"As promised, here are the links to sites / services we touched on: IDE's (Integrated Development Environment) Zend Studio CODA Firefox Plug-in's Web Developer Firebug iMacros Amazon S3 Firefox Organizer Store files in your ... More Amazon S3 account. Testing Tools PHPUnit Web Application Tool - Windows based stress test tool. Use this on a Windows cloud server against your testing environment. Selenium Testing Tool Selenium IDE Rackspace Cloud Servers (affiliate link, please use it) Other Links Mint - Analytics Piwik - Analytics Article on Scope Documents I think that was all of the links we touched on. If I missed any, please let me know. Bing "

"I think this is an excellent topic for discussion as many PHP developers seek functionality without thinking about the impact. This is something I deal with on a daily basis when working with prospects...."

"Announcing a new Meetup for PHPDetroit - The Detroit Area PHP Developers Network! ... MoreWhat: PHPDetroit - Detroit Area PHP Developers Network February Meetup When: Saturday, February 27, 2010 11:00 AM Where: Caribou Coffee 1413 West 14 Mile Road Madison Heights, MI 48071 (248) 585-9163 Folks, my apologies for the extended down time. Lets get some ideas for this meeting! Learn more here: http://meetup.phpdetr... Agenda: Since this group consists primarily of new members, I've structured the agenda around some of our past topics of discussion. This meeting is more of a meet-n-greet to get a better idea of the direction the group should take. Introductions -Experience with PHP -Site's visited regularly -Time using PHP IDE's - What do you use when writing PHP code? As a PHP developer, how are you making money from PHP? Clients, Dealing with Feature Creep -Project Scoping -Client documentation Testing -Why test -Testing tools -Unit Tests, PHPUnit -Selenium -iMacro (FireFox Plugin) -Testing Environments -Localhost -Cloud Server Usage (Utlity) Building vs Buying -When to build it, when to buy it? For the more experienced PHP developers, it would be great to have you speak on specific topics for future meetings. "

"As of just moments ago, we have shored up the time, date, and location: Date: December 12 (Saturday) Time: 11AM Location: AJ's Music Cafe 240 W. Nine Mile Ferndale, MI 48220 (248) 399-3946 http://bit.ly/78EDfd......"

"Dear Fellow PHPDetroit Member, PHPDetroit is back after a few months off. Yes, it's been a while since the last meeting (July), so we should a lot of catching up to do. ... MoreThe next meetup is tentatively planned for December 12th, but we need your help to decide where. I've started a poll here: http://www.meetup.com... For those of you that are new to the group, WELCOME! Each meeting we've had in past has been full of information for both the new PHP programmer to the seasoned code walkers. Here's some topics we've talked about in past: PHP Certification Working with Clients - Outsourcing VS. Working with you - How do you overcome this. - Typical Experiences - The actual costs of low cost labor - Language barrier Use of Frameworks (recurring topic) Development Environments Using PHP beyond the web environment PHP Logging of errors - Log4PHP - Trap errors to a log instead of to the screen. - Improve end user experience - http://logging.apache... Using Splunk to analyze logs from log4php, MySQL, Apache, system logs all in a single view - Associate events in views to see what failed, or what triggered failures - Virtually merges multiple log sources - http://www.splunk.com... Memory Profiling in PHP What will we talk about next? Good question! We have a number of ideas but would rather hear what you, the PHPer, want to talk about. Tell us what you want here! "