Hello everyone!

Our first Detroit Area PHP Developers Network Meetup was a hit. To those that attended, many thanks for coming and I look forward to seeing you at the next Meetup. For those that didn't have a chance to come by, you missed out on some great PHP conversation (and networking opportunities).

For the next meeting, the group came up with some pretty good topics for discussion:

• The use of Frameworks - Zend, Cake, CodeIgniter
  
• PHP Design Patterns
  
• IDE's - What do you use when writing PHP code?
  
• As a PHP developer, how are you making money from PHP?
  
• PHP Certification, is it worth it?
  

Are any of the topics above your strengths? If so, let me know if you would like to head those discussions.

Looking forward, I can definitely see this group gaining momentum and popularity. I have gone on ahead and registered a domain name that will soon become our official home, phpdetroit.com. This new site will initially start off very simplistic containing a community message board and expanding out from there.

Feedback, comments, suggestions, or even a random rant. I want to hear from you regarding what you want out of this group.

Thanks again!
Bing Pascual