[UPHPU] OALUG PHP Workshop

[Aaron Toponce]

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jtaber wrote:
> 2 comments
> 1) yes, the lab ideas after a presentation would be good - but you're
> right, it does take a lot of effort to prepare

I'm willing to help, as I should be seeing as though our group is taking
advantage of the talent from UPHPU.  Let me know what I can do in this
area to be of assistance.

> 2) re language basics - frankly, I'm not interested in spending a lot of
> time instructing people that are too lazy to pick up a book and learn
> the basics themselves.  So if that's really what you want, count me out.

Yeah.  I think this is what we're looking for, but not TOO in depth.  I
would think that while we write PHP scripts, we can be learning the
language and syntax simultaneously.  But I would really like to go over
syntax, variables, functions and such, as I don't tend to learn well
from books, but seem to pick it up from instruction.  I would think
others are the same.

> Oh and installation - the Ubuntu Server CD already has a LAMP install. 
> Otherwise you click on synaptic or apt-get apache2 or php or postgres or
> whatever.  5 minutes (2 minutes to install, 3 minutes for some
> configuration).   And Fedora is similar.

Yeah.  I'm not really planning on spending any sort of time on this.
Maybe a brief 5-10 min overview, then on with the show.  I would imagine
that most can get a LAMP stack up and running with little effort.  As
you mentioned, most distributions are shipping with this already, so
there's really no need to show how to set it up.  We could cover that in
detail in a separate OALUG meet if needed.

> And if they're using
> something like windows as a development platform, well, again, not the
> kind of potential developers I'm interested in taking my time to instruct.

We are targeting Linux users, as our group is the Ogden Area Linux Users
Group.  However, Windows/Mac PHP developers are more than welcome to
attend.  PHP is platform independent, and as long as we are covering the
basics of PHP, I don't see why platform should be an issue.  However, if
I can secure a lab to set this up, we will be running Linux in the lab.
 Of course, if someone wants to bring their laptop, to use a different
platform or whatever, they're more than welcome.  But the target
platform in the workshop will be Linux.

Thanks,

Aaron Toponce - http://www.pthree.org
OALUG President - http://www.oalug.com

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