[ciapug] Meetings

[carl-olsen at mchsi.com]

Same here.  I still write lots of procedural code.  I keep adding more and more OOP, and PHP keeps adding more support for OOP.

I would say the most important reason for using OOP is it keeps things organized, sort of like using a filing system with folders.  I group similar functions into classes, or functions that operate on one particular group of data.  It helps me remember where I put them, which, in turn, promotes reusing them rather than re-writing them frequently.

Carl

-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Chris Hettinger <cjh at raccoon.com>
>
> Not at all ... I still write procedurally for nearly all of my projects. 
> I do want to expand my experience into OOP though.
> 
> -ch
> 
> Dave J. Hala Jr. wrote:
> > Am I the only PHP person that still writes procedural code? Its not that
> > I'm against it or can't, there's just not a reason to make a change at
> > this point.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 19:10 +0000, carl-olsen at mchsi.com wrote:
> >> I'm wondering if everyone agrees with me that we should avoid nights that 
> other established groups are having regularly scheduled meetings, such as .NET, 
> Java, Linux, and Agile.
> >>
> >> The cross over in these technologies is significant.  The last .NET demo I 
> saw included examples in PHP to show how the technologies merge, overlap, or 
> compliment each other.  I can watch a demo in .NET and do the same thing with 
> PHP.  It's the ideas and concepts that are most important.  The languages are 
> all very similar and they are all doing OOP.
> >>
> >> I've attended the Java User group and I've considered attending the others.  
> I'm a founding member of the .NET group which has been meeting on the first 
> Wednesday of the month for the past 3 or 4 years.
> >>
> >> Carl
> >>
> >> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> >> From: scottatdrake.40505840 at bloglines.com
> >>> Well, look at all the noise on this list all of a sudden. 
> >>>
> >>> Chalk me up
> >>> as a tentative yes with Mon and Wed being best. I can't commit to hosting
> >>> or organizing right now. I'm starting a couple night classes and am not sure
> >>> how much outside work there will be. 
> >>>
> >>> As an aside, I once considered exploring
> >>> the idea of expanding the target audience of this (or another) group to 
> include
> >>> designers, usability/standards evangelist types, and so on ala something 
> like
> >>> http://refreshingcities.org/. I'm not sure how many people here would be 
> >>> interested
> >>> in that, though. (Chris H?) Just throwing it out there.
> >>>
> >>> ~Scott Phillips
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