[Phpwm] RE: Phpwm Digest, Vol 32, Issue 8

Sun Sep 3 13:04:19 BST 2006

urrrm i think for now i might just stick with windows untill im forced to 
buy a new copy as windows xp is old... lol
wonder when vistas gonna be on sale. (hope theres a crack and hack for it as 
microsoft make too much money y dnt they give away software for free forever 
and not for a trial)

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>Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2006 12:15:18 +0100
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>    1. RE: RE: hey guys and girls  (Joel Stanford)
>    2. Re: RE: hey guys and girls (David Goodwin)
>    3. Re: As we're doing introductions... (Simon Ferre)
>    4. Re: RE: hey guys and girls (David Goodwin)
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>Message: 1
>Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 13:03:11 +0100
>From: "Joel Stanford" <joel at joely.net>
>Subject: RE: [Phpwm] RE: hey guys and girls
>To: "'West Midlands PHP User Group'" <phpwm at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>Message-ID: <000001c6ce87$c4675150$4d35f3f0$@net>
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>Hiya folks,
>
>With the recent spout of intros, I guessed it a good time to stop hiding
>quietly in the background and say hi.
>
>I've been lurking on the list for a little while after stumbling across the
>list looking for local people who could help with PHP. I'm 22 years old, I
>work full time in retail (yeah, a bit strange, seeing as I think most 
>people
>here at least work with PHP in some way lol) and I've been coding PHP for
>around 5 years. I wouldn't say that I'm an expert, more of an expert novice
>- I can hack sites together for pretty much anything, but I do it terribly,
>with lovely messy code that I can never figure out what did what later on,
>which is always handy.
>
>  I'm trying to teach myself "better" ways of doing things, such as using
>classes, templating and various other things, but I'm finding little time 
>to
>sit down and concentrate to get my head round it at the moment.
>
>I also half-administer a dedicated server with a friend, which is great fun
>for me being one of my first forays into actually working with Linux  (and
>the 'AMP' bits of LAMP too..) - I'm too much of a Windows (and Mac to be
>fair, but still Windows more... </hides quickly>) fan boy unfortunately. I
>did manage to successfully upgrade PHP from 4.0.x to 5.0.4 and MySQL too, 
>so
>I think that's my proudest achievement of this week lol.
>
>I have my personal site at www.joely.net, but there's nothing really there
>right now - I did have my own 'hacked together' site, but I decided to try
>Drupal recently, and then got sick of it as it seemed to be so difficult to
>do anything I thought up that I wanted to do - so I've gone back to
>designing my own site framework/functions now, and hence the earlier 
>comment
>about trying to teach myself properly!
>
>Anyway, I hope I get to come along to a meet soon - I keep trying to pluck
>up the courage to come along everytime someone arranges one, but I always
>end up chickening out ;-)
>
>And I also promise to try and stop lurking now!
>
>(P.S. Anybody know why I can't edit the PHPWM wiki? I get a message saying
>I'm blocked:
>
>  | Editing not allowed: user, ip, network may be blocked or your ip is
>listed on a DNSBL.
>  | Contact the wiki administrator for more information.
>
>I did a quick check on DNSBL but wasn't really sure what I was looking
>for...? Thanks!)
>
>--
>Joel
>
>www.joely.net
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>------------------------------
>
>Message: 2
>Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 16:11:44 +0100
>From: David Goodwin <david at codepoets.co.uk>
>Subject: Re: [Phpwm] RE: hey guys and girls
>To: West Midlands PHP User Group <phpwm at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>Message-ID: <20060902151143.GA16077 at codepoets.co.uk>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
> >
> > (P.S. Anybody know why I can't edit the PHPWM wiki? I get a message 
>saying
> > I'm blocked:
> >
> >  | Editing not allowed: user, ip, network may be blocked or your ip is
> > listed on a DNSBL.
> >  | Contact the wiki administrator for more information.
> >
> > I did a quick check on DNSBL but wasn't really sure what I was looking
> > for...? Thanks!)
>
>See http://wiki.phpwm.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Help
>
>thanks
>David.
>
>--
>David Goodwin
>
>[ david at codepoets dot co dot uk ]
>[ http://www.codepoets.co.uk       ]
>
>
>
>------------------------------
>
>Message: 3
>Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 09:17:56 +0100
>From: Simon Ferre <simon at needanother.co.uk>
>Subject: Re: [Phpwm] As we're doing introductions...
>To: West Midlands PHP User Group <phpwm at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>Message-ID: <200609020917.57389.simon at needanother.co.uk>
>Content-Type: text/plain;  charset="iso-8859-1"
>
>Hi, I'm Simon
>
>I haven't introduced myself before either, so here goes.
>
>I'm 33, originally from Portsmouth, Hampshire, now in Castle Vale (just off 
>J5
>of the M6).
>
>I have been programming from an early age - got interested in it when my 
>mum
>got our Sinclair ZX Spectrum around 1982, and I have used (and sometimes
>owned) the following hardware in my short career:
>
>Sinclair ZX81 - Programmed in basic
>Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K - Programmed in basic
>Acorn BBC B - Programmed in basic and 6502 machine code.  Wrote a password
>protection ROM that I still have in the machine now when I switch on!
>Acorn BBC Master - Haven't specifically programmed this one but it is 
>stored
>in the loft in working order
>Oric 1 - Programmed in basic
>Amstrad CPC 6128 - Didn't program this one but loved to play with CP/M
>Archimedes (various models) - Didn't program this one either but loved to 
>mess
>about with the command line (Still have a couple of these in the loft that
>still work)
>Amiga (various) - Same as Archimedes
>PC - Have used these on and off since around 1990, and have programmed in
>COBOL, Pascal (Turbo Pascal and Delphi), C, Visual Basic, dBase III, 
>Paradox,
>Unix Shell Script, DOS Batchfile script, PHP and a little Perl.
>
>I helped my father-in-law who's a diabetic set up a website - he wrote the
>static pages in Serif WebPlus and I bolted on various dynamic bits - please
>take a look - www.portsmouthdiabetes.org.uk is the url.
>
>I've also got a few ideas of my own - more information when the website is 
>in
>it's most basic form and uploaded to my online server...
>
>That's pretty much it for now, good to meet you all.
>
>Simon
>
>
>
>------------------------------
>
>Message: 4
>Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 16:25:26 +0100
>From: David Goodwin <david at codepoets.co.uk>
>Subject: Re: [Phpwm] RE: hey guys and girls
>To: West Midlands PHP User Group <phpwm at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>Message-ID: <20060902152526.GC16077 at codepoets.co.uk>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
><snip>
> > and about David Goodwin question 'Out of interest are you using Linux,
><snip>
> > look into linux but it seemed that there was just too many options for 
>it
> > and really i didnt have the time or effort to find the best one. as for 
>mac
> > well thats allways been a no no for me as its lack of software puts me 
>off
> > totally (even though its much safer).
>
>http://www.ubuntu.com :-)
>
>David.
>
>
>--
>David Goodwin
>
>[ david at codepoets dot co dot uk ]
>[ http://www.codepoets.co.uk       ]
>
>
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