From noreply at nyphp.org Tue Feb 15 13:06:26 2011 From: noreply at nyphp.org (noreply at nyphp.org) Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:06:26 -0500 Subject: [nycphp-announce] next@nyphp: CouchDB: JSON, HTTP & MapReduce - Watch Online Message-ID: <002201cbcd3b$10af7590$320e60b0$@nyphp.org> February General Meeting: CouchDB: JSON, HTTP & MapReduce Introducing noSQL and the Document-oriented Database with PHP and CouchDB ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011 at 6:30PM (sharp) Location: IBM, 590 Madison Avenue, New York, NY (12th Floor) RSVP Required: http://www.nyphp.org/RSVP/180 (all attendees MUST RSVP) Post-Meeting: TGI Fridays at Lexington and 56th (about 8pm) Watch Online: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/new-york-php February is all about relationships. Classically, databases have been too, being the matchmaker that maintains structure in the lives of data. But these modern times accept a more promiscuous data, with the noSQL movement putting data in the unrestrained document. One such libertine, CouchDB, has developers tickled-pink with its Apache backing, performance, and flexibility. This month, NYPHP welcomes Burlington PHP co-founder and noSQL indulger Bradley Holt to enamor us with this new technology, and determine if noSQL will be your development shop's next - valentine. CouchDB is a document-oriented database that stores JSON documents, has a RESTful HTTP API, and is queried using MapReduce views. Each of these properties alone, especially MapReduce views, may seem foreign to developers more familiar with relational databases. This presentation will demystify the basic concepts behind CouchDB and give web developers a practical guide to getting started with CouchDB. We'll discuss how CouchDB relates to other SQL alternatives and what makes CouchDB unique. Bradley Holt is a web developer, entrepreneur, community facilitator, and an advocate of free/open source software, open standards, and open content (e.g. Creative Commons). He has ten years of experience with PHP and MySQL and is a Zend Certified Engineer in Zend Framework (ZCE-ZF) with three years of experience building Zend Framework applications. He is a contributor of source code and bug reports to Zend Framework and an active member of the PHP community having attended ZendCon '08, '09, and TEK-X. He is the co-founder and organizer of the Burlington, Vermont PHP Users Group and is involved with helping to organize other technology community events such as Vermont Code Camp. He is the author of the upcoming book, Writing and Querying MapReduce Views in CouchDB (O'Reilly) and is currently writing a second book on scaling CouchDB. Thank you to IBM for providing a great presentation space in Midtown Manhattan. As a service to our community, New York PHP Community meetings are always free and open to the public. Date: Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011 at 6:30PM (sharp) Location: IBM, 590 Madison Avenue, New York, NY (12th Floor) RSVP Required: http://www.nyphp.org/RSVP/180 (all attendees MUST RSVP) Post-Meeting: TGI Fridays at Lexington and 56th (about 8pm) Watch Online: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/new-york-php You must RSVP within 30 days of the meeting you attend - that means RSVP now! --- New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/ From noreply at nyphp.org Mon Feb 21 06:37:41 2011 From: noreply at nyphp.org (noreply at nyphp.org) Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 06:37:41 -0500 Subject: [nycphp-announce] TOMORROW@nyphp: CouchDB: JSON, HTTP & MapReduce - WATCH ONLINE Message-ID: <000a01cbd1bb$c071e3d0$4155ab70$@nyphp.org> [ wrong RSVP link before - RSVP below ] February General Meeting: CouchDB: JSON, HTTP & MapReduce Introducing noSQL and the Document-oriented Database with PHP and CouchDB ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011 at 6:30PM (sharp) Location: IBM, 590 Madison Avenue, New York, NY (12th Floor) RSVP Required: http://www.nyphp.org/RSVP/178 (all attendees MUST RSVP) Post-Meeting: TGI Fridays at Lexington and 56th (about 8pm) Watch Online: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/new-york-php February is all about relationships. Classically, databases have been too, being the matchmaker that maintains structure in the lives of data. But these modern times accept a more promiscuous data, with the noSQL movement putting data in the unrestrained document. One such libertine, CouchDB, has developers tickled-pink with its Apache backing, performance, and flexibility. This month, NYPHP welcomes Burlington PHP co-founder and noSQL indulger Bradley Holt to enamor us with this new technology, and determine if noSQL will be your development shop's next - valentine. CouchDB is a document-oriented database that stores JSON documents, has a RESTful HTTP API, and is queried using MapReduce views. Each of these properties alone, especially MapReduce views, may seem foreign to developers more familiar with relational databases. This presentation will demystify the basic concepts behind CouchDB and give web developers a practical guide to getting started with CouchDB. We'll discuss how CouchDB relates to other SQL alternatives and what makes CouchDB unique. Bradley Holt is a web developer, entrepreneur, community facilitator, and an advocate of free/open source software, open