Our own Wil Moore III recently presented two talks he gave at FRPUG at Confoo, a large multi-disciplinary (PHP, Ruby, Java, Python and .NET) conference in Canada. Wil's talks were very well received and he's got some updated slides from the original.

The new slides for Wil's talk, "DIY Private Cloud using Virtual Box and Chef" are now available.

Wil's other talk, "Painless Version Controlled Database Refactoring" also has new slides available.

Thank you very much to Wil for providing these resources to FRPUG.

At our last meeting, February 23, 2012, Anthony Hildoer presented on NodeJS and compared it to PHP with specific emphasis on what each system was better at. Several people asked for copies of the demo code which Anthony has graciously provided.

The code is available at his website.

Additionally, if you have questions, Anthony has provided his contact information as well, so feel free to ask questions, but please don't abuse it.

Anthony is available at:
Email: anthony@hildoer.com
Office: 303-800-1940
Mobile: 303-578-2556
Skype: ahildoer
ICQ: 423790250

Thank you very much to Anthony for his presentation as well as providing this code and the offer to help out people with questions.

David Stockton
President, Front Range PHP User Group

During our December meeting, Drew Strickland gave a presentation introducing HTML 5. His presentation slides were built using HTML 5. In the presentation was an interactive multi-player space shooter game. Drew has posted the slides and the game code to his bitbucket account. You can check out the code below. Please note, no support is provided and he will not be accepting contributions or patches to the project, but you are welcome to use the game engine for anything you'd like.

Thanks to Drew for providing these great resources to the Front Range PHP User group and the PHP and development community as a whole.

• The Game
• The Slides

Thank you,
David Stockton
President, Front Range PHP User Group

I've just published the second episode of the Front Range PHP podcast. In this episode, Wil Moore III, Drew Strickland, Chad Robertson, Joe Rouse, Nick Gasparro and Josh Miller and I talk about how to find, recruit and retain talented developers. We also talked about common misconceptions many companies seem to have about developers.

You can subscribe to the Front Range PHP User Group Podcast. You can also download the episode.

The next episode of the podcast will be recorded after the January 19th meeting.

If you have an idea for a future episode, please send me your ideas.

Thank you,
David Stockton
President, Front Range PHP User Group