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

Posted on July 11, 2017 by Eric Poe

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!

php[arch] Article by Joseph Maxwell

Posted on January 23, 2017 by Eric Poe

Check out the January 2017 issue of php[architect]. Our member, Joseph Maxwell, has an article based on his talk, Four Design Patterns to Make Better Code.

Well done, Joseph!

October 5 – Open Source Hack Night

Posted on October 5, 2016 by Eric Poe

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

Posted on September 7, 2016 by Eric Poe

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

Posted on July 6, 2016 by Eric Poe

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

Posted on May 31, 2016 by Eric Poe

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.

Open Source Opportunity

Posted on May 16, 2016 by Eric Poe

If you would like to help out an open-source project but don’t know where to start, check out the Fourth Symfony Docs Hack Day on Saturday, May 21 from 2:00 AM CDT to 2:00 PM CDT (Note: you do not need to be active in this for the entire 12 hours).

If you’ve never contributed to open source before, this is a great way to start! Check out the introduction mini-workshop, hang out on #symfony-docs (on FreeNode on IRC) before and during the event, and do what you can to contribute. This is a low-pressure event and all involved want to help you contribute in the best way that you can.

May 4 – Writing Better Code with the New PHP 7

Posted on May 4, 2016 by Eric Poe

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

Posted on March 1, 2016 by Eric Poe

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

Posted on January 12, 2016 by Eric Poe

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.