It's been a good long while since everybody on the list has introduced themselves and said what they do. This will help us know who's on the list and give new people an idea of the range of talent they have to draw on by asking questions of the list.

I'll kick it off:

I'm Sandy Smith, and I organize DCPHP along with Barry Austin (DC Beverage Subgroup) and Brock Boland (He Who Keeps This List Free of Recruiter Spam).

I've been working with PHP since '99. I'm a child of the 80's and grew up on BASIC (C-64) and then tried my hand at other professions before settling on tech. Most of my career has been spent consulting (mostly building/configuring CMSes, both custom and Drupal) for DC-area clients, especially nonprofits, but recently I've been more in the startup world. I was a cofounder of mojoLive.com and have a new company that does both consulting and products called Muskteers.me. We just started a Kickstarter for two new products if you want to check it out: http://kck.st/QjQZho

For more details, my mojoLive profile: http://mojolive.com/profile/sandys1

Who's next?

--
Sandy Smith - http://sandyconsult.com/
http://musketeers.me/
mojoLive http://mojolive.com/
@SandyS1

Hello all,

My name is Eddie Peloke.  I'm not in D.C. but live in Richmond so haven't
yet been to any of the meetings but have been a 'lurker' on the list for a
while.  I started using PHP around 2002.  I spent a few years on the
php|arch editorial team and am currently the VP of Mobile for uShip.com.  I
also started my own mobile company a few years back called Blue Shoe
Mobile.  We create apps for restaurants.  We also have a small web dev
company called tulitree (http://www.tulitree.com).

Hope to get the opportunity to make it up to one of the meetings soon so I
can meet everyone in person.

Thanks,
Eddie

Hey All,

I have been pretty silent for a bit, but never ignoring the list.

I run DC PHP, LLC, and was the founder of the DC PHP Developers Group back in 2004. It's always excellent to see it still thriving, even if I have not been so closely connected.

Cheers.

Robyn Wyrick
President, DC PHP, LLC
202-374-4747
ro...@dcphp.com

"Clouds do not rule the rain."

On Sep 17, 2012, at 11:18 AM, Sandy Smith <sa...@sfsmith.com> wrote:

Hi group,

I'm a long-time lurker since 2008 and run the Frederick Web Technology Group up here in Frederick. I've only come to one DC PHP meetup because of time/space issues. Let me say that the DC PHP group is an excellent, thriving group and I'd show up more if my wife would let me ;)

I'm a designer/developer hybrid that has done everything from website comp designs to front end coding to backend OOP PHP, though for the past years I've been a front end designer.I've been designing/developing sites since 1998 and worked for Private, Education, and Government/ Scientific sectors. Right now I work with Eli, Sandy and Oscar as the design quarter of Musketeers.me (http://musketeers.me) but you can find my blog at http://neutralgood.net.

I promise I will try to make it to a meetup more than once every 4 years :)

Kevin Bruce
Designer/Developer
ke...@brucecreative.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/kevinbruce

Despite what the piece of paper says I am not a "computer scientist,"
I'm a developer, coder -- what have you. James Gosling, Don Box ... that
ain't me. But I have had the opportunity to do work with most aspects of
web development since I shelved my ideas of being a systems programmer
back in the mid-90s for Perl and then a bit later Cold Fusion. Since
then I've worked with a majority of the standard web languages in a
whole range of architectures ranging from simple cgi-bin to
multi-platform data aggregation/transformation applications. Right now
working mostly with Drupal but experimenting with vert.x and a variety
of Node.js frameworks like Meteor and Derby.

Wish I could get out to the meetups more often -- i.e. more than once in
the last three years -- but sadly they tend to be in the opposite
direction of my commute and having young children means you don't get to
leave often.

--
William Hurley
Forum One Communications
Manager of Programming - ZCE
whur...@forumone.com
703.894.4346

Hi,

  My name is Venky Nalluri and I joined this group very recently. I
primarily work on Data Warehousing/Integration, but I am co-founder of a
software development company, KNS Technologies corp <http://knstek.com/>.
Web Development (PHP, WordPress & Drupal) is one of our core offerings. I
am planning to attend the one meetup within next couple of months depending
upon location and schedule.

Regards,
Venky
571-442-6688

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 5:07 PM, William Hurley <whur...@forumone.com>wrote:

Hey everybody!

