January 28, 2010 – 11:49 am
At tonight’s (Thursday, January 28, 2010) Burlington, Vermont PHP Users Group meeting I’ll be giving a Zend Framework Introduction presentation. I’ll be covering how to use several features of Zend Framework and common patterns including:
Zend_Tool
Zend_Application
Model-View-Controller (MVC)
Zend_Layout
Action Controllers
View Scripts
Zend_Test
Modeling domain objects
Zend_Form
Zend_Db_Table
Data Mapper
Zend_Paginator
Zend_Date
Zend_Markup
Zend_Navigation
Controller Plugins
I’ve created a demo blogging application called Postr that I’ll be using as an [...]
January 1, 2010 – 5:38 pm
Being the first day of 2010, I thought it would be a good time to take a look back at 2009…
Burlington, VT PHP Users Group
2009 was the second full year of the Burlington, VT PHP Users Group. We had some fun meetings and presentations including:
January
Jason Pelletier gave a presentation on CSS for Developers.
CSS for Developers
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November 18, 2009 – 6:44 pm
If you are a PHP developer in the Burlington, Vermont area then you should come to tomorrow (11/19) evening’s PHP Users Group meeting at the newly opened Office Squared coworking space in downtown Burlington. This month we will be learning how to find and fix bugs in free and open source projects. From the meeting [...]
November 11, 2009 – 5:23 pm
At last month’s Burlington, VT PHP Users Group meeting I presented a session on beginner PHP. The code examples can be downloaded (or forked) from GitHub. The talk was geared towards complete beginners and covered the basic structure of a PHP script, variables, comments, data types, arrays (enumerative, associative and multi-dimensional), operators, conditionals, iterative [...]
October 15, 2009 – 12:09 pm
The Burlington, VT PHP Users group has been going strong for almost two years now. We’ve had lots of great presentations and some really experienced PHP developers at the meetings. However, I’ve been concerned that we might scare away PHP beginners with many of the meetings being on advanced topics. So, our next meeting topic [...]
September 24, 2009 – 10:58 am
Tonight (9/24) the Burlington, VT PHP Users Group will be hosting its first “social” event. We’ll be having a casual get-together at Madera’s in place of the typical meeting format. We’ve also extended an open invitation for non-PHP people to come and join us. The Vermont Code Camp earlier this month was a great opportunity [...]
September 14, 2009 – 4:41 pm
One of the great things to come out of this past Saturday’s Vermont Code Camp was the opportunity for people from various local technology user groups to connect with one another. People from the Vermont.NET User Group were there (the .NET group spearheaded organizing the event) and I also saw some friends from the Burlington, [...]
September 14, 2009 – 12:02 pm
By all accounts, the first ever Vermont Code Camp was a big success! There were 85 attendees, 19 sessions, and a whole track of non-.NET topics (not that there’s anything wrong with .NET!). A HUGE thank you to Rob Hale, Julie Lerman and everyone else who organized, volunteered and presented. Also, a big thank you [...]
September 10, 2009 – 5:16 pm
This Saturday (Sept 12) from 9am-6pm will be the first ever Vermont Code Camp and it will be here in Burlington, Vermont at Kalkin Hall on the University of Vermont campus. While code camps are typically .NET focused, this one will cover a broad range of topics including .NET, PHP, Ruby and Python (full list [...]
The Burlington, VT PHP Users Group has won a free pass to ZendCon ‘09 along with Austin PHP Meetup, the Chicago PHP User Group, PHPBenelux, and PHPWomen. Congratulations to my fellow PHP users group members! Now we need to pick a lucky member to get the free ZendCon pass. Are you a local PHP [...]