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excerpt: About Martin Bean, his work, books he’s been involved with, and talks he has given.
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<h1>About</h1>
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<p class="lead"><strong>Hi!</strong> I’m Martin Bean, an experienced web developer and team lead based in the <abbr title="United Kingdom">UK</abbr>. Day to day I work with PHP, Laravel, JavaScript and TypeScript, and <abbr title="Amazon Web Services">AWS</abbr>.</p>
<p>I have over 15 years’ experience in building web-based solutions and <abbr title="Application Programming Interfaces">APIs</abbr> for companies of all sizes, from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies.</p>
<p>Outside of my full time role I run a company called <a class="font-weight-semibold" href="https://www.yourfightsite.com" rel="external nofollow" target="_blank">Your Fight Site</a>, where I help independent professional wrestling and combat sport promoters through two products: a multi-tenant <abbr class="initialism" title="content management system">CMS</abbr>, and a video on demand platform called <a class="font-weight-semibold" href="https://vod.yourfightsite.com/" rel="external nofollow" target="_blank">Your Fight Site <abbr title="Video On Demand">VOD</abbr></a></p>
<p>In my spare time I pursue an interest in reverse engineering, particularly PlayStation® 1 video games. This has been a hugely interesting and rewarding endeavour, where I’ve gone from knowing little about a computer’s internals to gaining a high-level understanding of hardware architecture, <abbr title="central processing units">CPUs</abbr> and registers, and both <abbr class="initialism" title="Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipelined Stages">MIPS</abbr> assembly and the C programming language.</p>
<p>I’m a lifelong learner with a thirst for knowledge, and enjoy sharing this knowledge and enthusiam in both my work and my spare time. I’m also active in developer communities such as <a class="font-weight-semibold" href="https://stackoverflow.com/" rel="external nofollow" target="_blank">Stack Overflow</a> and the <a class="font-weight-semibold" href="https://laracasts.com/discuss" rel="external nofollow" target="_blank">Laracasts forums</a></p>
<p>If you think I would make a great addition to your team, then I’m open to new roles and project engagements. Feel free to <a class="font-weight-bold" href="{% link contact.html %}" title="Contact Martin Bean">contact me</a> for a no obligation chat.</p>
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<h1 class="h2">Books</h1>
<p>I was privileged to be involved in the creation of the following printed books:</p>
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<span>Technical Editor</span>,
<a href="https://www.apress.com/gp/book/9781484224502" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><i>Design Patterns in PHP and Laravel</i></a>
<span>(Apress, 2017)</span>
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<span>Contributor</span>,
<a href="https://www.freeagent.com/fieldguide/" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><i>A Field Guide to Freelancer Finances</i></a>
<span>(FreeAgent, 2016)</span>
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<span>Author</span>,
<a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785283014/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=marbea-21&camp=1634&creative=6738&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1785283014&linkId=01abe7a11c70ddea65e6a7663f9337a7" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><i>Laravel 5 Essentials</i></a>
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<span>Technical editor</span>,
<a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1484201884/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=marbea-21&camp=1634&creative=6738&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1484201884&linkId=b1f8f61bbb869300725436fd836408d2" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><i>Beginning Node.js</i></a>
<span>(Apress, 2014)</span>
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<h1 class="h2">Talks</h1>
<p>I’ve also given a handful of talks at my local PHP user group, <a class="font-weight-semibold" href="https://phpne.org.uk" rel="external nofollow" target="_blank">PHP North East</a></p>
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<time datetime="2016-09-20">20 September 2016</time>:
<span class="font-weight-normal">What’s New in Laravel 5.3</span>
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<li class="font-weight-bold">
<time datetime="2016-01-19">19 January 2016</time>:
<span class="font-weight-normal">What’s New in Laravel (since 5.0)</span>
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<li class="font-weight-bold">
<time datetime="2015-06-16">16 June 2015</time>:
<span class="font-weight-normal">An Introduction to Viaduct</span>
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<li class="font-weight-bold">
<time datetime="2014-09-16">16 September 2014</time>:
<span class="font-weight-normal">What’s New in <del>Laravel 4.3</del> <ins>Laravel 5</ins></span>
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