The presentation will be an overview of the current employment market and outlook specifically for PHP developers (as well as other Open Source related Open Source trends), based on the current supply and demands in the market place, as well as career oriented topics via Q&A (Resumes, Interviews, and overall job hunting tips and strategies). Ari will cover a year by year comparison from his previous talk and discuss changes and new trends going into 2013. He will also discuss how to work with recruiters as effectively as possible (if at all), as well as questions you have always wanted to ask regarding the the inner workings of IT Staffing.

Despite it being presented by a recruitment company, they have promised an open and honest conversation about the topic, not a sales pitch. If you'd like to attend, check out this page on the Atlanta PHP site for more information - including a new meeting location.

Have a user group meeting or event you'd like announced? let us know!

• PHAR: PHP Archive Files from Gregory Beaver
• Webmail 2.0: Introducing RoundCube by Tim Klampackel
• Killing the For Loop from Paul Chandler
• The Doctrine Framework by Nicolas Berard-Nault
• and the usual columns - /Etc and Test Pattern

If you're already subscribed, you should be getting your issue any time now but, if you're not, there's two ways you can get your hands on a copy - either "quick buy" it from the php|architect website or subscribe and get this and other great future issues jam packed full of great PHP content.

Articles in this issue include:

• PDFLib's Block Tool by Ron Goff
• PHP Look Back 2005 by Derick Rethans
• Internationalize Your Web Application With Less PHP Code from Carl McDade
• and the usual columns: Security Corner (Chris Shiflett), Tips & Tricks (Ben Ramsey), and Test Patterns (by Marcus Baker)

You can either pick up a single issue of this month's edition, or you can subscribe for a year to either the print or PDF editions. There's even an older issue you can check out for free to get a feel for the magazine!]]> Mon, 30 Jan 2006 12:21:37 -0600 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4685 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4685 this infromation about their upcoming meeting (January 19th, 2006) and what the presentation will be.

Richard Miller will present on Model-View-Controller (MVC) Frameworks. MVC framework Ruby on Rails has received a lot of attention in the past year for making web app development easier and more enjoyable. Several similar frameworks are available for PHP. Special guest appearance by John Peterson of MyTechSupport.com, the creators of a PHP framework called PHP on Trax. PHP on Trax was used to rapidly develop KatrinaHousing.org, a highly trafficked website that helped hurricane victims find housing.

If you are planning on attending, please RSVPLinux Networkx offices, check out this map...]]> Wed, 18 Jan 2006 07:23:59 -0600 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4641 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4641 January (01.2006), the first edition of the new year.

Some of the articles inside in this edition include:

• Barry McKay's look at OOP PHP in Business
• a new edition of Marcus Whitney's "PHP5 Tried For You"
• Elizabeth Naramore talking a bit about "PHP From the Shop Floor", talking to two inovators that use PHP to track the Earth's environment
• Robert Peake spends some more time looking at patters in PHP
• and much, much more...

You can check out the complete table of contents for all the information, and, of course, you can subscribe to the magazine to get your PDF copy today! The subscription price is 42 Euro (about $50 USD) and the single issues run 4 Euro (about $5 USD) and all are delivered in PDF format to give you quicker access to the information you want...]]> Tue, 10 Jan 2006 08:01:35 -0600