A Funny Story

I was in my country working for an ISP as developer, i was working on a project on a sunday afternoon, the support office was closed for the weekend, but some person kept calling and calling, i could not bear the noise, so i picked up the phone. It was from one of the government office were we provide our service. The Guy on the phone said that is tea tray was not working on his computer. I was blank, i did not know what it meant, the guy said that he needs to work and needed me to fix this problem, i thought he was talking about java and the java icon is a cup.

I instructed him step by step all his configuration was right but also his tea tray was not working. He asked me if i could come to his office as it was just 10 miles away.

So i went to his office and folks you wont belive this, the tea tray he was talking about was none other then the CD-ROM, yup he was using his CD-ROM as a cup holder.

I told him that we are not his hardware support people he needs to call the company where the computer was brought from.

He was cursing the computer company and told me that he had 1 year garentee on that machine, so they have to replace his tea tray.

Hope you guys enjoyed it, a little bit of humor dose not hurt anybody, do tell me how did u like it

September 20th – Mark Your Calenders

I was hoping for a few more votes before I did this, but I’m sure people are just getting tired of me asking. (At least I haven’t seen any emphatic NOs yet. )

Yes, for those of you anxiously waiting….we will be meeting on the third Saturday again this month, so please update your calenders.

Saturday, Sep. 20th @ 2:30p
Daily Dose – 135th St. and Quivira Rd.

I’ll be sending you all (anyone with a valid email account either here or on the boards) a reminder the week before …just to help out.

My apologies to all for the delay. I’ve really been neglecting my “head pug” duties… Hey! How did I get this job, anyway??? 😉

See you at the PUG!

New, experimental meeting time.

Spirits, Coffee and PHP: all at the next PUG.

Please read on for more

UPDATE: Fri Aug 15 15:19:21 CDT 2003 – dholmes

As discussed last month, the meeting time for August 16th has been moved to 2:00. I’ll still be there at 1:30, since I didn’t get this out earlier. Wouldn’t want anyone sitting around by their lonesome. 😉

This month we are going to try something new. At the meeting in June, we discussed the PUG and its future. Many of us feel that the month-after-month classroom setting is “sucking the life force” out of the group…slowly turning it into a mini convention seminar. Presentations are good but it’s not really the social learning-exchange that many of us were hoping for.

Therefore, for the next couple of months, we are going to try something a little different. Our user-group will not be meeting at the college, instead we will be meeting at the Daily Dose Coffee House and Bar at 135th and Quivera.

Not only does this place have a great atmosphere with full-service coffee and “specialty” drinks…it has the much needed feature of free Wi-Fi.

I know that the “groups preference” (according to the poll) is for an evening time. Unfortunately for us, this place is completely jammed in the evenings. However, Saturday afternoons are very quiet.

So, as an experiment we will be meeting up on the third Saturday of July and August (for now) at the Daily Dose starting at 1:30pm.

This month we will be multi-round-table discussing the basics of classes in PHP; a quick intro, then an open discussion on how we use them to separate our logic. (Thanks for the topic suggestion, bodie.) I’ll also bring my Design Patterns book, to add to the discussion; feel free to bring whatever you would like as well.

This will then lead into August’s topic of Separating Logic from Presentation with Smarty: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and and Love the Model-View-Controller Pattern. (Thank you skatterbean.)

I look forward to seeing you there!!!

For more information on the Daily Dose such as a map and which credit cards they take, you can check out their entry at opkansas.org.

I’ll also be sending this out in an email to all of you who have “signed up” with the site or the message boards. If you don’t want to be included in future mailing, just send me a message, and I’ll try to figure something out. 😉

Call for Speakers

Is there a php topic that you have been just itching to learn? Maybe something that you think would be of great help to the rest of our PHP loving community? Speaking at the KCPUG is a great way to make friends and gain experience. The “usual” speakers are just swamped this month, so this would be a great time to volunteer. 😉

I’ll even buy a can of soda (or bottle of water) from the machine for the brave soul who steps up to the plate! If you are serious about speaking, please comment to this thread by Apr 21st.

Thanks!!

EDITED: 2003-04-23 dholmes, Ok…So I whipped up a little something for this month. But the offer for a can of soda for just a little effort still stands. 😉 Feel free to “Sign-up” with your comments below. If you don’t want to speak but have an idea, please offer those too. Half the work is finding something to talk about. 🙂

Remember: This is your site!

Just wanted to remind our viewers that commenting on articles is HIGHLY encouraged. This site (as well as our group) exists to learn and discuss PHP concepts and “best” practices.

So if you want to comment on a presentation, ask a related question, etc…please feel free to post a comment on the related article. This site is for you: The PHP community of Kansas City. We are all learning, so criticism and feedback are always welcome.

– Dan

Welcome to our new Site!

It was a LONG time coming, but with little fan-fare and much rejoicing (mostly from from myself)…I bring to you the new KC PHP UserGroup website. Read on for more.

There is much to do, but I wanted to bring up something before tomorrow’s meeting. I wanted a site that belongs to all of us where anyone could submit an article. Of course, there will be an approval step…but I’m hoping that maybe this will become what I had hoped the Discussion Boards would.

I was also really tired of using an ancient version of the content management system that I am writing for my place of employment. The thing has come a long away…but it is just not what I wanted for this site.

I wanted fast content addition, polls, article/event/url submission, extendibility and maybe a photo album

Oh, and for personal reasons, it could not be PostNuke 😉

So, I stumbled into Geeklog, and I am happy.

I’m sure it will take me a little while to move the content and get all settled in…but I like what I see, and can’t wait to see what this baby can do for us.

If you have comments, feel free to add your voice here or on the Poll.

See you at the PUG!