I'm Brock Boland, and as Sandy said, I keep the recruiter spam at bay :-)

I've been coding PHP full-time since late 2005, and just for fun before
that. Since late 2009, I've been working almost exclusively with Drupal. I
joined Lullabot as a developer back in the spring, and a couple months ago
I started co-organizing the DC Drupal meetup group. I'm currently trying to
re-work that group a bit to make it more like DC PHP, actually: right now,
we meet once a month for lightning talks and drinks at Stetson's, up on U
Street, but I've been pushing to have monthly presentations like this group
does. It's looking like that will happen in the next month or two, so if
you're a Drupal developer who never wanted to come hang out in a bar, I
hope you'll check us out again: we'll be announcing different kinds of
events pretty soon!

I didn't mean to turn that into a promo for the Drupal group, but…well, it
happens.

--
Brock Boland
br...@brockboland.com

I've spent a lot of time solving problems related to secure
transactions and data storage, mailing list management, user
interface, and well, highly demanding stakeholders. I'll try to weigh
in next time one of those topics comes up. :)

--dan

Most of you see me around, but…

I'm @anthonydpaul, the Digital Strategist at ADG in Columbia. I was formerly (for five years) the Technical Lead at Fathom Creative in DC. Beyond the funny titles, I went to school for design, but found my web development hobby to be lucrative in college, offering courseware design/development services to my professors. My first CMS loves were phpBB and what became called WordPress—but now I prefer rolling my own libraries atop Joomla. These days, I only develop for fun or in support of deadlines/QA. My current role is primarily customer-facing, in UX/technical documentation, and in design/development advisement.

I'm an unofficial organizer of @DCPHP, @WordPressDC, @NoVaJoomla, @DCjQuery, @BaltimorePHP, and @BaltoWP. I got the DC groups into the space at Fathom, in addition to occasional sponsorship. The Baltimore groups now have the same luxury at my Columbia office. I've spoken at a handful of these meetups and am the head chef for #OSSBBQ.

Anthony

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I'm Mike and I'm new in the group. I have been working with LAMP for about
12 years. First at Princeton University (no, not a student) then at
www.army.mil. Currently I am at the end of a contract in Silver Spring and
I am looking for employment. My only conference was Tek12. I hope to get to
a meetup real soon.
If anyone is looking for a LAMP developer with impeccable references, let
me know coder...@gmail.com.
Thanks,
Mike

Howdy!

My name is Aaron and I'm primarily a javascript and ruby developer these
days, but still write a bit of PHP from time to time.  I've been a core
contributor to WordPress for the last few years and also wrote an open
source PHP metrics library called Phetric that I spoke to the group about
(along with the entire metrics collection stackand philosophy) earlier this
year.

I also co-organize the WordPress meetups (we meet on the Tuesday before DC
PHP and leave beer for the PHP group when we have left overs) and also came
up with the idea for and have helped organize the Open Source BBQ.

http://aaron.jorb.in
twitter: twitter.com/aaronjorbin

Greetings all,

My name is Tracy and while I'm mostly a front-end developer, I do a lot of
work theming PHP-based CMS systems, preferably WordPress but I've also done
Drupal work.  I've been working with PHP since 1999 (way back to PHP 3!)
and it's my preferred back-end language.  I occasionally make it to the
DCPHP meetups, but you can always find me at the WordPress DC meetups and
usually at the DC Drupalers meetups.

In my long (by web standards) career, I've worked for Marriott
International here, then spent about 6 years in San Francisco where I
worked for vivid Studios (the web development agency, not the, uh, adult
entertainment purveyor) and what is now an Avocent subsidiary (where I
wrote a very rudimentary PHP CMS). Then moved back here to work for the
Discovery Channel (no PHP there :-( ) and a federal contractor.  Now I'm
doing freelancing and independent contracting doing (what else?) WordPress
and Drupal theming mostly.

Follow my thoughts on front end development, what my kids are doing, and
all things NFL on Twitter at @taupecat.

-- tracy

Follow me on Twitter!
http://twitter.com/taupecat

I am Greg Wilson, another lurker, and I work for Social & Scientific
Systems, Inc. over in Silver Spring. Lots of S's. I have been coding in PHP
since 1998 or so. My team is currently using ZF 1, and I am evaluating
whether to jump to a different framework. I used to contribute a fair bit
of help when PHP was still in v3 beta. Life has gotten a lot busier since
then, hence why I don't pop in at the meetups.

