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Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:24 UTC
Atlanta PHP is proud to welcome php|works to Atlanta, GA on September 12-14!
php|architect invites you to Harness the Power of PHP, at this year’s php|works conference.
This year’s edition of php|works will take place in Atlanta, Georgia, home of the Braves and of the Atlanta PHP user group, on September 13th and 14th, with an extra tutorial day on September 12th.
The conference once again promises to be an excellent event for PHP developers of all levels, with talks from top PHP experts such as Derick Rethans, Chris Shiflett, Andrei Zmievski, Sara Golemon, and many more (and plenty of new faces, as well).
Sign up today before the conference sells out!
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Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:58 UTC
So, I popped into #apache on Freenode IRC today to ask a question. That’s when I noticed the news in their topic that ApacheCon US will take place this year in Atlanta, GA from November 12-16 at the Westin Peachtree. This is good news for me (since I won’t need to get a plane ticket) and Atlanta PHP!
I proceeded to ask Rich Bowen a few questions about the conference and what Atlanta PHP can do to help promote and take part in it. ApacheCon usually has a PHP track (ApacheCon EU does not have a PHP track this year), and Rich said he expects this conference to have the full complement of tracks. It’s my hope that Atlanta PHP can somehow be a part of this.
For now, there are no more details, and the CFP hasn’t been announced, but the dates (Nov 12-16) and location (Westin Peachtree) are “set in stone.”
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Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:02 UTC
I recall several years ago a discussion on #phpc on Freenode IRC about the need for white papers on the use of PHP in the enterprise/business world. These white papers would serve as a sort of advocacy for PHP, but more important than advocating the use of PHP, they would help answer questions about PHP that management types have. The white papers would discuss the benefits of using PHP, highlighting its strengths and even noting its limitations. In short, it would answer the question: why is PHP suited (or not suited) for the task we need to complete? I was particularly interested in these white papers for Atlanta PHP to use and distribute to the local business community.
Well, three years have passed, and I don’t believe anyone has ever published any white papers on PHP, giving it a business case, and while we have companies like Zend, OmniTI, and eZ Systems providing support for PHP, I haven’t seen any documentation from them like this. So, last Thursday when Stuart Herbert announced his Google Group for developing a business case for PHP, I took notice and joined.
While I know that this group isn’t trying to advocate the use of PHP over other languages, I hope that it can generate white papers that will explain the benefits/advantages of PHP and why it is well-suited for particular tasks. Also, I think these white papers would do well to outline how PHP can work alongside other languages like Java, and how PHP has excellent support for XML and SOAP, making it a good choice to communicate with legacy/disparate systems.
I encourage those companies who use PHP and have an investment in the language to take part in this effort.
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Wed, 24 Jan 2007 16:52 UTC
Just got a call from Robert Swarthout of PaperBackSwap.com and SwapaCD.com. Robert’s a member of the Atlanta PHP user group, and he was calling to let me know that he and Zack (also of PaperBackSwap and SwapaCD) want to speak at a meeting about what to do when your “pet” project grows into a huge, heavily-trafficked website.
I also noticed today that Robert has a blog (which is why I’m writing this post), so I decided to check it out. Looks to me like he’ll be sharing some of those same experiences with scaling their sites from hardware issues to helpful scripts to build a standard install of Apache, MySQL, and PHP on new machines. Good luck with the blog, Robert!
While writing this post, Robert sent me the blurb for the talk he and Zack will give at the Atlanta PHP February meeting. If you’re in the Atlanta area on February 1st, feel free to attend the meeting. Here’s the blurb:
So what happens when your pet project is no longer a small little site but rather a site with thousands of visitors a day? This month we will talk about the growing pains and code changes we have experienced in taking our pet project to a site that has in excess of 650,000 page loads a day. Can your site scale? What kind of hardware, database and software has it taken to scale our site, PaperBackSwap.com? We will share our experiences with these issues and many other problems we have tackled. Let it be known that we are not experts, just normal Joes sharing what we have learned and continue to discover.
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Tue, 9 Jan 2007 16:06 UTC
I’m pleased to announce the official Atlanta PHP Call for Proposals. If you’re going to be in the Atlanta area and would like to present at an Atlanta PHP meeting, then, by all means, please let me know!
From the official post at Atlanta PHP:
Atlanta PHP announces its official Call for Proposals!
Atlanta PHP meets on the first Thursday of every month at 7:00pm Eastern Time in midtown Atlanta. We seek a wide variety of presentation topics of interest to intermediate-to-advanced Web developers with a focus on PHP and related technologies. Atlanta PHP connects and unites PHP users across the Southeast, provides world-class support and resources to the community, and advocates the adoption of PHP to local, national, and international businesses.
