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Comment on Carolyn Dorin-Ballard Sets New Record on TV by Talk Bowling #21 – PBA Oil Pattern (Chameleon) and Petraglia Scoring Method » Talk Bowling

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:27:09 +0000

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Comment on LESS CSS Strings by David Elliott

David Elliott — Thu, 05 May 2011 20:02:32 +0000

Just started playing with LESS the other day, and have now implemented plessc after coming across this post (looking for a solution for base path options.

Thanks!

Comment on PHP User Groups (Orlando and Daytona Beach) by John Congdon

John Congdon — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 19:56:43 +0000

Hi David,

For some reason, your comment did not go into IntenseDebate. I am trying to import it now, that’s why I missed it for so long.

You can definitely share with the group. I would really like to open the dialog as much as possible.

As for the coding Dojo, I will correct it. I haven’t been to one of those meetups yet, and have not used Dojo at all. I guess I should at least look into it.

Comment on PHP User Groups (Orlando and Daytona Beach) by David Rogers

David Rogers — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 14:38:28 +0000

John,

What a great discussion you’ve sparked here…! Thanks so much for participating. Can I post this to the group for additional comment from the members? I know some of our folks ride the line between two groups or have moved on to other cities, so it might illicit some other opinions.

One correction, though: our non-presentation meetings are Coding Dojo meetings using PHPUnit, similar to the ones in Rio that @jaguarnet7 talked about. In fact, our resident “sensei” hails from there and kicked off the OrlandoDojo.org group from the PHP group, actually. I still help him out with that.

My motivation for choosing the presentationVstyle model is mostly efficiency. It’s much easier to get someone to give a talk and have a little intro, Q&A, and social time than it is to organize a mentoring program, and ppl are less likely to show if it’s just a round-table discussion, I’ve found. The dojo is the _least_ maintenance, though, since it requires almost no planning up front. Still, I think you’ve got some great ideas. Let’s talk about them!

Comment on Patching osticket for PHP 5.3 by John Congdon

John Congdon — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:17:48 +0000

Do you mean, how do you use the patch? There are two ways. Copy/paste above into a text file and use the patch command, maybe overkill for the couple of lines that need changed.

You can also just open the two files and change the lines. The lines starting with a (-) were removed and the ones with a (+) were added.
include/class.format.php include/class.validator.php

Example:
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ class Validator {
return false;

$ip=trim($ip);
- if(ereg("^[0-9]{1,3}(.[0-9]{1,3}){3}$",$ip)) {
+ if(preg_match("#^[0-9]{1,3}(.[0-9]{1,3}){3}$#",$ip)) {

I simply changed the ereg function to use preg_match.

Comment on Patching osticket for PHP 5.3 by John Congdon

John Congdon — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:14:34 +0000

Actually, according to PHP on 12/16/2010 posted on their site.

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.2.16. This release marks the end of support for PHP 5.2. All users of PHP 5.2 are encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.3.

Comment on Patching osticket for PHP 5.3 by blank

blank — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 07:36:42 +0000

Hi John,

This looks interesting – how do I use it though?

Comment on PHP User Groups (Orlando and Daytona Beach) by jaguarnet7

jaguarnet7 — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 01:46:51 +0000

John,

Here in Rio de Janeiro, we (phprio.org) use mailing list to tecnical subjects. We also have the presentation and beverage style meetings.
A particularity of my city are the various Coding Dojo meeting, virtually all days of week has a Dojo running. This promotes a contact with various developers.

Comment on PHP User Groups (Orlando and Daytona Beach) by Matthias Gutjahr

Matthias Gutjahr — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 20:39:39 +0000

Good idea, Matthew. We (http://www.phpug-rheinhessen.de/ in Germany) also took the presentation style approach and at least try to meet every 6 weeks. It's sometimes difficult to find a presenter, and then we have discussions about various topics. Our attendees are mostly more or less experienced devs, but there are very active "normal" folks, too
We don't focus solely on PHP, but already had presentations on Javascript, Mobile Apps, or Microcopters (next week). Increasing the attendance is one main challenge for us, so maybe Google Moderator is worth a try.

Comment on PHP User Groups (Orlando and Daytona Beach) by Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 16:30:27 +0000

At the Burlington, VT, PHP user group, which I used to attend (I no longer live there), we went the presentation style route. One thing we did, however, was to use Google Moderator (http://www.google.com/moderator/) to allow members to recommend and vote on topics. We found that when we did this, and had folks step forward to present on highly moderated topics, our attendance went up, and attendees tended to get more out of the meetings — because they were getting information they were interested in.