I recently started a PHPRunner user group on Facebook in hopes of connecting with other PHPR programmers. So far we have 6 members, myself and of course Sergey, who is the CEO of the company that puts out PHPRunner, and four other guys. My main goal for creating the group was to provide some awareness of PHPRunner as well as being a way for PHPR developers to reach out to one another for paid assistance on projects built with PHPR. Honestly there have been times that I would have hired a developer to assist me on projects if he was familiar with PHPR.
Of course the formation of the group was met with a little opposition by users on the support forums because they didn’t see the need for such a group because the forums on xlinesoft’s website are already pretty active. I pointed out that there are user groups on Facebook for other IDE software clients such as CodeSmith, CodeCharge, and Eclipse and having a group for PHPR would probable help bring exposure to the product.
I also have always felt funny about soliciting developers from message boards, not to mention it’s forbidden on a lot of support forums, but having a Facebook group is perfect for something like this. I have made it very clear that the user group is not a support forum and is only intended for developers to network with one another, showcase their work, and to post projects for bid. I am hopeful that the group will grow in size and we can develop a pretty good community but I am also a realist and I know that PHPR users make up a pretty small piece of the pie. As I am sure a lot of you that have talked with me about PHPR already know, I am pretty hung up on this code generation thing and out of all the products I have seen on the market, PHPRunner is the best one out there.
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