SINGAPORE PHP USER GROUP – JUL 2010 MEETUP

Agenda in brief:

7:30pm – 8:00pm Registration & Networking Session
8:00pm – 8:30pm Bing Maps in PHP
8:30pm – 9:00pm PHP and the Cloud
9:00pm – 9:30pm Twitter Applications in PHP

TOPICS:
1) Bing Maps in PHP
Presenter: Mingfei Yan, Breadth Developer Evangelist, Microsoft
Mingfei joins DPE as the Breadth Developer Evangelist in the engagements with local technical communities. Graduated from Carnegie Mellon with a Masters in Information Systems, she is very passionate about new technologies. Her main area of focus are that of web technologies: PHP, Ajax, .NET etc. She loves travelling and she is an avid photographer.
Other activities include supporting major marketing events such as OTN Developer Days, Oracle Develop, 3rd-party sponsorships, user group engagement, online education seminars, and evangelist program management. You are most welcomed to make contact with her at [masked].

2) PHP and the Cloud
Presenter: Vito Chin, Gmagick - PHP (pecl.php.net/gmagick)
Vito Chin is the lead maintainer of the Gmagick extension for PHP (pecl.php.net/gmagick) and a software engineer with Ibuildings UK. His work revolves around helping web leaders worldwide in the adoption and continuous use of software such as PHP and httpd with a specialisation in platform performance, scalability and availability. He is the co-author of “PHP in the Cloud”, that is made available to the public this month. He advocates minimalism in software engineering and design. His articles and code can be accessed at http://www.vitochin.c.... Find out about enhancing the operational maturity of PHP applications.

3) Twitter Apps Development in PHP
Presenter: Dimple Pandey, Ranosys Technologies Pte Ltd
Dimple is team leader for Social Media Applications at Ranosys Technologies Pte Ltd. She is a Computer Science Engineer and carries key focus in PHP, MYSQL, AJAX, jQuery and OpenSocial web technologies. She has led projects developed in CodeIgniter and CakePHP framework. Apart from that, she has gained expertise in social media APIs like Twitter, DIGG, TweetMeme, YahooHose, Technorati,YouTube, IP rental etc. Dimple loves coding and has a flare to simplify large applications to get those rolling.