PHP Developers Summit 2010

Good news guys, PHPUGPH is organizing another conference this coming January. The website is undergoing heavy development so here is a little info for you:

PHP Developers Summit 2010 - January 30, 2010

Date: January 30, 2010, Saturday
Time: 8.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Venue:
Hotel Rembrandt
26 Tomas Morato Extension Quezon City, Philippines
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In partnership with Microsoft Philippines, PHP User Group Philippines presents PHP Developers Summit 2010. We are inviting you to come and join us in this gathering of the country’s best tech-talents, professionals and web developers promoting the use of PHP and open source solutions in the enterprise and schools. Free flowing coffee with lots of freebies and raffle prizes! So what are you waiting for? Registration starts at 8 AM. See you all there! ^_~

Tentative Topics and Speakers:

• PHP Development with Yahoo Developer’s Network
  by Dominick Nowell A. Danao (CEO of Happy Mobile Inc.)
• PHP Scaling
  by Paolo Alexis Falcone (Senior Developer, Friendster Inc.)
• [unknown] - Alezandra Nicholas (Microsoft Developer Evangelist)
• PHP in IIS7 (using Fast CGI) and about PHP and ASP.NET interop via SOAP
  by Rodney C. Jao (MVP for Device Application Development)
• Simplex yet sexy UI development for developers
  by Marco Palinar
• Windows Cache Extension for PHP
  by Rick Bahague, Jr. (Computer Professionals’ Union)

LIMITED SPECIAL OFFER!!

If you register early and pay within the year 2009, you’ll get a ticket for only Php 1,000.00 and we’ll give you One (1) FREE Microsoft limited edition thumb drive.

Registration and Ticket Payment Instructions

Online registration website is currently being tested right now. In the mean time, you could pre-register by sending your name, position, company and contact details to chean@phpugph.com. Go to the link below for payment instruction.

Grab the SPECIAL OFFER before 2009 ends! Sayang din ang 2GB USB! Magkano na ba umaabot yun ngayon?

Read the complete info about the conference and payment instruction..

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UPDATE

Early Bird Price of Php 1,000.00 has ended now.

Regular price - Php 1,200.00
Walk-in price - Php 1,500.00

Group of 3 Promo - Php 3,500.00 (instead of Php 3,600.00; payment for 3 people should be deposited at the same time to be recognized as group of 3)

Inclusions
- Meals (Lunch + Snack)
- T-shirt
- Raffle Entry
- Other freebies

PHP Roadshow visits St. Paul QC

Another successful PHP Roadshow was held last August 1 in St. Paul QC. The usual gang are present which makes the roadshow more enjoyable. I discussed my usual stuff, my undying love for cakephp! (wahaha drama). This one I guess was the happiest leg so far (I have only attended 3 legs) because the students were so participative and I had so much fun with the jokes and tease to Mr. Landline and ofcourse the FREE Tarot Reading from Sir Jeff and his GF. I hope next time I can join again. For the meantime, here are some pictures I got from Ridvan.

Topics from the Gang:
Introduction to the PHP Roadshow and PHP User Group Philippines (Jeffrey R. Seracarpio)
Introduction to PHP (Ridvan Baluyos)
Introduction to MySQL (Chean Domingo)
Introduction to CakePHP (Rachel Jaro - ME)
CMS / Joomla (Eric Bangug)
Careers in IT (Jonathan Yap)

PHP Roadshow is an outreach to college students with the goal of reaching the same level of programming competency of our counterparts (Filipino and non-Filipino) outside of the country (including standardizations and value of work).

This is an initiated project of PHP User Group Philippines, Inc. (PHPUGPH), in support of the organization’s mission of advocating and disseminating the use of PHP (Hypertext Pre-processor) as well as Open Source technologies in schools and companies in the Philippines.

SoapClient could not load WSDL url

I’ve been quite busy for the past few weeks with a project called YouPing. It’s a program submitted for the GlobeLabs contest and next week is the deadline. We could not finish it because of a problem with soapclient.

Warning: SoapClient::SoapClient(http://xxx.globelabs.com.ph:1881/xxx/xxx/Platform?wsdl) [soapclient.soapclient]: failed to open stream: Connection timed out in /path/to/test/script/soapclient.php on line 1

Warning: SoapClient::SoapClient() [soapclient.soapclient]: I/O warning : failed to load external entity “http://xxx.globelabs.com.ph:1881/xxx/xxx/Platform?wsdl” in /path/to/test/script/soapclient.php on line 1

Fatal error: Uncaught SoapFault exception: [WSDL] SOAP-ERROR: Parsing WSDL: Couldn’t load from ‘http://xxx.globelabs.com.ph:1881/xxx/xxx/Platform?wsdl’ in /path/to/test/script/soapclient.php:1 Stack trace: #0 /path/to/test/script/soapclient.php(1): SoapClient->SoapClient(’http://xxx…’, Array) #1 {main} thrown in /path/to/test/script/soapclient.php on line 1

The problem was that port 1881 was blocked by Hostmonster. So we are begging from our friends, colleagues or anyone with a kind heart to lend us some small space in their server so we will not get disqualified. Hehe. Just kidding. we are trying our luck with the AppContainer provided by globe. *hope it works*

PHP Security Tips

At the devzone, Cal Evans has written 21 php security tips. I have only read #17 where you can download a 37 page guide (in pdf) that explains the terms and concepts involved in securing your PHP application.

Application security should not be a “when all else fails” situation. It’s not something you can “put in later”. As we’ve mentioned before, there is no single silver bullet to solve your application security issues. Security is something that should be rolling around in the back of your dead in the design phase, the coding phase, the testing phase, even after you’ve rolled your code into production.

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