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Summer Coders Social 2010

By sam keen | Published: August 5, 2010
Taking August off from code so no meeting this month. Instead everyone is encouraged to attend the 3rd annual Summer coder’s Social
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Five Tips to Make Good Object-Oriented Code Better

By sam keen | Published: June 15, 2010
Start: July 20th, 2010 – 6:30pm Place: NedSpace OldTown (above Backspace Coffee) Directions from Convention Center (The train will drop you directly in front of Nedspace) As more and more PHP applications move into the object-oriented paradigm, good design is crucial. Concepts like dependency injection, testing, use of interfaces and abstraction are important ideas that [...]
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June meeting

By sam keen | Published: June 6, 2010
Start: June 15th, 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’ Simply add comments if you would like to present at this [...]
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Meeting with Haiping Zhao of Facebook

By sam keen | Published: May 18, 2010
Start: Thursday June 3rd, 2010 – 7pm Place: At Open Source Bridge (as an open to public birds of a feather session) I’m Very pleased to announce that Haiping, Senior Server Engineer at facebook and main engineer behind HipHop for PHP will be meeting with the PDXPHP group on June 3rd.  HipHop is one of the major developments in the PHP-verse as of [...]
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May Meeting

By sam keen | Published: May 7, 2010
Start: May 18th, 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’ Simply add comments if you would like to present at this [...]
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April Meeting

By sam keen | Published: March 29, 2010
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 [...]
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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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