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Thanks to everyone (20+) who attended and contributed to the May meeting. Our next meeting is scheduled for Thursday 5th June - we have some tentative presentations scheduled in including a look at a music site being developed by one of the sydphp members and CodeGear providing a review of version 2 of their Delphi IDE for PHP.

As always, if anyone would like to present something related to Web Development at a meeting, please follow the instructions provided to let the organisers know.

Other quick notes to cover in this posting:

• Membership of the blog is now open to everyone - unfortunately this is a different log in to the forum as the systems are not linked.
• Anyone can now comment on blog postings. Akismet is up and running to deal with spam.
• We’ll also be reviewing the forums to reduce the number of categories and be looking at setting up a Planet so that all members can contribute to the site via their own blogs.

Thanks!

PHP users and developers of all levels from the Sydney region are invited to the May 2008 meeting

This month we have two great presentations, one an introductory look at SMS handling with PHP, the other will dip your toes into feature based web development using Bazaar, a distributed revision control system

Meetings are free, held every first Thursday of the month at CodeGear offices, Sydney and are open to anyone with an interest in Web Development.

Date

May 1st 2008 at 6.30pm.

Agenda

6:30 - 6:40 - Introductions and Announcements

6:40 - 7:15 - SMS handling with PHP - Damien McGuire & Adam Dukes
Handling SMS in PHP may sound complicated, but it’s actually pretty straightforward. We discuss sending SMS using an HTTP API along with the low level communication functions being used.
Level: Beginner

7:15 - 7:30 - Break: Pizza and drinks kindly provided by CodeGear

7:30 - 8:30 - Feature based web development with Bazaar - James Ellis
How is the code developed by your organisation managed and provisioned? Do you still use FTP to update your web apps? Can it be done in a more coherent way that benefits your developers, organisation and your customers? You bet! James will show the ins and outs of developing features rather than file changes - and managing the testing and provision of those features so that you stay in control of your web application.
Level: Medium

(Please note that presentation times are estimates only - length of presentations may vary)

Location

CodeGear offices (look for the Borland sign)
Level 12
10 Spring St
Sydney NSW 2000

Many thanks to CodeGear for providing us this meeting place. If the elevators are locked, you can contact the nominated contact person for the meeting (to be announced) and they will come and pick you up.

Do you want to present?

Interested in presenting to the Group at an upcoming meeting? please contact one of the group organisers(@sydphp.org) for further assistance. A presentation does not have to be technical in nature - if it is something you can do or want done with PHP then we are interested!

Why come to a meeting?

Meetings are a great place to network and meet other developers in the Sydney region, possibly find development work and discuss tips and tricks in PHP development face to face with your peers.

Getting there from out of the city

Spring St is in the north of the city, between Pitt and Bent Sts. Catch a train to Wynyard or Martin Place then use the Google map

Lovers of CamelCase may be interested in going to BarCampSydney unconference on the 5th and 6th of April (i.e next weekend). Register on the wiki and read more about BarCamp at barcamp.org

PHP users and developers of all levels from the Sydney region are invited to the April 2008 meeting

This month we have two presentations, one a beginners introduction to the use of arrays in PHP, the other an overview of Salesforce integration with PHP.

Date

April 3rd 2008 at 6.30pm.

Agenda

6:30 - 6:40 - Introductions and Announcements
6:40 - 7:00 - Beginners Coding: introduction to arrays in PHP
7:00 - 7:15 - Break: Pizza and drinks kindly provided by CodeGear
7:15 - 8:00 - Salesforce Integration with PHP - Toivo Talikka

(Please note that presentation times are estimates only - length of presentations may vary)

Location

CodeGear offices (look for the Borland sign)
Level 12
10 Spring St
Sydney NSW 2000

Many thanks to CodeGear for providing us this meeting place. If the elevators are locked, you can contact the nominated contact person for the meeting (to be announced) and they will come and pick you up.

Do you want to present?

Interested in presenting to the Group at an upcoming meeting? please contact one of the group organisers(@sydphp.org) for further assistance. A presentation does not have to be technical in nature - if it is something you can do or want done with PHP then we are interested!

Why come to a meeting?

Meetings are a great place to network and meet other developers in the Sydney region, possibly find development work and discuss tips and tricks in PHP development face to face with your peers.

