[Watford] PHP

[Steven Acreman]

All,

My mobile number is 07738 198 788. Feel free to give me a call if you need
instructions getting to Leavesden Park, have trouble with the carpark
barriers and of course for me to let you into the building.

Thanks,

Steven Acreman

On 02/12/2007, walt <walt at helvatron.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Will do then. Mind you, Neel will have to be there and do his stuff
> because
> this is well beyond my current level of knowledge.   But, hopefully, not
> for
> much longer.
>
> Did somebody say they were going to give us a mobile number in case we
> have
> trouble finding the place in Leavesden Park.
>
> Walter
> -----Original Message-----
> From: watford-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
> [mailto:watford-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Cliff Deamer
> Sent: 02 December 2007 12:22
> To: watford at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: RE: [Watford] PHP
>
> Another good input Walter, I am sure we would all like to get Yvan
> involved in the discussion.
> cheers  Cliff
>
>
> On Sun, 2007-12-02 at 10:41 +0000, walt wrote:
> > Many thanks again Yvan. If you fancy an outing to the nightlife of
> Leavesden
> > I can offer you a lift in my 'Ford Fiesta' :-)  I grant you it isn't
> easy
> to
> > get to but depending on where you live in Ricky, we can take the M25 to
> > Huntonbridge and its just up the road from there.
> >
> > I live near Northwood by the way so its not too much of a treck to
> Ricky.
> >
> > Walter
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: watford-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
> > [mailto:watford-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Yvan Seth
> > Sent: 01 December 2007 19:13
> > To: watford at mailman.lug.org.uk
> > Subject: Re: [Watford] PHP
> >
> > <quote who="walt">
> > > So now to learning the language.  There must be oodles of
> > > documentation on the web. But I may be picking your brains later in my
> > > learning curve if thats ok.
> >
> > My PHP knowledge is rather rusty, been 4 years since I did much with it.
> > (I'm more of a C/C++ developer (who also does a lot of Perl/Python
> utility
> > scripting) and only has a peek at web development every once in a
> while.)
> > But it sounds like there are others on this list who can help, and the
> > online community is a virtually infinite resource!
> >
> > > BTW: I am atheist with the motto live and let live.  So you have no
> > > worries on that front.  I have read quite a lot about it all and
> > > although some of it is well over my head I figured PHP looks like my
> > > best bet to start with.  Should I get to point of where I start seeing
> > > the advantages of the other technologies I will have no hesitation in
> > > using them.
> >
> > PHP is a good starting point, since it was designed for web development
> from
> > the start working with it has a pretty "seamless" quality.
> > Choosing between PHP/Perl/Python/Ruby/etc is more a matter if aesthetics
> > these days as they all have all the functionality you'd ever want,
> massive
> > communities built around them, and a handful of "frameworks" up their
> > sleeves.  Like Neel said, probably best to stick with one to start with
> :)
> >
> > > I will need database access and if frameworks - django can do that I
> > > might well switch to that in a few weeks.  I'll check it out.
> >
> > PHP can deal just fine with any database you'd care to use and there's a
> > heap of existing work to build on.  Zend, as mentioned by Neel, is
> certainly
> > worth looking at.
> >
> > > Are you going to the meeting (6th December) next week?
> >
> > Not sure.  I don't drive and have to come up from Ricky, the location
> seems
> > a little out of the way.
> >
> > Cheers
> > -Yvan
> >
> >
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