The Voices of the ElePHPant podcast has posted their latest episode - an interview with another member of the PHP community, Justin Carmony, a member of the Utah Open Source Foundation/Conference.

Cal's "three questions" for Justin are around his work with Redis and the Utah open source community and conference:

• For those that don't know, can you tell us what Redis is and why did you choose it over other options?
• Can you tell us why "middle-scale" sites are different and what challenges do they uniquely face?
• As a developer how has getting involved in organizing helped you both personally and professionally?

You can listen to this latest episode through the in-page player, by downloading the mp3 or by subscribing to their feed.

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The Utah PHP Users Group has their latest meeting details posted for their May 2006 meeting.

The meetup will be at their usual location, the Linux Networkx offices, and will be happening on May 18th, 2006 starting at 7:00pm. The speaker this time will be John Taber of Trafmetrics.com who will be discussing business topics as they relate to PHP.

If you'd like more information on this meeting or would just like to know what the user group is all about, you can check out the meeting page on their site for complete details.

From Richard Miller's blog today, there's a new post with content from the Utah PHP Users Group meeting that's just passed (Feb. 2006) on the topic of custom 404 pages.

When you try to visit a web page that doesn't exist, the server usually returns a 404 error message - "Page Not Found". At the Utah PHP Users group meeting last Thursday, Mac Newbold presented on custom 404 pages. Custom 404 pages can help maintain your website branding, help you fix broken links, and help your users find something useful when they don't find what they're looking for.

Custom 404 pages are even more powerful when you combine them with PHP. I certainly didn't expect the flood of ideas that Mac presented for using custom 404 pages.

Among the suggestions of things to do with the error pages are things like: sending an email when someone gets a 404, search the site for something similar, use it as a redirect for old to new URLs, and more.

The Utah PHP Users Group has posted a new announcement already about their March meeting to be held on the 16th.

This time, the topic is still a bit up in the air and they request that those attening vote on one of two - either "Ajax tools in Eclipse" or "postgresql + stored procedures" - but from Ray Hunter. The meeting will be in the usual place, the Linux Networx offices, and will get going around 7pm.

For more details on the group and this meeting, check out their website.

For the February 2006 meeting, they Utah PHP Users Group will be talking about Apache 404 handler scripts created in PHP.

Mac Newbold will present on PHP 404 handler scripts. Running PHP with Apache has some definite advantages. One that I use frequently is using a PHP script as the 404 document that apache uses when a page can't be found. You can use it for many things. PHP.net uses it to run a site search, to try and find the page you were looking for. You can use it to create "virtual" URLs, where one script handles requests for many different URLs and hands back dynamic content based on the page name. You can even combine it with things like GD to make dynamic images that are created on the fly for each URL.

The meeting is happening on the 16th at 7pm MST at the Linux Networx offices. You can RSVP and get a map to the location from their site...

The Utah PHP Users Group has posted this infromation about their upcoming meeting (January 19th, 2006) and what the presentation will be.

Richard Miller will present on Model-View-Controller (MVC) Frameworks. MVC framework Ruby on Rails has received a lot of attention in the past year for making web app development easier and more enjoyable. Several similar frameworks are available for PHP. Special guest appearance by John Peterson of MyTechSupport.com, the creators of a PHP framework called PHP on Trax. PHP on Trax was used to rapidly develop KatrinaHousing.org, a highly trafficked website that helped hurricane victims find housing.

If you are planning on attending, please RSVPLinux Networkx offices, check out this map...

The Utah PHP Users Group has information about their next meeting posted on their site today - discussion topics and the wheres/whos.

For our December meeting, Victor Villa will present on Open Laszlo, a client-side framework for Rich Web Applications (AJAX-like stuff) that is compatible with PHP.

See the calendar for more details, a map, and to RSVP.

the meeting is happening tonight (Dec. 15th) from 7-8pm in Bluffdale, Utah at the Linux Networx offices. Be sure to RSVP if you plan to attend.

On the Utah PHP Users Group site today, there's information about their November meeting posted, as well as the topic of the evening - "The Key to Harnessing the Value of Arrays".

For our November meeting, Mac Newbold will present on arrays. A fun-filled evening of exciting adventures with everyone's favorite PHP data type. We'll cover both lists and associative arrays, the differences between them, and their respective operators and functions. We'll demonstrate how to use them in various loop constructs, and a million and one ways to sort your arrays.

We'll show everyone how to use arrays in some of the other standard PHP functions, like the string functions. And then we'll cover how to use arrays to make advanced data structures, like multi-dimentional arrays, lists of lists, and "structs" or mock objects. The evening will be an unforgettable experience for PHPers of all ages and skill levels! Discount tickets on sale now, or remaining tickets will be available at regular price at the door.

The metting will be happening on Thursday (Nov. 17th) starting at 7pm in Bluffdale, Utah (at the Linux Networx offices). For more information and ot RSVP, head over here and enter your info...