March 2009 – Topics

Posted on March 27, 2009 by Dan

This month we had nice chat about:

[url=http://developer.yahoo.com]developer.yahoo.com[/url], [url=http://developer.yahoo.com/yui]developer.yahoo.com/yui/[/url], [url=http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/]pipes.yahoo.com[/url]
[url=http://www.limesurvey.org]www.limesurvey.org[/url]
[url=http://www.eclipse.org/pdt/downloads/]Eclipse PDT[/url] – IDE for PHP with Debugging
[url=http://wordpress.org/]wordpress.org[/url]
[url=http://www.joomla.org/]joomla.org[/url]
[url=http://drupal.org/]Drupal[/url]

Free College Day at JCCC – April 2009

Posted on March 21, 2009 by Dan

[i]Update 3/27/2009: It appears the classes our sold out. But still, check around…there may be other things of interest out there!![/i]

[quote]As part of Johnson County Community College’s 40th anniversary celebration, JCCC’s faculty and staff have volunteered to offer the public an afternoon of free classes as a way to say thank you to the community. You’ll find more than 200 40-minute classes – arts, business, computers, language and more! – that you can take for free on Saturday afternoon, April 18.[/quote]

In April, I will be one of these volunteers offering two PHP classes:

PHP Boot Camp
Setting Up a Website with Drupal and PHP

You can find other [url=http://www.jccc.edu/home/depts.php/003100/site/FCD/FCD_Classes/FCD_Computers]computer mini-classes[/url] absolutly free on April 18. There are a ton of other topics, and I here there will be cookies or something for between the classes.

Check the [url=http://www.jccc.edu/home/depts.php/003100/site/FCD]FCD website[/url] for more information.

January 2009 Meeting Notes

Posted on January 17, 2009 by Dan

Happy new year!!

We had lots of friends return this year for some good chatting and face time with those of us using PHP.

Eric showed a few of us the Eclipse Studio for PHP…the free cousin of the Zend Studio. If you are looking for a free IDE, be sure to check it out.

One of our newest visitors let us know about lumensoftware.com – They are looking for a few good coders. Be sure to check them out, if you are looking for a LAMP company in PHP.

There was also plenty of side-discussions to keep things interesting.

Adding Flair :: Yahoo User Interface

Posted on September 20, 2008 by Dan

We discussed the Yahoo User Interface from developer.yahoo.com. You can check out our “presentation” as a pdf here:

Click to access YUI-20080920.pdf

Next week, we will likely continue our chat on Drupal. Add some comments if there are things you are looking to discover about it.

YUI or Drupal – Which would you like to talk about tomorrow?

Posted on September 19, 2008 by Dan

Log on in and pick something on my super-quick poll. Which do you want to discuss tomorrow?

[url=http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/]YUI[/url] – Add Javascript goodness to any app made easy
[url=http://drupal.org/]Drupal[/url] – Dare I say, the hot CMS that does it all.

Voting closes at noon!

How do you Time and Profile your code?

Posted on June 21, 2008 by Dan

In July, I am planning to do a presentation on some ways to time and profile your code. Rather than this being a “what Dan found on Google” talk, what are some of the tools or techniques you use to find the trouble spots in your code?

Add your ideas to the comments and I’ll do what I can to fold them into the presentation.

Does anyone really use PHP anymore?

Posted on May 26, 2008 by Dan

I was at training this week, and got into a discussion with an ASP developer in the break room. He ended up asking me: “Does anyone really use PHP anymore?” Naturally, I have him a resounding “Of Course!” But, other than some local sites I couldn’t tell him for sure who anymore.

Then today, my inbox had a little gift from Zend. They have provided a list of case studies, including one on Fox Interactive’s IGN sites who have recently rolled out Grand Theft Auto ‘Hood, Super Smash Bros World, and Voodoo Extreme–all of which are using the Zend Framework and PHP 5.

You can read more about it (including the full whitepaper) and other case studies at: http://framework.zend.com/whyzf/casestudies#fox

Want to review a book?

Posted on January 7, 2008 by Dan

A Press is looking for new voices to review two of their new PHP books. They are looking for reviewers for:

“PHP Objects, Patterns, and Practice, Second Edition”
http://apress.com/book/view/1590599098

Use the site’s Contact Us link if you are interested, and we can figure out a way to get you the details.

Kansas City Area’s BSD User Group

Posted on January 2, 2008 by Dan

Just wanted to let you all know that kcpug’s own Noah Dunker is helping get yet another user group off the ground–this time it’s for BSD!

Their first meeting is on January 9th, at the Plaza Library. It is intended to drum up interest, determine a permanent meeting time and location, and allow participants to experience a little *BSD.

If you are interested in any of the *BSD operating systems (desktop*, Open*, Free*, Net*) make sure you check them out.

http://www.kcbug.org/

November 2007 Meeting

Posted on November 17, 2007 by Dan

Lots of great dialogue today. We had a visit from a very nice couple from St. Louis who are looking for some developer support. Expect to see a posting from them in our Jobs and Opportunities section soon.

We also shared concepts and ideas among the following areas:

[url=http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html]XAMPP – PHP on Windows made Easy[/url]

[url=http://pear.php.net/manual/en/package.webservices.services-delicious.example.php]PEAR’s delicious module[/url]

[url=http://pecl.php.net/package/APD]APD – gproff style profiler for PHP[/url]

[url=http://blog.papervision3d.org/]Papervision 3D – Flash-based 3d environment[/url]

[url=http://flex.org/]Adobe Flex[/url]

[url=http://www.notepad2.com/]Notepad 2[/url]

[url=http://www.textpad.com/]textpad[/url]

[url=http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/]Notepad ++[/url]