PRESENTATION: Illumenating the Web with Lumen Presentation by Matt Trask (@matthewtrask) When: Thursday, January 7th, 2015 — 7pm-9pm Please RSVP at: http://www.meetup.com/atlantaphp/events/227610500/ Say you are a start up, with a single developer. You want to get a site out fast to gain more interest, and with it more capital. How could […]
January 2016 Meeting
December 2015 Meeting
PRESENTATION: PHP 7, the Big 5 + 1 Presentation by Cal Evans (@calevans) When: Thursday, December 3rd, 2015 — 7pm-9pm Please RSVP at: http://www.meetup.com/atlantaphp/events/226826607/ Upgrades are scary. Many of us remember moving to PHP 5.3 and all that it entailed. Some of us remember moving to PHP 5.0 and the headaches […]
November 2015 Meeting
PRESENTATION: Fear and Loathing in Atlanta: A tale of PHP deployments Presentation by Shawn Stratton (@mfacenet) Getting caught still rsyncing your code from server to server or have tons of .backup files in your webroot? We’ll walk through the history of almost every PHP project’s deployment and look at current […]
September 2015 Meeting
PRESENTATION: Deploying PHP Applications with Fabric Presentation by Jason Bouffard (@jpb0104) We’ll be taking a real world look at how 3SI Security Systems uses Fabric to deploy their web applications. Fabric (http://www.fabfile.org/) is a Python library and command-line tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration tasks. We’ll be covering […]
July 2015 Meeting
NOTE: This event is on a different day AND week than our regularly scheduled meeting. Stefan Priebsch and Arne Blankerts of The PHP Consulting Company, (http://thephp.cc) PRESENTATIONS: Surviving the Next Upgrade by Stefan Priebsch Using tried and established frameworks spares you from reinventing solutions others already spent time and effort […]
June 2015 Meeting
PRESENTATION: Caching Strategies Presentation by Ben Ramsey (@ramsey), http://benramsey.com One of the biggest bottlenecks in an application is the point at which data is requested from some source, be it a traditional database, web service, or something else. One method to overcome these bottlenecks is the use of caches to […]
April 2015 Meeting
PRESENTATION: Leveraging the Power of Graph Databases in PHP Presentation by Jeremy Kendall (@JeremyKendall), http://graphstory.com Description: While relational databases sit at the core of most of today’s applications, they are not always the best fit for certain data needs. That’s why when building applications with rich connections, analyzing trends and […]
March 2015 Meeting
PRESENTATION: Practical Methods for Protecting Data using PHP Presentation by Rich Morgan (@paxsevenfour), bitpay.com Description: Data theft, corporate espionage and privacy violations are far too commonplace in our wired world. The security of customer data is often an afterthought when developing a web-based application usually because the topic of security […]