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The West Suburban Chicago PHP Meetup Group

Events coming up

• Dec 4

  Suburban Chicago PHP & Web Development December Meetup

  Wheaton, United States

  Make Mine Mobile! I'm totally psyched about getting a smartphone this summer. So, I immediately started looking into what it would take to make mobile-friendly websites. Come along as I survey the mobile landscape, and explain the limits and potentials of this hot topic. You don't have to own a smartphone to get a lot out of this month's exciting presentation. In addition, I'll be giving a brief demo of Balsamiq, a tool for prototyping user interfaces and discussing why this tool ROCKS.

Past events

• Suburban Chicago PHP & Web Development November Meetup

  Fri, 6 Nov 2009, 01:00 - 03:00 in Wheaton, United States

  Mike Creuzer has graciously offered to present tools & techniques for squeezing more performance out of your LAMP stack server. His presentation will focus on performance enhancements for servers running content management systems like Drupal, Joomla, and WordPress, but you'll also come away with techniques to use on your plain PHP apps too! And, of course, we'll have the usual great conversation and great food.

• Suburban Chicago PHP & Web Development October Meetup

  Fri, 2 Oct 2009, 00:00 - 02:00 in Wheaton, United States

  Lint - A tool from the programmers' days of olde. PHP Lint and JSLint (for Javascript) analyze your code looking for syntactical issues and potential security holes. They wont prevent you from making bugs, but they will keep the stupid little ones from getting through. Cufon - Uses Javascript to replace any text on your page with a graphical equivalent in the font of your choice. This is a great alternative to making static images for your text (a pain when the text has to change).

• Suburban Chicago PHP & Web Development September Meetup

  Fri, 4 Sep 2009, 00:00 - 02:00 in Wheaton, United States

  Let's talk about output buffering. Sure, it's easy to turn on -- either one line of code, or a one-line change to php.ini, right? But once you've enabled this PHP feature, what can you do with it?It's how CMSs cache pages. It's how you can modify links before the page is sent to the browser. It's just plain awesome.Come explore the power of PHP's output buffering feature with the West Suburban Chicago PHP Meetup!

• Output Buffering - The West Suburban Chicago PHP August Meetup

  Fri, 7 Aug 2009, 00:00 - 02:00 in Wheaton, United States

  Let's talk about output buffering. Sure, it's easy to turn on -- either one line of code, or a one-line change to php.ini, right? But once you've enabled this PHP feature, what can you do with it? It's how CMSs cache pages. It's how you can modify links before the page is sent to the browser. It's just plain awesome. Come explore the power of PHP's output buffering feature with the West Suburban Chicago PHP Meetup!

• The West Suburban Chicago PHP July Meetup

  Fri, 3 Jul 2009, 00:00 - 02:00 in Lombard, United States

  It's my Meetup and I'll cry if I want to!June 4th is my birthday, and I've asked Mike Creuzer (@creuzerm) for a special gift: a presentation on Bayesian spam filtering!Every day, more than 1000 messages end up in my spam mailbox, and only one or two actually make it to my inbox every couple days. Things weren't that good ten years ago -- what changed?

• July's PHP Meetup : The West Suburban Chicago PHP Meetup

  Fri, 3 Jul 2009, 00:00 - 02:00 in Wheaton, United States

  Tentative topic: PHPLint

• The West Suburban Chicago PHP June Meetup

  Fri, 5 Jun 2009, 00:00 - 02:00 in Lombard, United States

  It's my Meetup and I'll cry if I want to! June 4th is my birthday, and I've asked Mike Creuzer (@creuzerm) for a special gift: a presentation on Bayesian spam filtering! Every day, more than 1000 messages end up in my spam mailbox, and only one or two actually make it to my inbox every couple days. Things weren't that good ten years ago -- what changed?