6.30pm for a 7pm start, Monday 16th August 2010.
The Lounge
Melbourne VIC 3000
Talking, drinking and eating.
We were unable to organise a presentation so we should try and find some more volunteer presenters. Come along and let us know if you want to volunteer.
We will have a casual chat. Bring any PHP questions or tips to share. We can also talk about the ternary operator issue covered in the mailing list.
6.30pm for a 7pm start, Monday 19th July 2010.
Mitre Tavern
5 Bank Pl
Melbourne VIC 3000
(03) 9670 5644
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Talking, drinking and eating.
We have been orphaned from RMIT and need to discuss trying to get a new venue. Let us know of any venues you hear about with a projector and the internet.
We were also unable to organise a presentation so we should try and find some more volunteer presenters. Come along and let us know if you want to volunteer.
We will have a casual chat. Bring any PHP questions or tips to share. We can also talk about the ternary operator issue covered in the mailing list.
May’s meeting has been cancelled as we cannot use the venue.
6.30pm for a 7pm start, Thursday 14th May 2009.
TO BE CONFIRMED – check back soon or join one of the mailing lists to find out.
It’s been too long since the last phpMelb presentation targeted at those that are new to PHP. Ben Balbo will give a hands on tutorial on writing simple PHP pages and cover the most useful and commonly used functions to create funky havoc. He will also introduce functions and file inclusion. Attendees are encouraged to prepare questions for discussion during the talk. No question will be too simple.
Most people grew up wanting to be an astronaut or a fire-fighter. Ben Balbo never had such illusions of grandeur; he wanted to play the drums. That didn’t work out so well for him, so he turned his hand to stagecraft at the age of 14 and soon became enraptured by the world of sound and light. Adhering to societal norms, upon graduating from University at the age of 22, Ben decided to get a real job, substituting passion and fire for money and security. This gradually led him to become a respected member of the PHP and wider open source community. Now quite happy to slap behavioral expectations in the face with a large haddock, Ben has returned to his passion, augmented it with videography and brings with him his experience as a software developer. He now introduces himself as a Director of Photography in the making in the vain hope that affirmation will lead to confirmation.
I have been working in the tree and ink publishing industry for over 2 years now as a PHP web developer. What I have found in the organisation I work for has explained what I read about the news and print industry
all over the world (any copyright content ownership in fact). For preparation for this discussion, go and have a look at my company’s web site http://www.archmedia.com.au/ and related sites. Even though I have been there long enough to update the site, it is still a relic from the nineties. It would also be prudent to update yourself with copyright law and what content owners, in general, are up to.
Please note that this discussion is not about sour grapes with my work. I love my work and I have great respect for the owner and publisher. This is about an endemic problem the whole industry shares and I think an insider’s point of view would be interesting to all of you. Below is a guide to the discussion.
We head over to the Belgian Beer Cafe at about 9pm for drinks and socialising.
Welcome to our new web site. Hopefully we’ll manage to keep this one up to date more easily. You can also subscribe to our RSS feed now!
In the future, we might hook posts in to our identica and twitter feeds, and perhaps also publish to the announce list. But for now, this site has news and upcoming events, as well as all the articles and the single book review from the old site.
If you’d like to write an article, or have a book review for us, please join the main discussion mailing list and get in touch!
Cheers!
Ben
6.30pm for a 7pm start, Thursday 12th March 2009.
Hitwise,
580 St Kilda Road,
Melbourne
The main doors are locked after a certain time. There’ll be a notice on the door with a number to call to be let in.
Pizza is provided by one of phpMelb’s sponsors, Hitwise, so get in early if you want food!
Enterprise Security API for PHP by Andrew van der Stock
Andrew van der Stock is the Project Lead for OWASP’s ESAPI for PHP. Learn how the Enterprise Security API can help you protect your PHP applications from the most common security flaws, as well as improve your overall security architecture.
Some of ESAPI’s features include:
As it’s the early days of the PHP port, not all (if any) of these features are available today.
ESAPI for PHP is in dire need for volunteers. If you’re a PHP coder currently itching for a new project, fresh victims^W developers are more than welcome to volunteer to finish^W start this effort.
Impromptu Presentation, Lightening Talks, Discussion Forum
As we only have one talk scheduled for this month, the second half of the meeting will be open to anyone that wishes to give a lightening talk, start a discussion or give a presentation that they might feel is interesting.
We head over to the Belgian Beer Cafe at about 9pm for drinks and socialising.
6.30pm for a 7pm start, Thursday 12th February 2009.
Hitwise,
580 St Kilda Road,
Melbourne
The main doors are locked after a certain time. There’ll be a notice on the door with a number to call to be let in.
Pizza is provided by one of phpMelb’s sponsors, Hitwise, so get in early if you want food!
Twitter and the Social Web by Alec Clews
There has been an explosion in ‘lifestream’ posting in the last 12+ months, even Kevin Rudd has a Twitter account! This presentation looks at the various reasons for using services like Twitter and Identi.ca. It then describes ways of linking services together using tools like friendfeed and twitterfeed to create an online presence and reduce the time involved in posting and consuming lifestreams.
Alec Clews is an indie software consultant, old school software guy and wannabe Gen-Y kid.
OpenID: What it Ain’t by Ben Balbo
OpenID has been around for quite some time, but uptake has only recently taken off. Ben will discuss what OpenID is, what it ain’t and give a live coding demo to demonstrate its implementation, all in 45 minutes.
Ben is a full time web developer and open source evangelist, actively involved in organising BarCampMelbourne, the Melbourne PHP Users Group and the Open Source Developers’ Club meetings, the treasurer for the Open Source Developers’ Club and a frequent speaker at meetups and conferences. Although he wouldn’t admit this, his participation at this level is secretly only in order to go to restaurants or pubs after the meetings.
We head over to the Belgian Beer Cafe at about 9pm for drinks and socialising.