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Greets UPHPU!

Pleased to announce Kevin Carter as the presenter for this month. The topic is error Handling and Debugging with PHP All code has bugs. In order to fix them you have to find them. This presentation will go over tips and tricks for detecting when errors occur. Then it will go over ways to efficiently track down bugs. It will also cover some code optimization items.

More about Kevin:

Kevin Carter works as a backend php developer for Code Greene. He’s been coding php nonstop for the past 3 years. Is a linux enthusiast, serving as vice-president for the Ogden Area Linux Users Group. His (almost) never updated blog can be found at http://dexterthedragon.com

Greets Geeks!

The July Geek Lunch is going to be at Tucano’s at the Gateway in Salt Lake.

Now, I know, we tried Tucano’s before, and true they dogged us at the last moment; but, they have tried to make things right. Those that RSVP’d last time will have their plate at half! When you RSVP, please let me know if you were in this group.

Like our last event, expect to see all kinds of coders (Python, PERL, PHP, etc), bloggers, graphic artists, local businesses owners and shutterbugs in the fray.

You can RSVP at this URL - http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/843968/

Tucanos @ the Gateway
July 11th @ 1:30p
162 South 400 West
Phone: (801) 456-2550

Victor Villa
UTOS.org | UPHPU.org

Have you signed up for the Utah Open Source Conference?

June’s UPHPU meeting will be Thursday, June 19th at 7p in Draper (address / map below).

We are very pleased to have Travis Barney of Progrexion presenting on QCodo.

The Qcodo Development Framework is an open-source PHP 5 framework that focuses on freeing developers from unnecessary tedious, mundane coding. It is a completely object-oriented framework that takes the best of PHP and provides a truly rapid application development platform. (http://qcodo.com/ )

Meeting Information:

UPHPU
June 19th, 2008 @7pm
12393 Gateway Park Place, Suite 600
Draper, Utah 84020

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=12393+Gateway+Park+Pl,+Draper,+UT+84020&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=61.711173,104.0625&ie=UTF8&z=17&iwloc=addr

This month’s Geek Lunch is going to be in downtown SLC at the Rodizio Grill in Trolley Square!

I have setup reservations for 15 though I’m pretty sure that will need to increase this. Please Please Please RSVP so that I can give an accurate count to them. This is their opening week, in fact, the day after grand opening, so it’ll likely be packed!

Info:
RSVP : mindjuju at gmail // please give count of how many are coming with you or at
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/470822/
Salt Lake Location
600 S. 700 E. Trolley Square
Salt Lake City, UT 84102
Ph: (801) 220-0500

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=600+S.+700+E.+84102&jsv=107.hc&sll=40.756291,-111.871053&sspn=0.007404,0.013433&ie=UTF8&z=17&iwloc=addr

I’m pleased to announce this month’s meeting topic is High availability with memcache. Memcache is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load. The talk will include live demonstrations of memcache.

Presenting will be Jeff Sherlock who is primarily a LAMP developer with a focus on creating scalable solutions. He’s been working with PHP for over 4 years with most of that geared towards backend work. He loves designing database schemas, optimizing existing processes, and generally making slow things run fast. He currently work as a PHP Developer for a financial services company in Salt Lake City. He is also a part-time student in the U of U Computer Science program.

You can catch Jeff at his blog at www.hoodlu.ms.

Meeting info:

UPHPU
Thursday April 17, 2008 – 7p
12393 Gateway Park Place Suite 600
Draper, Ut 84020

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Asterisk is the leading PBX in the open source world. Combining Asterisk and PHP produces a great tool for building custom telephony applications.

Presenting is Senior member of the UPHPU family, David Boucha.
David works for the State of Utah and the Utah Army National Guard as an IT Analyst and does a lot of technical consulting for the federal law enforcement and medical fields.

Inquires to David about consulting should be directed to boucha@gmail.com .

Meeting Info:

Thursday, March 20th 7pm
Bill Good Marketing
12393 Gateway Park Place Suite 600
Draper, Utah, 84020

We are intending to have audio streaming and wifi restored at this meeting. Please contact me for details on audio streaming.

The very kind Laura Moncur has brought to my attention that Bombay House is closed for lunch!

Instead, we are going to eat at the BrickOven in Provo. The address is

Brickoven in Provo at 12:30p
111 E 800 N
Provo, UT 84606-1713

My most sincere apologies for the new location. Here is a map:

Mailing lists can be a pain in the butt, especially when discussions spiral into topics about which pizza delivery company is best, which text editor is best, which Linux distribution is best, which caffeinated beverage is best, etc.

We at Utah Open Source (UTOS) know you work hard day in and day out and deserve a break from the hardship of having to deal with meaningless discussions about what’s best. We give you something better — perhaps the best mailing list ever: utos-announce. We created this list so we can mail out announcements about upcoming UTOS events, but you can use it too, to announce anything you’ve got coming up… well, as long as it has something to do with open source in Utah.

Subscribing to the utos-announce list is simple: Go to < http://utos.org/mailman/listinfo/utos-announce >, enter your e-mail address, your name (optional), a password (also optional), and select the Subscribe button. If you’ve followed these instructions so far without making any mistakes or being distracted by a flamewar continuing on one of the other mailing lists you’re subscribed to, a confirmation message will be sent to your e-mail address with instructions on how to confirm your subscription. Follow those instructions (They’re real, real simple… like “click on this” simple.) and you’ll be ready to receive amazing, exciting announcements!

