You know that Python and Django is the way forward for your client, but with a mountain of legacy PHP code, where do you start?

Ben spent the last 3 years working with a thriving charity organisation to migrate their large PHP system to Django. He'd like to share some survival strategies.

This talk covers:

• explaining the transition to your client
• first steps and initial experiments
• running PHP and Django in parallel
• why incremental migration beats the "big switch"
• sharing databases and authentication
• making the experience seamless for visitors and staff
• strategies for converting the code