Why PHP? Seriously, an Alexa Skill written in PHP

Talk: Why PHP? Seriously, an Alexa Skill written in PHP
Speaker: Jeff 'SKI' Kinsey

Actually more than one! But first, the back story…

My first commercial applications were written BASIC and TurboPASCAL back around 1981. Then came the really profitable days in the mid 1980s and it was all Pascal. Until 1989. Enter BBx (Business BASIC extended by Basis International). Various modifications and modules for OSAS (Open Systems Accounting Software). My first commercial web site was Netscape Commerce Server running on SCO UNIX in December 1994.

Moving to Hilton Head Island, SC and needing an open source solution I discovered PHP v3.x and MySQL v3.23 in 1997. Today, my first thoughts turn to PHP but Python v3.8 is coming on strong. Of course as an Alexa Dev I have done a fair amount of node.js as well.

So why on earth did we use PHP v7 for several Alexa Skills?

Join us at 7pm MST on Thursday, March 18th for the rest of the story.

Speaker Bio: Jeff 'SKI' Kinsey

So, you need someone to keep the crowd alert?!

Always the class clown, Jeff ‘SKI’ Kinsey has never been at a loss for words. However, to polish up his organization of material and delivery he joined Toastmasters International while consulting at LexisNexis in Miamisburg, Ohio. He worked his way up to ATM (Advanced ToastMaster) in 1998 in the Fast Trackers club on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.

Swag Alert

At the end of the presentation, one random lucky winner will win a free 1 year individual subscription to any single JetBrains Toolbox product. Choices includes PhpStorm, WebStorm, DataGrip, or others seen at https://www.jetbrains.com/products.html . Thanks JetBrains!

Jeff will provide a link for a free digital copy of his book, Purple Cover Effect, to all attendees. He is also gifting a paper copy to raffle off to one lucky attendee. Thank you Jeff!

Entrata will also be raffling off 3 $50 gift cards to attendees, thank you Entrata! Be sure to check out Entrata for tech jobs at https://www.entrata.com/company/careers .

Those attending can also get a link for swag from Platform.sh.

We would like to thanks Jetbrains, Jeff 'SKI' Kinsey, Entrata, and Platform.sh for sponsoring our group!

Venue: Zoom

Link to be provided on this page prior to the meetup.

Look forward to seeing everyone on Thursday!