The Singapore PHP User Group will be holding their July 2010 meetup on 14 July in Microsoft Singapore. The topic will be on Bing Maps, PHP & Cloud Computing and Social API with PHP. You can RSVP the event here.

Meetup in July Details:

• Date: Wednesday, July 14, 2010
• Time: 7:30pm – 9:30pm
• Location: Microsoft Singapore
• Street: 21 Floor, NTUC Centre
• City/Town: Singapore, Singapore

Topics:
- Bing Maps with PHP
- PHP & Cloud Computing
- Consuming Social API with PHP

Agenda:
7:30-8pm – Networking & Refreshments
8pm-8:30pm – Bing Maps with PHP
8:30-9pm – PHP & Cloud Computing
9pm – 9:30 – Consuming Social API with PHP

Venue Sponsor: Microsoft Singapore
Refreshment Sponsor: Ranosys Technologies

Date: Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Time: 7:30pm – 9:30pm
Location: Oracle Singapore
Address: 6, Temasek Boulevard, Suntec Tower 4, #18-01
City/Town: Singapore, Singapore

7:30 – 8:00pm – Registration & Networking
8:00 – 8:30pm – Briefing: The Future of MySQL with Oracle
8:30 – 9:00pm – Taking PHP to the Next Level
9:00 – 9:30pm – The Use of PHP, Drupal and other Open-Source Applications in the SME Business Environment

Speakers Line-Up
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1) Briefing: The Future of MySQL with Oracle
Speaker: Mr Blair Layton, Senior Manager – Developer Program, Oracle

2) Taking the next level of PHP
Speaker: Dhenu Wiarsandi, Rynet Singapore Pte Ltd
(Zend Technologies Representative)

At first, your simple PHP apps will run smoothly with your “cowboy code” style coding..But when it gets into a higher lever of PHP productions. Is your team and your PHP application ready enough to face it?

Find out about enhancing the operational maturity of PHP applications.

3) The Use of PHP, Drupal and other Open-Source Applications in the SME Business Environment
Speaker: Yoong Koon Mun, CEO, OrangeJive
Profile of Yoong Koon Mun:
Koon Mun graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1994 with a degree in Business Administration (Finance). Unlike many of his peers who joined the financial sector, he chose to plunge headlong into the IT industry instead.

He went on to invest more than 13 years building up a career in the IT industry, having the opportunity to work in organizations like Singapore Computer Systems & IBM. During his time there, he was involved in the sales management, customer management & project management aspects of multimillion dollar system integration projects.

After more than 13 years in the corporate IT sector, the entrepreneurial bug bit him – coupled with the urge to find new challenges – and he made the “big mistake” of starting-up OrangeJive Pte Ltd in 2008.
With a team of professionals who have experience in a wide range of activities in the IT value chain, including applications development, the managing of complex systems, business process re-engineering and solution sales, OrangeJive Pte Ltd is focused primarily on providing provide cost-effective business solutions for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), especially those in the food & beverage and private education space.

Sponsors (Food & Venue): Oracle Singapore

Intro: PHP in Enterprise
Leveraging High Performance Web with Zend Framework
Zend Solutions for Enterprise PHP
PHP Workshop – Trainer from Zend Technologies

Date: Tuesday, 2nd March 2010
Time: 9am-5pm
Venue: New Horizons Computer Learning Centers, 298 Tiong Bahru Road, Level 18 Central Plaza, Singapore 168730

Register here.

The Singapore PHP User Group will have a meetup on 3 Nov 2009 (Tuesday) from 7:30pm – 9.30 pm in Microsoft Singapore (Address: 22 Floor, One Marina Boulevard, NTUC Centre). The focus of this event will be on mobile-web development focusing on iPhone, Android and PhoneGap. If you are interested in turning up for the event, please RSVP to their event invite via Facebook.

Program for November Meetup

1) Intro to Building Native iPhone Apps
Presenters: Sasmito Adibowo, Basil Salad Software

2) Intro to Building Android Apps
Presenter: Leong Hean Hong, Software Engineer, CBS Singapore
Basic overview of the Android development environment and how you can build PHP web services for Android OS.

3) Mobile Web Apps with PhoneGap
Presenter: Michael Cheng, Philosophy in Programming Society
Building cross mobile platform web apps using the PhoneGap framework.

Sponsor:
Venue: Microsoft Singapore

• Date/Time: 3 Sep 2009, 2-6 pm
• Venue: National University of Singapore, School of Computing, Seminar Room 1, COM1/206 (See Map)
• Co-Organised by: IBM
  and Philosophy in Programming Society
• Venue Sponsor: School of Computing, National University of Singapore.

