2012 January Meeting

Where : Shopigniter's Office 

When : Tuesday, January 17th, 6:30pm - 8pm'ish Pizza and beverage provided by Shopigniter for this meeting. 

Topic(s): Open for topic suggestions

  • Joomla, and whats new in release 2.5 (PDXfixIT folks)
  • Dapper: A minimal PHP framework (Sam Keen
    I'll give a quick intro and open up (MIT license)  the repo at the meeting. 

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2011 October Meeting

Where : Shopigniter's Office 

When : Tuesday, Oct 18th, 6:30pm - 8pm'ish Pizza and beverage provided by Shopigniter for this meeting. 

Topic(s): Open for topic suggestions

  • Discussion on REST APIs:
    - The advantages to writing an application's API from the start.
    - A brief and non-religious talk on implementing a REST architecture.
    - What developers expect from an API and what really pisses them off.
    - Some of the frameworks available in PHP

    Follow up topics for future meetings could include:
    - Building UI's for an API
    - OAuth and OAuth2

  • Demo debugging w/ Netbeans

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2011 June Meeting

Where : Different Location This Time We'll be at OSBridge which is at the Eliot Center (First Unitarian Church)

When : Tuesday, June 21st, 7pm - 8pm'ish. 

Topic(s): Open for further topic suggestions

  • Mike Botsko will discuss a issue tracking system which will be in private beta very soon.  It is built using PHP5, the Aspen framework (which we've talked about to the group before), HTML5, CSS3, etc.

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2011 April Meeting

Where : Shopigniter's Office 

When : Tuesday, April 19th, 6:30pm - 8pm'ish Pizza and beverage provided by Shopigniter for this meeting. 

At this meeting, we have one free pass to Open Source Bridge 2011 to give away. All atendees of the meeting will be eligible to win.  Winner will be chosen by random drawing at the meeting.

Topic(s): Open for further topic suggestions

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Search Integration (Presentor: Anthony Gentile @agentile)

  • Talk about things to consider when integrating search into a web application.
  • Discuss existing search methods and tools and their features.
  • Show example code focusing on Solr and some useful features it provides for.
  • Importance of search result presentation