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 28, 2009 – 12:13 pm
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
March 26, 2009 – 12:27 pm
The presenter at tonight’s (3/26/2009) Burlington, VT PHP Users Group meeting will be Paul Reinheimer of php|architect. His presentation, “Easy Problems are the Hard Problems,” will take an in-depth look at the easy/hard parts of web applications. There will be pizza for your consumption (provided by Found Line). If you’re a web developer in the [...]
February 24, 2009 – 12:32 pm
Aaron Carlino will giving an overview of the SilverStripe CMS / framework at this week’s Burlington, VT PHP Users Group meeting (details). The meeting will be held Thursday February 26th, 2009 from 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm at Bluehouse Group in Richmond. As always, the meeting is open to the public (but be sure to [...]
February 19, 2009 – 1:31 pm
On last week’s The Browser interview (audio) with Jason Pelletier (jason_pelletier) and me, Jonathan Butler (jonathanpb) asked me for an example of a proprietary framework and I used Adobe Flex as an example. It turns out that the Flex SDK is actually not a proprietary framework and is, in fact, open source. I should [...]
February 10, 2009 – 12:02 pm
Tomorrow night (Wednesday February 11th, 2009) Jason and I will be on Jonathan Butler’s new radio show, The Browser. We’ll be talking about Found Line, our work, free/open source software, and open standards. We’ll also talk a little bit about the Burlington, VT PHP Users Group. You can listen to the show at 6:00pm on [...]