Well, our September meeting was another rousing success! We had lots of new faces and plenty of returning nerds; thanks to everyone who came out! Chris Chubb gave us an illuminating look at PHP 5.3, and Ken Nordquist (a Rubyist but otherwise nice guy) gave a brief presentation on Flow Player - a free, open-source flash video player.
This month, the folks at Zend will be presenting live via remote (that's TV speak for "in their underwear", I think) on the "Zend software stack", both the open-source Community Edition and the more advanced (and supported) Professional Edition. Edward Kietlinksi, a Zend Solutions Consultant, will use the PHP apps Magento and Drupal to showcase the Zend approach to all-too-common problems of isolating performance bottlenecks, troubleshooting code, and live debugging. Edward will also show off Zend Studio 7 (based on Eclipse) and Zend Framework. There will also be a raffle at the meeting for cool Zend swag!
This isn't their only planned appearance, however, and we've got tons of talent waiting in the wings! Derek Gallo has a presentation on performance and scaling, and we'll bring back the "Ask-an-Expert" panel again, of course. Bring your questions; we have the experts.
For those of you who haven't been paying attention, we've changed our meeting location from Stardust. We're meeting at the clubhouse at Camden, downtown, courtesy of Demetrius Ford, our resident resident. The address is:
688 N Orange Ave Orlando, FL 32801 (map)
You can park in the parking lot in front of the complex and in the adjacent lot, just not in the garage. The clubhouse is inside the main complex, secured by a maglock, and it's super sweet. We'll try to leave someone outside to lead people in, but try to come earlier rather than later. If you get locked out, just ping one of us by cell phone or Twitter; I'll try to keep an eye on ye ole @orlandophp account.
Looking forward to another great meeting this month,
David @ OrlandoPHP.org
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