http://houstonphp.org Sat, 30 May 2009 03:56:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Rasmus Lerdorf, creator of the PHP language, will be in Houston in June and graciously volunteered to do a presentation to our group! Sorry about the last minute modification, but we will need to move our meeting from our usual date/time to Wednesday June 10th at 6:00pm. The presentation details ... http://houstonphp.org/?p=38 I'm happy to announce that we are finally changing the location for our monthly meetings, from the dreaded University of Houston main campus to a Galleria location. Alert Logic has agreed to host the monthly meetings at their headquarters (we are next to the Marathon Oil building), so hopefully this ... http://houstonphp.org/?p=34 Bryan Alsdorf did a good presentation on the new features being planned for PHP 6, the next major release of PHP. He also discussed some of the important changes that are coming up on PHP 5.3, such as the new mysqlnd and (possibly) namespaces. If you missed the meeting, you can ... http://houstonphp.org/?p=33 Ryan Hill from Deviant Research did a great job presenting on PDT, the new generation of IDE tools from Zend (the company founded by some core PHP developers). We discussed a wide variety of topics related to PDT, including the community aspect of this software project, as well as some ... http://houstonphp.org/?p=25 We had a great turnout in the November meeting, with around 20 members showing up to hear about GD and PDT. I took a few pictures, which are available below through Flickr: http://houstonphp.org/?p=31 Joao Prado Maia presented on a novel approach to perform form validation with Smarty and AJAX. Through the use of the PHP DOM extension, form validation is added to XHTML templates dynamically, easing the pain of modifying dozens of forms to add proper validation. If you missed the meeting, you can ... http://houstonphp.org/?p=28 Jordan Raub did a good presentation about SPL, the Standard PHP Library, at our July meeting. Thanks for Jordan for showing up even while being slightly sick with a fever! :) SPL presentation material For more information about SPL, look at the official PHP manual section and this page direct from the ... http://houstonphp.org/?p=24 Don Hobson gave a presentation about the Symfony framework at our June meeting, and the following is the material provided that night. Symfony2.ppt phpMeetupDemo.doc http://houstonphp.org/?p=23 We will have a presentation from Mike Culver of Amazon.com about the Amazon Web Services, and what's possible by using the available developer program. Full details below: Amazon Web Services What's possible in a post Web 2.0 world? Innovation continues at a mind-bending pace, and this presentation will showcase some thought-provoking new ... http://houstonphp.org/?p=20 As it is usual for our group, every month we have presentations about topics related to Web development and PHP and MySQL in particular. We usually have two presentations, one about libraries, practices or tricks on how to improve your productivity and another presentation on actual tools, such as IDEs ... http://houstonphp.org/?p=19