For our October meeting, Adam Trachtenberg presented on “Developing Applications on the eBay Platform with PHP.” eBay provides a cross-platform XML-based API to help businesses participate in the eBay marketplace. PHP developers can leverage this API to integrate their applications with eBay. In this session, Adam demonstrated the capabilities of the eBay API as well as technical implementation details pertaining to eBay integration for businesses and solution providers.
Adam Trachtenberg is a Manager of Technical Evangelism at eBay, where he preaches the gospel of eBay to developers and businessmen around the globe. He is also the author of two books: “Upgrading to PHP 5″ and “PHP Cookbook,” both published by O’Reilly Media. He is a frequent speaker at conferences on PHP, and has written articles for c|Net, the O’Reilly Network, and PHP Magazine. Adam lives in San Francisco and has a B.A. and M.B.A. from Columbia University.
For our September meeting, Peter Hammond presented on XML-RPC / SOAP. This was an informative, in-depth, and exciting meeting.
View the slides for this presentation.
For our July meeting, Dave Turnbull presented on web accessibility, why it’s important, and how designing your PHP web applications with accessibility in mind will save you a lot of blood, sweat and tears.
View the slides from his presentation.
Ryan Erickson presented on dynamic PDF and image generation with PHP.
Presentation slides / notes
(Special thanks to NYPHP for the GD tutorial)
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PEAR: Steve Dibb, Ray Hunter
CURL: Daniel Crookston, Mac Newbold
MySQL: Steve Dibb, Ray Hunter, Mac Newbold
dynamic images and PDFs: Ryan Erickson, Ray Hunter
PHP best practices: Documenting your projects
Object-oriented PHP
Strings, arrays: Ray Hunter, Mac Newbold
PHP regular expressions: PCRE, POSIX: Ray Hunter, Mac Newbold
Streamlining php code
PHP cacheing systems and accelerators
PECL — writing PHP extensions
What’s new and improved in PHP 5
XForms
OOP: Ray Hunter
LAMP: Ray Hunter
SQLite?
Postgres vs. MySQL: Ray Hunter
Action script and PHP
CSS, layout, and basic design principles: Wade Shearer, Ray Hunter
Enterprise Development (best practices): Ray Hunter
MYSQL functions: ?
MySQL fine-grained access control: ?
XML-RPC / SOAP: Peter Hammond
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