Milwaukee PHP Users Group

Our meetup on 5/11 was a round table discussion that I facilitated. Members of the group were lead through the discussion with topic suggestions and contributed their experiences, tips and tricks, and which tools they frequently use.

I took the following notes during the presentation.

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Acquire new jobs
-network with people who bring jobs
-facebook page for their company - just basic pr there
-never burn any bridges
-pro bono non profit work <-- where they learn to use the tool
-update social networking, linkedin, twitter, etc.

guru.com websites

I've attached the slides from Jim and Paul. Thanks guys!

Thanks to Orlando for presenting. Attached are the slides from the presentation.

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Joel and I did the presentations for 3/9. I did 5 secrets to getting a job offer once a week. Joel did a comparison and demonstration of 4 popular PHP IDE's.

I've attached the material we used for presentation.

4/13 - Analyzing a Wordpress Plugin -- and -- YUI and multiple Image Uploads

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

Michael finished up the 2/23 presentations with a Smarty Template demonstration. Attached are the source files.

David's Tuesday presentation went great. Lots of questions - overall a very big success. Attached are the power point slides and the demo file.

2/23 Intro to MySQL connections and Smarty Demo
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

Thanks to everyone who showed up yesterday, the second meetup was a success. Lets have a quick summary: