The Suburban Chicago PHP & Web Development Meetup is merging with Fox Valley Computing Professionals. This is that big announcement I promised a few weeks back, and I think it’s a great opportunity for us.
FVCP approached me with their plan to begin offering more technical presentations starting this September, and we decided that we could deliver the best mix of technical knowledge by pooling our resources and the talent of our members. Although there’s some overlap between our groups, this merger gives us over 400 potential members (based on Meetup’s membership rosters for the two groups).
It also gives us access to FVCP’s new home, the Omega 59 restaurant in Warrenville, 1/4 mi north of I-88 on Rt. 59. The restaurant is hosting our upcoming meetings free of charge, which means we are going to stop charging admission. All the restaurant asks is that we buy food and drinks, and to help with that they’re making full wait service and a full bar available to us. I was never happy having to charge money for our meetings, so I’m excited about this new opportunity.
If you’ve never been to a Fox Valley Computing Professionals event, check out their Meetup page at http://www.meetup.com/foxvalleycp/ . They also have a website at http://foxvalleycp.com/, including videos of previous presentations.
I hope you’ll join us on September 14th as we open a new chapter together as the Fox Valley Computing Professionals. Look for an announcement on FVCP’s Meetup page in the coming weeks.
The August PHP & Web Development Meetup is cancelled. It’s not that I don’t love each and every one of you in a deeply meaningful (but totally platonic) way. It’s just that Devo is playing the same night we were going to meet and I couldn’t pass it up. Check out their new album “Something For Everybody”. I’m sure you’ll understand.
Also, there’s some big news in the works, and it has nothing to do with Kobe Bryant. Stay tuned for updates in the coming weeks.
One of the hot topics at this year’s Tek-X/PHP-Tek conference is MongoDB, a lightweight document-based database. Come learn how MongoDB and other “NoSQL” databases are providing web sites like Facebook and Twitter the power to scale to millions of users.
If you weren’t here, you missed a great discussion, covering this and more. We got recaps of DrupalCon and Tek-X, discussions about server-side Javascript, and even some Drupal advice. It was a small group but a fun night. Join us next month as we discuss MongoDB and the “NoSQL movement”!
Come learn about functions and techniques that make working with dates in PHP and Javascript easy. This is more than just the date() function. We’ll cover time zones, date math, and even convert dates to those cool “xx minutes ago” displays.
I figured it was probably a good idea to take the company name off of it, and while I was in there I changed the background to something a little more readable.
Thanks to everyone who came out to our new location! The IIT campus was a hit, and I’m trying to book the room again for next month.
We don’t have video of the Zend Studio presentation, but Zend has a ton of videos explaining the features and benefits of purchasing a Zend Studio license.
Hey everyone!