July 2017 – Special Combined Meetup with TechTalks – A KCWiT group

We are delaying our regular evening meetup by a week this month in order to have a combined meetup with the Kansas City Women in Technology TechTalks. This will be an exciting opportunity for us to learn about KCWiT, TechTalks, and other KCWiT programs. John Kary will give his highly-rated “Rethinking Loops” talk.

After the event, please rate the meeting and the talk.

Light refreshments will be served.

We will meet at 6pm, July 12, at Stowers Institute in KCMO. Free visitor parking in the parking garage will be available (just park anywhere that isn’t marked “member”).

An RSVP is appreciated via meetup.

We look forward to seeing everyone there!

October 5 – Open Source Hack Night

Come join us Wednesday night for an evening of presentations.

Eric Poe will give a short talk beforehand on the latest news in PHP-land from last month. Afterwards, we will take a look at a handful of open source projects and look at ways we can help them out by contributing to their documentation and code. If you would like to participate in Hacktoberfest 2016, this meeting can help you get started with the required 4 pull-requests!

After the event, please rate the meeting and the talk.

Light refreshments will be served.

We will meet at 6pm, October 5, at Stowers Institute in KCMO. Free visitor parking in the parking garage will be available.

An RSVP is appreciated via Meetup.

September 7 – CloudFormation on AWS

Come join us Wednesday night for an evening of presentations.

Eric Poe will give a short talk beforehand on the latest news in PHP-land from last month. Joseph Maxwell will talk about using CloudFormation templates on AWS.

After the talks, we will take a look at a handful of open source projects and look at ways we can help them out by contributing to their documentation and code.

After the talks and event, please rate the overall meeting and the talks.

Light refreshments will be served.

We will meet at 6pm, September 7, at Stowers Institute in KCMO. Free visitor parking in the parking garage will be available.

An RSVP is appreciated via Meetup.

July 6 – Lightning Talks and Open Source Hack Night

Come join us Wednesday night for an evening of lightning talks.

Eric Poe will give a short talk beforehand on the latest news in PHP-land from last month. Russ Lownie will give an introduction to PHPExcel.

After the talks, we will take a look at a handful of open source projects and look at ways we can help them out by contributing to their documentation and code.

After the talks and event, please rate the overall meeting and the talks.

Light refreshments will be served.

We will meet at 6pm, July 6, at Stowers Institute in KCMO. Free visitor parking in the parking garage will be available.

An RSVP is appreciated via Meetup.

June 1 – PHP Generators

Come join us Wednesday night for David Stanley‘s talk: “Generators: Not just for keeping the lights on.” Generators were introduced in PHP 5.5 with the yield keyword. David has some great insight into good uses for this special feature.

Eric Poe will give a short talk beforehand on the latest news in PHP-land from last month.

After the talks, please rate the overall meeting and the talks.

Light refreshments will be served.

We will meet at 6pm, June 1, at Stowers Institute in KCMO. Free visitor parking in the parking garage will be available.

An RSVP is appreciated via Meetup.

May 4 – Writing Better Code with the New PHP 7

Please join us for a preview of the PHP 7 talk that Joseph Maxwell will be giving at php[tek] in a few weeks in St. Louis.

Eric Poe will give a short talk beforehand on the latest news in PHP-land from last month.

After the talks, please rate the overall meeting and the talks.

Light refreshments will be served.

We will meet at 6pm, May 4, at Stowers Institute in KCMO. Free visitor parking in the parking garage will be available.

An RSVP is appreciated via Meetup.

March 2 – Mini PHP Conference Edition

We are pleased to announce that two of our members will be presenting talks this year at various PHP conferences. Please join us for a preview of some of their talks!

John Kary will give a presentation on replacing loops with functional features in PHP. This is the talk that he will be giving at Midwest PHP and at Lone Star PHP.

Joseph Maxwell will give a preview of his OAuth2 talk that he will be giving versions of at Lone Star PHP and php[tek].

Eric Poe will give a short talk beforehand on the latest news in PHP-land from last month.

After the talks, please rate the overall meeting and the talks.

Light refreshments will be served.

We will meet at 6pm, March 2, at Stowers Institute in KCMO. Free visitor parking in the parking garage will be available.

An RSVP is appreciated via Meetup.

February 3, 2016 – Grav Flat-File CMS

Grav is a dynamic flat-file CMS written in PHP. Come join us Wednesday evening, Feb 3, to hear from Andrew Koebbe as he gives a presentation on Grav. Eric Poe will give a short talk beforehand on the latest news in PHP-land from last month.

After the talks, please rate the overall meeting and the talks.

Light refreshments will be served.

We will meet at 6pm, February 3, at Stowers Institute in KCMO. Free visitor parking in the parking garage will be available.

An RSVP is appreciated via Meetup.

January 6, 2016 – What’s New in PHP

PHP 7 is a month old and already it’s up to version 7.0.1. This is the first major version release in a little over a decade for PHP. Come join us Wednesday evening, Jan 6, to hear from Joseph Maxwell what’s new in PHP 7. Eric Poe will give a short talk beforehand on the latest news in PHP-land from last month.

After the talks, please rate the overall meeting and the talks.

Light refreshments will be served.

We will meet at 6pm, January 6, at Stowers Institute in KCMO. Free visitor parking in the parking garage will be available.

An RSVP is appreciated via Meetup.