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 [...]
Found Line is hiring! We’re looking for a Functional Analyst & Quality Assurance Specialist to help us create useful web applications. Here is a description of the job:
As a Functional Analyst & Quality Assurance Specialist at Found Line, you will have three primary responsibilities. First, you will communicate with outside clients and subject [...]
An acquaintance of mine, Teresa Langston, made me aware that Vermont Information Processing (VIP) is looking for a Senior/Lead PHP Developer. More information is available on their careers page but a more in-depth description was recently posted to PHPDeveloper.org. An excerpt of the job description:
We are seeking an experienced PHP Application Developer with serious chops [...]
January 29, 2010 – 10:44 am
Slides from last night’s Zend Framework Introduction at the Burlington, Vermont PHP Users Group are now available online:
Zend Framework Introduction
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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 [...]
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 20, 2010 – 5:33 pm
The other day there was a discussion on the VAGUE mailing list about an open source and open standards bill (H.516) [PDF] recently introduced in the Vermont General Assembly (a.k.a. legislature). It’s technically an amendment to an existing act and has the following stated purpose:
This bill proposes to require the department of information and innovation [...]
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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December 23, 2009 – 4:18 pm
The other day we launched the first iteration of the Common Good Vermont website. From the about page:
Vermont (pop. 621,000) is a small, tightly knit rural state proud of its independent spirit and high levels of civic engagement. Vermont’s independent sector (3000+ organizations, $4 billion annual revenue) plays a primary role in the delivery of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]