colocated at C7 Data Centers
administered by Anavi Design
Center 7, a gracious sponsor for several years has offered to bring us back home to the old Linux Networx building in Bluffdale. Center 7 purchased the building recently and added it to their list of data centers along the Wasatch Front. You might have read in the news a few months back about Twitter hosting their service (at least in part) from there. Feedback indicates that the location is more convenient for most of the group.
There’s a new conversation happening at uphpu.org. You asked. I listened. I’ve upgraded to the P2 WordPress theme. It’s all hopped-up on ajax and social juice. Everyone can now post directly from the home page and comment inline anywhere on the site. A customized version of P2 is forthcoming, but we might was well start enjoying the benefits of this platform in the meantime.
I have deleted all user accounts with zero posts so that we may start fresh. So, if you haven’t posted or comments on uphpu.org previously, you’ll need to create a new account.
Thanks Wade! Site looks nice and looking forward to using it. :)
Does your group meet together anywhere? I’d like to go if you do.
We meet on the Third Thursday of each month at Code Greene in Salt Lake. More info here.
This is pretty slick! Nice work Wade.
Very nicely done.
phew .. just got a ‘You have been denied’ message from the mailing list. Glad its just from cleaning house .. I’ve been on the list for many many moons and its been very helpful.
Nice stuff.
Looks good.
WPS – time to sign up for gravatar :-)
The ‘Subscribe To Comments’ plugin can be really handy as well, for those that want to follow a specific post/thread without having to subscribe to the whole comments feed.
I’m only here to meet chicks.
Awesomesauce.
There will be no group meetings in November and December. We’ll see you in January.
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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.
By the way, the time of the meeting is 7:00pm, like always. Thanks!
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For our March meeting, Cal Evans will present on “5 Things I wish they had told me before I started programming in PHP.” It will be excellent for all audiences! We’re going to do things special for this one meeting: our presenter isn’t going to be with us live. We are still going to be meeting at Bill Good Marketing as usual (and afterhours party as usual), but will be presenting to us via GotoWebinar.
5 Things I wish they had told me before I started programming in PHP is a raucous romp through PHP, covering not only mistakes that programmers make, but skills they need to make sure they master.
For the past 8 years Cal has worked with PHP and MySQL on Linux OSX, and when necessary, Windows. He has built a variety of projects ranging in size from simple web pages to multi-million dollar web applications. When not banging his head on his monitor, attempting a blood sacrifice to get a particular piece of code working, he enjoys building and managing development teams using his widely imitated but never patented management style of “management by wandering around”. These days, when not working with PHP, Cal can be found working on a variety of projects, most of which require a higher security clearance than you have so they can’t be listed here. Cal is currently based in Nashville TN where he is currently gainfully unemployed and seeking a job in IT so he doesn’t have to go out and get a real job. Cal is happily married to wife 1.25, the lovely and talented Kathy. Together they have 2 wonderful kids who were both smart enough not to pursue a job in IT.
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Being in my seat, I’ve heard from many people over the course of this past year who have lost / changed employment. I know there is concern by many who are employed as to what will happen long term. The reality of the matter is this, though. Recession or no, change happens and the best way to be ready for it is to have a great skill set. To that end, we are
restructuring the way our meetings will be.
We will be splitting our PHP meetings into 2 parts. First part is basic skills / best practices training. This is for you new guys who want to learn, but don’t know where to start. This section is called PHP fundamentals and will be hosted by Justin Carmony. He and I are working on some printed materials and are ramping this up as we speak. We also have several very senior and tenured members who are VERY friendly to questions. The second portion of our meeting will be a more advanced topic that will be of benefit to intermediate / advanced members, but will still be of great benefit to those who are new.
For those interested in the social aspect of our meeting, we still have the famous UPHPU Afterhours party.
As far as learning resources, Ray Hunter and I are working on having books available at our meetings. While we will have some fun / zany way of handing out the books, there is an understood condition of receiving the book. You MUST write a review of the book and post it online. If you don’t want to write a review, don’t take the book. I will be breaking arms on this!
I know that our recordings have been sporadic. i’m working on allocating more time to this.
Spreading a little Christmas cheer, Wiley Publishing has offered our group 40% on the following PHP titles. Please use promo code PHPH1. Offer valid from December 15th, 2009-January 31st, 2010. (More …)
Thanks Wade, you are the man. I have been a member here at uphpu for a while, but I haven’t been an active member. I always have watched job postings come through, and when the day came that I decided to go corporate, I applied to one of the job postings and got the job. I want to become more active in UPHPU as a way of saying thank you. Let me know if there is anything I can help with.
For our November meeting, Velda Harper Christensen will present on fundamental concepts that won’t replace your designer, but will help bridge the gap between logic and aesthetics. Velda is a designer, blogger, mother, geek, and full-time student. As usually, after hours party to follow!
We are also running a tech book drive to assist those who are just starting to learn web programming! You and I both know you’re not using those HTML books anymore! bring them in and let somebody else benefit from something collecting dust on your shelf! Bring in what you can, HTML, JavaScript, etc, I promise it’ll go to good use.
This is still on Thursday right? The date listed is Friday. Just checking.
Yes, Thursday. Date fixed. Thanks.
I have created a Google Group for us so that you may “wave” to everyone in the group via Google Wave. Unfortunately, we didn’t get a pretty URL or email address because they were already used and Google has a lame rule that they can only be used once, even if the previous instance has been deleted (which was by me, which makes it even more lame).
Visit the Google Group home page for more information. Join the group and then add the address “utahphp@googlegroups.com” to your Google Contacts list. You can then add the group address to new waves and everyone will have access to it.
Note that Wave will bark that that user does not have a valid Wave account when you try to add it. Ignore that and simply strike the return key and the address will be added to your contact list.
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Wade. I work for a company called Idea Partnership which is a small incubator for web start-ups. This building would also be available for meeting in the future. We are located at 4770 S. 900 E. If in the future you need something more between downtown and draper, let me know.