standards, and open content (e.g. Creative Commons). He has ten years of experience with PHP and MySQL and is a Zend Certified Engineer in Zend Framework (ZCE-ZF) with three years of experience building Zend Framework applications. He is a contributor of source code and bug reports to Zend Framework and an active member of the PHP community having attended ZendCon '08, '09, and TEK-X. He is the co-founder and organizer of the Burlington, Vermont PHP Users Group and is involved with helping to organize other technology community events such as Vermont Code Camp. He is the author of the upcoming book, Writing and Querying MapReduce Views in CouchDB (O'Reilly) and is currently writing a second book on scaling CouchDB. Thank you to IBM for providing a great presentation space in Midtown Manhattan. As a service to our community, New York PHP Community meetings are always free and open to the public. Date: Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011 at 6:30PM (sharp) Location: IBM, 590 Madison Avenue, New York, NY (12th Floor) RSVP Required: http://www.nyphp.org/RSVP/178 (all attendees MUST RSVP) Post-Meeting: TGI Fridays at Lexington and 56th (about 8pm) Watch Online: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/new-york-php You must RSVP within 30 days of the meeting you attend - that means RSVP now! --- New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/ From noreply at nyphp.org Tue Feb 22 13:15:07 2011 From: noreply at nyphp.org (noreply at nyphp.org) Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 13:15:07 -0500 Subject: [nycphp-announce] TONIGHT@nyphp: CouchDB: JSON, HTTP & MapReduce - WATCH ONLINE Message-ID: <000001cbd2bc$6fb441c0$4f1cc540$@nyphp.org> February General Meeting: CouchDB: JSON, HTTP & MapReduce Introducing noSQL and the Document-oriented Database with PHP and CouchDB ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011 at 6:30PM (sharp) Location: IBM, 590 Madison Avenue, New York, NY (12th Floor) RSVP Required: http://www.nyphp.org/RSVP/178 (all attendees MUST RSVP) Post-Meeting: TGI Fridays at Lexington and 56th (about 8pm) Watch Online: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/new-york-php February is all about relationships. Classically, databases have been too, being the matchmaker that maintains structure in the lives of data. But these modern times accept a more promiscuous data, with the noSQL movement putting data in the unrestrained document. One such libertine, CouchDB, has developers tickled-pink with its Apache backing, performance, and flexibility. This month, NYPHP welcomes Burlington PHP co-founder and noSQL indulger Bradley Holt to enamor us with this new technology, and determine if noSQL will be your development shop's next - valentine. CouchDB is a document-oriented database that stores JSON documents, has a RESTful HTTP API, and is queried using MapReduce views. Each of these properties alone, especially MapReduce views, may seem foreign to developers more familiar with relational databases. This presentation will demystify the basic concepts behind CouchDB and give web developers a practical guide to getting started with CouchDB. We'll discuss how CouchDB relates to other SQL alternatives and what makes CouchDB unique. Bradley Holt is a web developer, entrepreneur, community facilitator, and an advocate of free/open source software, open standards, and open content (e.g. Creative Commons). He has ten years of experience with PHP and MySQL and is a Zend Certified Engineer in Zend Framework (ZCE-ZF) with three years of experience building Zend Framework applications. He is a contributor of source code and bug reports to Zend Framework and an active member of the PHP community having attended ZendCon '08, '09, and TEK-X. He is the co-founder and organizer of the Burlington, Vermont PHP Users Group and is involved with helping to organize other technology community events such as Vermont Code Camp. He is the author of the upcoming book, Writing and Querying MapReduce Views in CouchDB (O'Reilly) and is currently writing a second book on scaling CouchDB. Thank you to IBM for providing a great presentation space in Midtown Manhattan. As a service to our community, New York PHP Community meetings are always free and open to the public. Date: Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011 at 6:30PM (sharp) Location: IBM, 590 Madison Avenue, New York, NY (12th Floor) RSVP Required: http://www.nyphp.org/RSVP/178 (all attendees MUST RSVP) Post-Meeting: TGI Fridays at Lexington and 56th (about 8pm) Watch Online: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/new-york-php You must RSVP within 30 days of the meeting you attend - that means RSVP now! --- New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/ From noreply at nyphp.org Fri Feb 25 13:03:55 2011 From: noreply at nyphp.org (noreply at nyphp.org) Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:03:55 -0500 Subject: [nycphp-announce] special@nyphp: 3/1/11 - Asset Management and Image Manipulation in PHP 5.3 - WATCH ONLINE Message-ID: <006301cbd516$5e9f5c10$1bde1430$@nyphp.org> March Special Presentation: Asset Management and Image Manipulation in PHP 5.3 Managing Javascript, CSS and Images in Object-Orientated PHP ------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tuesday, MARCH 1ST, 2011 at 6:30PM (sharp) Location: Suspenders