At last night's meeting, Chad Robertson presented on Navicat database management software for MySQL. He had posted his slides and you can now view them here.

Next week I'll be presenting twice. The first presentation will be at our Front Range PHP User Group meeting (more info here) on Tuesday, July 13, 2010 and the second at the Denver RIA Developer's group. Both presentations will be about integrating Zend Framework and Flex together but will each have a slightly different emphasis geared toward the audience of each group.

In both cases I'll be presenting with Jay Whipple, principal at 111ELM Design. Jay has been building RIA's in Flash since 1999.

I would love to see you at one or both of these events. Please be sure to check it out and RSVP if you are planning on coming so each group can plan appropriately for food any drink. You can RSVP for the Front Range PHP User Group meeting by This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

I look forward to seeing you,

David Stockton
President, Front Range PHP User Group

Our next Denver meeting is rapidly approaching. On July 13 (please note, this meeting is on a Tuesday as opposed to our normal Wednesday meeting) will be held at the Big Game Restaurant and lounge and sponsored by Remy Corporation. If you've attended either of our last two meetings, you know where it is. If not, it's at 1631 Wazee St in Denver. The meeting will be from 6:30-9:00 and if it's anything like the last two, the fun will continue afterwards. The times from 6:30-7:00 and after 9:00 are great opportunities to network and socialize with your fellow Denver PHP enthusiasts. Also, as before, there will be food and drink provided so please be sure to RSVP by Monday, July 12 ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it )if you plan on attending so we can have an accurate count. More information will be posted on the meetings page.

We'll have two presentations: Chad Robertson will present on Navicat software and how you can use it to manage the databases for your own projects. Rumor has it that we'll have a couple of copies of Navicat to give away as door prizes. Our second presentation will be about how to build a Flex project that integrates with services built in Zend Framework MVC, or alternatively about how to build services in Zend Framework MVC that you can integrate into your Flex project. Jay Whipple and David Stockton (yours truly) will be co-presenting on this one.

Our upcoming meeting in Colorado Springs on June 23rd will be held at the Tek Systems office in Colorado Springs. Maps and directions can be found on our meetings page.

We'll have two presentations on Wednesday. First, Mark Rairdon will present on the Yii framework. Yii is a lightweight framework that Mark has been using on a lot of his recent projects, even replacing Zend Framework in several cases.

Our second presentation will be Zend Framework Modular Project Setup by Chad Robertson.

He'll be covering how using a modular project structure can be beneficial and how to setup the modular project. Time permitted he will do an interactive demo and get some feedback on how to possibly further encapsulate images, css, and javascript code for portability within the project structure easily.

Chad Robertson's Bio:

Chad is a PHP developer with over 10 years of experience in web development and design. In the 90's Chad was introduced to Internet Relay Chat by a high school friend and immediately fell in love with the internet. After learning HTML and designing a few small web pages he immediately dove face first into e-commerce web development in 1999. After spending less than a year pulling most of his missing hair out programming in Perl he discovered PHP and fell in love with the language.

After being self-employed as a web designer/developer for 5 years, he moved from Iowa to take a job in Denver as web developer for a small company. Not until almost 4 years later he was introduced to Object Oriented development with PHP and Zend Framework. Having made the mistakes many other developers have made (and for much longer than most), He is now very devoted to helping others bypass his mistakes in PHP for the better of web development as a whole.

It should be an excellent meeting and I look forward to seeing you there.

Thanks,
David