Well, this one's novel:

Using PHP to build desktop apps. The technique uses appcelerator's Titanium toolkit to build mobile, and yes desktop, apps with HTML5 (JS and CSS) and any of of a number of lightweight scripting languages, like Ruby, Python and PHP. We know about appcelerator because they recently aquired Aptana, which we liked when we were plunked down in front of our Linux computers working, working, working.

TechMaine's PHP User Group tonight is showing off what PHP can do on the desktop tonight at Tap Tapas on Fore Street. It should be fun!

Here's the poop:

http://bit.ly/iYQ1fn

TechMaine's WDUG (Web Design User Group) has a rain- and weather-induced malaise-beating event tonight for web designers needing to wrap their big, right-bright biased noggins around something fantastic. It's an SEO (Search Engine Optimization) roundtable (not square!) at the University of Southern Maine's Abromson Hall. Discussions are always fun! Meeting your peers is funner! Sign up now for the door prize, which... we understand is probably not going to be a door.

http://bit.ly/k5nUqf

Meeting starts at 6 PM and runs until 8 PM. Don't worry: We checked NWS, and it's still going to be raining when you break out.