Tweakers Developers Summit 2021 (digital) | June 2,3,4,5

Sander Dorigo

Developing Firefly III: An open source and easy-access PHP application

I started Firefly III as a tiny Laravel project with one user (me). Firefly III can now boast of having thousands of users, several supporting apps and a whole range of associated tools. In this presentation, I’ll talk about developing the application architecture, the API, managing all of the upgrade woes, and of course about all of the open source contributions I received over the years.

Track: Back-end
Programming languages: PHP
Level: Intermediate
On-demand video: Yes

The talk can be viewed 14 days (after June 5, 2021) for logged visitors on the platform.

Sander Dorigo

Under the alias “James Cole”, Sander Dorigo has spent a lot of his free time building Firefly III. This free and open source personal finance manager has grown to be one of the many popular financial managers out there. In the meantime his boss pays him to be a security consultant.