September 2nd 2004

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Contents 1 Members meeting on 02/09/2004 1.1 Where and when 1.2 Who will be there 1.3 Apologies for absence 1.4 Agenda 1.5 Follow-Ups 2 Zurich

Members meeting on 02/09/2004

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 September 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 and who actually attends will be entered in a random draw for a prize of £10 of drinks/food from the venue (starting June 2009).

• Marcus Baker
• Jon Ramsey
• Sadiq Datoo
• Joe Ortenzi
• Nigel James
• Doug Boit
• David Stevens
• Marc Carlucci
• Sadiq Datoo - trying if you see me you see me if not you dont.
• TheBudgester
• James Pearson-Kirk
• Joshua Eichorn
• Jesse Walker

Apologies for absence

If you wanted to come but can't/couldn't, feel free to explain yourself!

• Paul Morgan - I just moved house and have shed loads to do, so I don't think I'll be able to make it (I can hear the sighs of relief from demian ;) ). Catch you all at the next one if I don't.
• David Heath - I was on holiday so unfortunately unable to attend.

Agenda

If anyone has any ideas for presentations or discussion points (at any level of PHP proficiency) at the meetup, note them down here.

I am available for one on one sessions introducing OO. I don't have a laptop, so bringing one or cadging one will be necessary --Marcus Baker

There is an item in the requested topics called 'How to build a template engine'. There is a school of thought that says we don't need to because we have a perfectly lovely templating engine in PHP itself. (Please see [1] for an outline of this point of view). My own limited experience in PHP suggests this is quite a convincing argument, but I'd be happy to hear from anyone in our group who have used other templating engines and consider the linked article to be a load of tosh. Anyone up for a heated debate? --Doug Boit

I'll be up for it, can someone print off some copies? --Marcus Baker

Check the requested topics page for ideas on what people would like to see

Follow-Ups

I have a report on requirements in ten minutes. Please add your own comments to this, especially if you were involved. I am starting work on a requirements gathering tool and would appreciate any feedback at the next meeting. --Marcus Baker

Zurich

If anyone is going Zurich can someone pass on my regards to Harry Fuecks --Marcus Baker i am but who is harry? --Sadiq Datoo He is one of the speakers. Just say I said hi. --Marcus Baker Not going to any php thing over there --Sadiq Datoo