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  • wade 21:39 on Friday, 15 October 2010 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    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.

     

  • wade 20:47 on Friday, 10 September 2010 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    PHP Debugging 

    For our September meeting, Ray (thebigdog) will be presenting on PHP Debugging.

     

  • wade 12:56 on Thursday, 19 August 2010 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    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.

     

  • wade 18:06 on Thursday, 15 July 2010 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    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.

     

  • wade 21:50 on Sunday, 16 May 2010 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    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.

     

  • mindjuju 19:05 on Thursday, 8 April 2010 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    Anatomy of a PHP Request 

    For our April meeting, Joseph Scott will be presenting on the Anatomy of a PHP request. Continuing our series for beginners, we have Justin Carmony presenting on PHP Fundamentals.

    Ever wondered what really happens when your PHP script runs? Justin cover the major milestones in the life and times of a PHP request (read, parse, compile, execute, output ) and where to look for road bumps along the way. There are lots of tools available to make your PHP purr like a kitten, so I’ll dive into op code caches (with APC),
    op code dumps (with VLD – Vulcan Logic Dumper), and profiling (with Xdebug and webgrind). It will be a great time digging a little deeper in to PHP!

    Joseph is a California native, living in Utah with his wife and children. He got hooked on email when it meant dialing into a BBS with a 2400 baud modem and ended up memorizing way too much of the AT command set. Access to the Internet changed all that and going to work for an ISP cemented that shift. It also exposed to him to the world of open source, starting with FreeBSD in 1996. From there he spent a number of years in IT doing a little bit of everything. Joseph joined Automattic in 2007, where he focuses on WordPress APIs (XML-RPC/AtomPub), realtime-ish updates (rssCloud/PuSH), WordPress.org themes and stats, and likes to dabble in front and back end
    performance hacks.

     

  • mindjuju 15:47 on Tuesday, 16 February 2010 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    Cookies, sessions, business, and stackable.com 

    For our February meeting, Daniel Crookston will give a mini presentation on sales techniques, Justin Carmony will present on cookies and sessions, and Xmission will give a special presentation on stackable.com.

    mainPresentation – Sales 101: The Basics – Daniel Crookston
    An overview of a handful of simple sales techniques you can use to schedule more sales calls, win more contracts, and ultimately earn more money. The skills we’ll be focusing on include turning a cold call (whether incoming or outgoing) into an appointment, helping the people you meet with to feel comfortable giving you their business, and negotiating for a better price once they have agreed to purchase your services.

    phpFundamentals presentation – Cookies & Sessions in PHP.
    For this month’s beginners PHP presentation, the topic will be Cookies & Sessions in PHP. The purpose of Cookies and Sessions and where to implement them into your website. We’ll cover how to use them, as well as some common mistakes that new developers can make.
    Presented by Justin Carmony

    specialPresentation – Stackable.com
    Xmission will be coming out to present to us on what stackable.com is and how it works for you. They will be answering your questions.

    About the Main Presenter:

    Dan has been programming since he was very young, and programmed professionally for 7 years in PHP. He realized pretty quickly that sales was going to be a big part of being successful, so he took some sales classes and did a lot of studying.
    Recently he took a full time sales position to get more experience in a sales-only environment and to have an opportunity to learn from people who sell full time.

     

  • wade 10:27 on Monday, 18 January 2010 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    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.

     

    • josephscott 10:58 on Monday, 18 January 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      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.

    • Steve Dibb 11:26 on Monday, 18 January 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Can you guys update the calendar?

    • wade 11:45 on Monday, 18 January 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Fixed. Thanks for the heads up, Steve.

  • mindjuju 8:38 on Monday, 16 November 2009 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    Methods for Mockups: A Geek’s Guide to Design 

    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.

     

  • wade 10:57 on Thursday, 15 October 2009 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    High Availability Figlet applications using Goto 

    For our October meeting, we’ll be having an open forum on general questions and a small presentation on High Availability Figlet applications using Goto.

     

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