[ciapug] PHP group and SHOTGUN Meeting Date!

[Chris Hettinger]

Welcome Scott! It's great to know that more people are learning of the 
group and want to participate. I feel that this group is a needed 
resource locally.

I'd say I am using PHP on a large scale. I work for ENCOMPASS Health 
Management Systems in West Des Moines. Began here 1.5 years ago and am 
soley responsible for the companies Internet site.

I've introduced two Mandrake Linux Web Servers into this MS shop. Have 
moved their site to Apache and in the last year have launched 4 Internet 
web applications and several internal web based apps. The Internet 
applications are used by hopsitals, and doctor's offices to submit 
patient, medical services, and clinical information for review and 
authorization of care. The applications use both MySQL and MSSQL databases.

In addition I provide freelance development services in which I use 
MySQL/PHP exclusively.

---- SITE REDEVELOPMENT ----

In addition to the topic about the group. About a year ago I make a 
attempt to reorganize our group however I didn't acheive my goal. Part 
of the work I did was to concept and build a new site though it never 
made it to production.

That's changed! I've recently produced and uploaded the site!
http://www.cialug.org/ciapug/

You will soon be able to visit the site at ciapug.org once again, we 
need to reregister the domain.

---- SHOTGUN MEETING ----

Now to get this rolling lets meet ! I'm calling a shotgun meeting for:

Tues. February 1st
11:45 AM
Jason's Deli  (Next door to Hu Hot on University Ave West Des Moines)
Open topic discussion


Hope all that are intereted can make it, if you are unable to make this 
meeting at the time selected, don't worry we WILL do this again.

Please, I encourage you to introduce yourself via the mailing list. 
Please include in your introduction a bit about where, why, and how you 
use PHP, as well as what you'd like to see the group provide you.


-Chris
-CIAPUG webmaster




Dave J. Hala Jr. wrote:
>  I just there are just tons of .net developers out there. Other than me
> and Tim is anyone else out there doing anything on a medium to large
> scale?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 16:17, Scott Phillips wrote:
> 
>>I just heard about this group this morning and would support any sort of 
>>revitalization.  Sometimes I feel like I'm using PHP in a vacuum with all 
>>the big corps around here using their fancy-pants Java or .NET 
>>developers.  (I even think ColdFusion has a bigger share around here than PHP!)
>>
>>In any case, hello, and I hope to meet some of you in the near future.
>>
>>
>>Scott Phillips
>>Web Developer
>>Cowles Library, Drake University
>>(515) 271-2975 
>>
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