August 23, 2010 – 9:23 am
This year’s Vermont Code Camp will be on Saturday, September 11th, 2010 at Kalkin Hall on the University of Vermont campus. Last year’s event was a big success with 85 attendees and 19 sessions and this one promises to be even bigger and better! The second annual Vermont Code Camp will be a full day […]
By Bradley Holt
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Tagged .NET, BTV, btvphpug, FOSS, Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, Software Deployment, SQL, Vermont, vtcodecamp
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August 16, 2010 – 12:22 am
I recently surveyed the Burlington, VT PHP Users Group to get an idea of what motivates people to be involved with the group. I got the idea from a blog post on the top 7 reasons why people join a user group community. This was certainly not a scientific survey and there were only 16 […]
August 11, 2010 – 1:01 pm
I have submitted a panel on Zend Framework 2.0 and PHP 5.3 Web Applications for the 2011 SXSW Interactive Festival. Please consider giving this panel your vote. From the panel’s description: Zend Framework is a free/open source web application framework. It can be used either as a component library or as a full-stack Model–View–Controller (MVC) […]
On Sunday, August 15th the Burlington, Vermont PHP Users Group will be hosting a PHP Picnic. From the description: The Burlington, Vermont PHP Users Group invites you to join us for a picnic at Oakledge Park. All are welcome but we’d like to extend a special invitation to members of other local technology user groups. […]
Apache CouchDB is a free/open source RESTful JSON document (NoSQL) database with map reduce views and peer-based replication. Version 1.0 was just released today and is 300% faster than the previous version and includes Microsoft Windows support, an authentication system, and flexible replicator options. The New York Times, ReadWriteEnterprise and InfoWorld covered the release. Couchio […]
At tomorrow’s Burlington, VT PHP Users Group meeting Matthew Weier O’Phinney will be giving a presentation on Document Databases. From the meeting description: NoSQL has become a new buzzword in web development—but what is it, exactly? We’ll look at the big picture to identify what types of NoSQL solutions exist, what sorts of problems they […]
Next week’s Burlington, VT PHP Users Group meeting will be a Magento Roundtable discussion. From the meeting description: Over the last year, Magento has increased in popularity as a viable open source eCommerce platform for the mid to large scale online retailer. This rapid growth has lead to many questions on what has been fixed, what […]
Sadly, today was the final day of TEK·X. However, there was plenty of information and networking packed into the last few days. Marco Tabini and the rest of the team put on a top-notch conference. Being the last day, there were only three sessions. I started out with Jason Austin’s Lean Mean PHP Machine session […]
It’s hard to believe tomorrow is the last day of TEK·X. Where did the time go? Today started with Matthew Schmidt’s 10 Developer Trends in 2010. He talked about agile development, browser standards, AJAX, security vulnerabilities, RIAs, touch interfaces, key/value stores, version control, cloud computing, and dynamic languages. While not a bad keynote, the topics […]
By Bradley Holt
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Tagged HTTP, PHP, PHPUnit, Software Deployment, SPL, SQL, tekX, tekX10, Xdebug, XMPP, Zend Framework
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Day one of TEK·X here in Chicago got off to a great start with Josh Holmes’ Lost Art of Simplicity keynote. I agreed with pretty much everything that Josh had to say. As software developers, we’re often all too eager to start building a complex solution to what may be a simple problem. Following are […]
