Demystify the MVC workflow with Xdebug

Xdebug is an open source debugging extension for PHP. It's remote debugger tool lets developers interactively walk through a PHP code at run time and look under the hood of the program in real time - stop at break-points, step into a function, step out of it, change variable values, and test expressions.

This month, Eliran Boraks will talk about setting Xdebug, discuss and show different debugging features, configure Xdebug remote debugger to work with Eclipse/Aptana IDEs, and for dessert we will use it to demystify the MVC workflow. 

Technology as a socializing tool

Please Join BostonPHP and Grace Shulner for an unofficial screening of her [32 minute] short movie: "Predictable, But Fun" (based on her research at M.I.T, Media Laboratory).  The movie explores technology as a socializing tool, and the narrative is told by wedding-gown designers out of Israel and Palestine.

We're really excited to announce that we are cooking up a really great Boston PHP event were calling the "Framework Bake off".

Volunteer members will take the podium for 30 minutes, and will be given a small but simple application to develop using a their PHP framework of choice. They will do all the development in real time, in front of a live audience. We will explore each of these frameworks and discuss the differences.

If your interested in choosing a framework, or want to learn more about the one your using - then this event is for you - you won't want to miss this one.

We will be exploring the following frameworks:

• CakePHP
  
• Symfony
  
• Zend Framework
  
• CodeIgnitor

To RSVP click here.

Thanks again to our good friends at Packt Publishing for their support.  We will raffle of two new Framework titles at the end of our meeting 

Barack Obama's presidential campaign was praised for being one of the most technically savvy ever. What most people don't realize, though, was a lot of that technology was powered by PHP and created right here in Boston at Blue State Digital.  This month we had the opportunity to listing to Josh King and Chuck Hagenbuch as they shared their experiences building and scaling some of the tools which powered my.barackobama.com and the millions of phone calls and billion emails that helped make history on January 20th, 2009.

The meeting drew about 50 people.  If you weren't one of them, or you would like to hear the presentation again, you can Listen Now! or click the "Read More" tag below to hear it through your browser.