Next Meeting Date and Agenda

by Derek Gallo

The next OrlandoPHP meeting is set for May 27th from 7 - 9 p.m. at Devry room 105. I apologize for the shorter notice. We had some communication issues getting the room reserved at Devry. Non-the-less, we are set now for what will hopefully be another good meetup! We have two presenters lined up.

Ryan Price will be giving a talk on how Drupal was used for http://Petentials.com and http://OrlandoFringe.com. I have heard from some people that they are interested in Drupal. Ryan has developed plenty of sites in Drupal himself and will be able to show some real world examples of how it was implemented and problems encountered.

Cory Collier will give a run down of quick PHP performance tips and pitfalls. Join in to pick up quick and dirty performance tweaks that shouldn’t require much reworking of your code structure. He will also cover common performance pitfalls such as running the count function inside a for loop or not passing objects by reference.

As usual, we will have pizza and soda, the staple programmers diet :). Hope to see everyone there!

Coworking at Stardust

by Derek Gallo

Myself, David and some others plan on heading over to Stardust tomorrow (Tues) evening for a coworking session. We will just be messing around on personal projects (well I will be at least). I believe we are each working with Zend Framework which was one of the frameworks discussed last week. Stop by to hang out if your interested. Company is always welcome!

I plan on being there from around 7:00 p.m. till about 9:00 p.m.


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Meeting Next Week

by Derek Gallo

Our first meetup is only a week away. As a reminder, we will be meeting on April 22nd from 7:00 - 9:00 at Devry Center on Millennium Blvd, room 106. Our proposed topic for the meeting will be “Framework-Based Development in PHP”, highlighting the differences between the various, popular PHP frameworks. Among those slated for discussion:

  • Zend Framework
  • cakePHP
  • CodeIgniter
  • Symfony
  • Roll-Your-Own!

The discussion is planned to be panel style. Instead of regular presentations, we plan on discussing the topics involved with using frameworks and debating the pros and cons of each framework in regards to how they handle each topic.

This is our first meeting of many to come so please help spread the word. We will have some pizza and soda available if you are hungry. Come on out and meet other fellow PHPers.