[ciapug] PHP group and SHOTGUN Meeting Date!

[Scott Phillips]

Jeeze.  A guy throws together a site for free and this is the thanks he gets?

Standards are great if you have no deadlines nothing better to do than 
spend hours and hours trying to figure out which hack you need to include 
to get your other hacks to work so that you site will render in any sort of 
acceptable fashion.  My pages will stay "transitional" until this bleeding 
edge gets a tourniquet.  Tables suck, but not as bad as getting pure CSS 
layouts to work right... at least for now.  Talk to me when Firefox has a 
90% share.


At 05:06 PM 1/26/2005 -0600, you wrote:
>The new site isn't supposed to look that bad is it? Probably because I'm 
>on a Mac. The fonts are all wonky.
>
>/me slaps Chris for using a table-based layout in this age of web 
>standards solutions and accessibility. ;)
>
>Overall the site is nice though, Chris. I can't make the meeting. Getting 
>away from work is next to impossible, sorry. I'd only be available for 
>evening or weekend meetings.
>
>Chris Van Cleve
>
>On Jan 26, 2005, at 9:49 AM, Chris Hettinger wrote:
>
>>Welcome Scott! It's great to know that more people are learning of the 
>>group and want to participate. I feel that this group is a needed 
>>resource locally.
>>
>>I'd say I am using PHP on a large scale. I work for ENCOMPASS Health 
>>Management Systems in West Des Moines. Began here 1.5 years ago and am 
>>soley responsible for the companies Internet site.
>>
>>I've introduced two Mandrake Linux Web Servers into this MS shop. Have 
>>moved their site to Apache and in the last year have launched 4 Internet 
>>web applications and several internal web based apps. The Internet 
>>applications are used by hopsitals, and doctor's offices to submit 
>>patient, medical services, and clinical information for review and 
>>authorization of care. The applications use both MySQL and MSSQL databases.
>>
>>In addition I provide freelance development services in which I use 
>>MySQL/PHP exclusively.
>>
>>---- SITE REDEVELOPMENT ----
>>
>>In addition to the topic about the group. About a year ago I make a 
>>attempt to reorganize our group however I didn't acheive my goal. Part of 
>>the work I did was to concept and build a new site though it never made 
>>it to production.
>>
>>That's changed! I've recently produced and uploaded the site!
>>http://www.cialug.org/ciapug/
>>
>>You will soon be able to visit the site at ciapug.org once again, we need 
>>to reregister the domain.
>>
>>---- SHOTGUN MEETING ----
>>
>>Now to get this rolling lets meet ! I'm calling a shotgun meeting for:
>>
>>Tues. February 1st
>>11:45 AM
>>Jason's Deli  (Next door to Hu Hot on University Ave West Des Moines)
>>Open topic discussion
>>
>>
>>Hope all that are intereted can make it, if you are unable to make this 
>>meeting at the time selected, don't worry we WILL do this again.
>>
>>Please, I encourage you to introduce yourself via the mailing list. 
>>Please include in your introduction a bit about where, why, and how you 
>>use PHP, as well as what you'd like to see the group provide you.
>>
>>
>>-Chris
>>-CIAPUG webmaster
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Dave J. Hala Jr. wrote:
>>>  I just there are just tons of .net developers out there. Other than me
>>>and Tim is anyone else out there doing anything on a medium to large
>>>scale?
>>>On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 16:17, Scott Phillips wrote:
>>>>I just heard about this group this morning and would support any sort 
>>>>of revitalization.  Sometimes I feel like I'm using PHP in a vacuum 
>>>>with all the big corps around here using their fancy-pants Java or .NET 
>>>>developers.  (I even think ColdFusion has a bigger share around here than PHP!)
>>>>
>>>>In any case, hello, and I hope to meet some of you in the near future.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Scott Phillips
>>>>Web Developer
>>>>Cowles Library, Drake University
>>>>(515) 271-2975
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Scott Phillips
Web Developer
Cowles Library, Drake University
(515) 271-2975