PRESENTATION: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Development by Josh Justice, Developer at Big Nerd Ranch, @codingitwrong When: Thursday, September 7th, 2017 — 7pm-9pm Directions: Take I-285 to Cobb Parkway/US-41. Go south & turn left on Akers Mill Rd. At the 2nd traffic light, go left into […]
September 2017 Meeting
November 2016 Meeting
PRESENTATION: Developing Bots for Slack NOTE: NEW LOCATION – ShootProof. See directions and map link. Directions: Take I-285 to Cobb Parkway/US-41. Go south & turn left on Akers Mill Rd. At the 2nd traffic light, go left into Cobb Galleria, then an immediate left into the parking garage. Enter the […]
October 2016 Meeting
PRESENTATION: Traits: PHP’s best feature that you aren’t using NOTE: NEW LOCATION – ShootProof. See directions and map link. Directions: Take I-285 to Cobb Parkway/US-41. Go south & turn left on Akers Mill Rd. At the 2nd traffic light, go left into Cobb Galleria, then an immediate left into the […]
January 2015 Meeting
PRESENTATION: “WTPSR?” by Moses Ngone, http://ninelabs.com/ and @mospired Mini-talk by Kane McConnell: “Building LAMP Camp: Lessons from a LAMP Stack Education Program” NEW LOCATION: We are now meeting at Polygon Atlanta in Atlantic Station. See directions at http://polygonatl.com/directions/. Easiest: park, then take the Green #5 elevator to the 2nd level. Exit the […]
September 2014 Meeting
PRESENTATION: The Developer’s Toolbag NEW LOCATION – We are now meeting at ATDC. See http://bit.ly/1oKxkng (Google group post) for extended directions and parking info. Presentation by Moses Ngone, http://ninelabs.com/ and @mospired Description: The web developer’s workflow can dramatically change everyday. With the influx of new tools, processes and applications, we all sometimes feel like we need […]
March 2014 Meeting
PRESENTATION: Modern PHP Presentation by Ben Ramsey, Senior Software Architect at Moontoast (@ramsey and @Moontoast) and Co-Founder of AtlantaPHP Description: With all of the advances that have come in PHP 5.5 (as well as 5.4 and 5.3), modern PHP code no longer looks like the PHP code from years ago. […]
April 2013 Meeting
PRESENTATION: Your app has an identity. Now give it a pulse. Presentation by Robert Swarthout, ShootProof.com (@robertswarthout) Now that you have put hundreds of hours of work into your application and it is all up and running, it’s time to figure out what really is happening under the hood. Sure, […]
SPECIAL PRESENTATION: PHPUnit Best Practices Presentation by: Sebastian Bergmann NOTE – DATE & DAY – This special event is in addition to our regular meetings, so note that this takes place on Monday, March 25th. While PHPUnit is not difficult to set up and writing tests with it is easy, […]
March 2013 Meeting
PRESENTATION: Top Ten List: PHP and Web Application Performance NOTE – NEW LOCATION – Hypepotamus (see http://atlantaphp.org/directions/) Presentation by Brian DeShong, CrowdTwist, Inc. (@bdeshong) After working with PHP and web applications for 12 years, Brian has stored quite a few tricks up his sleeve. In this talk, he will cover […]
February 2013 Meeting
PRESENTATION: How Sysadmins View Your Stinking Code NOTE – NEW LOCATION – Hypepotamus (see http://atlantaphp.org/directions/) Presentation by Shawn Stratton, Discovery Communications, Inc. (@mfacenet) As a systems administrator, the focus on how an application is supposed to work and what makes it run is different than as a developer. We’ll take […]