The Baltimore/Washington PHP Meetup Group

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Past events

• Secure by Design with Tim Kulp

  21-22 Sep 2011 in Baltimore, United States

  Software has become a lucrative attack vector for cybercrime. As companies have fortified their networks with Firewalls and Virus systems they often do little to ensure that the front door is locked, their web applications. In this meeting, we will examine how to start your software project on the right foot for a more secure final product.

• Mobile Development and PHP with Shaun Farrell

  16-17 Mar 2011 in Columbia, United States

  Mobile web development is now more important than ever, and you need to get in the game. Learn about device-specific development as well as general development to mobilize your apps. This talk will use Zend Framework, but the basic concepts can be used anywhere.Shaun is a Developer for CACI, Inc. working on site at the Library of Congress, where he works with Zend Framework. He is a member of the Zend Framework community review team and one of the organizers of the DC PHP user group.

• Functional Flex and PHP in Fifty with Keith Casey

  21-22 Jul 2010 in Columbia, United States

  Professionally, there are few things more intimidating than starting a new language. The structure is different, the keywords are different, and the process is different. Overall, this tends to add up to annoyance and frustration from mistakes that can quickly be fixed. This presentation will give you an overview of the environment and get you up to speed on a few common tasks.. so you can spend your time making more creative mistakes.

• Automated Browser Testing with Selenium and the Selenium IDE with John Bintz

  16-17 Jun 2010 in Columbia, United States

  Selenium is a flexible, open source tool for automatically testing the interactivity of your Web sites in modern browsers. It provides a record/playback tool for authoring tests without learning a test scripting language. Selenium provides a test domain specific language (DSL) to write tests in a number of popular programming languages, including PHP.

• The Symfony Framework and Doctrine ORM with Travis Black

  19-20 May 2010 in Columbia, United States

  Hot off the heels of Tim Crider's Zend Framwork talk, we're going to take a look at another popular open source PHP framework, Symfony! Symfony is a full-stack framework, a library of cohesive classes written in PHP. Thousands of developers already trust symfony for their applications! Travis Black will be giving the talk on Symfony.Travis Black is a software developer currently employed by echoditto inc. He has been developing web applications in PHP since 2004.

• Functional Flex in Fifty with Keith Casey

  21-22 Apr 2010 in Columbia, United States

  Professionally, there are few things more intimidating than starting a new language. The structure is different, the keywords are different, and the process is different. Overall, this tends to add up to annoyance and frustration from mistakes that can quickly be fixed. This presentation will give you an overview of the environment and get you up to speed on a few common tasks.. so you can spend your time making more creative mistakes.

• Zend Framework without the Frame with Tim Crider

  24-25 Mar 2010 in Columbia, United States

  The March meetup will be on the 4th Wednesday of this month instead of its normal 3rd. Tim Crider has graciously offered to speak about Zend Framework. Tim will demonstrate how to use Zend Framework components without using all of Zend Framework. He’ll cover the following: *Setup Zend Framework Autloader for use in your application *Connecting to the database *Connecting to a cache *Setting up some simple data objects

• The Knight Rider Methodology to Software Development with Eli White

  17-18 Feb 2010 in Columbia, United States

  As all children of the 80's know, Knight Rider was a story about an otherwise 'normal' law enforcement officer who through the use of Technology (KITT) becomes an unstoppable machine. In this talk find out how programmers should be using technology/tools to make themselves better and more productive.For the February user group meeting we have Eli White presenting!

• Five Tips To Make Good Object-Oriented Code Better with Brandon Savage

  20-21 Jan 2010 in Columbia, United States

  For the January PHP user group meeting we will have Brandon Savage speaking. This talk is fresh off the holiday season! If you write object oriented PHP code, you have to listen to this talk.As more and more PHP applications move into the object-oriented paradigm, good design is crucial. Concepts like dependency injection, testing, use of interfaces and abstraction are important ideas that deserve consideration in the development of these applications.

• December PHP User Group Meeting - After the Deadline with Raphael Mudge

  16-17 Dec 2009 in Columbia, United States

  For the December user group meeting, Raphael Mudge from Automattic (WordPress, Akismet, IntenseDebate, Gravatar, and others) will join us to talk about After the Deadline (AtD). AtD is a software service that gives web applications word processor quality tools to check spelling, misused words, style, and grammar. The entire stack (including the server) is open source. Raphael will talk about After the Deadline and how you can add these tools to your application. Talk topics include: [list

• November PHP User Group Meetup

  18-19 Nov 2009 in Columbia, United States

  Presentation: Using Subversion for your source code control For the November meetup we have Chris Stone talking about subversion. Chris and his team use subversion in his daily development process, and it has proved to be an invaluable tool for his day to day development processes. We'll cover the overall usage of subversion in a development environment and look at real world, in use examples of subversion. This talk will cover: [list]*What subversion is, why use it, and how it works

• October Baltimore PHP Users Group

  14-15 Oct 2009 in Columbia, United States

  For the October meetup we are having a different type of meeting. We're not going to have a dedicated speaker. In August, Steve gave an excellent talk about project management using Trac and it's subversion integration. This meeting is a followup to the August meeting. Steve's talk sparked A LOT of conversation and future meeting topics. Way too much to cover in one month. First, we'll talk about the group itself.

• August Baltimore/Washington PHP Meetup

  12-13 Aug 2009 in Columbia, United States

  For the August meetup we have Steve Crump giving a talk about project management using Trac with subversion integration. Steve is currently a software developer at DealerChoice. He is a Sun Certified Java Programmer who works on both the technical and functional aspects of designing, developing, and integrating systems.He works as one of two developers following the full software development life cycle for defects and enhancements using an iterative methodology.

• July Baltimore/Washington PHP Meetup

  8-9 Jul 2009 in Columbia, United States

  The July meetup will focus on yesterday's (June 30) release of PHP 5.3. We'll be covering what's new, what's changed, what's fixed, and what you should know about using PHP 5.3. The 5.3 release is a major improvement in the 5.x series, and is a big step in PHP's evolution, which includes a large number of new features and bug fixes. We'll have slides and a presentation (done by me) covering the big items included in this release.

• June Baltimore/Washington PHP Meetup

  10-11 Jun 2009 in Columbia, United States

  For the June Meetup, we'll have a continuation of last month's discussion. Last minute changes prevented us from covering the topics we had planned on covering. This month, Patrick Wilson will be speaking about Eclipse/PDT, as well as Phing and Selenium (Web application testing system - Wilson is currently a software engineer for Mindgrub Technologies, LLC in Oella, MD. His core practice is in PHP, and is knowledgeable in other languages.

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