Start: April 20, 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’ We will also be raffling off a free pass to Open Source Bridge at this meeting.  We'll just do a random drawing for all that attend the meeting.

• Jordan Lev will give a presentation on creating custom admin interface elements in the Concrete5 CMS. I’ve found this to be a great tool when building websites for clients as it both cuts down on support costs (less wrangling with the WYSIWYG editor, photo sizing, lining up content, etc.) and makes non-technical people feel more in control of their sites (which has resulted in more repeat business for me). Since this feature is not very well articulated in the C5 marketing materials or in the documentation, I thought it might be helpful to explain how it works and to show examples of how I’ve used it in websites I’ve built in the past. (BTW, I am a freelance web developer who uses C5 for many client projects, but I am not involved with the core team).
• Kris Wallsmith (symfony release manager): Will give a preview of Symfony 2

• Chris Alan I used the PHP Twitter API client written by Arc 90: http://lab.arc90.com/2008/06/03/php-twitter-api-client/ and ran continuous searches on Twitter for 'sxsw' and found 75 thousand users. I pulled in all twitter messages that occurred during SXSW for those users and ended up with 8 million messages, each one was analyzed for keywords that I set up, as well as hashtags, URLs and references to other twitter users. The keywords I set up include basic technology keywords, as well as the bands and films that were at SXSW and roughly 240 Austin bars that I got off Yahoo YQL.
• Quick intro to using MongoDB with PHP. What are the advantages, disadvantages. Presenter: Sam Keen

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.