Sydney PHP User Group - April 2010 Meeting

April 2010 Meeting
Hi all,

Again sorry for the delay, there were some "issues" with the venue.

Please note the CHANGE OF DATE. It is now the 21st NOT the 22nd.

Sorry to complicate things, but here is how this is going to work for this month. We're booked for a double room which allows up to 40 people. Unfortunately, we've only got a 2 hour slot for this and it starts from 7pm through to 9pm.

This means a change in the schedule. I've made some rough adjustments and this is how it looks:

6:00 - Meet at SMCA
6:15 - Eat Somewhere
7:00 - Head back to SMCA
7:30 - Welcome
7:35 - Introductions
7:45 - Group Announcements
7:50 - Open Floor Discussion
8:00 - Presentation 1
8:30 - Presentation 2
9:00 - Be Out The Door

So the idea is that we all meet at SMCA at 6pm as planned. However we'll go eat someplace together first and give everyone a chance to meet and greet before the event.

Feedback is definitely welcome for this and adjustments can be made to try and suit everybody. Suggestions on where to eat also welcome.

The details for the event are below.

When: Wednesday 21st of April 2010.

Where : Sydney Mechanics School of Arts - 280 Pitt St, Sydney

What: Two presentations, two presenters, three hours of PHP Group goodness.

Presentation 1
Steven Roddis - Two Factor Authentication

A presentation without the FUD covering accessibility, usability, cost and security of Two Factor Authentication Systems. Part 2 explains how to securely implement these systems in your webapp via PHP.

Presentation 2
Graham Weldon - Unit Testing with PHP

An overview of the benefits and importance of Unit Testing your code. Graham Weldon, Lead Developer of the CakePHP Framework v2.0 will overview the benefits and cost of developing unit tests for PHP. Including the benefits seen at the individual develop level, and show how it can enhance productivity.

RSVP
You MUST RSVP to attend. Anyone who does not RSVP and shows up may not get in as space is strictly limited by the venue owners. The Yahoo! RSVP link is below, if you really really really don't want to sign up for a yahoo account just to RSVP, then email organisers@sydphp.org.

RSVP Link: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/5655030/NSW/Sydney/Sydney-PHP-Group-April-2010/Sydney-Mechanics-School-of-Arts/?ps=5

Entry Fee
There will be an entry fee of $5 per person for this event. The fee covers the cost of the venue hire.

Hope to see you all there!

Feeling good

Feeling happy, someone just recently (10-14 April) checked my blog. It feels good to know that out there someone is curious about me. Someone like to see or read, whats going on my life, my feeling or my sorrow, pain or happiness. My life is going through storms of challenges. Looking out for good job. Have almost lost the faith & courage. Fighting each day to conquer the feeling of insignificance..my life has really become hectic.. these days I have become more introvert... I am not sure why is that.. may be of age..Guilt or something.. Anyway, today I am feeling happy. Happy Happy Happy for the day! Thank you..Hope you will come back again read more of my post.

Enabling HTML5 in IE

If you have read my previous article "About HTML5" and gone through those links and seriously read those tutorials and articles about HTML5, then by now you should be able to make web page using HTML5. Some may have already started experimenting and found its not rendering  properly in IE. Here is small tip for those geeky ones who act than simply read and forget.

You may have noticed in HTML5 there are many new elements like < header>,<section>,<article> etc and the only way to acknowledge these new elements to IE is to use John Resig  HTML5 shiv technique.Using that technique, Remy Sharp has created an excellent mini script (html5.js) that enables all the new elements.

It is very easy to use, simply put the following code in the head element (this is because IE needs to know about the element before it comes to render them - so it can't sit in the footer of the page, i.e. below the elements in question. ). Also Its better to wrap it in an IE conditional call to reduce the http pulls for other browsers.

<!--[if IE]>
<script src="http://html5shiv.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"></script>
<![endif]-->

Hope that was useful!

About HTML5

These days everyone is talking about HTML5.
IS HTML5 READY? or NOT? When will it be ready?

There are even sites that showcase HTML5 made websites.

• 101 Best HTML5 Sites
• A showcase of sites using HTML5 markup

There are lots of tutorials on HTML5

• Yes, You Can Use HTML 5 Today!
• Coding A HTML 5 Layout From Scratch
• Building web pages with HTML5
• Simple Website Layout Tutorial Using HTML 5 and CSS 3
• 23 Essential HTML 5 Resources
• 70 Must-Have CSS3 and HTML5 Tutorials and Resources

And there are some sites that are experimenting HTML5

• HTML5 Experiments
• HTML 5 Demos and Examples

Just go through above links, certainly you will find your answers about HTML5.
Well, I enjoy learning, and this list was especially made for that purpose.

Happy Learning HTML5 now!

Some one line ASCII Art for Twitter, Instant Massages and Status updates

If you have to impress someone with just 140 characters in one line, how do you do it??
The answer is ASCII art.

Below I have listed some common ascii arts composed on only one line of text, so you can use them on Twitter, Facebook, SMS text messaging, IM, or any other status update tool.. Enjoy,

Ascii Animals 

Caterpillar ,/\,/\,/\,/\,/\,/\,o

Fish <`)))><

Fish Swimming ¸.·´¯`·.´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸><(((º>

Happy Cat <(^.^)>

Kitty cat =^..^=

Koala @( * O * )@

Loch Ness monster _mmmP

Monkey @('_')@

Mouse <:3 )~~~~

Rat (to the left) <^__)~

Rat (to the right) ~(__^>

Sheep °l°(,,,,);

Spider ///\oo/\\\

Ascii Objects 

Crayon ())__CRAYON___)) >

Cup of coffee [_]3

Glasses -@-@-

Needle |==|iiii|>-----

Pie fight ---=======[}

Rose 1 @-}--

Rose 2 @}}>-----

Rose 3 @)}---^-----

Rose 4 @->-->---

Rose 5 --------{---(@

Ascii Faces/People 

Angel ^i^

Concerned (@_@)

Heart <3

In Love <*_*>

Looking at you ô¿ô

Very Happy ^_^

Very Happy 2 [^_^]

Sleeping (-.-)Zzz...

Sleeping Baby w/Pillow [{-_-}] ZZZzz zz z...

Whoa O_o

Miscellenous Ascii Art 

Ascii Waves 1 *~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*

Ascii Waves 2 `'~,.,~'`'~,.,~'`'~,.,~'`'~,.,~'

Hearts w/text »-(¯`·.·´¯)->TEXT<-(¯`·.·´¯)-«

Robot d[ o_0 ]b

Text Embellishment 1 (¯`·._.·(¯`·._.·(¯`·._.· Your Text ·._.·´¯)·._.·´¯)·._.·´¯)

Text Embellishment 2 ,.-~*´¨¯¨`*·~-.¸-(_Your_Text_)-,.-~*´¨¯¨`*·~-.¸