We are looking at starting a Salt Lake Javascript Users group and thought the PHP community might be interested. We are thinking about meeting in the downtown area on the first Thursday of every month. Come let us know if you would be interested in joining us. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ujsug
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Clint
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cognisoft
Last October I had an opportunity to take my consulting company from just a small part time gig to a full time company. The downside is in doing this it moved me to North Carolina. So the reason for this post and how it pertains. I really enjoy being part of this group for the many years that I have been. However I am now attempting to locate groups like this in North Carolina. Anyone have any ideas of good places to look for groups like this in a new area, or even have suggestions on how I could start a similar group to this here in North Carolina?
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hatfieldje
Where in NC are you? Here’s a site I found googling: http://php.meetup.com/cities/us/nc/durham/ . You can change the city to where you are. It may not show all of them, but it would be a start.
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jmerinoh
What time are the meetings every 3rd thursday?
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wade
7:00 PM
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dirksmithson
Glad to see a group here in Utah that supports php. I’ll mark my calendar, looking forward to see what it’s all about.
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Patellaport
I’m a student at BYU right now and a friend and I have come up with an idea for a website that we think could go really far. We’ve been struggling to find people skilled enough who are willing to give it a try with us though. One of my friends suggested that I ask on here and see if anyone is up to it. We would only be able to offer a percentage of any future profits instead of a set pay, but there is no guarantee of anything since it’s just an idea right now… Anyway, let me know if you want to join in. Or if I’m even posting this in the right place…
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Bryan Petty
“We would only be able to offer a percentage of any future profits instead of a set pay, but there is no guarantee of anything since it’s just an idea right now…”
I can’t count how many times I’ve heard these exact words. What this really actually means is “our idea, which we were too shy to even mention here publicly, doesn’t seem to be interesting to investors, so we’re just going to wing it.”
It never actually works out, and I wouldn’t recommend anyone (friend or not) jumps on board with this work. If they can’t find funding, it wasn’t a good business model in the first place. Not being able to even mention what the work is also means there’s a lack of confidence that this is actually even an innovative project since there’s worry that “anyone could jump in front of us, it doesn’t actually take anyone special to do this.”
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Larry
So one can learn PHP on their own I suppose, but where is the best place in Utah to take a class on PHP development? UVU? SLCC? somewhere else? All recommendations are appreciated.
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Tony Fantis
Hi Larry,
I’ve taken classes at the U and SLCC. Frankly, I would recommend getting an account at lynda.com. You cane learn LOTS of things there for one low price. The videos, tutorials, and example files are all excellent, and they also teach some best practices. All the PHP classes I’ve found are very slow and not very good at heading you in the direction of real life application of PHP.
I hope this helps!
Tony =)
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Kevin
If you’re just getting started, I really enjoyed these tutorials-Dive into PHP. They don’t go too deep into the language but they give a good foundation. From there I would check out the PHP Manual.
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PlusOne Development
Greetings, have posted opportunity for paid internship for a hungry to learn Jr. Coder https://plusonecompany.info/jrdv.pdf lowish start 30-40 but room to grow. What are the best job boards at the local schools for student candidates? On pure vanity standpoint, how do I put my avatar on this board!
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PlusOne Development
BTW, this is Joel Smith (for those that may know me), and wanted to clarify since my profile is corporate based. All my dope is on linked-in at http://www.linkedin.com/in/opiop and I am joelmeister on twitter.
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wade
We use Gravatar for this site. Register on gravatar.com with the same email address in your profile here and the avatar will automatically show up.
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wade
You’re also welcome to post internships to the UPHPU job announcement list.
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josephscott
Some of you have come across raifbot on the #uphpu IRC channel. I’ve put a site that briefly describes all of the available commands: http://raifbot.wordpress.com/
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ubsman
What time are those meetings on the 3rd Thursday of each month?
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danf
hello php utah. long time coder, first time poster :) I’m working on a new venture that is built on cakephp and wondering if there are any cakephp developers out that or if everyone has moved on to lithium apparently :). I tried connecting on the cakephp user group but it appears defunct. I’ve been out of the development scene for a few years but excited to get back in. Anyways, would love to connect with others with knowledge on cakephp and to get to know the community as a whole.
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jason
I currently work for a company with several developers who are all proficient in CakePHP. I have worked on about 3 projects so far all which used CakePHP. I started off as a CakePHP newbie so I printed off the PDF version of the manual (about 700 pages) and read through it. I think observing the design patterns of more experienced CakePHP developers has been helpful too. I also got our company to purchase a book from Amazon called “CakePHP 1.3 Application Development Cookbook” by Mariano Iglesias”. I’ll let you know whether I think the book was helpful. Spending all day working on CakePHP projects which were designed by devs with many years of experience with CakePHP has definitely accelerated the learning process.
I was at the last usergroup meeting & I plan to attend future meetings as well. I noticed that at least a few people at the meeting were currently using CakePHP on their projects too.
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Admiral, 
jimmydean101 and one other person are discussing. 
hatfieldje is discussing. 
Kevin, and 
Larry, and 
jason is discussing. 
josephscott 9:47 on Monday, 18 July 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Is this different than the http://utahjs.com/ group then?
Clint 10:51 on Monday, 18 July 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
It will be a different chapter, but we will all be in the same group (if that makes sense). We will be on the same website. There seemed to be enough interest in having a meeting in salt lake. It looks like we will be moving to the second or 4th Thursday so as not to conflict with the Utah County meeting.
josephscott 15:58 on Monday, 18 July 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Keep me in the loop, I may be able to make it up that way.
jimmydean101 11:25 on Monday, 18 July 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
I’d be interested
Admiral 14:01 on Tuesday, 2 August 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
I’d be quite interested in attending a Salt Lake based group. As long at it’s Thursday after about 06:30 or so, the time sounds good as well.