Boston PHP Meetup

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• Boston PHP Northeast Conference (Day 2)

  Sun, 12 Aug 2012, 12:00 - 21:00 in Boston, United States

  Join over 300 expert web developers, entrepreneurs, and designers from all over the Northeast. Learn and share on over 40 topics on PHP, Web Technology, and Design and UX.If you've enjoyed our Boston PHP Meetups, you will love this event. There will be nothing quite like it - it's like three years of Meetups jam packed into two days!Tickets are on sale now for just $99Check out the Northeast PHP website and get your tickets. I hope to see you there.

• Boston PHP Northeast 2-day Conference

  11-12 Aug 2012 in Boston, United States

  Boston PHP is hosting a PHP Conference in Boston!Join over 300 expert web developers, entrepreneurs, and designers from all over the Northeast. Learn and share on over 40 topics on PHP, Web Technology, and Design and UX.If you've enjoyed our Boston PHP Meetups, you will love this event. There will be nothing quite like it.It's like three years of Meetups jam packed into two days:Click the links below to check out the topics we will cover.

• Boston PHP Northeast Conference (Day 1)

  Sat, 11 Aug 2012, 12:00 - 21:00 in Boston, United States

  Join over 300 expert web developers, entrepreneurs, and designers from all over the Northeast. Learn and share on over 40 topics on PHP, Web Technology, and Design and UX.If you've enjoyed our Boston PHP Meetups, you will love this event. There will be nothing quite like it - it's like three years of Meetups jam packed into two days!Tickets are on sale now for just $99Check out the Northeast PHP website and get your tickets. I hope to see you there.

• SHOW n' TELL Night...

  2-3 May 2012 in Boston, United States

  Come share your experiences with PHP and other technologies and show us how you have applied it to your projects.This is your chance to come up to the podium and have 15 minutes to present what interesting things you have done. Please - no powerpoint. Just demo your cool stuff, have fun, and answer questions.We have done this in the past and it was a huge success and a lot of fun. It's really amazing to see what others are doing.

• Paper Prototyping: Sketching and Evaluating Your Design Concepts

  14-15 Dec 2011 in Boston, United States

  Hands-on Paper PrototypingWhat if you could design and test your website or application, before spending any time and money coding it? Imagine being able to know before you release your product, that it meets the needs of your customers, and is easy to use? How about showing your ideas off to stakeholders, and get valuable feedback that your can incorporate right away within minutes? Welcome the the world of Paper Prototyping.

• Google Analytics for Developers...

  9-10 Nov 2011 in Cambridge, United States

  The world of data and analytics is changing rapidly. With the introduction of Google Analytics, Google eliminated the cost of collecting and processing data.But they've done much, much more than that. They've created a data collection monster that can aggregate data from websites, mobile apps, desktop apps and web application. Anyone can leverage this data collection and process platform to provide insightful reports to business teams.

• Boston PHP Job fair

  9-10 Nov 2011 in Cambridge, United States

  Are you a web developer, web designer, or specialist looking for a job? Maybe even a little part time project off to the side? Or perhaps you are a company and have positions you are looking to hire? Maybe you need help on a side project and willing to pay someone to help? Or you just want to circulate your resume.Join us for the Boston PHP job fair.We will pair up the folks looking for work with the people looking to hire.

• Proof you do not need SQL anymore...

  12-13 Oct 2011 in Cambridge, United States

  How well do you know your data?Join Boston PHP and Chhean Saur for an exciting and riveting presentation on a big claim that you really don't need SQL anymore, and we will prove it...SQL is defined as "Structured Query Language", but is your data really that well structured? For example, an address field doesn't always have a city and state. An international address can have province, town, or district as well. How should we store this in a database?

• Learn Twitter API Programming

  14-15 Sep 2011 in Cambridge, United States

  Join Boston PHP and Adam Green in an introduction to Twitter API programming with PHP and MySQL. We will show you how to connect to the Twitter API servers, store tweets and user account info in a MySQL database, and display the data on any website. We will explore advanced topics like ranking Twitter users for influence and automatically following them.The Twitter API is free, and best of all nobody has to approve your Twitter applications before they are released.

• Introducing the Lithium PHP Framework

  8-9 Jun 2011 in Cambridge, United States

  Come learn about a new PHP Framework that some are touting as a potential game changer for PHP. If you are using any of the popular PHP frameworks like CakePHP, Symfony, Zend, or CodeIgniter - then you owe it to yourself to check out what Lithium has to offer...Lithium is a framework for PHP 5.3+ that is focused on quality, speed, and flexibility.

• Usability Testing Night with Steve Krug...

  1-2 Mar 2011 in Cambridge, United States

  As a follow-on to our very popular event on Usability with Steve Krug, let's have a night where we conduct Usability tests on your own sites in almost a speed dating like format...What is Usability?Usability is a measure of the quality of a person’s experience in interacting with content or services. If you're designing and building websites and web applications, then you need to care about Usability.

• PHP Framework Bake-Off...

  22-23 Feb 2011 in Boston, United States

  We are cooking up a really great Boston PHP event we are calling the "Framework Bake-Off". This is our answer to the most popular meetup idea that you all voted for named "Frameworks" that was originally suggested by Rick Heller.We will take a look at what PHP Frameworks have to offer and what's behind the "magic" in these frameworks. We actually did a Framework Bake-Off last year and it was very popular and insightful - so let's do it again!What is a Bake-Off?

• jQuery Mobile: How to develop mobile apps.

