Web414 - Milwaukee's Web Community

Business/Intro PHP: Connecting to MySQL with PHP by David Szymakowski
MySQL is an open source database that can be used with PHP to create dynamic web content. This basic tutorial will demonstrate how to connect to a MySQL database and display the data with PHP. As part of this demonstration you will be introduced to phpMyAdmin, a handy MySQL database management tool.

Advanced: Smarty and PHP by Michael Litscher
Michael will demonstrate Smarty Templating's abilities including passing object by reference, calling an object's method, and displaying method call results and member values. Finally, both Smarty and PHP modifiers will be demonstrated.

Sponsor:
MLT/Instructing Technologies
Your Resource for Training
www.instructingtechnologies.com

MLT offers a wide variety of training from technical to applications to soft skills development. All Milwaukee PUG members receive 10% off courses, please contact Tiffany Weber for more information.

SEE: Meetup.com to rsvp

Business/intro PHP: The 5 secrets to get a Job Offer every week by Aaron Saray
Are you committed? Do you really want this? These 5 no-bullcrap tips will help put you above the pack - they worked for me - and they will work for you.

Advanced: IDE Comparisons by Joel Clermont
Joel is going to cover the key differences in a few of the top IDEs for PHP development

sponsor:
c2
http://www.c2gps.com/...

Serving as industry leaders in creative talent placement and training in both Madison and Milwaukee since 1992, C2 Graphics Productivity Solutions is uniquely positioned as Wisconsin's only Adobe Authorized Training Center and one of the largest locally-owned creative talent placement firms in the state. C2's staff of professional trainers and talent placement agents do whatever it takes to support our clients, colleagues, talent and partners with our THREE excellent service offerings: Training, Talent Placement and OUPS.

Make sure to ask Erica more about their services and find out what OUPS means when you see her Tuesday!

SEE: Meetup.com to rsvp.

Location:
C2 Graphics Productivity Solutions
222 Erie Street - Suite 330
Milwaukee, WI

Agenda:
6:05 to 6:55 --- Signup Inside/Out - Steve Klebar will explore the capabilities, installation and setup of the Signup contributed module.
6:55 to 7:05 --- Break
7:05 to 7:20 --- Kevron's Korner - Kevin Ciesielski will present those awesome applications and tools he has uncovered and discuss their potential value for Drupal developers.
7:20 to 7:45 --- Drupal Tune-ups - Bring you Drupal issue to the meetup for analysis, troubleshooting tips and possibly a fix.
7:45 to 8:00 --- Directions - Brain storm areas of community interest and presentation for future meetups.

Contact:
In the event that you have any questions or suggestions for future topics please contact Steve Klebar at 414-737-2596 or mkehack@promentor.biz

Please RSVP at www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=364863592648 or www.Drupal414.com food will be provided.

Intro:
Orlando Medina - MAMP: An introduction to the world of all in one web solutions.
MAMP is a Mac based install of Apache, PHP and MySQL. Orlando will demonstrate setting up MAMP and getting your first PHP script running locally.

Advanced:
Steve Klebar
Drupal API and Architecture
Steve will be sharing advanced features of Drupal. Included in the presentation will be some discussion about the API and Drupal architecture.

Sponsor:
MLT/Instructing Technologies
Your Resource for Training
www.instructingtechnologies.com

MLT offers a wide variety of training from technical to applications to soft skills development. All Milwaukee PUG members receive 10% off courses, please contact Tiffany Weber for more information.

See: Meetup.com for RSVP.

Intro:
Mike McCallister
Title: Analyzing a WordPress Plugin: A Collaborative Experience
Description:
In WordPress in Depth, Mike McCallister analyzes FollowMe, a popular and simple WordPress plugin written in PHP that allows the readers of your blog to follow you on Twitter. We'll repeat this exercise, in hopes that everyone (including the presenter) can pick up tips on how to code and comment.

Advanced: dan baker
YUI and multiple image uploads
Dan will be discussing working with the Yahoo User Interface library and managing multiple image uploads with PHP.

Jim Raffel Presents Selling the Dream
The largest business deals I have put together are never quantity
purchases of ColorMetrix or ProofPass.com. Instead while talking with a customer or prospect I see a need or the customer sees a use of the technology that goes beyond the current functionality. This is when it gets fun. Instead of selling a piece of technology now I am selling a dream of what the technology will do for the client in the future.

Paul Lyon Presents Plesk Control Panel Integration
Plesk is a Hosting Control panel build on PHP. Paul will show a few ways he's interfaced with Plesk including a Drupal module he wrote.

We are continuing to evalaute and add capabilites to the Drupal414 web site, We will explore module evaluation/selection, installation and setup for the areas of WYSIWIG Editing, Forums and Image Management at our next meeting. We will also evalaute the use of Wink, an open source screen capture tool for documenting presentations.

Location:
C2 Graphics Productivity Solutions
222 Erie Street - Suite 330
Milwaukee, WI

Agenda:
6:05 to 6:55 --- WINK evaluation, Inside/Out - We will explore the capabilities, installation and setup for WYSIWIG editing, Forums and Image Management.
6:55 to 7:05 --- Break
7:05 to 7:20 --- Kevron's Korner - Kevin Ciesielski will present those awesome applications and tools he has uncovered and discuss their potential value for Drupal developers.
7:20 to 7:50 --- Drupal Tune-ups - Bring you Drupal issue to the meetup for analysis, troubleshooting tips and possibly a fix.
7:50 to 8:00 --- Next Steps - Discussion on topics of interest for futre Drupal414 capabilities or community presentations.

Contact:
In the event that you have any questions or suggestions for future topics please contact Steve Klebar at 414-737-2596 or mkehack@promentor.biz

Food will be served please RSVP at www.Drupal414.com of www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=10150141248365691

For the first time, we're going to change up the format of the meetup. For about 90 minutes (with a quick break), we're going to discuss some of our best practices, tips and work flows. Share what has worked for you - share waht hasn't. Talk about what programs and scripts you use to save time. Bring questions to the group to find out better ways to do what you're doing. The discussion will be lead by a "moderator" who will bring up topics as well as ask you for your own. Hope to see you there.

We are continuing to evaluate and add capabilities to the Drupal414 web site, we will explore module evaluation/selection, installation and setup for the areas of Forums and member surveys at our next meeting.

Location:
C2 Graphics Productivity Solutions
222 Erie Street - Suite 330
Milwaukee, WI

Agenda:
6:05 to 6:55 --- Inside/Out - We will explore the capabilities, installation and setup for Forums, and Surveys.
6:55 to 7:05 --- Break
7:05 to 7:20 --- Kevron's Korner - Kevin Ciesielski will present those awesome applications and tools he has uncovered and discuss their potential value for Drupal developers.
7:20 to 7:50 --- Drupal Tune-ups - Bring you Drupal issue to the meetup for analysis, troubleshooting tips and possibly a fix.
7:50 to 8:00 --- Next Steps - Discussion on topics of interest for future Drupal414 capabilities or community presentations.

Contact:In the event that you have any questions or suggestions for future topics please contact Steve Klebar at 414-737-2596 or email mkehack@promentor.biz

Food will be served please sign up at www.Drupal414.com or www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=121570064534277