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Events coming up

Past events

• PHPNW June 2010

  Tue, 1 Jun 2010, 19:00 in Manchester, United Kingdom

  This month we have a talk entitled "Pratical ORMs" by Juozas Kaziukėnas. With PHP 5 (which came quite some time ago) all the benefits of OOP can now be applied to data access patterns, however still a great portion of PHP applications speak to a database like in PHP 4 years. There is a solution for that and it's called an Object Relational Mapping (ORM) - it will save you developing time, maintaining costs and greatly improve application architecture.

• PHPNW May 2010

  Tue, 4 May 2010, 19:00 in Manchester, United Kingdom

  This month we have a talk by Lorna Mitchell called "Open Source Your Career". With words like community bandied about, what can the individual gain in professional terms from getting involved in extra-curricular activities? Come and hear tales from someone who has almost accidentally benefitted from her community activities about what drives her to get involved and how this has crossed over into her day job.

• PHPNW April 2010

  Tue, 6 Apr 2010, 19:00 in Manchester, United Kingdom

  This month we have a talk by Melanie Lewis on Web Services for Consumer Devices. A web service is an API provided by a site that allows a remote application to access data and use functionality without having to 'act like a web browser'. Consumer devices, such as a smart phone, set top box or games console, often do not have a form factor that allows the easy use of an interactive web site but do allow the download of custom applications which use web services provided by such sites.

• PHPNW March 2010

  Tue, 2 Mar 2010, 19:00 in Manchester, United Kingdom

  This month we have the talk that was meant to be on in January by Rob Mortimer on POG (PHP Object Generator). Rob coded PHP full time for a year in the 90's when PHP 3 was cool and scripts started at the top and ended at the bottom. Since then he has made a move to a sys-admin roll where he continued to use PHP to deliver data capture and other applications for the business using PHP.

• PHPNW February 2010

  Tue, 2 Feb 2010, 19:00 in Manchester, United Kingdom

  This month we will be having a talk from Lorna Mitchell on "Best Practices in Web Service Design". This session is aimed at programmers, architects and analysts alike, delving into some examples of ways to write really excellent and useful services. We'll cover selecting the right service type to use and how to design a flexible, maintainable system with an outward-facing API that will have your users easily utilising its features.

• PHPNW January 2010 - CANCELLED

  Tue, 5 Jan 2010, 19:00 in Manchester, United Kingdom

  Unfortunately, due to the amount of snow fall (that's still coming down!) we've decided to cancel this event. We'll aim to re-schedule the topic at a later date, keep an eye out.

• PHPNW December 2009

  Tue, 1 Dec 2009, 19:00 in Manchester, United Kingdom

  This month we have a talk by Rick Ogden, giving a beginners guide to Object Oriented programming using PHP. This will be covering the very basics of OO including design, syntax, structures and methodologies. PHPNW (PHP North West) is a group focussing on the PHP web development language in the North-of-England.

• PHPNW September 2009

  Tue, 1 Sep 2009, 19:00 - 23:00 in Manchester, United Kingdom

  This month we have two talks - the main event is "Practical Test-Driven Development" by Derick Rethans. Derick is a well known author, speaker and core PHP developer and is also the creator of Xdebug. We also have the next installment in our Design Patterns series with Melanie Rhianna Lewis telling us about the Decorator pattern.PHPNW (PHP North West) is a group focussing on the PHP web development language in the North-of-England.

• PHPNW August 2009

  Tue, 4 Aug 2009, 19:00 - 22:30 in Manchester, United Kingdom

  This month is Lightning Talks Night, pecha kucha style. You make a presentation with 20 slides in it, and set them to advance automatically after 20 seconds. With a total of 6 minutes and 40 seconds per talk, this is a great way of trying out speaking without taking it too seriously :) Just turn up with your slides and we'll fit in as many as we can - talks don't need to be technical, tell us anything you want to!

• GeekUp Manchester

  Tue, 14 Jul 2009, 18:00 - 23:00 in Manchester, United Kingdom

  GeekUp Manchester takes place on the second Tuesday of every month. It's a grass-roots knowledge sharing and networking social for folks involved or interested in all forms of technology and creative media.What is GeekUp?GeekUp is a community of web designers, web developers, and other tech-minded folk from the UK. It's a grassroots knowledge sharing and networking social for folks involved or interested in the web and technology industry.