PHP Users Group Meeting Announcement (7/23)

[Bradley Holt]

What: Burlington, VT PHP Users Group Meeting
When: Thursday July 23rd, 2009, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Where: Burlington Free Press, 191 College Street, Burlington, VT 05401

Play-Doh: Modeling Your Domain Objects
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Matthew Weier O'Phinney, Software Architect for Zend Framework, will
discuss design patterns to use when creating models for MVC
applications, as well as topics surrounding when to choose an ORM and
what criteria to use.

We will discuss the free ZendCon pass contest and there will also be
time for free-form discussion, so please come prepared with your PHP
topics!

The PHP Users Group meetings are open to the public via RSVP. Please
pass this information on to others who may be interested. Meeting
details here:
http://groups.google.com/group/Burlington-VT-PHP/web/meeting-2009-07-23

[d^2]

a couple requests:
- can we get the slides from the talk last night?
- there were a few book names tossed around, enterprise design or some
such, can we get a list of those (with authors)?

thanks!

[Bradley Holt]

Dan,

I'm guessing Matthew will post his slides soon, but here are some of
the books mentioned:

* Domain-Driven Design[1]
* Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture[2]
* Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software[3]
(original GoF book)
* Head First Design Patterns[4] (a "brain friendly" treatment of the
content from the original GoF book)

Were there any other books mentioned that I missed?

Thanks,
Bradley

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Domain-Driven-Design-Tackling-Complexity-Software/dp/0321125215
[2] http://www.amazon.com/Enterprise-Application-Architecture-Addison-Wesley-Signature/dp/0321127420
[3] http://www.amazon.com/Design-Patterns-Object-Oriented-Addison-Wesley-Professional/dp/0201633612
[4] http://www.amazon.com/First-Design-Patterns-Elisabeth-Freeman/dp/0596007124

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[Matthew Weier O'Phinney]

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Bradley Holt<bradle...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm guessing Matthew will post his slides soon,

Yes -- after the webinar today (which is in around an hour, and for
which I've updated the slides based on the run-through last night!).

> but here are some of > the books mentioned:
>
> * Domain-Driven Design[1]
> * Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture[2]
> * Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software[3]
> (original GoF book)
> * Head First Design Patterns[4] (a "brain friendly" treatment of the
> content from the original GoF book)
>
> Were there any other books mentioned that I missed?

Yes --

php|architect's Guide to PHP Design Patterns
http://phparch.com/books/isbn/0973589825

This book is a nice intro to design patterns, particularly for PHP
developers, as it shows good PHP examples of each pattern discussed.
If you're new to design patterns, I'd start here, and then move on to
one of the others in the list. In many cases, the other books will not
show actual implementations, or the implementations will be in Java or
C#, so it's good to get some concrete examples under your belt first.

--
Matthew Weier O'Phinney
mweiero...@gmail.com
http://weierophinney.net/matthew/