Our next meeting will be held on Saturday September 29, 2007. That gives us exactly two weeks to start thinking about a new topic that the group is interested in hearing about and a presenter the group is interested in hearing from.
Head over to the CFPHP Google Group to discuss the next upcoming meeting!
Adobe Flex has been capturing a lot of attention in the web development community lately, especially the PHP community. Oftentimes called “Flash for Developers,” Adobe Flex opens up the doors to rich application development for PHP developers.
This Saturday, come out and learn a little about this amazing technology and how it can add another dimension to your development.
Quite a bit has been brewing over the last few weeks with some of the other local groups. As someone was kind enough to point out at our last meeting, BarCamp Orlando has an official date of Sunday, September 23. Greg from ORUG has put together an awesome video highlighting the details. Now go register for the event!
Also, Orlando now has an official Adobe developer group! The Adobe Developers of Greater Orlando met for the first time this past Tuesday (I wish I would have known sooner!) and will continue to meet on the first Tuesday of every month so make sure to set that repeating appointment!
Central Florida PHP would like to extend a warm welcome to our newest sponsor, Hydra Studio. Hydra is a design firm based out of Lake Mary, FL and is lead by a good friend, Bobby Jones (the designer, not the bum or the golfer). Bobby will be stopping by during our next meeting to meet us all and to hand out some Hydra swag.
It is also worth mentioning that Hydra is hiring. There home page only lists a few openings, but I have an inside scoop that there may be a few all-php jobs that they want to give us first dibs on. So come out on Saturday ready to learn and to network!
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Programming applications with web services can sound pretty scary for developers new to the subject. With countless acronyms like SOAP, REST, RPC, and WSDL floating around, one may quickly become overwhelmed by the potential complexity this may add to an application. Fortunately, PHP 5 is well equipped with native support for creating and consuming web services.
This talk will consist of three parts:
This will serve as a basic introduction to web services and how they are useful. Different types of web service models will be discussed, highlighting the pros and cons of each. Some popular web service providers will be discussed to illustrate real-world applications for implementing their service into your application.
This is where we roll up our sleeves and dig into some code. To begin, an RSS feed will be parsed as a brief introduction to handling the request and response process. This will also introduce tools used to parse XML data which is the primary data exchange format used by web services. From there we will interact with some common web services provided by Yahoo! and XMethods to cover more advanced topics.
The last topic to be discussed will be how PHP can act as a web service provider. Both SOAP-based and REST-based approaches will be explored.
Slides and code samples will be available after the talk has been given. Please post any questions or comments relating to this talk in our discussion group.
Wonderful news guys: I have new meeting dates confirmed! They are as follows:
Meetings for the above dates will be held at DeVry University in Room 108 from 3pm to 5pm. I will be presenting a talk on Web Services on August 4th (witty title coming soon, I promise). I would love to see some folks step up and give some talks for the other three slots. Please propose any ideas in our discussion group.
Be sure to plan around these dates! More information will follow once more specific details come my way.
[Update: I’ve updated the outline to be a little more detailed]
I’m proud to say that after a brief hiatus CFPHP is finally back. On top of that, we now have a permanent meeting location thanks to our gracious host, DeVry. They have agreed to host our meetings for the remainder of 2007, providing us with a location, ample parking, an overhead projection system, internet connection, and seating for up to 38 people.
The meeting will take place in room 114 from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm on May 12th, 2007.
The topic for the May meeting is “A Gentle Introduction to Object Oriented PHP” and will be presented by yours truly, Mike Girouard. A rough outline is as follows:
Please leave your suggestions or comments.
My apologies for the late post. My time has been directed entirely toward the Refresh06 conference. With that out of the way, we’re going to try this again at a better venue.
Meeting Date/Time: Sunday, November 19 at 3:00 PM
Meeting Location: Full Sail Building 3B, room 130.
If your travels require you to take I4 to Winter Park, it’s suggested that you exit on Fairbanks Ave. (Exit 87) and head East toward Semoran Blvd (SR-436). From there, you may take the directions ‘From the North’ listed below.
If you are a local, directions are as follows:
The meeting will be held in building FS3B room 130. Full Sail’s doors require an access key to enter, however there will be someone monitoring the doors until 3:15pm to make things easy.
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Central Florida PHP would like to formally invite you to attend our third offical meeting at the Orlando Public Library, located at the corner of Central and Magnolia in downtown Orlando. This meeting will be held in the Albertson Room which is located on the 3rd floor.
As always, you can expect lots of exciting news and updates as well as a presentation led by myself or Damien.
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