Our Mission:   The Portland PHP Users Group is a community forum for people to share, meet and learn about PHP and Open Source technologies. The group strives to be a valuable resource for anyone interested in PHP regardless of their skill level or background. Through sharing and communication we believe we can foster a creative and successful community of PHP developers.

Summer Coders Social 2009

Jun 20 2009 - 12:00pm
Jun 20 2009 - 5:00pm
Etc/GMT-8


postponed due to rain. New date will be posted after monday

Summer Coders Social is the outdoor, sunny, sibling of Winter Coders Social. The goal is a very casual, geek social event. BBQ, games, and conversation. This is a family frienldy event so be sure to bring the kids and significant other. We have plenty of space so all user groups are welcome (just be sure to sign up for the potluck :)

Website: http://bit.ly/summer-coders-social

Thanks to this year's sponsor

Step House

PDXPHP Kickoff Meeting for Open Source Bridge featuring Rasmus Lerdorf

Jun 16 2009 - 6:30pm
Jun 16 2009 - 8:00pm
Etc/GMT-8
Meeting Topic: 
June 16th Meeting
Location: 
Meeting Desc: 

photo source: Flickr

Rasmus Lerdorf will be in town for Open Source Bridge and has graciously offered to lead a meeting for PDXPHP. So the Tuesday before the OSBridge festivities kick off, He (and possible a few other speakers in town), will lead a discussion on various PHP and web topics.

Rasmus is of course know for creating the PHP language but is also an expert in application security, and is currently employed with Yahoo as an Infrastructure Architecture Engineer, so there will be no shortage of interesting topics for this meeting.

you may RSVP at here

Pizza and Beverages provided so show up hungry

*Note this meeting is the 3rd Tuesday of the month (not the regular 2nd Tuesday)


Special thanks to our sponsor:

Fine Design Group

Fine Design Group

Debugging and Profiling PHP Web Applications

May 12 2009 - 6:30pm
May 12 2009 - 8:00pm
Etc/GMT-8
Meeting Topic: 
May 12th Meeting
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Meeting place will be CubeSpace [SE Grand & Washington]

Meeting Desc: 

A tour of PHP application debugging and profiling techniques using open source tools such as

- Xdebug [http://www.xdebug.org/]
- Netbeans [http://www.netbeans.org/features/php/]
- cachegrind [http://valgrind.org/info/tools.html]

Presenter: Sam Keen
@samkeen

PHP Develoment Methods for Producing Modular, Scalable Code

Apr 14 2009 - 6:30pm
Apr 14 2009 - 8:00pm
Etc/GMT-8
Meeting Topic: 
April 14th Meeting
Location: 

Meeting place will be CubeSpace [SE Grand & Washington]

Meeting Desc: 

Michael Scotto Di Carlo will be leading a discussion on a programming pattern for developing PHP applications that are:
Scalable
Quick to produce
Modular / Portable easy to share, implement and customize
Easy AJAX integration
Fully abstracted HTML
Little to no learning curve

Michael Scotto Di Carlo
Professor Clark College www.clark.edu
Developer Supportland LLC supportland.com

Introduction to Aspen framework

Mar 10 2009 - 6:30pm
Mar 10 2009 - 8:00pm
Etc/GMT-8
Meeting Topic: 
March 10th Meeting
Location: 

Meeting place will be CubeSpace [SE Grand & Washington]

Meeting Desc: 

Aspen is a PHP-based website and application development platform. Not only will you be able to produce quality results in less time, but your work is kept modular for amazing portability.

The team from Trellis Development will give an introduction to the framework, along with a real world use-case scenario. Trellis is a local company that is developing a series of web-based products, and consists of members who currently run programming and design companies.

http://www.aspen-framework.org

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