Join us on October 25th for an introduction to Open Source web application frameworks. A framework is a reusable software design which improves the development process by letting a programmer focus on the business-specific tasks of a project rather than repetitive, common tasks like database access, templating, and session management. We'll learn more about web application frameworks in general and explore a number of today's most popular ones.
This event is a co-production of
Details: Thursday, October 25th, 2007 at 6:30PM. The Science Center 3701 Market Street, Second Floor Philadelphia, PA 19108 Map/Directions Attendance is free but please RSVP at http://www.panma.org/registration.html
You'll learn about the strengths and weaknesses, the joys and sorrows of working with four leading open source PHP application frameworks, presented by local developers and members of the group:
- CodeIgniter - Owen Winkler, Rock River Star
- Symfony - Alex Gilbert - P'unk Avenue
- Zend Framework - Chris Morrell
- CakePHP - Joshua Benner
For comparison, we'll also present:
- Ruby on Rails - Randy Schmidt. Ruby on Rails is a one of the most popular MVC frameworks today. Is it worth you learning another programming language (Ruby) in order to take advantage of Rails?
- Drupal - Dave Burns & Jerad Bitner. Drupal is a PHP/MySQL based content management system, which offers much more functionality out of the box than a framework but comes with tradeoffs in flexibility and performance. Learn about the tradeoffs made when choosing between a CMS and a framework.
This should be a great event, relevant to people of all levels of experience with PHP and even other open source languages and systems. Attendance is free but please RSVP at http://www.panma.org/registration.html