No meeting in December, 2005 - Holiday Break

January, 2006 Meeting

Updates to phpokc.net Web site

Presentation

• Call to Order
• Old Business
  • Promotion of the PHP Group - David Meinke was able to obtain some nice business cards for the group. Please feel free to pass them out and spread them around to anyone you feel might be interested in the PHP OKC Group.
  • New Ideas for promotion - carrying forward for this month - continue to think of ways that we might promote the group.
• New Business
  • As a courtesy to the speaker, please try to RSVP for the meetings. It helps in aiding the speaker to know how much supporting materials to prepare.
  • Additions to the Web site
    • Link repository upcoming
    • A membership listing is still forthcoming as well
    • E-Mail us any additional ideas you may have
  • We still need to nail down a speaker for the September meeting. E-Mail us if you are interested in doing a presentation
  • Ideas for future presentations
    • Smarty
    • Security
    • Bind Variables in PHP/Oracle
    • SQL Injection Defenses
    • PHP 5.x Overview
    • Pear Libraries
• Presentation on Ajax - Notes from John-David's presentation will be on the Web site soon. John-David gave us some great links for AJAX that we will be posting with the notes and adding to the link repository
• Close of meeting

Introduction of New Members

Andy

Michael

Guest Speaker - Kendra Gilespe from New Horizons

She proposed that we use New Horizons as a sponsor of our group, which includes: providing PHP OKC with meeting space, upon availability and a marketing voice by means of mass emails, provided we create the email material. In addition, she brought a single day course offering, to be used in a drawing for our group that would act as a discount for those already contacted with new horizons.

Newly Appointed Positions

David Meinke as Moderator

Shay Randall as Secretary

PHP User Group Discussion

Open Forum - Website Suggestions

Newly added Job Postings from local consultant

Ability to submit links to the site for reference/resources

Proposed Promotion

User Group Business Cards

Reward for members (ex. most members brought to the PHP Users Group)

Sell ad space on website

Topic Discussion (working with dates in PHP)

see notes

Topic Feedback

http://www.ilovejackdaniels.com/search/datedif/

Meeting Conclusion

New Horizons Drawing - Ed wins !!!

We continue to slowly but surely get features added to the PHP OKC site. The newest is a job listings page for our registered members. If we come across or are contacted concerning job openings that we feel would be of interest to our members, we will post them on the jobs page for 30 days.

Also, if you know anyone that is seeking a PHP developer and you would like them to be able to post their jobs with us, have them contact us.

The July 12th meeting of PHP OKC is fast approaching!

We have several items lined up to cover at this meeting. Here is a quick outline of what we have planned:

• Call to order
• Review and acceptance of June, 2005 notes
• Discussion of new business
• Appointment of moderator
• Appointment of secretary
• Presentation from New Horizons Learning
• Other items as presented
• Code example presentation
• Question and answer
• Close of meeting

The presentation from New Horizons may be tentative, but I believe that it is set. David Meinke will be presenting our code example this month.

As always, if you have any question, concerns, etc... please e-mail us

Currently Computer Systems Analyst for the USPS training center (NCED National Center for Employee Development) in Norman, I work with a team of specialized web application developers. My role on the team and primary experience is with 508 Compliancy, CSS, standardization, usability, navigation, Flash and graphic design. My shared team experience is in PHP coding and SQL.

I have been in the computer industry many more years than the 3 that I have spent at NCED, instructing general computer and Certified Webmaster courses, working for internet companies and creating and troubleshooting statistical programs for the University of Central Oklahoma.

Additional experience and activities include ownership of a local web design and hosting business, which consists of consulting and internet marketing.

We had a great time at the meeting last evening with a tremendous turn out. Thanks to everyone that was able to take time out of their busy schedules to join us.

If you are interested in being considered for the group position of moderator, please e-mail us and let us know.

Same thing goes for the secretary position; if you are interested, shoot us an e-mail.

There was some discussion about whether or not Java Dave's at 6:00 pm on the 2nd Tuesday of each month was a good place and time for getting together. It was agreed, for the time being, that this schedule and location will work for everyone. However, this is flexible and could be changed in the future by the agreement of the group.

Thanks to everyone for enduring my short code demonstration. If you are interested in getting the docs or the source code from the demonstration, you can get it here.

Finally, let me continue to encourage everyone. If you would like to contribute content, articles, code samples, etc... to the site, please let us know.

If we dont hear from you sooner, we look forward to seeing everyone again in July!

We have had a great response for this meeting. We have put together a preliminary meeting agenda:

• Call to order
• Review and approval of last meeting notes
• Discussion of new business
  • Appointment of a Moderator
  • Appointment of a Secretary
  • Other issues as raised
• Code example presentation
• Question and answer
• Close of meeting