Crisscott World Tour!
OK. Well, not a world tour, but I am giving talks at four PHP User Groups this summer. First on the list is PHPDC, the Washington D.C. PHP User Group. I’ll be there on June 14th. Then on June 27th, I will be giving a lecture at the monthly NYPHP meeting. After a short break, I will be speaking at LIPHP, the Long Island PHP User Group on July 31st. Three days later, on August 3rd I will be in Boston speaking in front of the Boston PHP User Group.
I will be giving basically the same talk at all four events. The talk will be an introduction to PHP-GTK 2. Here is the abstract that is posted on the NYPHP site:
For most people PHP is a language that allows them to create dynamic web pages, but not much else. Many developers have probably used PHP on the command line in the form of PEAR but even this does not take full advantage of PHP’s power. PHP-GTK 2 is a PHP extension which combines the power of PHP 5 and Gtk+ 2 allowing developers to create standalone PHP applications free from the confines of a web browser. Applications written in PHP-GTK 2 can be much more powerful and interactive than those which rely on a web server.
This presentation will introduce the basic concepts of PHP-GTK 2. First we will discuss how an application can interact with the user via signals and events. Next we will see how to layout an application and present data to the user in many different formats. Finally, we will look at how to customize an application to give it a unique look and feel. These topics will be covered as we step through the process of creating a relatively simple PHP-GTK 2 application, which will be a sort of desktop mashup. The application will allow a user to search for an event using the EVDB web services API. Of course the user will want to know what the weather is like at the event, so the application will use the National Weather Service API to show the current weather in the destination city.
If you are in the area for one of these talks, please stop by.