Web414 - Milwaukee's Web Community

Location:
Bucketworks
706 S 5th St
Milwaukee, WI 53204

Two presentations this week.

Intro/Designer/Business Segment:
PHP to Save Time: Aaron Saray
Your static page websites can benefit from a few snippets of PHP. Find out how to save time by including files, generating dynamic menus, highlighting active portions, and generating meta data and other header information. Intro PHP programmers will receive cut and paste code segments with a bit of description of 'why these work.'

Second Half: Advanced PHP Concepts:
Intro to PHP Debugging: Joel Clermont
If you're happy using var_dump or print_r to troubleshoot pesky PHP problems, I'll make the case why a real debugger is a better use of your time. Next, I'll demonstrate the basics of a typical debugging session using Zend Studio and Zend Server CE. Includes demo!

For more information, see Milwaukee PHP User Group meetup page

C2 Graphics Productivity Solutions
222 Erie Street - Suite 330
Milwaukee, WI

Topics:
6:00 to 6:55 - Drupal414 1st release site review, modules and setup
6:55 to 7:05 - Break
7:05 to 8:00 - Brainstorm Drupal414 site changes/additions, future Drupal presentations

Sandwiches will be provided so please register at
www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=296956279284 or www.Drupal414.com

Questions contact Steve Klebar: 414-737-2596 or sklebar@promentor.biz

Business/Intro PHP: Connecting to MySQL with PHP by David Szymakowski
MySQL is an open source database that can be used with PHP to create dynamic web content. This basic tutorial will demonstrate how to connect to a MySQL database and display the data with PHP. As part of this demonstration you will be introduced to phpMyAdmin, a handy MySQL database management tool.

Advanced: Smarty and PHP by Michael Litscher
Michael will demonstrate Smarty Templating's abilities including passing object by reference, calling an object's method, and displaying method call results and member values. Finally, both Smarty and PHP modifiers will be demonstrated.

Sponsor:
MLT/Instructing Technologies
Your Resource for Training
www.instructingtechnologies.com

MLT offers a wide variety of training from technical to applications to soft skills development. All Milwaukee PUG members receive 10% off courses, please contact Tiffany Weber for more information.

SEE: Meetup.com to rsvp

Business/intro PHP: The 5 secrets to get a Job Offer every week by Aaron Saray
Are you committed? Do you really want this? These 5 no-bullcrap tips will help put you above the pack - they worked for me - and they will work for you.

Advanced: IDE Comparisons by Joel Clermont
Joel is going to cover the key differences in a few of the top IDEs for PHP development

sponsor:
c2
http://www.c2gps.com/...

Serving as industry leaders in creative talent placement and training in both Madison and Milwaukee since 1992, C2 Graphics Productivity Solutions is uniquely positioned as Wisconsin's only Adobe Authorized Training Center and one of the largest locally-owned creative talent placement firms in the state. C2's staff of professional trainers and talent placement agents do whatever it takes to support our clients, colleagues, talent and partners with our THREE excellent service offerings: Training, Talent Placement and OUPS.

Make sure to ask Erica more about their services and find out what OUPS means when you see her Tuesday!

SEE: Meetup.com to rsvp.

Location:
C2 Graphics Productivity Solutions
222 Erie Street - Suite 330
Milwaukee, WI

Agenda:
6:05 to 6:55 --- Signup Inside/Out - Steve Klebar will explore the capabilities, installation and setup of the Signup contributed module.
6:55 to 7:05 --- Break
7:05 to 7:20 --- Kevron's Korner - Kevin Ciesielski will present those awesome applications and tools he has uncovered and discuss their potential value for Drupal developers.
7:20 to 7:45 --- Drupal Tune-ups - Bring you Drupal issue to the meetup for analysis, troubleshooting tips and possibly a fix.
7:45 to 8:00 --- Directions - Brain storm areas of community interest and presentation for future meetups.

Contact:
In the event that you have any questions or suggestions for future topics please contact Steve Klebar at 414-737-2596 or mkehack@promentor.biz

Please RSVP at www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=364863592648 or www.Drupal414.com food will be provided.

Intro:
Orlando Medina - MAMP: An introduction to the world of all in one web solutions.
MAMP is a Mac based install of Apache, PHP and MySQL. Orlando will demonstrate setting up MAMP and getting your first PHP script running locally.

Advanced:
Steve Klebar
Drupal API and Architecture
Steve will be sharing advanced features of Drupal. Included in the presentation will be some discussion about the API and Drupal architecture.

Sponsor:
MLT/Instructing Technologies
Your Resource for Training
www.instructingtechnologies.com

MLT offers a wide variety of training from technical to applications to soft skills development. All Milwaukee PUG members receive 10% off courses, please contact Tiffany Weber for more information.

See: Meetup.com for RSVP.

Intro:
Mike McCallister
Title: Analyzing a WordPress Plugin: A Collaborative Experience
Description:
In WordPress in Depth, Mike McCallister analyzes FollowMe, a popular and simple WordPress plugin written in PHP that allows the readers of your blog to follow you on Twitter. We'll repeat this exercise, in hopes that everyone (including the presenter) can pick up tips on how to code and comment.

Advanced: dan baker
YUI and multiple image uploads
Dan will be discussing working with the Yahoo User Interface library and managing multiple image uploads with PHP.