DC PHP Developers Group

Our monthly meeting will be this coming Wednesday, June 10th at 7:00 pm at the Greenpeace headquarters! Here's the details you need to know:

Web Application Security 101
In this presentation, Mark and Doug will discuss basic web application vulnerabilities in the context of the Open Web Application Security Project's Top Ten vulnerabilities list. The presentation will focus on why developers should be concerned about these problems, show a walk through of examples of the top five types of vulnerabilities, and then discuss what developers and organizations can do about them.

By day, Mark Bristow is a Security Engineer working for Securicon LLC, and Doug Wilson is a Senior Application Engineer for SAIC. Some how in the rest of their time, they also co-chair the DC OWASP Chapter (along with Rex Booth), and are currently engaged in planning the national OWASP AppSec which will take place in Washington DC in November.

Location: Greenpeace USA, 702 H Street, NW, Suite 300, Washington, D.C. 20001
Time: 7:00 pm

See everyone there!

DC PHP Developer's Group

This is a reminder of the DC PHP Developer's Group meeting this Wednesday! John Bafford will be speaking at the Greenpeace headquarters in Washington, DC.

Speaker: John Bafford
When: Wednesday, May 13th 2009 @ 7:00 pm
Where: 702 H Street, NW, Suite 300, Washington, D.C. 20001 (202) 462-1177

Topic: The Eye of the Storm: Scaling the Pickens Plan website after huge media attention
How many things can go wrong when a client's website crashes under heavy load, their next big event is in less than a week, and you have to make sure it won't crash again? When their website crashed following a national TV advertisement, The Pickens Plan, an energy-independency advocacy group, turned to The Bivings Group to provide a solution. John Bafford will cover the problems and solutions surrounding fixing the website and adding a load-balancer, including complications presented by WordPress and the use of a content-distribution network.

This month we've got two more meetings left.

DC PHP Developer's Group
Speaker: Jay Muntz
When: Wednesday, March 11th 2009 @ 7:00 pm
Where: 702 H Street, NW, Suite 300, Washington, D.C. 20001 (202) 462-1177

Topic: Developing and Running a Website on Amazon's EC2
What is EC2? This talk will give an overview of the parts and features of EC2. It will also include a step-by-step demonstration of how to start a new web project with EC2, and go into some of the advantages and disadvantages of using the Amazon services for building websites.

DC PHP Beverage Subgroup
Speaker: None - this is just a fun get-together of PHP folks.
When: Tuesday March 24th, 2009 @ 6 pm
Where: Ireland's Four Courts, 2051 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia 22201

Description: Come take a load off, grab one of the delicious beers offered by Ireland's Four Courts and enjoy the company of some of DC's PHP folks! There's no agenda, no speaker, no sales pitches and lots of fun. Please RSVP to Keith Casey.

Due to the illness of the speaker, the Wednesday, February 11th meeting has been canceled.

DC PHP Developer's Group
Presenter: Brandon Savage on XDebug
February 11th, 2009 @ 7:00 pm
Location: Greenpeace USA, 702 H Street, NW, Suite 300, Washington, D.C. 20001

Description: XDebug is a PHP extension for advanced error handling, stack tracing, application profiling and variable printing. Come learn how to use this robust tool, and all the neat things it can do to make your job easier!

DC PHP Beverage Subgroup
Speaker: None - this is just a fun get-together of PHP folks.
When: February 24th, 2009 @ 6 pm
Where: Ireland's Four Courts, 2051 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia 22201

Description: Come take a load off, grab one of the delicious beers offered by Ireland's Four Courts and enjoy the company of some of DC's PHP folks! There's no agenda, no speaker, no sales pitches and lots of fun. Please RSVP to Keith Casey.

Here are the January 2009 gatherings of the DC PHP Developer's Group:

DC PHP Developer's Group
Speaker: Keith Casey on web2project
When: January 14th, 2009 @ 7 pm
Where: Greenpeace USA, 702 H Street, NW, Suite 300, Washington, D.C. 20001

Description: Although web2project is a fork of dotProject, simply calling it the next version ignores how far its come in the last year. The system has undergone massive improvements in permissions, system performance, User Interface, and numerous things not visible until you get under the hood. We'll take some time to review the most obvious changes and then get down to the aspects that will make the system fun and useful for you.

DC Chapter DC PHP Beverage Subgroup
Speaker: None - this is just a fun get-together of PHP folks.
When: January 21st, 2009 @ 7 pm (I'll be there around 6:30)
Where: The Brickskeller, 1523 22nd St NW Washington DC 20037

Description: Come take a load off, grab one of the hundreds of beers offered by the Brickskeller and enjoy the company of some of DC's PHP folks! There's no agenda, no speaker, no sales pitches and lots of fun. Please RSVP to Brandon Savage.

VA Chapter DC PHP Beverage Subgroup
Speaker: None - this is just a fun get-together of PHP folks.
When: January 27th, 2009 @ 6 pm
Where: Ireland's Four Courts, 2051 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia 22201

Description: Come take a load off, grab one of the delicious beers offered by Ireland's Four Courts and enjoy the company of some of DC's PHP folks! There's no agenda, no speaker, no sales pitches and lots of fun. Please RSVP to Keith Casey.

Ray Paseur will be presenting on geocoding on Wednesday, December 10th for the final 2008 meeting of the DC PHP Developer's Group. Join us for the last presentation of the year.

When: Wednesday, December 10th at 7:00 PM
Where: Greenpeace Office, Washington D.C.

702 H Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20001
(202) 462-1177

Tonight, November 12th, 2008 we have a presentation by Robyn Wyrick on traversing a tree without recursion.

The details:

PHP Developer's Group Meeting
Greenpeace USA
702 H Street, NW, Suite 300
Washington, D.C. 20001
Time: 7:00 PM

See everyone there!

Last night we heard another great presentation from Barry Austin of doBoard and Interactive Studios. He spoke on "Optimizing MySQL for Web Applications" and gave everyone in attendance a great look at some developer tools for optimizing MySQL, profiling queries, and generally improving one's "join-fu."

The slides are attached for those who would like to download them. They're full of great links to some awesome manual entries, documentation, and other goodies, so I recommend them, even if you weren't there last night.

Thanks to Barry for his presentation!

DC PHP has several events coming up that everyone should mark their calendars for!

Beverage Subgroup - Virginia Chapter

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008



Venue:

Ireland's Four Courts

2051 Wilson Boulevard

Arlington, Virginia 22201



Come and enjoy a drink, with no presentation, no sales pitches, just a good group of PHP developers talking about their projects and enjoying each other's company. Look for the blue PHP ElePHPant.



RSVP:

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$str = str_ireplace(', ', '@',$str); // Include DC PHP in the subject line!



DC PHP Developer's Group

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

Presenter: Barry Austin on MySQL Optimization for Developers

702 H Street, NW, Suite 300

Washington, D.C. 20001



Come for a great presentation by Barry Austin on MySQL Optimization for Developers! No RSVP required.



Beverage Subgroup - DC Chapter (DCPPHPBS)

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008



Venue:

The Brickseller

1523 22nd St. N.W.

Washington, DC 20037



Everything like the Virginia group, but in DC Proper!



RSVP:

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