Getting there from out of the city

Spring St is in the north of the city, between Pitt and Bent Sts. Catch a train to Wynyard or Martin Place then use the Google map

PHP developers of all levels from the Sydney region are invited to the March 2008 meeting

This month we will be trialling a new agenda with a Q&A session and advanced talk. The advanced talk will cover writing better code with less effort by using MVC, DAO and CRUD.

Date

March 6th 2008 at 6.30pm.

Agenda

6:30 - 6:40  - Introductions and Announcements
6:40 - 7:00  - Q&A Session
7:00 - 7:15  - Break: Pizza and drinks kindly provided by CodeGear
7:15 - 8:00  - Better code with less effort - Rich Buggy

Location

CodeGear offices (look for the Borland sign)
Level 12
10 Spring St
Sydney NSW 2000

Many thanks to CodeGear for providing us this meeting place. If the elevators are locked, you can contact the nominated contact person for the meeting (to be announced) and they will come and pick you up.

Do you want to present?

Interested in presenting to the Group at an upcoming meeting? please contact one of the group organisers(@sydphp.org) for further assistance. A presentation does not have to be technical in nature - if it is something you can do or want done with PHP then we are interested!

Why come to a meeting?

Meetings are a great place to network and meet other developers in the Sydney region, possibly find development work and discuss tips and tricks in PHP development face to face with your peers.

Getting there from out of the city

Spring St is in the north of the city, between Pitt and Bent Sts. Catch a train to Wynyard or Martin Place then use the Google map

Thanks to everyone who came along to the meeting on Feb 7th and an extra thanks to our presenter, Brent, for his description of handling emails in PHP.

We had 26 people in attendance, which takes up from the good position we left off with at the end of 2007.

The Group next meets on Thursday 6th March at 6.30pm. There is some interest in presenting to the Group at the moment, so if you have a presentation you would like to give please make sure that you contact the organisers mailbox within about 2 weeks of the next meeting date so that your topic can be reviewed. Possible upcoming presentations include SMS handling, form theory and testing frameworks.

From next month we will also be trialling a new format for the meetings, as follows

1. Introduction (5 minutes)
2. Group Announcements (5 minutes)
3. Q&A session or beginners presentation (20 minutes)
4. Pizza/Break (15 minutes)
5. Advanced presentation (30-45 minutes)

If you are an advanced PHP developer you may be interested in coming along to the final presentation, or help out with the initial presentation.

UPDATE: The meeting will be at the usual time of 6.30pm

Do you want to present a topic at Sydney PHP Group? If so, have a look at our suggested topics or come up with your own topic!
Requests to present can be sent to the organisers [via] sydphp.org.

PHP developers of all levels from the Sydney region are invited to our first meeting for 2008

This month we have a presentation on reading incoming emails with PHP. For an real world use with similar functionality, check out Flickr’s “upload by email“.

Date

February 7th 2008, 6.30pm for a 7pm start.

Agenda

6:30 - 7:00 - Networking - meet and greet.
7:00 - 8:00 - Reading Incoming Emails with PHP - Brent Knigge
8:00 - 8:30 - Break: Pizza and drinks kindly provided by CodeGear

Location

CodeGear offices (look for the Borland sign)
Level 12
10 Spring St
Sydney NSW 2000

Many thanks to CodeGear for providing us this meeting place. If the elevators are locked, you can contact the nominated contact person for the meeting (to be announced) and they will come and pick you up.

Do you want to present?

Interested in presenting to the Group at an upcoming meeting? please contact one of the group organisers(@sydphp.org) for further assistance. A presentation does not have to be technical in nature - if it is something you can do or want done with PHP then we are interested!

Why come to a meeting?

Meetings are a great place to network and meet other developers in the Sydney region, possibly find development work and discuss tips and tricks in PHP development face to face with your peers.

Getting there from out of the city

Spring St is in the north of the city, between Pitt and Bent Sts. Catch a train to Wynyard or Martin Place then use the Google map

Web Blast 2007 is on and the Sydney PHP Group is part of the action!

What is Web Blast?

Web-blast is a huge end-of-year party for Sydney’s web community - bringing together web designers, web project managers, interface designers, information architects and other web professionals. Join a range of Sydney’s web communities and celebrate the end of year in style on Wednesday 12 December, 2007.

Registration opens on Monday 26 November!

We’d really like to see you there! Space is limited to 350 people, so be quick on registraton day. Registration and the event are free until the bar tab runs out.

For the latest information including location and more, remember to check the web blast site.

Thanks!

Sydney PHP Group organisers

Zend Conference 07 is over, but there are some presentations available on the web