Building on the success of January’s meeting, February should be interesting as well. There’s a brief recap on FloridaCreatives.com, in case you missed it. My cover of Chris Chubb’s “PHP5 Cert - Chapter 1″ presentation was a little long-winded, but we had a lot of great discussions, and many people volunteered for presentations and ideas for presentations. We ran into the ole “lots o’ people” problem again, which is never a bad thing, so the quest for a home continues (now as a poll!).

Places we’re still considering:

• Cloudspace Offices - 10244 E Colonial Dr, Suite #106, #107
• Stardust Coffee & Film - Corrine Dr & Winter Park Dr, Winter Park
• CoLab Orlando - Orange Ave & Wall St, Downtown
• Devry Institute - Millennia Blvd off Conroy Rd, S Orlando

This month’s presentations:

• “PHP5 Cert - Chapter 1″ by Chris Chubb (instead of David Rogers)
• “Anatomy of a Wordpress Plugin” by Eric Marden

Additional topics that have been suggested:

• “PHP Framework Benchmarks” by ???? (research available)
• “Javascript, Ajax, and PHP” by Phil Palmieri and Eric Marden
• “Hello Frameworks! - A Hackalong” by David Rogers and Nathan Ledet
• “Introduction to Unit Testing with PHPUnit and XDebug” by David Rogers
• “OrlandoPHP.org Goes Drupal: A Hackfest!” by Everyone!

We also discussed having monthly project presentations in an abbreviated format, like Pecha Kucha, perhaps (google it, I’m lazy), so that we could show off what we’re working on regularly. If you have more ideas, please mail the group! Others that I’d love to see include:

• “OpenID and the Problem of Distributed Identity” by Rabbit
• “Memcache is Your Friend” by Cory Collier
• “Developing in Zend Framework is Hard” by Anyone
• “Building the Blog: A Hackalong!” by David Rogers

Please take a moment to view the polls (and vote) regarding your PHP skill-level, interest in the Zend PHP5 Cert training, and topics for upcoming and previous talks. Be sure to pop into the Message Board and check out the conversation about those topics and more; we’d love to get your thoughts on both!