colocated at C7 Data Centers
administered by Anavi Design
For our May meeting, Wade Shearer will present on frameworks and content management. He will be giving a presentation on a custom system that he developed.
Note that we will be meeting at our new (old) location, Center 7‘s new data center in Bluffdale (the old LinuxNetworx building). ID will be required for admittance.
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
Our April meeting with be an open-ended discussion. We’ll talk about running your php application on things like Amazon’s and Rackspace’s cloud, as well as other things to keep in mind about your production environment. Should be a good discussion.
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.
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.
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…
“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.”
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.
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 =)
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.
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!
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.
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.
You’re also welcome to post internships to the UPHPU job announcement list.
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/
What time are those meetings on the 3rd Thursday of each month?
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.
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.
Kevin, and 
Larry, and 
jason is discussing.
Bryan Petty 0:12 on Tuesday, 10 May 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
I’m impressed! This looks awesome.
tolmark 15:25 on Tuesday, 10 May 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Thanks Bryan!
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.
Clint 12:49 on Monday, 18 July 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
If only I could spell Magento