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The Orlando PHP July Meetup

Jul '09 2 Thu 7:00 PM
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Estimated attendance
 12  people attended.
4.50 4.506

Who organized?
David Rogers

EDIT - Location change! In order to better facilitate the presentations this month and to evaluate the spot for Erik's presentation next month, we're trying out the clubhouse at Camden, downtown, courtesy of our super awesome member, Demetrius Ford (who has excellent taste in avatars, BTW). The address is:

688 N Orange Ave
Orlando, FL 32801
(map)

Demetrius says we can park in the parking lot in front of the complex (probably also in the adjacent lot for the China Glass building, says me). The clubhouse is inside the main complex. We'll try to leave someone outside to lead ppl in.

Small adjustment. After talking with Erik, August would work better for him. So expect to hear about Ushahidi at our Aug 8th meeting. He'll give us an overview look at what it is, what it does, and how it's being used. We'll also talk about how we can get involved in helping on this project.

In the meantime, I'll give a brief presentation on Planning Poker, and Kristian Stoyonov will be presenting a project of his own. Afterward, we'll break out Kristian's project into User Stories, break out the Planning Poker cards and do some estimating.

So there's that. I'd like to keep up the "Ask-an-Expert" panel, so for that we need two things. First, bring your questions...! I know you've got 'em. Heck, even I have some stuff to rant about this month! Second, we need our experts to show! We've got a good core group of developers with a lot of experience under their belts, including Chris Chubb, Derek Gallo, Don Organ, Eric Marden, and Bensan George, none of which we've seen for a month or more (for shame!).

Finally, as much as I'd love to talk about Unit Testing again with PHPUnit (we haven't even gotten to the hard stuff yet), I'd really like someone else to give a presentation. Doesn't really matter the subject matter, as long as it's reasonably related to PHP and/or web development. If you don't start volunteering soon, I'll start recruiting (see above)...! O_O Maybe Chris (or someone else who was paying attention) could give a recap from the first few chapters of the PHP5 Cert Traning, or someone could dissect a recent PHP project for us...? Just some thoughts.

Looking forward to a great turn-out this month,

David @ OrlandoPHP.org

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  • Derek Gallo
    Posted Jun 30, 2009 1:57 PM
    Derek Gallo
    Assistant Organizer
    I will actually be able to make it this time (fingers crossed and knocking on wood). I think a good addition to something to talk about maybe informally would be the release of PHP 5.3 and what changes and new features it brings forward.

Who attended?

  • 12 attendees
    • “ MUCH better than I had expected! The topic was useful, the interaction was interesting, people were accepting. I definitely want to be there next month. ”
    • “ Good meetup and interactive exercise on agile estimatations ”
    • “ We had a great time, and really meshed as a group by collectively estimating Kristian's project TASCK.com. Thanks to everyone for showing up...! ”
    • “ Excellent session. Christian presented. as an owner, his wireframe for Tasck (2.0) explaining what he wanted the site to do. David Rogers, treating Christian as a "client", then presented how he estimates the time and cost to create Christian's revised site using a Japanese approach called "Agile Estimating" and is described in a book called "User Stories Applied" by Mike Cohn. The process involves listing each of the actions the client wants the site to do and then evaluating each action according to: the quantity of the steps, the complexity of the steps, and the amount of risk involved in making the step work. From this evaluation, the step is given a point score by each member of the programming team based on a Fibbonacci scoring system, and the various scores are debated between the team until a general concensus is developed for the step. Based on the points, a cost and a time frame is developed for the client. It was a new and useful way to approach estimating. ”