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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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Debugging and Profiling PHP Web Applications

By sam keen | Published: May 13, 2009
Meeting Start Time: Tue, 12 May 2009 19:30:00 -0700 A tour of PHP application debugging and profiling techniques using open source tools such as - Xdebug [http://www.xdebug.org/] - Netbeans [http://www.netbeans.org/features/php/] - cachegrind [http://valgrind.org/info/tools.html] Presenter: Sam Keen @samkeen
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PHP Develoment Methods for Producing Modular, Scalable Code

By sam keen | Published: April 15, 2009
Meeting Start Time: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:30:00 -0700 Michael Scotto Di Carlo will be leading a discussion on a programming pattern for developing PHP applications that are: Scalable Quick to produce Modular / Portable easy to share, implement and customize Easy AJAX integration Fully abstracted HTML Little to no learning curve Michael Scotto Di Carlo Professor Clark College www.clark.edu Developer Supportland LLC supportland.com
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Introduction to Aspen framework

By sam keen | Published: March 11, 2009
Meeting Start Time: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:30:00 -0700 Aspen is a PHP-based website and application development platform. Not only will you be able to produce quality results in less time, but your work is kept modular for amazing portability. The team from Trellis Development will give an introduction to the framework, along with a real [...]
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Advanced PHP Data Objects Programming Using MySQL Stored Queries

By sam keen | Published: February 11, 2009
Meeting Start Time: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:30:00 -0800 This presentation will cover the following topics: * PHP Data Objects Model and Setup * PHP Data Objects and Object-Oriented Programming * MySQL Stored Queries Design and Development * Calling MySQL Stored Queries in [...]
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Multi Topic: Concrete5 CMS and Netbeans6.5 PHP IDE

By sam keen | Published: January 14, 2009
Meeting Start Time: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:30:00 -0800 The headliner for this meeting will be The folks at Concrete Studios giving us a tour of their CMS product: Concrete5 (c5) What is c5? concrete5 is a building material for the web. Working with a web designer or pre-existing theme, a site owner can create and easily change [...]
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