Third thursday of each month we meet to have a presentation given by one of our community members. Come learn about a variety of topics and hang out at the After-Party. Meetings details can be found at https://www.meetup.com/Utah-PHP-User-Group/.
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"Due to the rise of mobile application restful back ends are in high demand. There are several PHP frameworks that promise to make this simpler. In this presentation we'll use Lumen to implement and test a simple restful API with authentication. We'll also cover aspects of the Eloquent ORM."
"The speaker will share their experience contributing to several official PHP projects and talk about how you can contribute too! They will also cover guidelines for contributing and low-hanging fruit for projects such as the documentation, php.net and of course PHP itself."
"Impostor syndrome can leave you feeling like you are a fraud and incompetent to be considered a professional in your chosen path. In reality, impostor syndrome is common and occurs when one struggles to internalize achievements and successes. Come feel a burden lifted when you realize that not only are you not an impostor, but you have actually succeeded in achieving something great. Hear about the experiences of others and how to overcome feeling like an impostor, and leave feeling confident in your accomplishments and skills."
"Modern browsers support a new standard call Websockets, which allow persistent connections between a browser and a server. We'll discuss how to implement Websockets with your client-side Javascript talking to your server-side PHP, using the ReactPHP framework."
"Applying proven security measures based on the OWASP top 10 can help make your PHP application more secure. We will focus on secure coding practices and discuss topics including SQL injection, XSS, CSRF, user authentication, and data validation. We will discuss how to bake security into an application and how to convince management that security issues must be addressed."
"Traits were added to PHP in version 5.4 as another tool to use to create clean code. We’ll take a look at what traits are and how they help solve the problems they are intended to help solve. We’ll also explore some things to watch out for and how to figure out where traits could be introduced into your codebase."
Though it is slightly old news, I thought we should announce that we have a new website for UPHPU! The great thing is that it is statically generate, meaning that it is very easy to have anyone contribute. All of the code is up on uphpu-website GitHub repo and you can easily create a fork, make some changes, and submit a pull request.
While the new design looks awesome, I'm still trying to finish all of the little pages across the site. So if you have some time, feel free to hit me up on the IRC channel and ask for any things that need to be done.
Thanks, Justin Carmony
The meeting will be this Thursday (April 17th) at Needle at 7:00 PM. It will be Mark Niebergall from i3logix talking about "Abstraction, Object Interfaces, Traits, Namespaces, and Dependency Injection: Cool Stuff in PHP."
This presentation will focus on some of the really cool stuff in PHP that you may not know of or not know quite how to use. There will be examples and discussion regarding abstracts, interfaces, traits, namespaces, and dependency injection. Have you heard of some of these and always wanted to use them in your PHP application but didn't know where to start? You will learn the benefit of each one and when to use them in your existing or new application. This will be a perfect presentation to help you advance your skill-set to include these tools to make your code even more clean, structured, and awesome!
Mark started coding in PHP in 2005 and works for a company based in Denver called i3logix on an occupational health screening project for employers to drug test employees and candidates. He spends his days coding in PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript.
The After Party will be at the traditional location of Applebee's in Draper. We typically head over there at about 8:30-9:00, so watch Twitter and we'll announce when we're heading over.
The Meetings are still at Needle, their address is:
Needle Inc.
14864 Pony Express Road
Bluffdale, UT 84065
Look forward to seeing everyone on Thursday!
Thanks, Justin Carmony
The meeting will be this Thursday (Feb. 20th) at Needle at 7:00 PM. It'll be me (Justin Carmony) from Deseret Digital Media talking about "Mentoring Devs Into DevOps."
Talk Summary
"Lets set aside the buzzword for a moment and have an honest discussion about DevOps. There is the idea of putting more Dev into Ops, but just a crucial (if not more crucial) is getting your Devs to think more like Ops. Most developers have little to no experience dealing with production environments, and helping them add value to your DevOps efforts can be difficult.
"We'll discuss practical ways of mentoring Devs into more DevOps skills and responsibilities. We'll share past experiences & ways to help your Devs gain more insight to the health of production. Ultimately, our goal is to help your Devs gain the skills to help your team achieve better application performance & uptimes. Finally, we'll talk about how Salt can play a major role in increasing insight in your production environment for your Devs."
About Justin Carmony
I work for DDM, been involved with the Utah PHP Usergroup for about 5 years now, and I use PHP on a daily basis. Currently at work we operate KSL.com, DeseretNews.com, Ok.com, and many others.
The After Party will be at the traditional location of Applebee's in Draper. We typically head over there at about 8:30-9:00, so watch Twitter and we'll announce when we're heading over.
Meeting Venue: Needle
The Meetings are still at Needle, their address is:
Needle Inc.
14864 Pony Express Road
Bluffdale, UT 84065
Look forward to seeing everyone on Thursday!
Thanks,
Justin Carmony