Oh, OK then :) I can't remember whether I introduced myself when I joined the list or not...<br><br>I'm Jon Spriggs - a Server Support guy working for an International IT company in Manchester (but harking from Greater London originally).
<br><br>I'll be honest and admit I'm unlikely to attend a meeting, but I like reading the threads that pop-up on here, and so unless I'm asked to leave I probably won't LOL<br><br>I'm very into my FLOSS - especially Linux - I've only got one Windows machine now - and that's my work-provided laptop - even my router is a Linksys WRT54G with the OpenWRT firmware loaded (and a FON WRT54G next to it)! I did succumb to a mobile phone loaded with Microsoft Windows Mobile edition a while back, but I don't know if that counts or not!
<br><br>Professionally, I only ever support windows machines, although I've started to subvert them by starting an in-house Linux Users Group (the only one in the company) and have been introducing my collegues to fun projects like using OpenSSH for Windows in staging servers and tunnelling proxies (or rather - how to stop the latter).
<br><br>I've written the beginnings of a Telnet based Daemon in PHP for controlling my MP3 player - the hard way!, and a networking monitoring application in PHP, which are both on Sourceforge (PlayMyMP3 and NHTAM respectively), but at home I've also got some SOAP bits I'm working on, a ticketing system for an overworked admin friend of mine and a few scripts to monitor my finances (my personal phone is a Windows Mobile Phone which my work have cunningly provided me with the relevant software to program for it) and my fitness regiem (or lack of it!) - all of which are in PHP (except the thing for my phone, which will probably be in
<a href="http://VB.NET">VB.NET</a>). I've also started writing training courses for my collegues on how to get more out of their Office Productivity Suite (so named because I also refer to OOo and Google's Office Products in there) which is hosted in Moodle, and I've just loaded PMWiki on my home server as my Personal Web Page... at some point, I might even point my domain name at it! LOL
<br><br>So, yehr. I'm Jon.<br><br>It's nice to meet you all.<br><br>Jon<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 01/09/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jonathan Adjei</b> <<a href="mailto:jadjei@ntlworld.com">jadjei@ntlworld.com
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Ooo me too, me too!<br><br>I came to the first meet up but haven't got round to contributing to the
<br>list much. I'm based in Coventry and have been freelancing for the past 7,8<br>years. I started out mostly into graphics, specialising in 3D modelling and<br>animation. However the demand for web development has led me further and
<br>further down this path to the point where it's almost all I do now.<br>I manage a few dedicated servers as well and my geek badge became firmly<br>pinned after succesfully building a mythtv box for our family mediatainment
<br>last year.<br>I'm married with 2 young kids and 3 old VWs.<br>My technology blog .. <a href="http://adjei.co.uk/">http://adjei.co.uk/</a><br>And my neglected business site .. <a href="http://agog.adjei.co.uk/">http://agog.adjei.co.uk/
</a><br><br>Hello everybody,<br>jon<br><br><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a href="mailto:phpwm-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk">phpwm-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br>[mailto:<a href="mailto:phpwm-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk">
phpwm-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>] On Behalf Of Marc Gale<br>Sent: 01 September 2006 14:33<br>To: West Midlands PHP User Group<br>Subject: [Phpwm] As we're doing introductions...<br><br><br>Hi Folks,<br><br>It seems that we're in the middle of a round of introductions so I may as
<br>well leap onto the band wagon.<br><br>I have been programming for ... quite a while now ... unfortunately it's<br>nearly all self taught.<br><br>I've tried assorted methods of learning, ranging from working it out myself,
<br>reading other peoples obfuscated code, reading books, following online<br>tutorials, attending courses (when available), through to 'Kerplunking' with<br>working code (change something to make it break and therefore learn what
<br>that piece of code actually did).<br><br>However, I've always found that talking to someone who already has the<br>knowledge works wonders. It's just a shame that it's not the easiest one to<br>follow as you actually have to find someone. I'm hoping that this list will
<br>support that method.<br><br>I've programmed in assorted languages ranging from BASIC (Assorted versions<br>including the Sinclair computers and the PS2 Yabasic), Assembler (mainly<br>6502 but a chunk of Gameboy Z80), C (whilst building a MUD), Pascal (part of
<br>a course which I then went on to teach), JAVA, Javascript, and now PHP which<br>I'm enjoying immensely.<br><br>I've always tried to understand what and how I should code something,<br>because then I find that all I have to do is follow the syntax and rules of
<br>whichever language I'm using to achieve the desired result.<br><br>I'm also a huge fan of fantasy and games. If I can do both at the same<br>time, even better.<br><br>Marc<br><br><br>--<br>This message has been scanned for viruses and
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