KCITP Career Fair – 2011

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Looking for a new Job? Our friends (ok, tweeps) at @KCITP are hosting a career fair at JCCC this month!

June 21st from 10am – 2pm @ JCCC

They have 9 participating companies: Cerner, DST, Commerce Bank, Sprint, Digital Evolution Group, Perceptive Software, Red Nova Labs, Multi Service & SMG.

These companies are hiring for:

- Mid/Sr level Software Engineers w/ one or more of these languages: PHP/.NET/C#/Java/Perl
- Mid/Sr level DBAs: SQL Server and/or Oracle
- Systems Engineers
- Security Analysts
- IT Project Managers / Business Analysts

…..and more!

Details can be found here, including registration & requirements: http://www.kcitp.com/2011/06/01/kcitp-job-fair/

May 2011 :: From Hash to Encryption, Solr

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Byron and Brian kicked us off this month with a great spontaneous discussion into encrypting values rather than storing hashes. (And, I finally got it into my head that Rainbow tables have gotten, really, really big.)

I’ll let them post any links here, etc if they want to reference anything. Otherwise, thank you for the discussion.

I also had a great time delivering my mini-talk on Apache Solr. While, I admit–I’ve been using it just long enough to be a dangerous fanboy, but I’m certainly no expert.

We had a fun time diving into the various aspects of usage, implementation, care and feeding–a great time.

I’ve also uploaded the Apache SOLR Slides on the website.

Thanks everyone for the great turnout. See you all next month at the Buzzz!

WordCamp coming to Kansas City

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I wanted to give a shout out and plug to WordCamp Kansas City!

Whether you are using WordPress out of the box, as a development framework or just keeping your options open–there looks to be something for everyone.

Where: Johnson County Community College
When: June 11-12, 2011
Cost: $50/$40 (students)

You can check out their schedule on their site: http://wckansascity.org

Presentation (with live Demo) on Solr this weekend!

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Since you all MISSED IT at JCCC’s Free College Day, I’ll be giving my presentation and demo of getting started with the Apache Solr search engine.

Learn how to add full text search, faceted searches to any development project. Impress your friends, your neighbors, your grandma.

This is one presentation you won’t want to miss. :-)

Buzzz Coffee House
135th and Quivera
05/21/2011 @2:30pm

JCCC Free College Day 2011

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Johnson County Community College will be hosting their free college day on April 30th. I’ve signed up to do a couple of talks–and far less general than last time.

It’s a day of free fun and learning for the community, even with entertainment!

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The PHPExcel talk will be very similar to the one I did this month here at the PUG. And, the Solr one may be May’s talk (unless someone else volunteers). But, there will be free cookies!!

Oh, and you can check out all the other Technology classes or find anything that floats your boat from the Free College Day website.

April 2011 :: Meeting Notes

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We had another great set of discussions this week. Google, Pros and cons (but interestingly not a compare) of Win / Mac for development, Brian brought up some insights from a talk from Rasmus you can find here:

Rasmus talk: http://ontwik.com/php/php-performance-by-rasmus-lerdorf/

Plenty of other great things too.

Finally, the group let me give a talk on PHP_Excel. Feel free to find the slides in PDF here. (sorry Noah–but should be virus free. :-) )

Comments, as always are welcome below.

January Meeting -

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First off…I’m so very sorry the “1st day of the month is a Saturday” bug bit us again in our date block.

Things that got talked about:

Drupal 6/7 Templates – Use Zen

http://drupal.org/project/zen

Drupal and CRM – Anyone know about….

http://drupal.org/project/crm

Do people still write for IE6?
Fortunately, we say no. But, IE 7 is still a reality. If you have to “support” IE 6 – do what you can with an IE 6 style sheet.

IBM i5 and PHP Using Zend:
Starting with jQuery and CSS frameworks:

  • jQuery DataTables – filtering, sorting, etc – http://www.datatables.net/
  • Some CSS / HTML Templates – http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/12/01/100-free-high-quality-xhtmlcss-templates/

Adknowledge hosting evening user group in December

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On Tuesday, December 7th, adknowledge will be hosting an evening PHP User Group meeting at their offices on the plaza.

Whether you are a long time member of the PUG, or just dropped by once–I encourage you to attend. Welcome and Snacks start at 6pm, with QA, speakers and food intermingled throughout.

AND, you won’t go home smelling like coffee!

I hope to see you there!

More details, including RSVP information may be found by clicking on the poster to the right.