The Suburban Chicago PHP & Web Development Meetup

Dave Bost from Microsoft will be filling us in on what the folks in Redmond (and everywhere, really) are doing with PHP these days. Turns out they’re a supporter of PHP, jQuery and other open source technologies. They also sponsor Tek-X (formerly PHP-Tek), an annual PHP conference here in Chicago.

Our group usually focusses on the LAMP stack, but Microsoft has become a formidable player once again. They’re not throwing monopoly muscle around either. They’re bringing impressive tools like Web Platform Installer (hint: one-click Drupal install) to the table.

Bring questions about PHP, IIS, and other web technologies to get a different perspective from our local Microsoft rep. And, of course there will be our usual pizza and caffeine, plus great opportunities to make friends and business connections.

Join us on March 4th, 2010 at 7pm in Schaumburg. RSVP here

The Firefox folks have put together this cool demo of some HTML 5 features, including the Canvas tag, Drag & Drop, and the local storage API.

Check out the cool features that will be available to your web applications soon:

A few links from last night:

Wikipedia Entry on HTML5

Comparison of layout engines (HTML5)

WHAT WG home page

W3C’s list of differences between HTML4 and HTML5