Meetings cancelled for the holidays
There will be no group meetings in November and December. We’ll see you in January.
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Lessons learned from surviving high traffic campaigns
For our October meeting, Chuck Phillips will present Lessons learned from surviving high traffic campaigns. Chuck is the Chief Technology Officer at Digitaria.
Leading Digitarias diverse group of engineers, Chuck Phillips and his team live to design, develop, manage, and measure some of the most innovative and important systems on the web. Although his primary expertise is in multi-tiered web applications, Phillips has led a diverse range of projects that include desktop applications, embedded systems, and mobile applications. Phillips in-depth knowledge and experience, coupled with his adaptability and intuitive approach, make him an invaluable asset in fulfilling the needs of Digitarias key accounts, including Qualcomm and NBC.
Phillips was a co-founder of the technology solutions company Console Inc. and has been delivering scalable technology solutions to clients for over a decade. Phillips commitment to technology, and invaluable industry insight, has transferred with him to his current role at Digitaria.
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wade
Job announcements
Many recruiters and employers are asking about how to announce job opportunities to our members. We have a job announcement mailing list with over 300 subscribers. These are individuals that have specifically signed up to receive announcements directly in their inbox. The UPHPU job announcement list is one of the best resources in Utah for reaching Utah’s PHP and web development professionals. Submit your employment opportunity now!
Are you a web developer looking for work? Subscribe to the job announcement list and begin receiving PHP and web development opportunities specific to Utah in your inbox immediately.
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wade
PHP Debugging
For our September meeting, Ray (thebigdog) will be presenting on PHP Debugging.
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wade
Zend Framework Quickstart
For our August meeting, Utahcon will present a quickstart to the Zend Framework. Every PHP developer should have a firm grasp on a framework as they make light work of heavy projects. The Zend Framework is a great example of what a framework should be; both light and flexible while offering a good structure and strict MVC environment. This presentation will be a walk through and Q&A on the Zend Framework Quickstart, as well as a quick lesson on using Zend_Captcha.
Utahcon is a world renowned PHP developer having worked for companies like Overstock.com, SOS Staffing, GrabTakeout.com, Code Greene and more! Utahcon has been developing in PHP for over 10 years, and still considers himself to be a noob. Join us for a lot of fun and entertainment (possibly at Utahcon’s expense).
Come early for good seatings. We expect the afterparty to be at Applebees at the Gateway again, unless there’s a majority in favor of switching it up.
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wade
PHP Fundamentals
For our July meeting, Justin Carmony will continue his PHP Fundamentals series. Come join us for valuable training, good times, and of course, the killer after party.
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wade
Monthly presentations now at Code Greene in Salt Lake
As you’ve probably recently heard, our great and fearless leader Victor ‘mindjuju’ Villa has made some changes, and our previous venue will no longer be available, on top of which he has passed his UPHPU baton to me.
While it is definitely not a requirement that the meetings be held at the place of employment of the current president, that tradition will continue for the foreseeable future, as he new meeting location is my place of employment. We’re the one with the big green stripe on the front window and door. Note that you can get to us via southbound State Street at 350 S onto Exchange Place, or via westbound 400 South at about 30 E, onto Cactus Street. Many of you may be familiar with XMission, and we’re right across the back alley from them. Also important to note is that parking on the street at meters is free after 6pm, and parking in the garage across the street will cost $5 for the evening, and we will be unable to validate. We will continue to meet at seven o’clock on the evening of the third Thursday of each month.
There is an Applebee’s at the Gateway, a short free Trax ride away from our meeting location, so I anticipate we’ll head over there en masse after the presentation for the after-party. They also validate an hour of parking I think if anyone wanted to drive over there rather than come back to get a car.
If we find that the downtown location is for whatever reason undesirable, we can switch things up. Since I live in Draper, I would be happy to do the after party at the Draper Applebee’s if people would prefer, but I suspect our friends from the North might not like driving down there just for a different Applebee’s, but I could be wrong.
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wade
PHP + Security
For our May meeting, Justin Carmony and Mac Newbold will be presenting on security. The presentation will range from beginning to advanced topics. Both speakers will be working off of Google’s Jarlsberg site of lovely hackable exploits! Come with question and talk to senior members of the Utah PHP Community.
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wade
RTFM and Basic Linux Server Administration
For our January meeting, Justin Carmony will cover PHP fundamentals with a presentation on reading the fabulous manual. For a new person to PHP, reading the documentation can be a daunting task. Even worse when you have legions of other developers screaming the acronym “RTFM!” Hopefully we can shed some light on how to get the most out of PHP Documentation, how to search it, how to understand it, and how to get help if the documentation doesn’t answer your questions. Justin Carmony will be giving the presentation, and will leave time for questions. You’re not alone in learning PHP, let the Utah PHP Usergroup help you.
Justin Carmony has worked in web development professionally for the last
five years. With emphasis on PHP, .NET, and Web Services, he has worked on
projects ranging from simple websites to complex communications between
thousands of remote systems. He currently is working as an independent
contractor & private consultant. If you have any questions, comments, or
curiosities you can contact him (justin AT justincarmony DOT com) or read
about his latest endeavors at his blog.Trevor Sharpe will then follow with Basic Linux Server Administration, covering the advanced topic. Many programmers are finding themselves needing to understand and administer linux servers. This presentation is focused on learning how to effectively use the server through scripts, etc. Q & A session on admining to follow.
Trevor Sharpe is a Systems Administrator for a company in SLC and is also a board member for Utah Open Source.
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josephscott
The documentation on php.net is done pretty well. Having user submitted comments on the docs page has helped fill in holes that the docs don’t always mention.
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Steve Dibb
Can you guys update the calendar?
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wade
Fixed. Thanks for the heads up, Steve.
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wade
Read boolean HTML attributes with jQuery
After much testing, I have concluded that in order to use jQuery with boolean attributes (and have it work in the big four browsers), the following markup must be used: checked=”checked”.
While browsers except any of the following…
checked checked="" checked="true" checked="1" checked="checked"
…only the last option works with jQuery in all browsers.
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clsslc
Which shouldn’t be entirely surprising as that is the only valid value for the attribute, according to W3C[1].
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Mac Newbold 16:27 on Thursday, 15 July 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply
By the way, the time of the meeting is 7:00pm, like always. Thanks!
wade 12:57 on Thursday, 19 August 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply
See here.