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  macnewbold 17:30 on Wednesday, 1 August 2012 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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  August 16th Meeting: Randy Secrist, An Intro to Riak and PHP 

  Here are the details on our next meeting:

  Title: An Intro to Riak and PHP
  Presenter: Randy Secrist

  This talk will be an introduction to Riak, an open source, scalable database, and how to interact with it from various client libraries, with a focus on PHP. Attendees will learn the basic architecture of Riak, why companies like Voxer, Comcast, and BestBuy trust it in production, and also get some hands-on experience with running the database on their own machines.

  The usual details apply: 3rd Thursday (Aug. 16th) 7:00pm at C7 Bluffdale Datacenter, with afterparty at Draper Applebee’s (12300 South, just east of I-15)

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    josephscott 10:06 on Friday, 3 August 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply

    Cool, I’m looking forward this.

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    macnewbold 10:13 on Thursday, 23 August 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply

    Update: Randy sent over a link to his slides from the talk: http://www.slideshare.net/randysecrist/utah-php-users-group-2012

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  DonLivingston 11:50 on Monday, 23 July 2012 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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  PHP tutorial recomendations 

  Does anyone have any recommendations for some good PHP tutorials? I love http://www.codecademy.com and its approach to Javascript and Web fundamentals, but I’ve been unable to find a whole lot for learning PHP basics.

   
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  macnewbold 11:28 on Monday, 16 July 2012 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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  July 19 Meeting: CSS Hat by Cole Joplin 

  On Thursday, Cole Joplin (leader of the local Adobe user group) will be showing us CSS Hat. Cole has some great tips and tricks to share with us.

  CSS Hat: Replacing raster images with vector CSS

  Learn how to create resolution-indepenent image shapes and effects through pure CSS3. CSS Hat is a Photoshop plugin that reveals how to sophisticated images and effects in CSS only. It shows how to support WebKit, Mozilla, Opera, and IE9.

  Cole Joplin is a senior developer at Hughes, currently developing native iOS and HTML5.

  7pm, Thursday 7/19, at C7 Bluffdale (~14600 South), followed by Applebee’s (12300 South).

   
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  macnewbold 16:41 on Monday, 18 June 2012 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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  June 21 Meeting: Easy & Awesome Data with Graphite & StatsD by Justin “Rockstar” Carmony 

  Have you ever wanted to track something and see how it changes over time? Meet Graphite & StatsD, a combo of tools that make real-time tracking an extremely easy breeze. We’ll talk about how to set it up, how to start sending data to it, and how to get the most from your graphs & data. Time permitting, and I’m feeling a little adventurous, we’ll add some real-time tracking live to a production site to show how easy it is.

  The details are same as usual – 3rd Thursday of the month (6/21), 7pm, at C7′s Bluffdale Datacenter, with afterparty at Draper Applebee’s (123rd south, just east of I-15). This will be an awesome presentation… see you there!

   
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  macnewbold 13:20 on Tuesday, 1 May 2012 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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  Meeting on May 17: Agile Responsive Design by Wade Shearer 

  Wade Shearer is the user experience director at Vivint. He leads mobile application design and development and is an evangelist for user-first interaction and mobile software design. Coordinating with marketing, sales, support, and development, his team works to ensure effective and enjoyable products. Wade received a bachelor’s degree in visual arts from Brigham Young University. He has worked as a creative director at ELLIS, WFR MLS, and Doba; Senior Manager of Interactive Marketing at Omniture; and a Creative Lead for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Wade has managed web properties, applications, brands, interactive marketing operations, and creative teams. He lives in Lehi with his wife and three kids and enjoys cycling, backpacking, and gardening.

   
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  macnewbold 9:35 on Friday, 17 February 2012 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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  Great Meeting, Winner of Book Giveaway 

  Thanks to John Anderson and Dan Fellars for a great meeting last night, and to everyone who attended. It was great to get to know Lithium better.

  Last night we had a special surprise, as well. Justin Carmony was in contact with Chris Hartjes, author of “The Grumpy Programmer’s Guide To Building Testable PHP Applications”, who donated a free copy of the book to a lucky UPHPU member. I’m pleased to announce that shuffle() selected Clint Berry! You can learn more about Chris and the book at http://www.grumpy-testing.com/ or http://www.littlehart.net/atthekeyboard or follow Chris on Twitter at @grmpyprogrammer. Thanks again, Chris!

   
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  macnewbold 10:14 on Monday, 13 February 2012 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
  Tags: announcement ( 2 ), cakephp ( 2 ), drf23, framework, lithium ( 3 ), meeting ( 13 ), mvc, rad   

  Meeting Thursday (2/16): Intro to Lithium: The Most Rad PHP Framework 

  We’ve got something awesome on the docket for Thursday’s meeting, so tell all your friends:

  Title: Intro to Lithium: The Most Rad PHP Framework

  Topic: Discuss latest features introduced in PHP 5.3+ and how they are being leveraged within the Lithium Framework

  Speakers:
  John Anderson, Software Engineer @ Adobe – the Largest PHP Shop in Utah. John was the Documentation Lead for CakePHP before becoming a founding member of the Union of RAD – the team behind the Lithium Framework. He will provide deep insight into the inner workings of Lithium.
  Dan (Danny) Fellars – Entrepreneur working Utah’s next great software company, built on the Lithium Framework. He will share real-life examples of working with Lithium.

  The meeting is at the usual time and place (7pm, 3rd Thursday, C7′s Bluffdale data center, please bring picture ID), and we’ll have the usual afterparty (~9pm at Draper Applebees, 123rd South). See you there!

   
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  bcurtis 17:00 on Monday, 3 October 2011 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

  PHP Web Entrepreneurs 

  I have a web business and I’m looking for some PHP development help. I have cash but am willing to offer ownership interest to the right person. The website and mobile app is golf-related and some experience on the course would help. Contact me at: admin@playerstour.com if you’re interested.

   
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  tolmark 16:20 on Monday, 9 May 2011 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

  Pagoda Box Private Beta 

  Hi all,

  I’m looking for feedback for our php app deployment platform. If anyone would like to be part of the private beta, please send me an email at: mark[ at ]pagodabox( dot )com, and I’ll fire back an invite link.

  Thanks!
  -Mark

  More info:
  http://www.pagodabox.com

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    Bryan Petty 0:12 on Tuesday, 10 May 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply

    I’m impressed! This looks awesome.

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    tolmark 15:25 on Tuesday, 10 May 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply

    Thanks Bryan!

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    Clint 12:39 on Monday, 18 July 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply

    Very cool! I’d like to test a Megento install on there and see how it performs.

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      Clint 12:49 on Monday, 18 July 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      If only I could spell Magento