September User Group:: Building the PHP-stack for the enterprise
PHP has become ubiquitous when it comes to
personal blogs, content management systems, ecommerce sites and more. Take any
list of Web 2.01 sites and you’ll find that more than 50% have PHP as back-end
technology. What is less known is that PHP is also making significant inroads
in the enterprise.
Join BostonPHP, IBM and Zend as we discuss where Enterprise PHP (and OSS) is
going and how it's going to get there. This promises to be a great
evening with plenty of "horsepower" to answer your
questions:
Mark de Visser - Zend's CMO: In his presentation Mark de Visser will cover case studies of Enterprise PHP, and will discuss what drives the adoption and what still needs to
be accomplished. He will cover the role of Zend and other commercial vendors in
the PHP ecosystem, and will present a roadmap for the coming year of Zend’s
main PHP products and services.
David Boloker - IBM's CTO of Emerging Internet Technology: IBM's QEDWiki (written in PHP 5) began as a research project in 2004 to enable Line
of Business professionals to remix Enterprise data in
various ways using a graphical assembly tool. QEDWiki is part of a larger solution that creates catalog feeds as well feeds from things
like Excel spreadsheets, SQL, XML documents, SAP/PeopleSoft/Siebel information and RSS/Atom feeds. Upon creation the feeds can
be transformed and remixed using another tool that filters, annotates,
merges, publishes and transforms them. Finally, the newly created feeds can be used by QED to create mashups. In his presentation, David will review
the business drivers behind this idea as well do some extensive demonstrations of this technology.
August User Group:: Beach Blanket Summer School II
Traditionally, summer user group meetings are "lightly" attended.
Between schools vacations, playing hooky from work, and just enjoying
the [brief New England] nice weather who's got this time? Well, er, we
do...but we're holding off on the formal presentations.
Bring your "thinking cap", a tough OSS/PHP problem, and an appetite
for participation, we're throwing a Beach Blanket Summer School Party
(beach blanket optional). We will have all the fixin's to throw code on
the table, dissect and discuss the ins-and-outs of PHP.
So bring a topic/problem, bring a friend, bring Anette Funicello
(remember, you can't play beach ball without a-net), bring your wallet
(we're meeting at the Cambridge Brewing Company).
How many of us have searched Source Forge for a project that appears to
fit our needs only to find there's no community or documentation behind
it; or the code is really poorly written; or the project is about to
fork...Sometimes selecting an open source project is like renting
B-grade
movies at the video store; it's not so much the cost that concerns you,
but rather the time wasted if you select a dog.
Please join BostonPHP as we continue our panel discussion on how to select a robust PHP framework culminating in
a "PHP framework bake-off".
The Open Document Format (ODF)
standard has been developed by a variety of organizations and
is publicly accessible. This means it can be implemented into any
system, be it open source or a closed proprietary product,without
royalties. The ODF is intended to provide an open alternative to
proprietary document formats so organizations and individuals can enjoy document portability, a common taxonomy and vendor independence.
Public
entities (e.g. federal, state and local governments) have a unique
obligation to their customers (i.e. the taxpayer) that private sector
enterprises do not. From accessibility, to availability, to archiving, public
documents must withstand a higher level of scrutiny all the while operating within the confines of strict public budgets. ODF plays a crucial role filling that requirement.
Join BostonPHP along with Tim Vaverchak (Manager of Shared Services
from the Commonwealth of MA IT Division) and Greg Rundlett (Technical
Services Manager from OASIS) discuss the Commonwealth's business reasons for deploying
ODF and the technical/PHP methodology to access, manipulate and create
ODF documents.