João Prado Maia’s Weblog

So yesterday we had a great Houston PHP/MySQL Meeting at the University of Houston. We got to have our own little classroom with projectors, wireless internet and whiteboard. John Arnold who was supposed to do a presentation on his ERP system didn’t show up (maybe couldn’t find the place?), but I gave a quick introduction to Prototype and script.aculo.us to everyone.

Since we still had some free time, I went over Smarty for a bit, writing some PHP examples.

Things to improve next month:

• Send the invitation email a week before the event, and not a day before like this time.
• Ask people to introduce themselves before starting with the actual presentations.
• Include the driving directions on the event details itself.
• When sending out the invitation email, include a link to some map service.

Update:

Also, the following things:

• Post the meeting details to Craigslist.org
• Post the meeting details to PHP.net
• Remember to bring the digital camera so we can have another picture of the group
• Ask people for their name and email address so we can follow-up with them after the meeting