I've got some news that I'm super excited to announce. The Front Range PHP User Group now has a podcast! We recorded after the last meeting and I've finally got it all worked out and posted. You can subscribe now and you should be able to subscribe within iTunes as soon as they approve it.

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I hope you enjoy it, and please send me any feedback or ideas you have for future episodes.

Thanks,
David Stockton
President, Front Range PHP User Group

Hello fellow FRPUGers,

Coming up in less than two weeks, FRPUG will be hosting Kevin Schroeder of Zend Technologies. He'll be speaking on the new Flash Builder 4.5 for PHP. We'll be meeting at the Remy offices at 1660 17th on the 4th floor in Denver, CO. The meeting will start at 6:30. We'll be providing food and drink so please RSVP by sending me an email to let me know you'll be attending.

At our last meeting (October 13, 2010) we held officer elections. I am proud to announce the election of two new officers:

Nick Gasparro is now our newly elected treasurer and Trevor Henke is our newly elected secretary.

David Stockton was re-elected as President and Chad Robertson was re-elected as Vice President.

As stated in the meeting, even if you were not elected or were not interested in running for an official position, we are always interested in help from the group, so please let us know if there's any way you'd like to help out with the group.

We are looking forward the the next year of the Front Range PHP Users Group and we hope you are as well.

Thanks, and I look forward to seeing you at our next meeting,
David Stockton
President, Front Range PHP User Group

We will be holding elections during this meeting. If you have an interest in helping out with the group, this would be a good meeting to attend. We have positions for President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer. If you have attended at least two meetings in the last year already, you are eligible to vote and/or run for office.

Our October 13 meeting will be held at Remy in the historic Oxford hotel in downtown Denver, at 1637 Wazee St. We'll be meeting from 6:30-9:00. Remy is providing food and drink so please be sure to RSVP by emailing dave@frontrangephp.org. You can find more information including a map on our meetings page.

Neal Gamache will be speaking on "Escape from the Black Box: Quality as an Engineering Discipline".
Outline:

• What is quality? How much do you need?
• Traditional models for increasing software quality
• A contemporary approach: integrated quality engineering
• The documentation paradox
• Test driven development goes beyond unit testing
• Continuous integration is more than a build server
• Test automation as a team deliverable
• A snapshot is never the whole picture
• Follow-through after release builds quality

Neal Gamache

Neal Gamache has been a Quality Engineer for over ten years. In that time he has worked on software related to health care, social media, broadband provisioning, cost accounting, and games. His responsibilities have included test management, continuous integration systems, automation, toolsmithing, and configuration management. He is a Zend Certified PHP Engineer and lives in Denver with his wife and two children.

I hope to see you there.

David Stockton
President, Front Range PHP User Group