June 3rd 2004
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Members meeting on 03/06/2004
Our regular meeting - basically a monthly PHP PubCon - which is held on the first Thursday of every month.
Meet PHP users, professional developers and recruiters near you! Come to PHP London's June 2004 meeting to exchange ideas and talk about code, architecture, innovation, and open source in general. Anyone interested in PHP is welcome!
Where and when
The Cambridge from 7pm onwards.
Who will be there
Feel free to add your name if you're coming! Everyone who does so, links to their wiki profile page (copy the coding format of other names on the list - if it is displayed in red then you've not linked to a page that exists), and actually attends, will be entered in a random draw for a prize of £10 of drinks/food from the venue (started June 2009, still popular in summer 2010...).
- Marcus Baker (I am coming straight from the SEO conference so on time for once)
- Jon Ramsey
- Paul Vanlint
- Mike Leigh
- Demian Turner
- David Heath
- Doug Boit
- David Stevens (looking forward to the meeting, will bring my laptop dualboot: FedoraCore2?:apache/php/mysql & XPPro-ish)
Apologies for absence
If you wanted to come but can't/couldn't, feel free to explain yourself!
Agenda
If anyone has any ideas for presentations or discussion points (at any level of PHP proficiency) at the meetup, note them down here.
A point I had to gloss over last time when describing unit testing with SimpleTest, was the difference between unit testing and acceptance testing. If people want to know what acceptance testing is and how it can help even if you don't unit test, I'll give an explanation. Hint...it's not actually about testing --Marcus Baker
Alternatively I could talk about the Scrum methodology or extreme programming --Marcus Baker
I would be interested in discussing the new features in PHP5, I have some experience of SQLite and the new object model, but would like to hear about others experiences too. --Paul Vanlint
One pattern that came across very well in the last meeting was the long distance laptop. Can we be sure we have an external keyboard and mouse next time too? --Marcus Baker
I'll definitely have the external keyboard again. I'd very much like to know more about acceptance testing - and a CRC card session would still be good. A PHP5 discussion sounds cool too - I had a play a little while ago. I'm also hopeful that we get to find out a bit about Demian's Seagull framework. --Jon Ramsey
I'd also like to know more about the planning game --Jon Ramsey
Jon, do you want to pick one thing and I'll prepare for that only. Both CRC and planning game have a high degree of audience participation, so I think they will be good choices. --Marcus Baker
Planning game is more immediately interesting to me, but either would be good (as long as they don't involve "Look behind you!" ;) --Jon Ramsey
I came across this Learning Guide To Design Patterns earlier today via DelIcioUs, I kind of like the idea of in-depth discussion of a particular pattern. If I get a chance I might try and get some stuff together on factory pattern --Jon Ramsey
