http://suburbanchicagophp.org Home of the West Suburban Chicago PHP Meetup Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:41:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The slides were pretty spartan this month, so I recorded some narration. There's some small text, so you'll probably want to follow the link and view this at SlideShare, where you can blow it up full screen.  Subversionview presentation (tags: software development versioncontrol subversion) http://suburbanchicagophp.org/archives/48 I've seen very little from PHP that got me excited lately.  So, imagine how excited I am to hear that closures are coming to PHP 5.3! If you've done a lot with today's popular Javascript libraries like jQuery and Prototype, you've no doubt come across closures.  They're little self-contained functions that ... http://suburbanchicagophp.org/archives/47 Here's another talk I watched recently on how to speed up your web sites. This one focuses on Javascript, and offers techniques to make your scripts run faster -- or at least appear to run faster: http://suburbanchicagophp.org/archives/46 I watched a great presentation from the Google I/O conference yesterday.  It's by Steve Souders, creator of the YSlow plugin for Firefox, and he's talking about making your web sites load faster.  He offers some ... http://suburbanchicagophp.org/archives/45 If you decide to do automated unit testing of your web applications, this presentation from Google Tech Talks covers ways to make your tests more complete and efficient: http://suburbanchicagophp.org/archives/44 Check out Jeff Atwood & Joel Spolsky's new Stack Overflow podcast, a discussion about software development. PHP Sucks, But It Doesn't Matter I had someone email me looking for a LAMP developer for a 3-6 month contract in the Loop. You need framework experience and a BS degree in a computer ... http://suburbanchicagophp.org/archives/41 Tom's Presentation from this evening: | View | Upload your own http://suburbanchicagophp.org/archives/43 My presentation from this evening: | View | Upload your own http://suburbanchicagophp.org/archives/42 Here's Dan's presentation from this month, on XML processing with Ruby. I know what you're thinking...Ruby?!?! But, I think it's important to see how the other languages out there do things. Maybe you'll like what you see and decide to become a Ruby programmer, or perhaps you'll pick up ... http://suburbanchicagophp.org/archives/38 Here's the presentation I put together for last month's meetup. I hear nobody showed it in my absence, but I thought at least some of you might be interested. | View | Upload your own http://suburbanchicagophp.org/archives/37