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

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 (email me)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.