As far as I know, the group disbanded when Joao left AlertLogic. I
enjoyed the meetings and usually left with at least one useful piece
of new knowledge. These days, I use PHP rather simplistically -- as
(I believe) it was intended to be used. I use PHP to generate HTML,
only. The systems-side programming is done in Python and the AJAX-y
bits are accomplished via jQuery/JavaScript.
Although I was resistant to the assertion at the time, I believe
that Rasmus was right -- use PHP to generate HTML and little else.
The only thing that I miss from PHP is MDB2 -- PHP has a few mature
DBALs that are missing from other languages. Oh well. On the other
side of things...
Check-out Python. I find that I was over-using databases. I now use
stored procedures (database) and serialize data locally as much as
possible. After SuperCompute 2013, I learned new profiling
techniques and my code runs in 1/10th of the original time -- and at
least 10-20 faster than PHP implementation. Annnnyway...
Good luck & let me know if y'll decide to meet, again.
- Todd
BTW: I've left my life as a HPC engineer behind me. They made into a
dedicated software engineer (aka, "filthy developer"). Meh.
On 08/07/[masked]:02 PM, James Todd
wrote:
Man! I would love to attend
something...but I never get any notice that here is ever an
event.
So to me it seems like the group had been dead since I
have discovered it.
On Thursday, August 7, 2014, Bill McCuistion <[address removed]>
wrote:
Hey! Is
the PHP User Group still viable and is there a meeting in
Houston this evening?
Bill McCuistion
On Apr 10, 2012, at 9:56 AM, Joao Prado Maia <[address removed]>
wrote:
> Guys,
>
> This is a sort of tough email to have to write, but I
feel this is needed in light of recent meetings. I have
been organizing the group for the past 7 years or so
(maybe even more?), and this issue has never happened to
the extent that it is happening over the past few months.
>
> We have a problem in our group: there are always a
good number of people who RSVP to meetings, and then never
show up. In some ways this is kind of what comes from
doing public free meetings like we do, in that anyone can
join us, or not. Nothing wrong with it, and from my time
running the group I have seen this happen many times
before.
>
> However, what seems to be happening more is that an
average of 60% of people that RSVP to an event never
actually come to the meetings. I would understand if this
number was around 20%, but 60% (or more) is just a sign
that there is something very wrong going on.
>
> For the past two months we had 18-25 people RSVP'ing
to the meeting, but we only got around 8-10 people show up
for the actual event. This past meeting where we had the
MySQL presenter fly in from Atlanta, only 8 people showed
up (including myself and the speaker). There were 25
people RSVP'ed to the meeting.
>
> I understand that some unexpected thing might happen
that would require some people to change their plans, but
this type of thing is happening every month, and it's
slowly destroying the group's reputation.
>
> In the future I might actually have to turn down
presentation offers because I can't be sure if more than
10 people will show up for the event. It wouldn't make
financial sense for a company to send someone over to
Houston, when fewer than 10 people come to the event.
>
> My only recourse in this situation is the obvious one
-- ask you to not RSVP if you don't plan to come. If you
initially responded with an RSVP, and later changed your
mind, please update your status on meetup.com.
>
> Again, I have lots and lots of meetings under my time
here with the group, and I have seen all kinds of problems
crop up. Weather being nasty, getting lost on the way
over, etc. You have my cell phone number if you need help
getting to the meeting location.
>
> I understand that this stuff happens, but 60% (or
even 75% at the last meeting) of people that RSVP'ed not
showing up seems to me to be a different problem
altogether. If this type of thing continues, there won't
be much of a point to keep the group running.
>
> I'm asking for your help to get this issue corrected
immediately, or we won't be able to continue much longer.
>
> Regards,
> --Joao
>
>
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