Antonio Perić-Mažar

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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

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

Are you afraid to speak in front of an audience?

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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 .
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