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March Meeting

By sam keen | Published: February 25, 2010
Start: March 16 2010 – 6:30pm Place: NedSpace OldTown DemocracyLab’s tech team will make a brief presentation about the development work currently underway. We’re working to improve on the policy-creation framework currently in use here:http://chalkboardproject.democracylab.org/issues. If anyone is interested in checking out the code, they can find it here:http://code.google.com/p/democracylab/ Brent Newton of ShopIgniter will lead a quick discussion [...]
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Feb Meeting : Open Topics

By sam keen | Published: January 28, 2010
Start: 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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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