NYCPHP Meetup

[New York PHP]

--- Free books, direct from the publishers ---

Get hot book titles, free!  Help the community and authors by writing a brief review of the books.  And these aren't book reviews like you did in high school - just a couple of paragraphs and an overall critique is perfect!  Thanks to NYPHP developer Peter Lehrer, we now have a site for members to request and pickup books for review.  For a sample review, more information and to request a book for September, please see: http://nyphp.org/library

And, if there's a book not in our list that you'd like to review, tell us at library at nyphp.org!


--- New Meeting Program ---

New York PHP has organized an exciting new lineup for our general monthly meetings.  Each meeting includes a monthly review of previous PHundamental Threads (http://nyphp.org/content/calendar/view_entry.php?id=36&pass), a technique or product demo, and a feature presentation.  We will be starting at 6:30pm sharp, so please arrive on time.  

September 23rd, 2003 @ 6:30pm (sharp) at Digital Pulp, Inc.

6:30  PHundamental Threads
  --  Join NYPHP developer Jeff Knight for discussion, review and Q&A on this month's thread, "Site Structure."

6:45  Product/Technique/Special Feature
  --  NYPHP VP Daniel Kushner shows the exciting new features in Zend Studio 3.  And, meeting attendees receive a 50% discount on Studio 3!

7:00  Feature Presentation
  --  "A Tale of Three Templates"
      Lead by NYPHP members Chris Snyder, Daniel Kushner and Hans Zaunere, see how the different templating solutions compare.  Chris looks at the powerful Smarty engine, Daniel examines the pure PHPLIB implementation, and Hans maintains that PHP is a templating engine itself!  The panel will examine three identical tasks, and compare each solution for performance, maintainability and development life-cycle.

7:45  Q&A and Recap
  --  Join us for open Q&A, including dinner and drinks after the meeting.


As always this meeting is free and open to the public, with complete meeting and location details at http://nyphp.org  -  and please be sure to RSVP by sending a message to rsvp at nyphp.org.


--- PHP/AMP Technology Training, October 27-28, 2003 ---

See http://nyphp.org/training and save $100 today!



--- PHPCon West 2003 - October 21-24

See http://nyphp.org/phpcon for details and the exciting presentations in store for the West Coast.



--- Find more community news and events with the NYPHP Newsletter ---

http://nyphp.org/thelatest



--- NYCwireless and The Downtown Alliance to Co-Sponsor The Wireless Park Lab Days ---

Media Contact: Dana Spiegel, NYCwireless, (917) 402-0422, dana at nycwireless.net

New York City, NY - September 19-20, 2003 - NYCwireless and the Downtown Alliance will co-sponsor The Wireless Park Lab Days, a two-day event that celebrates the availability of open wireless (Wi-Fi) networks in Lower Manhattan and explores their implications for art, community, and shared space. Produced by Dana Spiegel of NYCwireless, and artists Brooke Singer and Yury Gitman, Wireless Park Lab Days will be held in City Hall Park, the most popular "hotspot" in the Lower Manhattan Wireless Network, each day from 12 noon to 4pm.

The event is an innovative exhibition of new wireless art that features a "new user" area designed to help people become acquainted with the technology, and NodeRunner, the critically acclaimed wireless scavenger hunt that was recently awarded an Arts Electronica Golden Nica. The Wireless Park Lab Days will exhibit a wide-range of projects: PeopleWatching translates a typical park activity into an online arena, Public Broadcast Cart gives a very public voice to remote visitors, Bass-Station transforms a 1970s style boom box into an open juke box accessible to the public through a wireless connection. The New User Area will be staffed with experts in wireless computing from NYCwireless, who will help people get online and better understand Wi-Fi technology. The event will close on Saturday with a fun, interactive  round of the group game NodeRunner.

For more information on the event and featured artists visit http://www.nycwireless.net/labdays/

NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/

About The Downtown Alliance – http://www.downtownny.com/ 



As always, New York PHP is here for you.  Contact contact at nyphp.org with suggestions, projects, questions or answers.

Thank you,

New York PHP