Given almost every month at the Kansas City PHP User Group. I summarize important news stories and happenings in the PHP community from the previous month before the presentation was delivered. Gives special attention to issues relevant to most of our regular attendees.
March 2013
February 2013
December 2012
November 2012
September 2012
July 2012
June 2012
October 2012, Kansas City PHP User Group
Demonstrate refactoring a typical Controller to using Symfony2 EventDispatcher component to make writing decoupled code easier.
June 2012, Kansas City Drupal User Group
Covers common misconceptions about version control, how to setup your environment to work with git, how to get up and going with git in your daily development workflow, and where to go to learn more.
Repeatable development environment for teams looking to do collaborative Drupal development. Major props to Chris Escalante for his role in technically implementing this solution for our team.
April 2012, Lawrence Coders
April 2012, Kansas City PHP User Group
Working effectively with git on a daily basis is a lot easier with a few tips on setting up your environment and making common commands faster to type. I also cover different code-sharing models and common workflows for working in a collaborative environment.
January 2011, University of Kansas Web Developers monthly meeting
Overview of the most common security threats facing modern web applications and how to mitigate them when using PHP.
November 2010, University of Kansas Web Developers monthly meeting
Current state of YUI Graded Browser Support. Please note, much of the information in this talk is outdated as of September 2011. Yahoo Graded Browser Support no longer grades browsers, and instead advocates for supporting a list of certain browsers, but ultimately pushes developers to do their own analytic testing and support browsers most-used by their user base.
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Yahoo Graded Browser Support
September 2010, University of Kansas Web Developers monthly meeting
Current best practices advice on using @font-face, history of fonts on the web, browser support and font format support and challenges of @font-face.
January 2010, University of Kansas Web Developers monthly meeting
January 2010, Lawrence Programmers Hack Day