March Meeting

By sam keen | Published: February 25, 2010

March 16 2010 – 6:30pm
Place: NedSpace OldTown

We will have 2 to 4 10-20 minute slots. The format is informal, It is completely acceptable to take a slot and discuss ‘this cool PHP thing you found’

If’ you would like to present a topic at this meeting simply reply here or in the Google Group

As topics come in I’ll add them to the Post description.

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Feb Meeting : Open Topics

By sam keen | Published: January 28, 2010

Feb 16 2010 – 6:30pm
Place: NedSpace OldTown

Time to start planning the Feb meeting.  Lets do open topic as we did in November.

We will have 2 to 4 10-20 minute slots. The format is informal, It is completely acceptable to take a slot and discuss ‘this cool PHP thing you found’

I can start it off with

Topics

  • 10 minutes to a leaner LAMP.
    Buy the “LAMP Blaster” now!  This will be a quick discussion of how in a short amount of time you can reduce the resource needs of your LAMP stack. (@samkeen)
  • Open discussion on best practices for using CodeIgniter
  • Quick demo of a NOAA weather wrapper i just completed
    (@samkeen)

If you would like to present a topic simply comment on this post and I will add you in.

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Welcome to our new home

By sam keen | Published: January 22, 2010

Well here we are,  running on Wordpress.

Excuse our ‘minimalist’ look (I actually sort of like it so there are no plans to go too crazy with the design).

I went into this WP migration with the major goal of making upgrades as easy as possible.  In that vein I am utilizing the Thematic Theme Framework so 99% of the ‘pdxphp’ theme is just a CSS stylesheet.  Also I have created a simple plugin to make changes so to not ‘hack’ any WP files.  So far so good.

Look for improvements to the Job Postings Section in the near future. If you would like to help with that effort, I’ll be posting the plugin code I created for that section soon, so you’ll be able to contribute at that point

I’ve exported the bulk of the meeting posts from the old site and imported them here.  I’m also in the process of adding 301 redirects for some of the key old URLs.

Lastly, we are running the WPTouch plugin, so definitely check out the site on a mobile device, it looks quite good on my G1.

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Symfony In The Cloud

By sam keen | Published: January 16, 2010

Meeting Start Time: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:30:00 -0800

This will be a narrative presentation of one user’s experience as Lead Developer on Nebul.us upgrading a Symfony application for deployment to Amazon’s cloud-based infrastructure.

We will discuss the obstacles met along the way, including juggling master and slave database connections, writing uploaded files to S3, and distributing static assets using the CloudFront CDN.

Additionally, integration with the Symfony configuration and environments system will be demonstrated, allowing one application to be developed locally and seamlessly deployed to the cloud.

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Lightning Talks

By sam keen | Published: November 18, 2009

Meeting Start Time: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:30:00 -0800

Trying a different format this month: Lightning talks.
I saw it work well at the Python meeting this month so I thought we would give it a try.

We will have 2 to 4 10-20 minute slots. The format is informal, It is completely acceptable to take a slot and discuss ‘this cool PHP thing you found’

So far we have:

  • 1: Lise to talk about their experience with the ZCE Test. Why you
    should take it, where you take it, how to pass.
  • 2: SamKeen to intro Doctrine: PHP Object Relational Mapper
  • 3: Cularis, Inc. will talk about their new project: shopIgniter

  • 4: Russell Spivey: Document-Oriented Databases featuring Apache CouchDB

If you would like to present in slots 3 or 4 just let me know
sam.sjk at gmail

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Rapid Development using KohanaPHP

By sam keen | Published: October 21, 2009

Meeting Start Time: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:30:00 -0700

KohanaPHP is a lightweight PHP framework that allows developers to quickly build and deploy websites. We will cover the setup of the framework, development of your application and self-contained modules, and tips for creating websites in under 21 days.

Will be presented by Ryan Snyder of Shizzow and GeekSpeak.

This meeting (like all of our meetings) is free and open to the public
RSVP: Upcoming

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Overview of PHP 5.3

By sam keen | Published: September 16, 2009

Meeting Start Time: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:30:00 -0700

High level overview of PHP 5.3 which is a major milestone in PHP releases.
This discussion will center around:
# Support for namespaces
# Late static binding
# Lambda Functions and Closures

Also, Peter Schmalfeldt will give a tour of a project he is working on and looking for developer help.
He is looking for a few PHP developers to help build http://www.localreuse.org,
the next generation of the current non profit site http://www.gigoit.org.

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Drizzle, Gearman and their PHP API’s

By sam keen | Published: August 12, 2009

Meeting Start Time: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:30:00 -0700

Drizzle and Gearman are open source projects aimed towards helping build scalable web applications. This talk will take a closer look at the ideas behind both and at the PHP interfaces available. Simple source code examples for each will be provided to help developers get started quickly.

Drizzle
- Vision, community, and roadmap
- Micro-kernel architecture
- Modules and interfaces
- New PHP extension for both Drizzle and MySQL

Gearman
- History and basics
- Distributed processing and Map/Reduce
- Asynchronous queues
- New PHP extension

Presenter is Eric Day
@edaypdx

http://www.oddments.org/

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Pub Meeting

By sam keen | Published: July 15, 2009

Meeting Start Time: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:30:00 -0700

No planned topic, just pints this month. Starting at 5:30pm (rather than the regular 6:30)

Plan will be to meet in the outdoor patio weather permitting.

There is free wifi so feel free to bring your laptop.

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PDXPHP Kickoff Meeting for Open Source Bridge featuring Rasmus Lerdorf

By sam keen | Published: June 17, 2009

Meeting Start Time: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:30:00 -0700

photo source: Flickr

Rasmus Lerdorf will be in town for Open Source Bridge and has graciously offered to lead a meeting for PDXPHP. So the Tuesday before the OSBridge festivities kick off, He (and possible a few other speakers in town), will lead a discussion on various PHP and web topics.

Rasmus is of course know for creating the PHP language but is also an expert in application security, and is currently employed with Yahoo as an Infrastructure Architecture Engineer, so there will be no shortage of interesting topics for this meeting.

you may RSVP at here

Pizza and Beverages provided so show up hungry

*Note this meeting is the 3rd Tuesday of the month (not the regular 2nd Tuesday)


Special thanks to our sponsor:

Fine Design Group

Fine Design Group

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