  9-10 Feb 2011 in Cambridge, United States

  Why bother learning objective C when you can develop apps for the iPhone/iPad/Droid using what you already know - jQuery and PHP. The result is so realistic, users won't distinguish the difference.Announcing jQuery Mobile:jQuery Mobile is a unified user interface system across all popular mobile device platforms, built on the rock-solid jQuery and jQuery UI foundation. Its lightweight code is built with progressive enhancement, and has a flexible, easily themeable design.

• Progressive Enhancement

  18-19 Aug 2010 in Cambridge, United States

  This meetup will be a presentation and introduction to a technique called Progressive Enhancement. If you are web developer and have not already heard about this, well - you really should attend and find out more.Progressive enhancement is an approach to web development that aims to deliver the best possible experience to the widest possible audience - whether your users are viewing your sites on an iPhone, a high-end desktop system, a Kindle, or hearing them on a screen-reader, their ex

• Learn all about HTML5

  4-5 Aug 2010 in Boston, United States

  Come join us as we explore what coming in HTML5 and how might apply it to your next projectHTML5 is being developed as the next major revision of HTML. It aims to remove the need for proprietary plugins such as Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, Apple QuickTime and Windows Media PlayerMany great new features such as: *New html elements and attributes *Built in APIs like Drag and Drop, Video, Audio, and Geo-location *New CSS Selectors

• Introducing CouchDB

  21-22 Jul 2010 in Cambridge, United States

  Apache CouchDB is a document-oriented database that can be queried and indexed in a MapReduce fashion using JavaScript. CouchDB also offers incremental replication with bi-directional conflict detection and resolution.It provides a RESTful JSON API than can be accessed from any environment that allows HTTP requests. There are myriad third-party client libraries that make this even easier from your programming language of choice.

• PHP Beginner Training Series (Part 1 of 3)

  Sat, 17 Jul 2010, 15:00 - 17:00 in Boston, United States

  PHP Beginner Training Series (Part 1)When: Saturday, July 17th, 11am - 4pmIf your somewhat new to PHP and want a fast track learning series on how to build an application from concept to launch, then this is for you. Feel free to pass this on to your friends and associates who may also be interested. This is part one of several series covering beginner topics and progress towards more intermediate topics.

• An Agile/SCRUM Workshop

  16-17 Jun 2010 in Boston, United States

  Deliver the right software at the right time, every time. Really?!?!?!Whether you think SCRUM is a rugby term or the next best thing since 32nm chips, join me for an engaging and interactive workshop on the foundations of Agile/SCRUM. Learn why some people rave and discover practical tips that you can use right away to make your software projects better.Join Doug Ross as he takes you through an insightful workshop on Agile Scrum.

• Building a Drupal Website

  2-3 Jun 2010 in Boston, United States

  Join us for a 90-minute how-to presentation using the Drupal stack installation from Acquia (...) to build a Drupal website on local computers. Presentation will cover installation, setup, overview of major Drupal functionality, user interface design, and site design and theming.This is a co-organized event between BostonPHP and Boston Drupal Group.

• Object Oriented Programming for dummies

  5-6 May 2010 in Boston, United States

  Are you still writing procedural PHP code? Have you struggled to understand what's the big deal with OOP? Do Classes, Methods, and Objects make your head spin?Join us while we wipe the slate clean and teach you the basics of Object Oriented Programming with PHP. Finally - plain and simple. *What is OOP *What are the benefits *What are Classes & Methods *How to convert a procedural PHP script to OOP *Practical examples *Tips and Tricks

• HipHop for PHP - How does FaceBook do it!

  26-27 Apr 2010 in Boston, United States

  Ever wonder how the world's largest and most active social media site can scale to meet the demand of over 200 Million users. Did it ever occur to you that FaceBook is written in PHP? The secrets were revealed recently from FaceBook developers as HipHop for PHP.HipHop for PHP is a source code transformer. HipHop programmatically transforms your PHP source code into highly optimized C++ and then uses g++ to compile it.

• Enhance you apps with jQuery

  7-8 Apr 2010 in Boston, United States

  I will teach you all about using jQuery to enhance your apps and make them easy to use and more engaging and fun. I will keep it simple, so you will walk away with the tools and skills on how to add jQuery to your site. Forget all the other JavaScript frameworks - jQuery is the only one you need! *What is jQuery *How to install *Syntax *Review of the documentation *Practical uses of jQuery in your app - Light-box dialogs - Form validation

• PHP Security

  24-25 Mar 2010 in Boston, United States

  Security can have a significant affect on you and yourbusiness, but can seem daunting. One of the most importantaspects of creating secure sites is knowing what to look for.In this meetup we’ll talk about:- Why you should be concerned about security- How PHP security fits in the larger picture- Examples of common security concerns, with solutions- How you can apply this information to improve your sites

• How to design an app without writing a single line of code.

  18-19 Mar 2010 in Boston, United States

  It is essential you design your app before you go off and build it.I will show you how easy it is it design your next app and prototype it so you can ensure the user experience is just right. Furthermore, I will show you how to test your app design with real customers and stakeholders with paper prototypes.I will show you the leading prototyping tools and even give several copies away to attendees.- How to think about your app and start to experiment with your ideas

• CakePHP Part II

  Thu, 11 Mar 2010, 00:00 - 02:00 in Boston, United States

  Join us for part II in our series on CakePHP framework. Join Chris and Jesse Kochis as they give you a more in-depth advanced view of CakePHP.Stay tune - more details to follow.

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