Subscribing to the utos-announce list is a great way to stay informed about the latest developments of the upcoming UTOSC conference. Find out who the keynote speakers will be before the story is aired on the local evening news. Learn what exciting schwag and promotions conference sponsors will be offering in their booths. Get the low-down on entertainment options while you’re attending the Utah Open Source Conference. Ahhh… the possibilities are endless.

What? You’re still here? Go subscribe already!

This month’s Geek Lunch is going to be at Lorena’s near Bountiful (Woods Cross). So for all you Northside geeks, this is for you! The reviews on Google show this as 5 stars and has top recommendations from our very own Bryan Petty.

See you there this Friday!

Lorena’s Restaurant
2477 S 800 W
Woods Cross, UT 84087
(801) 295-2441

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As part of the Utah Open Source goals to help every LUG (Local User Group) grow, UTOSF plans to provide timely reminders to all who are interested about when, where and the topic for each of the LUGs we track.

In addition to this feature, UTOSF will also be providing an announcement service for podcasts of LUG meetings that were streamed and recorded.

This service should start around the beginning of February 2008 and hopefully provide simple, yet easy to read posts with all of the details needed.

If your group is not listed on the current UTOSF Groups page, or want your meetings streamed and recorded, please leave a comment, or contact clint At utosf (dot) org and we’ll get it added.

Cheers,

Clint Savage

Greets UPHPU!

In addition to the Geek Lunch scheduled this Friday (info below), I’ve just been contacted by Mac Newbold of Code Greene about a PHP community event they are hosting!

Called the Lunch-and-Learn, Code Greene offers a lunch and then a presents a topic. This week they’ve kindly synchronized with our Geek Lunch so that after the UPHPU event, you can go back to their place for a lesson!

This week’s lesson is being taught by the Code Greene design team to talk about Graphic Design.

The location for presentation is:

Code Greene – Learn
44 Exchange Place, SLC UT 84111
350 South between state and main st
enter from southbound State St on Exchange Place, or from westbound 400 S on Cactus St (~50 E)

December 14th @ 12:30p
Shanghai Café
145 East 1300 South
Salt Lake City, 84115
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Thanks again to Mac Newbold and Code Greene for his service to the community!

mj/v

Utah Open Source Foundation and Tier Four are hosting a paintball game for all computer geeks in Utah.

“The games will be pick up style, with matches pitting language, distro, and other hot topics against each other. Training will be held before each round and safety will be discussed. Paintball markers will be available onsite or by reservation with JT Paintball Rentals starting at $10. Tier Four will be providing 15 cases, yes that’s right 15 cases of marballizer paint and make it available to all that come until its gone. More paint should be available for sale, or you should bring your own just in case.”

The event will be held at the DesertEdge Practice Field on Saturday, 17 November 2007 from 10:00 to 14:00. RSVP to participate@utos.org.

We all know that SCO sucks. By extension, the people who work for that deplorable company also suck and because now SCO isn’t doing so well financially, SCO is laying off a bunch of employees. These people took the bet that SCO would win and now that SCO is losing, they’ll expect to pretend that nothing ever happened and jump to another job. Of course, they stood to gain a lot if SCO’s attempt to extort money out of the Linux world would have worked. Fortunately SCO’s plan has failed miserably. Sorry SCO employees, You can’t eat your cake and have it too (as the saying originally went) — no jobs for you!

With Josh Simpson (dataw0lf on the IRC) going to be in town, a bunch of us decided to have an impromptu Geek Lunch! (who said geeks weren’t spontaneous?!) And from the response on the IRC, it sounds like everybody is going to be there.

Sooooo…. Here is the info:

Geek Lunch:
Buca Dibeppos
October 12 @ 12p
935 East Fort Union Boulevard
Midvale, UT 84047
Phone: 801.561.9463

I am excited to announce that we now have a LinkedIn Group for UPHPU members. You can add a note to your LinkedIn profile that states that you are a member and a UPHPU badge will appear. Join the UPHPU LinkedIn group here. Please note that I will have to approve each, so be patient as it might taken a few minutes. Please also note that if you want the UPHPU badge to appear on your profile, you will have to edit your profile, scroll to the bottom where groups are, click “settings” next to the UPHPU badge, and then change “Displaying the group logo to non-group members:” to “Yes” and save the changes.

You all remember Josh Coates, CEO of Berkeley Data Systems/Mozy, right? Mozy is the company with the Windows program which allows you to backup your harddrive to their petabyte array all safe and securely. Truth be told, I could never get their app to work on my system, but that’s hardly significant. What is important is that EMC, the king of storage, just bought Mozy for a cozy 76 million dollars.

Mozy had raised only 1.9 million in capital, which makes their VC people (Wasatch Ventures) very, very happy.

You’ll also remember that Josh’s Mozy held the popular $20,000 dollar computer programming “death matches.”

Strong work, Josh!

* yes, I know that “mozying” is not a word; it’s “moseying”

Our September Geek Lunch will be held this Friday at Chipolte restaurant in Bountiful.

Friday, 14 September 2007 @ 13:00
135 North 500 West, Bountiful

August’s Geek Lunch will be held at The Pie Pizzeria at the University of Utah at one o’clock.

July’s Geek Lunch will be held at Buca di Beppo in Midvale.

July 6th @ 13:30
Buca di Beppo
935 East Fort Union Boulevard
Midvale, UT 84047
801.561.9463

Please RSVP to Victor Villa so weknow how many seats to ask for.