Agenda:

• Keynote: DB2 9.7 Technical Overview: DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows is a hybrid data server that can natively manage your relational and hierarchical (XML) data
• Tech Demo: Enterprise Web 2.0 with PHP & DB2

Register at this site and stand a chance to win prizes. The event is free.

About The developerWorks Series: This is a series of workshops developed by the Ph.P Society and IBM to introduce both our developer communities to the potential synergies that can be acheievd with open source software in the enterprise.

About Philosophy in Programming (PHP) Society
The Society started life as the Singapore PHP User Group in mid-2006 and aimed to the needs of the emerging PHP developer community. The user group is currently 500+ members strong and still growing.

In June 2008, we founded the Philosophy in Programming Society (Ph.P Society) to better govern the Singapore PHP User Group. As a step-up from the informal user group, the Ph.P Society has a wider mandate of championing the open source development community and to raise the standards and proficiency of the software programming members – starting with the PHP Community.

IBM & developerWorks: IBM is synonymous with excellence in enterprise computing. IBM’s hardware and software are known for their reliability and dependability. IBM has committed to open source in a big way with contributions to more than 120 projects, including more than $1 billion in Linux® development, Eclipse and PHP. IBM developerWorks website has a large contribution of resources for open source development and implementation.

Philosophy in Programming Society is pleased to partner with IBM in reaching out to the developer communities and to educate them on the potential synergies between IBM technologies and PHP – The immense interoperability and speed of PHP coupled with IBM’s legendary rock-solid systems.

If you are a geek, developer or programmer who works with technology most of the time ranging from Java, Python, C++, MySQL, Objective C, Android, PHP, MySQL, Ruby, Linux and anything else in the Open Source Movement and otherwise, the GeekCamp is the perfect event for you. The event will be held on 22 August 2009 at Yahoo! Asia, Suntec City Mall, Tower 4, 8th Floor, Singapore. If you want to share your experiences in programming and web development, please go to the GeekCamp Wiki and volunteer yourself for speaking, organizing or even just turning up.

The Singapore PHP User Group will have a meetup on Wednesday, May 6, 2009 (Wednesday) from 7:30pm – 10:00pm in Oracle Singapore (Address: 6, Temasek Boulevard, Suntec Tower 4, #18-01). If you are interested in turning up for the event, please RSVP to their event invite via Facebook.

Program for May Meetup
1) Oracle Database Fundamentals for PHP Developers
Speaker: Mr Blair Layton, Senior Manager – Developer Program, Oracle

2) Using SQL Developer with MySQL and Oracle

3) Deploying Oracle Database to the Amazon Cloud with live demo of PHP Application Scalability

Open Call for Volunteers / Speakers: We’re on the lookout for volunteers and speakers for our monthly meetups and year-end events. Do email us at meetup@php.com.sg. Many thanks.

Sponsor: Oracle Singapore

The Philosophy in Programming Society (Ph.P Society) presents certification courses and workshops in PHP programming for you to keep yourself up to date.

Programming Foundation Courses and Certification:

• PHP Zend Certification Course
• Introduction to Python and Django
• Introduction to Ruby and Ruby on Rails

Workshops for March 2009:

2-March – Introduction to PHP Content Management System
6-March – PHP Frameworks: A Primer
9-March – Advanced CMS: Drupal Module Development
13-March – Advanced CMS: WordPress Plugins Development
16/17-March – Web 2.0 Mastery: Foundation Course
20-March – How to Start Your Own Blog Shop!
23-March – Building Rich Internet Applications: Javascript Frameworks
27-March – Advanced CMS: Joomla Extension Development

View the March schedule.

Use the coupon code sge1 when you check out to enjoy the following discounts:

1) PHP Certification Course
- $200 off the list price ($1,888 $1,688)
- Sign up for the courses here.

2) Programming Workshops
- $100 off the original list price (SGE readers get the early bird price!)
- Sign up for workshops here.

Program for February Meetup

PHP CMS vs PHP Frameworks: When to use them
Presenter: Michael Cheng, President, Ph.P Society

Synopsis: We all develop web projects, but when do we use an CMS and when do we build something from scratch? What are the benefits of an Open Source CMS vs a Closed Source CMS? What are the differences between different frameworks?

Open Call for Volunteers / Speakers: We’re on the lookout for volunteers and speakers for our monthly meetups and year-end events. Do email us at meetup@php.com.sg. Many thanks.

Sponsor: Oracle Singapore