Hey guys, Last night was my first UPHPU meeting. Great presentations, thanks for having me.
My name's David McGuigan, and I'm a full time Web developer about a year and change out of school and have been toying around with a pretty interesting idea. I've got kind of a random, fun request for the group. It's a chance to really show off PHP and possibly recruit some new developers to it. If anyone would be interested, I'm in need of an intermediate or expert, recognizably-efficient PHP developer with a little bit of charisma able to get to Salt Lake once or twice (I'll gladly pay for gas and lunch) to sit in with me (I'll be doing this with a few other developers from other languages too) and record some really short, light, PHP tutorials with screen and audio capturing software that I'll be purchasing specifically for this purpose (just screen, no web cam). Well, more like PHP demonstrations than tutorials really. Here are some examples of videos we might record: 1. Installing PHP 2. Connecting to a MySQL database and making some simple queries 3. Displaying the results with an HTML/CSS front end 4. Creating a simple listing, editing and updating form page to manage a table's data 5. Some simple AJAX techniques with PHP backends 6. Sending an email with PHP Nothing too major, and the demos are totally flexible. This won't take more than a few hours (depending on how long it takes to do any of the stuff in PHP ) Long story short, I'm looking to get a single developer from each of the main server side products (PHP, Ruby, "Microsoft", Java, and ColdFusion, etc.) to record these demos to show how to do the exact same Web app type things in each language. The reason I'm looking for a more-experienced/efficient developer is so when we're putting these videos together people from the represented discipline won't feel like the language itself was misrepresented by a particularly slow or inexperienced programmer. For example I've got 4 years ColdFusion experience, so I write ColdFusion about 15x faster than maybe someone who's been at it for 6 months. I'm not really concerned with how much time you've been writing PHP so much as just getting someone visibly good. Someone that other PHP developers would see in these videos and go, "Yeah, that's about right" or "Nice! That guy's fast!" If anyone can help out on this or knows a PHP-er that'd be into it let me know. If you have particular frameworks ( MVC, ORM, what have you ) that you use in your development we can definitely explore including them in the demos if it'll speed up your coding and make the PHP demos faster and more impressive. I really want PHP to look good here, no ulterior motives. What I'm really worried about is recording these videos and having ColdFusion look so much better than the other languages that it seems staged or exaggerated, so it's probably be a good idea for the person to use what's generally accepted as the best PHP IDE available (we'll have a computer set up ready for all of this stuff that you can install anything to, even a trial) and any PHP-specific best practices in the code they write. Anyone who's interested please write back. Thanks! _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
