On Wednesday, we learned about microformats(.org), which are a simple way to markup structural information in your HTML. gRegor Morrill walked us through on how to publish microformats, how they are parsed, and some compelling use-cases for both publishers and consumers. Thank you so much to everyone who came out and joined us at PayLease for this month's meetup. Our next meetup will be December 12th, 2018 at 7PM. Don't forget to join our Meetup page to stay updated on our monthly presentations and other opportunities to work with us. Slides (... Read More)

On Wednesday, Maksym Bodnar discussed Frameworkless CLI app in PHP. Thank you so much to everyone who came out and joined us at PayLease for this month's meetup. Our next meetup will be November 7th, 2018 at 7PM. Don't forget to join our Meetup page to stay updated on our monthly presentations and other opportunities to work with us. Slides

On Wednesday, Eric Johnson discussed NoSQL approach to datastores. Thank you so much to everyone who came out and joined us at PayLease for this month's meetup. Our next meetup will be August 8th, 2018 at 7PM. Don't forget to join our Meetup page to stay updated on our monthly presentations and other opportunities to work with us (like CoWorking at a crepe shop in Poway). Slides YouTube Stream 

On Wednesday, Darryl Rettig walked us through Error Tracking with Sentry (https://sentry.io/). He showed us how to use Sentry to track both PHP and Javascript errors in your application in order to gather information about what problems specific users are experiencing and insight on how to address them. Before the Meetup started, Mark hosted a TDD Workshop at 6pm that SDPHP members could attend. Thank you so much to everyone who came out and joined us at PayLease for this month's meetup. Our next meetup will be June 13th, 2018 at 7PM. Don't f (... Read More)

On Wednesday, Marcus Moore taught us how to create a chatbot using the BotMan framework. Botman enables developers to easily write chatbots in PHP for Alexa, Facebook Messenger, Hangouts, Nexmo, Slack, Telegram, Twilio and more. Thank you so much to everyone who came out and joined us at PayLease for this month's meetup. Our next meetup will be May 9th, 2018 at 7PM. Don't forget to join our Meetup page to stay updated on our monthly presentations and other opportunities to work with us (like CoWorking at a crepe shop in Poway). Let's Build a (... Read More)

On Wednesday, Dave Stokes, MySQL Community Manager, took some time to give the SDPHP community a look at the MySQL Document Store, the X DevAPI, and how to use MySQL without the SQL. Thank you to everyone who came and joined us at PayLease for this month's meetup.Our next meetup will be April 11th, 2018 at 7PM. Don't forget to join our Meetup page to stay updated on our monthly presentations and other opportunities to work with us (like CoWorking at a crepe shop in Poway). MySQL without the SQL -- Oh, My!

Wednesday evening we had a presentation on web scraping with PHP by Marcus Moore. Marcus spent the evening showing different web scraping techniques, along with ways to store and parse the scraped data. It was an awesome turnout. Thank you so much to everyone who took the time out of their day to come hang out with us. Next month, we will be having our meeting on the 7th (March 7th, 2018), so be sure to pencil it in and join us at 7 PM at PayLease. Don't forget to join our Meetup page to stay updated on our monthly presentations and other oppo (... Read More)

On Wednesday, SDPHP hosted the first meetup of the year with a presentation by Michael Knudsen and his discussion on the Cucumber BDD testing framework, and its variant for PHP, Behat, as well as the Gherkin feature writing format and Cucumber's implementations with Ruby and Selenium WebDriver with Java. Thank you everyone who was able to make it this month to the meetup. If you weren't able to be here this time, next month we will be meeting February 14, same time (7 PM), same place (PayLease). Join our Meetup page to be updated on our monthl (... Read More)

It's with a heavy heart to announce that we've decided to disband the San Diego Laravel User Group (@sandiegolaravel) in 2018. I enjoyed our Laravel Meetups over the years, and the group was a personal project of mine to strengthen the Laravel community in San Diego. We started the group back in April of 2015 and saw our membership grow to 284 Members. Friends were made, a lot of knowledge was shared, and three LaraconUS conferences were held during that time in which several members of the group attended and hung out, we even met some new mem (... Read More)

On Wednesday, Darryl Rettig presented at the SDLUG monthly meet up on the topic “Row and Attribute Level Security in Eloquent - Protecting Data in an API”. It's always great to be able to have Darry present and we always look forward to hosting him. Also, it's very encouraging to see members of our community come to these meetups to share ideas and interact with each other. If you weren’t able to make the meetup this month, our next one will be on November 15 at 7 PM at our new location at PayLease. We currently don't have a presenter schedule (... Read More)