If you will be in the Atlanta area on the first Thursday of a month and would like to present a PHP-related topic at an Atlanta PHP meeting, please contact Ben Ramsey (ben [at] atlphp.org) and include your talk title, brief synopsis of your talk, full contact information (including phone number), and desired meeting date.
At this time, we cannot provide a speaker compensation package, though this is being investigated for the future. If you are interested in sponsorship opportunities allowing Atlanta PHP to provide speaker compensation packages, please contact Ben Ramsey (ben [at] atlphp.org) for further details.
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Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:46 UTC
I’m at the Zend/PHP Conference and Expo right now sitting in Robert Richards’s Advanced XML and Web Services tutorial. I’ll be attending Marcus’s and Sara’s Extending PHP tutorial later today. Had a great day yesterday, in which Andrei drove us to wine tastings at two different wineries: Ridge and Picchetti.
I wanted to take a moment to mention a 24-hour coding marathon announced by Elizabeth Naramore: PHP Throwdown. The competition sounds exciting, and I’m hoping to get a group together from Atlanta PHP to participate. It’s still in the planning stages, so you need to keep your eyes on it for announcements and more information. For now, here are the details:
What: 24-hour coding competition to see who can code the best PHP app
When: January 27, 2007
Who: You! You may enter individually or as a team, so if you think you’ve got what it takes then read more.
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Tue, 13 Jun 2006 19:57 UTC
Over the weekend, Atlanta PHP launched its brand new Web site and forum. We hope that this new site and forum will allow us to serve our local developer community much more effectively.
Also, something that I’ve not pointed out in any of the language posted on the Atlanta PHP Web site is that the new forum allows members to get in touch with each other, something the Drupal installation we had did not allow. Members can send private messages or even e-mail to each other using the forum software.
I also noticed a lot of people looking for a PHP user group in the area through Meetup.com. I quickly reassessed my attitude towards Meetup.com—over a year ago we left Meetup.com because of the mandatory imposed group fees—and set up a new Meetup group for Atlanta PHP. This is just another channel for us to find local developers or, rather, for local developers to find us.
Finally, the old site is still available as an archive for our old content. I’ve set up some rewrites to funnel old links to the archive site so that old content doesn’t get lost in the shuffle. If you’re looking for something and can’t find it, ask me or check http://archive.atlphp.org.
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Sun, 5 Mar 2006 3:39 UTC
On Thursday, March 2, Atlanta PHP gathered for its usual monthly meeting. However, this time, I decided to try to capture an audio recording of our meeting. The audio from the podcast attempt of our meeting actually turned out much better than I anticipated, given the equipment used to create the recording: my PowerBook’s internal microphone. Yet, the Q&A session we had following Kevin Roberts’s presentation had to be cut for two reasons: a) time and b) it was too hard to hear most of the discussion.
Wed, 6 Jul 2005 21:14 UTC
Tomorrow marks Atlanta PHP’s fourth consecutive, regular meeting at New Horizons in Tucker, GA. Originally, Matt Kern was slated to present a talk on Ajax, but he is now gearing up to move to Oregon, so he is not able to prepare his presentation. Thus, I have taken up the reigns again, and I will be presenting a talk that I’m preparing for some of the fall conferences (in the event that my proposals are selected).
The talk I’m presenting was actually inspired by several questions asked during my presentation at the last Atlanta PHP meeting, in which I briefly covered cross-site scripting (XSS) and cross-site request forgeries (CSRF) but went on to describe server configuration instead of a more in-depth discussion on XSS and CSRF. This talk goes into more detail where the other left off and approaches these attacks from the application (code) level.
XSS and CSRF: Programmers Prepare, Users Beware
Cross-site scripting (XSS) and cross-site request forgeries (CSRF) are often confused as being one and the same, but this misconception can lead to disastrous results. In this talk, you will encounter each of these attacks through examples and learn to distinguish between them. You will also examine secure coding practices and techniques for prevention.
So, if you’re in the Atlanta area tomorrow, come on out and join Atlanta PHP at 7:00 PM EDT at New Horizons in Tucker.
Looking forward, our August and September meetings are already shaping up and the topics are very promising. We’ll discuss what’s in the forecast at our meeting tomorrow.
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Thu, 7 Oct 2004 19:55 UTC
I just stumbled across this today when doing a search on “Atlanta PHP.” Apparently, there’s a Meetup group in Atlanta for PHP, and they had a meeting tonight.
Anyone know who heads this up? I find it odd that, in the all these months of dealing with people in the “worldwide” PHP community, no one from this other Atlanta-based group has once contacted me. This proves just how disjointed the PHP community is and why there is a need for things like PHPCommunity.org and “PHP Mongers.”
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