Welcome to the Edinburgh PHP Users Group (EdPUG). This group is for people in and around Edinburgh and the Lothians, who are interested in PHP and open source web development solutions specifically, and information systems generally.
Next Meeting
7:30 PM on Thursday April 9 (second Thursday)
Venue:
Cafe Negociants
45-47 Lothian St
Edinburgh EH1 1HB
March 12 Theme / Agenda
i.) Administrative stuff
ii.) PHP Frameworks (cake / zendframework / others?)
iii.) Source Control Management
iv.) Software Configuration Management
April 9 Theme / Agenda
EdPUG Website and Groups
EdPUG official
webpage.
EdPUG email distribution
list
We also have groups on both Facebook and LinkedIn. Should we create any groups elsewhere? Then please post a message to the yahoo group, or contact the admins of either the yahoo or facebook groups.
Facebook Group
LinkedIn Group
(Semi-)Related Edinburgh Groups
Linux Users Group - EdLUG - The first Thursday of the month
Mac Users Group - EdMUG - the third Tuesday of the month
Perl Mongers - TIMTOWTDI - the last Thursday of the month
BarCamp Scotland 2009 - BarCamp - Saturday, March 14
http://refreshedinburgh.org/
http://www.techmeetup.co.uk
More PHP Resources in the UK
Previous Meetings
7:30 PM on Thursday March 12 (second Thursday)
In attendance: David, Jonathan, and David.
We talked about various things including what the definition of a framework is, and it could be everything from the entire PHP ecosystem to systems such as cake and zend, to an application such as a DMS or CMS that allows customization through modules and plugins. We mentioned the OpenSourceCMS and CMSMatrix websites.
We talked about data gathering and extraction from various file formats, particularly HTML, XML, and ODT, and serialization back into those formats.
We mentioned some stuff about being good that it is standards compliant as possible. Knowledge tree with it's headless open office, conversion and indexing of MS Word files. We talked about DOM and walking through it with a library. We talked about the modx CMS system
We talked about some other stuff not related to PHP
We talked about the Venue and agreed that Cafe Negociants was good because they had their own wifi, as well as it's close enough to get some access to the Edinburgh University access points. We all agree that the prices where decent, and had reasonable selection of food and drink. Cafe Negociants is also good because it is fairly centrally located, however we did find the Cafe a touch on the noisy side.
We agreed that the second Thursday of the Month is good as it doesn't seem to conflict with any other techie group meeting that we know of, and that we should try to see if we can get a few more people out. We also found that this was really great opportunity to network and to chat about common technical problems with different solutions.