Restaurant, 111 Broadway (ask Hostess) RSVP Required: http://www.nyphp.org/RSVP/182 (all attendees MUST RSVP) Post-Meeting: Stick around for networking and PHP cheer. Watch Online: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/new-york-php Join us for this special March doubleheader. In addition to our regular 4th Tuesday March meeting, which will be announced shortly, we're pleased to have Kris Wallsmith and Bulat Shakirzyanov walk us through their in-production techniques for better managing the ubiquitous web asset problem. NOTE: This meeting is at Suspenders on March 1st - RSVP is still required. -- Introducing Assetic: Asset Management for PHP 5.3 The performance of your application depends heavily on the number and size of assets on each page. Even your blazingly fast PHP 5.3 application can be bogged down by bloated Javascript and CSS files. This session will give you a basic introduction to PHP's new asset management framework, Assetic, and explore how you can integrate it in your projects for a pleasant, common sense developer experience. Kris is a member of the core team of the Symfony Framework, Symfony Guru at OpenSky, and long-time advocate for simple solutions to complex problems. He works from his home office in Portland, Oregon where he and his wife raise their three young children. -- Introducing Imagine: Image manipulation for PHP 5.3 Whenever I need to make image thumbnails, or some other simple manipulations, it becomes a huge pain as the low level PHP APIs for image manipulation are hard to work with and very diverse. In this talk I will explain how Imagine brings all of them together in a nice high-level OO API mostly inspired by Python's PIL and other image manipulation libraries. Bulat Shakirzyanov is software alchemist at OpenSky, member of the Doctrine Project core team, holds a black belt in test-fu, Symfony2 fan and contributor, geek and talks about himself in third person. Date: Tuesday, MARCH 1ST, 2011 at 6:30PM (sharp) Location: Suspenders Restaurant, 111 Broadway (ask Hostess) RSVP Required: http://www.nyphp.org/RSVP/182 (all attendees MUST RSVP) Post-Meeting: Stick around for networking and PHP cheer. Watch Online: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/new-york-php You must RSVP within 30 days of the meeting you attend - that means RSVP now! --- New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/ From noreply at nyphp.org Mon Feb 28 11:29:43 2011 From: noreply at nyphp.org (noreply at nyphp.org) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:29:43 -0500 Subject: [nycphp-announce] TOMORROW@nyphp: 3/1/11 - Asset Management and Image Manipulation in PHP 5.3 - WATCH ONLINE Message-ID: <000001cbd764$b4a56230$1df02690$@nyphp.org> March Special Presentation: Asset Management and Image Manipulation in PHP 5.3 Managing Javascript, CSS and Images in Object-Oriented PHP ------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tuesday, MARCH 1ST, 2011 at 6:30PM (sharp) Location: Suspenders Restaurant, 111 Broadway (ask Hostess) RSVP Required: http://www.nyphp.org/RSVP/182 (all attendees MUST RSVP) Post-Meeting: Stick around for networking and PHP cheer. Watch Online: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/new-york-php Join us for this special March doubleheader. In addition to our regular 4th Tuesday March meeting, which will be announced shortly, we're pleased to have Kris Wallsmith and Bulat Shakirzyanov walk us through their in-production techniques for better managing the ubiquitous web asset problem. NOTE: This meeting is at Suspenders on March 1st - RSVP is still required. -- Introducing Assetic: Asset Management for PHP 5.3 The performance of your application depends heavily on the number and size of assets on each page. Even your blazingly fast PHP 5.3 application can be bogged down by bloated Javascript and CSS files. This session will give you a basic introduction to PHP's new asset management framework, Assetic, and explore how you can integrate it in your projects for a pleasant, common sense developer experience. Kris is a member of the core team of the Symfony Framework, Symfony Guru at OpenSky, and long-time advocate for simple solutions to complex problems. He works from his home office in Portland, Oregon where he and his wife raise their three young children. -- Introducing Imagine: Image manipulation for PHP 5.3 Whenever I need to make image thumbnails, or some other simple manipulations, it becomes a huge pain as the low level PHP APIs for image manipulation are hard to work with and very diverse. In this talk I will explain how Imagine brings all of them together in a nice high-level OO API mostly inspired by Python's PIL and other image manipulation libraries. Bulat Shakirzyanov is software alchemist at OpenSky, member of the Doctrine Project core team, holds a black belt in test-fu, Symfony2 fan and contributor, geek and talks about himself in third person. Date: Tuesday, MARCH 1ST, 2011 at 6:30PM (sharp) Location: Suspenders Restaurant, 111 Broadway (ask Hostess) RSVP Required: http://www.nyphp.org/RSVP/182 (all attendees MUST RSVP) Post-Meeting: Stick around for networking and PHP cheer. Watch Online: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/new-york-php You must RSVP within 30 days of the meeting you attend - that means RSVP now! --- New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/