Starting the meeting off will be Code Greene’s Kevin Carter. Kevin, who has used Git in a production environment for several months now, will be presenting a primer on how to get started with Git. Additionally, he’ll cover the advantages of distrusted source code control and possibly some topics on using git in an svn eniroment. His blog can be found at http://dexterthedragon.com.

Following Kevin will be are main speaker, Justin Carmony. His presentation will focus on the unique challenges with developing, deploying, & managing Website development. Justin Carmony has put together his trips, tricks, and suggestions for streamlining the development cycle. With a focus on automation, using SVN and Trac allows developers to focus on development rather than redundant tasks. Whether a small project with a single developer, or a large project with a big team, SVN and Trac in a LAMP environment can help any developer. Time permitting he will show some of his own live examples of using SVN & Trac. If you have a specific topics or questions you would like addressed in his presentation, please feel free to let him know on his blog.

Justin Carmony has worked in web development professionally for the last four years. With emphasis on PHP, .NET, and Web Services, he has worked on projects ranging from simple websites to complex communications between thousands of remote systems. He currently is working as an independent contractor & private consultant. If you have any questions, comments, or curiosities you can contact him (justin AT justincarmony DOT com) or read about his latest endeavors at his blog (www.justincarmony.com/blog).

We will have streaming as usual and slides will be posted early.

This page isn’t updated yet, but it will be the day before the meeting, and is where the slides will be available:
http://uphpu.org/live-meeting/

Mindjuju / victor

The October UTOS / UPHPU Geek lunch will be held at The Happy Sumo at the Gateway on THURSDAY, October 9th, 1pm.

Please RSVP.

The Happy Sumo
153 S Rio Grande St. Salt Lake City, UT
tele 801.456.7866

mj/v

Databases play an integral part of what we do as PHP programmers. Using the right database and schema is critical to scalability and what functionality we can offer our clients.

For this meeting we will have 2 speakers, Joseph Scott and Joshua Tolley. Joseph will be focusing on using Postgres in a PHP environment. Joshua will be presenting on “that other open source database”. His presentation will cover several interesting and useful PostgreSQL features that make it an excellent choice for situations that would often include MySQL or another database. It will also address common misconceptions about PostgreSQL, as well as some of its deficiencies. Time permitting, the presentation will demonstrate getting started with PostgreSQL.

Ray Hunter of Toro Systems will be sponsoring this meeting along with swag from the UTOS conference. Heck, might even throw in a week long guest pass for Team Fortress 2.

Last but not least, if for nothing else, come join us for the UPHPU afterhours party at Applebees after the meeting. We usually get there around 8:45 and stay until 1a or so.

Details:
18 Sept. 2008, 7:00 PM
Bill Good Marketing
12393 Gateway Park Place Suite 600
Draper, UT 84020

We are postponing our August meeting for one month so that we can focus on the Utah Open Source Conference on August 28 – 30. This year’s conference topics look really solid with many national and community level speakers including:

- Paul Frields (Red hat, Inc) - KEYNOTE: Fedora: The Future, First
- Joe Brockmeier (Novell) - KEYNOTE: How to bootstrap a community
- Matt Asay (Alfresco) - The Billion Dollar (Free) Software Opportunity
- Mac Newbold (Code Greene) - Local Keynote: How To Leverage Open Source in a For-Profit Business
- Jared Smith ( co-author of O’Reilly’s Asterisk: The Future of Telephony) - Dialplans for Dummies: An Introduction to the Asterisk Dialplan
- Joseph Scott (Automattic) - WordPress Performance and Scalability

These are literally, just a handful of an awesome lineup of speakers. Having participated last year and this year, I can tell you Clint Savage and the UTOS foundation spend a lot of time getting this conference up and running right. I strongly recommend if you have time to attend some or all the days that you take advantage.

The line up can be seen here - http://2008.utosc.com/speaker/list/
Registration is here - http://utosc2008.eventbrite.com/+
UPHPU Group code – UPHPUOTWOH

mj/v

Pleased to announce Kevin Carter as the presenter for this month. The topic is error Handling and Debugging with PHP All code has bugs. In order to fix them you have to find them. This presentation will go over tips and tricks for detecting when errors occur. Then it will go over ways to efficiently track down bugs. It will also cover some code optimization items.

More about Kevin:

Kevin Carter works as a backend php developer for Code Greene. He’s been coding php nonstop for the past 3 years. Is a linux enthusiast, serving as vice-president for the Ogden Area Linux Users Group. His (almost) never updated blog can be found at http://dexterthedragon.com

The July Geek Lunch is going to be at Tucano’s at the Gateway in Salt Lake.

Now, I know, we tried Tucano’s before, and true they dogged us at the last moment; but, they have tried to make things right. Those that RSVP’d last time will have their plate at half! When you RSVP, please let me know if you were in this group.

Like our last event, expect to see all kinds of coders (Python, PERL, PHP, etc), bloggers, graphic artists, local businesses owners and shutterbugs in the fray.

You can RSVP at this URL - http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/843968/

Tucanos @ the Gateway
July 11th @ 1:30p
162 South 400 West
Phone: (801) 456-2550

Victor Villa
UTOS.org | UPHPU.org

Have you signed up for the Utah Open Source Conference?

We are very pleased to have Travis Barney of Progrexion presenting on QCodo.

The Qcodo Development Framework is an open-source PHP 5 framework that focuses on freeing developers from unnecessary tedious, mundane coding. It is a completely object-oriented framework that takes the best of PHP and provides a truly rapid application development platform. (http://qcodo.com/ )

Meeting Information:

UPHPU
June 19th, 2008 @7pm
12393 Gateway Park Place, Suite 600
Draper, Utah 84020

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=12393+Gateway+Park+Pl,+Draper,+UT+84020&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=61.711173,104.0625&ie=UTF8&z=17&iwloc=addr

I have setup reservations for 15 though I’m pretty sure that will need to increase this. Please Please Please RSVP so that I can give an accurate count to them. This is their opening week, in fact, the day after grand opening, so it’ll likely be packed!

Info:
RSVP : mindjuju at gmail // please give count of how many are coming with you or at
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/470822/
Salt Lake Location
600 S. 700 E. Trolley Square
Salt Lake City, UT 84102
Ph: (801) 220-0500

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=600+S.+700+E.+84102&jsv=107.hc&sll=40.756291,-111.871053&sspn=0.007404,0.013433&ie=UTF8&z=17&iwloc=addr

Presenting will be Jeff Sherlock who is primarily a LAMP developer with a focus on creating scalable solutions. He’s been working with PHP for over 4 years with most of that geared towards backend work. He loves designing database schemas, optimizing existing processes, and generally making slow things run fast. He currently work as a PHP Developer for a financial services company in Salt Lake City. He is also a part-time student in the U of U Computer Science program.

You can catch Jeff at his blog at www.hoodlu.ms.

Meeting info:

UPHPU
Thursday April 17, 2008 – 7p
12393 Gateway Park Place Suite 600
Draper, Ut 84020

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Presenting is Senior member of the UPHPU family, David Boucha.
David works for the State of Utah and the Utah Army National Guard as an IT Analyst and does a lot of technical consulting for the federal law enforcement and medical fields.

Inquires to David about consulting should be directed to boucha@gmail.com .

Meeting Info:

Thursday, March 20th 7pm
Bill Good Marketing
12393 Gateway Park Place Suite 600
Draper, Utah, 84020

We are intending to have audio streaming and wifi restored at this meeting. Please contact me for details on audio streaming.