There and Back Again

Yesterday at azPhp I gave a short presentation about the benefits of upgrading to PHP 5. The slides for cool things in php 5 are available. If you goto the single page view you can see the notes that go with the presentation, there are article links for most items giving more details.

Tuesday I did a presentation about PEAR at my local PHP user group. Those slides are now available.

I’m hoping to improve the slides a bit and give this presentation at lots of other places. If any PHP User groups on the west coast would like me to do a presentation about PEAR drop my a line.

If you’d like to give a presentation about PEAR at your local user group also let me know and I’ll give you a tarball of the slides, you just have to agree to give me back your updates .

I’ll be giving a talk about Jquery at the azPHP meeting tomorrow. If your in the Phoenix area you should come to the meeting, its at Walt Tv in Tempe at 7pm. azPHP meetings are a great place to meet fellow PHP developers and this month to learn some neat AJAX tricks.

After a long holiday break azPHP is back, our January meeting is tonight and we have a couple great presentations lined up.

The meeting is tonight 7:00pm at Walt’s TV in Tempe be sure to invite anyone you know that might be interested.

The meeting will have two two presentations each around 45 minutes long and then will finish things up with a open QA Session answering questions about the presentations or about anything else that is PHP releated.

The Presentations are:

Beginning Presentation: An introduction to the JavaScript DOM and scriptaculous by Jon Roig
Advanced Presentation: Generic Data Objects by Brian Ross

Meeting Timeline –
Tuesday Jan 24
7:00 – PHP News
7:15 – An introduction to the JavaScript DOM and scriptaculous by Jon Roig
8:00 – Generic Data Objects by Brian Ross
8:45 – QA Session
9:30ish – Social Hour(s) at Old Chicago

The meeting is tomorrow 7:00pm at Walt’s TV in Tempe be sure to invite anyone you know that might be interested.

The meeting will have two two presentations each around 45 minutes long and then will finish things up with a open QA Session answering questions about the presentations or about anything else that is PHP releated.

The Presentations are:

Beginning Presentation: Smarty Presentation by Chris Cowan
Advanced Presentation: Getting started with HTML_AJAX by Joshua Eichorn

Meeting Timeline –
Tuesday October 25
  7:00 – PHP News
  7:15 – Smarty Presentation by Chris Cowan
  8:00 – Getting started with HTML_AJAX by Joshua Eichorn
  8:45 – QA Session
  9:30ish – Social Hour(s) at Old Chicago

The meeting is tomorrow 7:00pm at Walt’s TV in Tempe, be sure to invite anyone you know that might be interested.

Were having two new things at this months Meetings. Eric Thelin will start the meeting out giving us an overview of his what he found at the recent Microsoft PDC conferences. The other new item item is our first Roundtable.

Also we have a great presentation about Database abstraction by Jon Roig.

Meeting Timeline –
Tuesday September 27
7:00 – Microsoft Update by Eric
7:15 – DB Abstraction with PEAR::DB Jon Roig
8:00 – Roundtable: PHP Architecture Members: Josh, Eric, Brock, Travis
8:45 – QA Session
9:30ish – Social Hour(s) at Old Chicago

Round Table Questions:
What are your thoughts on class/function namespacing ie (PEAR style HTML_AJAX)
Do you build frameworks or libraries
How do you manage external code (PEAR stuff, adodb, smarty etc)
How do you manage config information

I hope to see lots of new faces

Tomorrow is the 4th tuesday so it will be soon time for an evening of PHP fun.

The main presentation will be a “Beginners Guide to PHP” by Alex Dean so make sure to invite anyone you know who is interested in getting started with PHP.
Along those same lines I’ll be giving a short Introduction to PEAR, and if there is some extra time going over the plans for the new website.

You can get the location from the groups website (yes were working on one that doesn’t suck), and as always if you have any questions, the mailing list is a great place to start.

The Schedule:
Tuesday August 23
7:00 – PHP news for 15 minutes
7:15 – Beginners Guide to PHP by Alex Dean
8:00 – Introduction to PEAR and the Group Website by Joshua Eichorn
8:45 – QA Session
9:30ish – Social Hour(s) at Old Chicago

Hope to see you all there
-josh

Phoenix’s PHP User’s group is having its monthly meeting tomorrow. Its at the usual time and place, Walt’s TV at 7:00pm. The presentation was going to be “Connecting PHP and Java through a bridge” but it seems that the presenter is going to be in Colorado which messes up that plan a bit.

But being a well organized bunch Eric and I have a backup plan, tomorrows presentation will be replaced by a round table on:

Neat PHP Hacks/tricks

It would be great if everyone who comes to the meeting could bring some exciting PHP code they’ve written to show off. I’ll be showing off PHP Flash app I’ve been working on (not all that neat, but definitely a hack) as well as some AJAX stuff.

The presentation went pretty good tonight, the turnout was pretty good, lots of new faces.

I kept dropping the wireless connection which didn’t help with showing sample apps, but we recovered pretty well. Anyhow the slides are up take a look, any feedback would be appreciated since i’ll be giving an updated version in another month or so.

Slides for AzPHP Presentation: Building Dynamic Web Applications with AJAX

I’ll be giving the presentation at tomorrow AzPHP user group meeting. The topic is: Building Dynamic Web Applications with AJAX.

I’ll have slides up from the presentation in the next few days.

The meeting starts at 7:00, directions are on the AzPHP Website.

If you live in the Phoenix area I hope to see you there.

I’m presenting at AzPHP tomorrow at 7. I’ll be running an object oriented design workshop. Will be doing an Object Oriented Design Workshop walking through a small project (expense reporting) and covering design and implementation decisions.

I’ll have some notes and basic slides linked from here some time before the meeting tomorrow.

The presentation last night went pretty well. I gave my short presentation, (the simple slides are up) using the phpDocumentor Manual for complex examples and showing some of the possibilities. Then we talked a bit about the fun stuff coming in php5. It looks like simpleXML will be one of the big php5 features that makes it worth switching.

I’ll be giving the presentation at my local PHP users group, AzPHP, tonight. The topic will be “an Introduction to phpDocumentor” i’ll be going through a number of hello world type examples, and then showing some of the more complex functionality by looking at some of the ways phpDocumentor documents itself. I’ll also be answering any questions that people might have.

The meeting starts at 7pm at Walts TV in Tempe.

The AzPHP website has more details and a map.