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Meeting Date
Wednesday, January 18, 2023




at the Westbury Manor, room
in Westbury, Long Island


The Networking and Cocktail hour starts at 6pm

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5:00pm: What's new and exciting in PHP for 2023

Alan Seiden
Alan Seiden Consulting

Presentation Description

PHP is moving fast these days. PHP 8.1 and 8.2 include features that help developers reduce bugs and enjoy writing high quality code. In this fast-paced session, Alan will share his favorite new features in PHP 8.1 and 8.2, and how to prepare for them. Alan will also show tips on upgrading from older releases and will go over recent security enhancements.

About Alan Seiden

Alan founded Seiden Group to enrich IBM i applications with open source technologies such as PHP, Python, Node.js, as well as DB2 for i and RPG business logic. He and his team provide large and small organizations with objective advice, hands-on development, and support. Recognized as an IBM Champion, Alan cultivates a strong, resilient IBM i community by hosting the CIO Summit and fostering new talent. He encourages the next generation to extend the capabilities of the IBM i platform with their open source skills. Alan has led the adoption of open RPM-based PHP with value-added components and support for IBM i teams; co-developed the popular PHP Toolkit with IBM; and was one of the first Zend Framework certified engineers. An award-winning speaker, Alan has been called "the performance guru of PHP on IBM i." He shares his expertise regularly at conferences and user groups such as COMMON, ZendCon, the RPG & DB2 Summit, MAGiC, the Northeast User Groups Conference, OCEAN and WMCPA. In his spare time, Alan plays the trombone and studies and teaches the Feldenkrais Method? of Somatic Education.



8:00pm: Web and API Language Shootout

Alan Seiden
Alan Seiden Consulting

Presentation Description

Alan will compare several open source languages commonly used for APIs and web development and the role of RPG alongside them. Languages include Node.js (javascript), PHP, and Python. The session includes real-life examples, details about each language, and a lively discussion.

About Alan Seiden

Alan founded Seiden Group to enrich IBM i applications with open source technologies such as PHP, Python, Node.js, as well as DB2 for i and RPG business logic. He and his team provide large and small organizations with objective advice, hands-on development, and support. Recognized as an IBM Champion, Alan cultivates a strong, resilient IBM i community by hosting the CIO Summit and fostering new talent. He encourages the next generation to extend the capabilities of the IBM i platform with their open source skills. Alan has led the adoption of open RPM-based PHP with value-added components and support for IBM i teams; co-developed the popular PHP Toolkit with IBM; and was one of the first Zend Framework certified engineers. An award-winning speaker, Alan has been called "the performance guru of PHP on IBM i." He shares his expertise regularly at conferences and user groups such as COMMON, ZendCon, the RPG & DB2 Summit, MAGiC, the Northeast User Groups Conference, OCEAN and WMCPA. In his spare time, Alan plays the trombone and studies and teaches the Feldenkrais Method? of Somatic Education.