Tag Archives: btvphpug

CouchDB 1.0 Released

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 [...]

Document Databases

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 [...]

Magento Roundtable

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 [...]

Zend Framework Introduction

Slides from last night’s Zend Framework Introduction at the Burlington, Vermont PHP Users Group are now available online:
Zend Framework Introduction
View more presentations from Bradley Holt.

The presentation is available under a Creative Commons license.
As I mentioned earlier, there’s also a demo blogging application called Postr available on GitHub. The application is available under a free/open source [...]

Learn Zend Framework

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 [...]

Year In Review

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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Bug Hunting

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 [...]

Beginner PHP Code Examples

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 [...]

The PHP Community

Last week I was at ZendCon, the largest yearly event of the PHP community. One thing that I’ve been thinking about lately, and something that many other people have talked about, is how unique the PHP community is. People are generally friendly and welcoming. Rarely do you run into someone who thinks he or she [...]

Beginner PHP

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 [...]