Mentoring Startups at Shift Conference
Split, Croatia
May 29, 2014
Croatia entrepreneurship conference 3P - how to build a successful company
3P Conference
Split, Croatia
March 2, 2015
Mentoring Startups at Shift Conference
Shift Split
Mentoring Startups at Shift Conference
May 29, 2015
Using Sylius as an eCommerce solution with eZ
WebSummerCamp
Rovinj, Croatia
August 29, 2015
A recipe for effective leadership
Better Software
Florence, Italy
September 29, 2015
Building Real Time applications with PHP
Symfony Camp UA
Kiew, Ukraine
October 22, 2015
Croatia entrepreneurship conference 3P - why quality services are the most important thing
3P Conference
Split, Croatia
March 17, 2016
How we build and lead your company?
Summer Jam
Pakostane, Croatia
May 23, 2016
Using Sylius in production
Symfony Croatia Meetup
Zagreb, Croatia
September 24, 2016
Maintainable + Extensible = Clean ... yes, Code!
Symfony Camp UA
Kiew, Ukraine
October 27, 2016
Drupal8 for Symfony Developers
PHPUK
London, United Kindom
February 19, 2017
Progressive web applications are here!
Dump Days
Split, Croatia
March 28, 2017
Panel discussion: Developers - most wanted profession in the world
Dump Days
Split, Croatia
March 29, 2017
Drupal8 for Symfony Developers
PhpDay Verona
Verona, Italy
May 24, 2017
Symfony more in depth with events and services
DEVit
Thessaloniki, Greece
June 19, 2017
Lessons learned while developing with Sylius
Symfony Croatia UG
Zagreb, Croatia
July 19, 2017
Drupal8 for Symfony developers workshop
Dutch PHP
Amsterdam, Netherland
June 19, 2017
Building APIs in an easy way using API Platform
WebSummerCamp
Rovinj, Croatia
August 28, 2017
Go Mobile, or Go Home
TNT Split
Split, Croatia
April 21, 2018
Real REST is easy with Api Platform
PHPDay Verona
Verona, Italy
May 17, 2018
Symfony 4: the new way of developing web application
CODEId
Odessa, Ukraine
August 15, 2018
Panel discussion, state of Industry
Digital Labin
Labin, Croatia
September 19, 2018
Real REST is easy with Api Platform
WebCamp Zagreb
Zagreb, Croatia
October 4, 2018
Progressive web apps are here!
Symfony Camp UA
Kiew, Ukraine
October 22, 2018
Service workers are your best friends!
GrowIT Conference
Novi Sad, Serbia
November 29, 2018
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The Art of networking
Drupal for Symfony Developers
Symfony 4: A New Way to Develop Applications
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  • As far as lectures go my personal favorite was the very last in the line-up: Antonio Perić-Mažar from Locastic. Excellent English pronunciation and a very interesting topic on agile methodologies in the software development process. He gave us many real-life examples from Locastic workflow and explained why the SCRUM method isn’t for everyone. Unlike other speakers, Antonio was bombarded with questions after his talk, which is a good indicator of how interesting and relevant he was on the stage. It’s good to hear that they are also venturing into Kanban process, a methodology that Neuralab team fully embraces .
    Bruno Zagorščak
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Antonio Perić-Mažar is CEO at Locastic digital agency, organizer and speaker at many events.

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