phpCon UK 2004

weekender

further to the thread at http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?s=&postid=10509493, it turns out quite a few of us brits are located close to our nations fine capital, and fancy meeting each other to talk about things both geeky and not...

who would be up for a php meet in london, possibly end of may/june/july time?

piersk

Hehe that was quick work.

End of July is best for me. I've finished my placement then and will be enjoying my summer.

If we time it right, then we might be able to persuade Bunkermaster to come over and do some book signing :p

[edit]Shouldn't that be PHPBuilder Con 😃 [/edit]

[another edit]Oh, and my vote is for somewhere near covent garden cos the bars there are great![/tide rehtona]

weekender

yeah, gotta love covent garden. And they have a swatch shop!

so so far it's me & piers...

piersk

And we have to keep bumping this thread to make sure loads of people see it...

bubblenut

The only time I can't do is around the 25th, 26th & 27th of June (Glastonbury 😃, anyone from here going?) so end of July would be great for me.
Covent garden souds good. Which day of the week is going to be easiest? For me around the weekend would be good but I can do mid-week as well (just have to head home to bed early🙁)

weekender

so we're looking at me, piers and bubble, on a weekend in late July, in covent garden (bump!)

piersk

Shrike

Originally posted by bubblenut
The only time I can't do is around the 25th, 26th & 27th of June (Glastonbury)

Bah, lucky git! 🙂

piersk

Originally posted by Shrike
Bah, lucky git! 🙂

I agree. I think we should deliberately ignore bubblenut for being lucky enough to get his greasey mitts on some tickets.

Shrike, will you be joining us for a day of intellectual discussion about the pros and cons of this great open source web programming language (all 5 minutes while we wait for the beers to arrive)?

bubblenut

😃😃<GLOAT />😃😃

To be fair I did sit in infront of my computer wearing out the F5 key from 8pm untill 5:30am with very few breaks and then had to go to work (1.5Hrs sleep). I do think it was worth it though.

😃😃<GLOAT />😃😃

Shrike

Bubblewho?

Re PHPCon: Yeah I think so, I'm pretty sure that I get an intelligence boost for each beer I drink 🙂

piersk

With people like Paul McCartney, Muse, Oasis (who, I have noticed have just signed Ringo Starr's son as their new drummer), yess I'd say it was worth it 😃

Originally posted by Shrike
Bubblewho?

:p

hehe

weekender

i might be able to get my hands on a pair of tickets - waiting to find out. Last year i bought a ticket, then found out that it was both my last exam and my brother's birthday that weekend. So i put the ticket (which cost me £109) on ebay. First time, it went for £235 but the guy was a time waster so i relisted and it went for £185. I get jokes about touting the tickets, but i listed it at less than cost price - and my boss bought 12 to sell!

I get an intelligence boost for each beer I drink

evolution - beer kills off the weaker brain cells, thus leaving the stronger ones to make me an evil genius!

piersk

Originally posted by weekender
I get jokes about touting the tickets, but i listed it at less than cost price - and my boss bought 12 to sell!

the only problem with that is that they've limited it to 2 per person this year to stop that from happening.

evolution - beer kills off the weaker brain cells, thus leaving the stronger ones to make me an evil genius!

hehe

gordonrp

anytime after june would be good!

redrabbit

Hey everyone.

Where do you all live, personally im in Reading, so fairly close to London. A php meet ?

Are we all going to do some php coding?

😃

that would be fun.

bubblenut

Originally posted by redrabbit
Hey everyone.
Are we all going to do some php coding?

Nothing to strenuous, I think I'm going to stick with something like

while($bubble->legs->work()) {
  if($bubble->hungry()) {
    $bubble->eat($food);
  }
  $bubble->drink($beer);
}
$bubble->travel($home);
$bubble->sleep();

😉

piersk

You actually expect to walk anywhere?? I thought we'd just find a pub, sit in it and drink all afternoon 😕

Oh, I spose you might walk to the bar or to somewhere to buy food...

bubblenut

I normally find legs not working as a good sign I should stop drinking. One can carry on longer but getting home without being arrested becomes much more difficult.

piersk

Yeah, I understand now. I got a bit confused by your code...