Greets all, Being in my seat, I've heard from many people over the course of this past year who have lost / changed employment. I know there is concern by many who are employed as to what will happen long term. The reality of the matter is this, though. Recession or no, change happens and the best way to be ready for it is to have a great skill set. To that end, we are restructuring the way our meetings will be.
New Meeting Structure We will be splitting our PHP meetings into 2 parts. First part is basic skills / best practices training. This is for you new guys who want to learn, but don't know where to start. This section is called PHP fundamentals and will be hosted by Justin Carmony. He and I are working on some printed materials and are ramping this up as we speak. We also have several very senior and tenured members who are VERY friendly to questions. The second portion of our meeting will be a more advanced topic that will be of benefit to intermediate / advanced members, but will still be of great benefit to those who are new. Still Social! For those interested in the social aspect of our meeting, we still have the famous UPHPU Afterhours party. Resources As far as learning resources, Ray Hunter and I are working on having books available at our meetings. While we will have some fun / zany way of handing out the books, there is an understood condition of receiving the book. You MUST write a review of the book and post it online. If you don't want to write a review, don't take the book. I will be breaking arms on this! Online Resources I know that our recordings have been sporadic. i'm working on allocating more time to this. Whew! All that said, here is the meeting info: Meeting Thursday, January 21st at 7pm @ Bill Good Marketing in Draper Bill Good Marketing 12393 Gateway Park Place Draper, Ut 84020 PHP Fundamentals by Justin Carmony - RTFM - Reading the Fabulous Manual For a new person to PHP, reading the documentation can be a daunting task. Even worse when you have legions of other developers screaming the acronym "RTFM!" Hopefully we can shed some light on how to get the most out of PHP Documentation, how to search it, how to understand it, and how to get help if the documentation doesn't answer your questions. Justin Carmony will be giving the presentation, and will leave time for questions. You're not alone in learning PHP, let the Utah PHP Usergroup help you. Justin Carmony has worked in web development professionally for the last five years. With emphasis on PHP, .NET, and Web Services, he has worked on projects ranging from simple websites to complex communications between thousands of remote systems. He currently is working as an independent contractor & private consultant. If you have any questions, comments, or curiosities you can contact him (justin AT justincarmony DOT com) or read about his latest endeavors at his blog. Advanced Topic by Trevor Sharpe - Basic Linux Server Administration Many programmers are finding themselves needing to understand and administer linux servers. This presentation is focused on learning how to effectively use the server through scripts, etc. Q & A session on admining to follow. Trevor Sharpe is a Systems Administrator for a company in SLC and is also a board member for Utah Open Source. mj/v _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
