Shopigniter Office

During the meet up the topics in the outline below will be demonstrated while building an example Facebook application that helps local PDX store owners connect with local consumers.

Pizza and beverages will be provided.

Open Graph Deep Dive

• OG Action and object implementation
  • The Basics 
    • Creating the OG actions and objects in Facebook's application administration interface
    • Wiring up the objects at the view tier of the application/website
    • Testing
    • Action submission
  • Beyond the basic
    • Aggregations
    • Custom Object properties
    • "Overriding" Like using an OG action
• Dynamic Facebook application content based on context
  • Canvas context
  • Page tab context
  • Derived from user permissions given to the app
    • Additional functionality present for those users who have added the app to a business page. In this case the ability to add stores and locations to the applications database.
• Run down of Facebook app store and the submission process.
• Open discussion of various topics brought up by the meet up group.
  • potential starter topics include discussions of:
    • Ads API action spec
    • Facebook tools (Debugger, Graph Explorer)

Imagine:

Every application, service, and device understands the world you're in, learns your intentions and goals, and has the ability to extend beyond their original program......help users achieve goals faster, more efficient.

Kimera Systems is the first company to bring a network-residing, context specific infrastructure to the market.

It’s available to any developer, today.

Since Google Now and Foursquare’s added context awareness, we decided to announce what we've been working on for the last few years.

It’s based on new, mobile artificial intelligence (AI) technology. We’ve created a service that can assist your device or application in any use case.

Providing an intelligent User eXperience

Context Aware: Constantly adapting to new situations

User priorities and intent drive services

Intelligent distribution to your end-users without using current "app store"-models

Join us Wednesday August 8, 2012 from 6pm to 8pm at ShopIgniter in the Pearl District (Portland) to learn how you can implement this technology in your PHP Web Apps today, to provide a superior user experience over native apps.

We provide the necessities: Pizza, Beer, & Soda!

Limited seating: RSVP today!

See link for Details: http://pdxphp.org/2012-june-meeting

See link for Details: http://pdxphp.org/2012-may-meeting

See link for Details: http://pdxphp.org/2012-april-meeting

See link for Details: http://pdxphp.org/2012-march-meeting

"short talk about what Chirpify is, Twitter Commerce and how to integrate into the new alpha/beta-ish Chirpify API. (Duke Leto @dukeleto)"

See link for Details: http://pdxphp.org/2012-february-meeting

See link for Details: http://pdxphp.org/2012-january-meeting

See link for Details: http://pdxphp.org/2011-november-meeting

Details: http://pdxphp.org/2011-october-meeting

topic To Be Determined

Details: http://pdxphp.org/2011-september-meeting

topic To Be Determined

Details: http://pdxphp.org/2011-april-meeting

topic To Be Determined

Details: http://pdxphp.org/2011-april-meeting

topic To Be Determined

Caylee will be giving an introduction to Turing machines, the lambda calculus, and the foundations of computer science by way of interpreters and example programs. No CS background necessary!

**Note: Code-n-Splode (CnS) is a women-focused group. All women are invited to attend and participate, and men are welcome as the guest of a female participant.

For more information, visit our website, or send an email to our list.

Details: http://pdxphp.org/2011-april-meeting

At this meeting, we have one free pass to Open Source Bridge 2011 to give away. All atendees of the meeting will be eligible to win. Winner will be chosen by random drawing at the meeting.

Topic(s): Open for further topic suggestions

Search Integration (Presentor: Anthony Gentile @agentile)

• Talk about things to consider when integrating search into a web application.
• Discuss existing search methods and tools and their features.
• Show example code focusing on Solr and some useful features it provides for.
• Importance of search result presentation

Topic: Interactive Fiction

Description: Audrey will give an overview of Interactive Fiction (IF), including:

• The history of text games / interactive fiction in general (i.e., in the beginning, there was Adventure...)
• Tools for making IF, mostly focusing on Inform (with coding demo).
• Open source practices within IF, and how the history of this tech plus the commercial game markets moving on to graphical works has encouraged open source & open (sharing) culture.
• Short demos of some modern games.

**Note: Code-n-Splode (CnS) is a women-focused group. Men are welcome in CnS when accompanied by a self-identified female member of the group.

For more information, visit our website, or send an email to our list.

Topic TBD.

This month Addie and Sam will cover specific areas of git that you've said you want to learn more about (see the wiki).

There's still time to request a topic (just send an email to the list or update the wiki).

**Note: Code-n-Splode (CnS) is a women-focused group. Men are welcome in CnS when accompanied by a self-identified female member of the group.

For more information, visit our website, or send an email to our list.

Join fellow PHP developers for presentations and discussions.

• Jordan is starting to offer web development classes to designers and other non-programmers, and thought it would be interesting to discuss with the group what everyone thinks "would be good concepts, techniques and approaches to teach, what pitfalls you've encountered when working with newbies (especially print designers who may be set in their pixel-perfect designy ways), etc". (Jordan Lev)
• Demo of the Fabric library.  It is actually written in Python but is a great general tool for deployment and other administrative-type tasks (Chris Forrette)
• Anybody used FRAPI? Share your thoughs, concerns.

Join fellow PHP developers for presentations and discussions.

We're doing it again! Come join Portland's tech community and celebrate the closing of another year.

This is a fun, free annual event that members of many local user groups get together at to mingle, eat and play games. This is the fourth time the event's been held and it's been lots of fun every time.

Please bring a game to share!

Bring something yummy to the potluck: tell us what you're bringing.

Come and eat with us: see what others are bringing

This Year's Sponsors:

Shopigniter

We Meet every 3rd Tuesday

• We’ll start with a tech book swap. Most of us have a few tech manuals lying about that we never use, but that others would find useful. Many of us need a new tech book/s but have not yet picked one up, for one reason or another. Here’s your chance to find unwanted books a good home, or to find a useful manual or three for yourself. Here’s what happens: Those with unwanted books will bring them to the group and leave them in a common area. Then it’s just a matter of everyone helping themselves. You don’t have to bring any manuals to leave with manuals, and vice versa. Books left over at the end will be taken to Powell’s Technical Books for their freebie bin, or possibly to Free Geek.
• Behavior Driven Development with Bhat
• Pat Moldovan has been working on "SQLite Data Layer trying to emulate some MONGO functionality"  and will show the current progress

Portland's PHP User Group

We Meet every 3rd Tuesday

This Month's Topics:

• Doctrine MongoDB ODM project [Kris Wallsmith]
• "phorms" ( http://github.com/jordanlev/phorms ), a nice little form helper library I've found to be very useful when going into an existing codebase that doesn't already use a framework. [ Jordan Lev ]

I’m excited to announce we have a new ongoing sponsor: Shopigniter

They are providing our meeting space at 411 NW Park (between Flanders and Glisan).

They will provide pizza for this meeting.

We will have 2 to 4 10-20 minute slots. The format is informal, It is completely acceptable to take a slot and discuss ‘this cool PHP thing you found’

If’ you would like to present a topic at this meeting simply reply here or in the Google Group

Great lineup for this meeting

• Git'ing over SVN repos, an intro to using git-svn (presenter: @samkeen)
• PHP in the Cloud: PHP Fog (presenter: @cardmagic)
• HTML5 WebSockets running against PHP servers (presenter: Joseph)
• Demo of CodeIgniter CMS named FUEL (presenter: Dave McReynolds)