This month we have a different location for the DC PHP Developer's Group meeting, as Greenpeace is out of the office on an all-staff retreat.

We will be meeting at Fathom Creative, which is located at 1333 14th St, NW, Washington DC (you can see a Google map here: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Fathom+Creative,+Washington,+DC). This is Anthony D. Paul's company, and he tells us that employees use Dupont Circle, McPherson Square and Shaw-Howard to access the site. Afterwards, Keith Casey will lead the brave to a spot for some drinks.

The meeting description:

MongoDB: NoSQL Made Easy

This talk will cover why and how to use MongoDB, addressing the following topics:
• Scaling with MongoDB (replica pairs, master/slave, sharding)
• Creating a schema for a non-relational
• Basic MongoDB syntax
• Interesting MongoDB features for developers (capped collections, file storage, upserts)

Bio: Kristina Chodorow is a software engineer at 10gen, where she wrote and maintains the MongoDB PHP driver (available through PECL). Kristina has spoken at meetups and conferences around the world.

This month we've got two more meetings left.

DC PHP Developer's Group
Speaker: Jay Muntz
When: Wednesday, March 11th 2009 @ 7:00 pm
Where: 702 H Street, NW, Suite 300, Washington, D.C. 20001 (202) 462-1177

Topic: Developing and Running a Website on Amazon's EC2
What is EC2? This talk will give an overview of the parts and features of EC2. It will also include a step-by-step demonstration of how to start a new web project with EC2, and go into some of the advantages and disadvantages of using the Amazon services for building websites.

DC PHP Beverage Subgroup
Speaker: None - this is just a fun get-together of PHP folks.
When: Tuesday March 24th, 2009 @ 6 pm
Where: Ireland's Four Courts, 2051 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia 22201

Description: Come take a load off, grab one of the delicious beers offered by Ireland's Four Courts and enjoy the company of some of DC's PHP folks! There's no agenda, no speaker, no sales pitches and lots of fun. Please RSVP to Keith Casey.