php users

As was mentioned by Patrick Schwisow the Lake County, Illinois/Kenosha County, Wisconsin area has a new PHP user group - the Lake / Kenosha County PHP Users Group.

I’m excited to be able to announce that the first ever Boston PHP Northeast Conference will be taking place on Saturday, August 11th and Sunday, August 12th at Microsoft’s NERD Center in Cambridge, MA.

This regional event is intended for PHP beginners, enthusiasts, and professionals alike. The current plan is to have four tracks:

Today we've released a few things for PHP and MySQL users: One is the first (and probably only) beta of the mysqlnd_ms plugin for MySQL Replication and Load Balancing support and the first GA version of a PHP plugin for the Query Analyzer of the MySQL Enterprise Monitor.

Ulf blogged a lot about mysqlnd_ms, so I don't have to repeat him here. what I want to talk about is the other one.

So what is that about?

Adam Culp has written in to tell us about the South Florida PHP Users Group that's been formed for the area.

They're going on about a year's worth of meetings now and show no signs of stopping.

At last night’s Burlington, Vermont PHP Users Group meeting I gave an Intermediate PHP talk where I discussed working with arrays, functions, and objects.

You can view the presentation on SlideShare or see the code examples on GitHub.

At tonight’s Burlington, Vermont PHP Users Group meeting I will be presenting on New Features in PHP 5.3.

My talk will cover the primary new features including namespaces, late static binding, and closures. I’ll also talk about the newly bundled extensions, improvements to existing extensions, and some of the new syntax that is available.

Charlie McClaskie has written in to tell us about a new PHP user group that's formed (and will be meeting next week!) in the south Florida area, in Ft.

Lauderdale - the South Florida PHP Users Group.

I recently surveyed the Burlington, VT PHP Users Group to get an idea of what motivates people to be involved with the group.

I got the idea from a blog post on the top 7 reasons why people join a user group community.

This was certainly not a scientific survey and there were only 16 responses, but it still offers some insight that can be useful in planning user group activities.

Bradley Holt has a new post to his blog for people in the Burlington, Vermont area - an announcement about a PHP picnic that's been planned for August 15th.

On Sunday, August 15th the Burlington, Vermont PHP Users Group will be hosting a PHP Picnic.

From the description: