PDXPHP's Mission: The Portland PHP Users Group is a community forum for people to share, meet and learn about PHP and Open Source technologies. The group strives to be a valuable resource for anyone interested in PHP regardless of their skill level or background. Through sharing and communication we believe we can foster a creative and successful community of PHP developers.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
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.
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/
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.
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:
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
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
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 world use-case scenario. Trellis is a local company that is developing a series of web-based products, and consists of members who currently run programming and design companies.
http://www.aspen-framework.org
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 PHP Data Objects Programming
* Advanced PHP Data Objects Programming Tips and Ideas
* Conclusions
* Questions and Answers
* Slides, docs, examples and PHP source code will be provided
presented by
Ernest Bonat, Ph.D.
Visual WWW, Inc.
Lightning Talks
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:
should take it, where you take it, how to pass.
If you would like to present in slots 3 or 4 just let me know
sam.sjk at gmail