Central Florida PHP would like to formally invite you to another exciting presentation. This presentation will cover PHP hottest framework, CakePHP.

If you are looking to take your programming to the next level, come to this presentation.
If you are looking to code 10x faster, come to this presentation.
If you never want to code a line of SQL again, come to this presentation.

This talk will be a continuation of the object-oriented concepts discussed in the previous meeting, however attendance to that meeting is not required. Come prepared to learn a lot and get ready to have your programming skills improve exponentially overnight.

Time, date, and location information follow below. If you have any questions, please be sure to post them in the CFPHP Discussion group: http://groups.google.com/group/cfphp.

Date:

Saturday, June 9th, 2007

Time:

3:00pm to 5:00pm

Location:

DeVry University

4000 Millenia Blvd

Orlando, FL 32839

See you all there!!

Greetings all!

We’re looking for a solid meeting location to conduct our next meeting. If anyone has any suggestions, please be sure to reply to this post or contact me directly!

And I quote:

Microsoft has formed a technical partnership with Zend Technologies to optimize its open-source scripting language PHP to work better with Windows Information Server.

You can read the full article Microsoft Wants Speed Advantage With Open Source PHP on Dr. Dobb’s

This is some interesting stuff–definitely something I did not expect from a closed-source company with a highly competitive server-side language. I’m quite sure that ASP will continue to grow in it’s own direction, completely independent of PHP’s influence. What I’m hoping for is a much tighter integration with IIS because running PHP as a binary really sucks.

Central Florida PHP wishes everyone a very happy and safe Halloween!

What are all the CFPHPers doing this spooky holidy?

It looks like the Developers of TextMate are up to some holiday pranks (see attached image).

One of our own local PHP developers is off to Washington DC for the DC PHP Conference. Brian spoke at php|works 2005 about generating SVG data using PHP. Now he’s back at it again with his new and updated “Visualizing Data with SVG”.

If you’re interested in attending the conference, the price is $595 for earlybirds–if you’re a student, it’s only $400. For more information, visit the website at http://dcphpconference.com/.