Like many of you I am sure, I started with C64 BASIC, moved on to Pascal,
then to C. Did J2EE for 2 years, Perl (bioinformatics) for 4, but never
left the PHP fold. Currently I am dabbling with Clojure. I have been
running a heavily modified Phergie bot in the MORPG "Eternal Lands" for the
past 5 years. You can see some of my other specs
at http://mojolive.com/profile/awnage

Greg

I'm "That pain in the ass from Twitter, you know the one that always
rambles on about Doctor Who and has 60brazillion tweets that are just
contest entries...oh yeah, I think he runs a user group somewhere."
(aka Sean or just "sprunka")

I've been doing PHP dev for almost 15 years. My first web apps and sites
were developed in PHP 3.something. Over time, I upgraded to 4, but didn't
really start using any sort of OOP until I switched to 5, which was
probably a year or more after it came out. I do a lot of CSS and JavaScript
too, since no one else seems to to willing to fight with IE the way I do. I
occasionally even have to crack open Photoshop, but I'm not a designer nor
graphic artist...just the closest thing we have in-house right now.

I can't make it into DC for the meetings, so I contacted my local PUG
leaders, only to find out there were none, and so it fell upon myself to
fill the role. I founded CHOPUG (Charlottesville Area PHP Users' Group) as
a result. We're a *very* small group, but we're still new and the region
doesn't have many PHP devs anyway.

my About.me ( http://about.me/seanprunka ) has links to just about anywhere
you might want to find me, including Twitter, Facebook, G+, MojoLive, a
couple of [mostly unused] blogs and Flickr (which is full and unused.)

Hi, everyone, I'm Tac Tacelosky, big fan of PHP and the DC PHP Developers
Group, very appreciative of everything I've learned through this groups and
its members over the years.

I've been developing in PHP since Version 3, switch to CodeIgniter as a
framework a few years ago, and last year switched to Symfony.  I do mostly
public health related technology, I'm cofounder of Smokefree DC, the
citizen activist group that pushed for smokefree bars and restaurants
nearly 6 years ago.  I'm current working on integrating mobile and geo into
our projects.

Tac

Hello folks,

I'm John.

I've done more lurking than I'd like to admit but do thoroughly enjoy the
discussions. I've also attended a couple of talks and a few more beverage
subgroups within the last two years.

A bit about me--I've been involved with PHP since way back in the PHP/FI
days when I was a young intern.

Professionally, I've worked solo, as a consultant and employee who has led
teams and focused on best practices in enterprise web application
development. I like talking about Search, E-Commerce & Media Streaming and
football (soccer). I currently work at the Library of Congress.

See you at the next event!

John

Howdy,

I'm Aaron Titus. I'm an attorney, privacy & security professional and
sometimes-developer whose native language is PHP.  I lived in DC for about 6
years, where I attended several of the DC PHP meetings/groups.  I've since
moved to New Jersey and work in Manhattan as the Chief Privacy Officer and
Counsel for Identity Finder (www.identityfinder.com). But I always keep at
least one toe in the programming world.

-Aaron Titus

Twitter: @aarontitus

Skype: aaron.titus

 <http://www.aarontitus.net/> http://www.aarontitus.net

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Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 11:52 AM
To: Sandy Smith
Cc: DC PHP Developers Group Washington
Subject: Re: [dcphp-dev] Introductions

Hello folks,

I'm John.

I've done more lurking than I'd like to admit but do thoroughly enjoy the
discussions. I've also attended a couple of talks and a few more beverage
subgroups within the last two years.

A bit about me--I've been involved with PHP since way back in the PHP/FI
days when I was a young intern.

Professionally, I've worked solo, as a consultant and employee who has led
teams and focused on best practices in enterprise web application
development. I like talking about Search, E-Commerce & Media Streaming and
football (soccer). I currently work at the Library of Congress.

See you at the next event!

John

I'll kick it off:

I'm Sandy Smith, and I organize DCPHP along with Barry Austin (DC Beverage
Subgroup) and Brock Boland (He Who Keeps This List Free of Recruiter Spam).

I've been working with PHP since '99. I'm a child of the 80's and grew up on
BASIC (C-64) and then tried my hand at other professions before settling on
tech. Most of my career has been spent consulting (mostly
building/configuring CMSes, both custom and Drupal) for DC-area clients,
especially nonprofits, but recently I've been more in the startup world. I
was a cofounder of mojoLive.com and have a new company that does both
consulting and products called Muskteers.me. We just started a Kickstarter
for two new products if you want to check it out: http://kck.st/QjQZho

For more details, my mojoLive profile: http://mojolive.com/profile/sandys1

Who's next?

--

Sandy Smith - http://sandyconsult.com/

http://musketeers.me/

mojoLive http://mojolive.com/

@SandyS1

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I'm Ben, and I've been to several meetings over the last two years, during
which time I've been picking up elements of PHP as well as other languages.
Right now I am with a progressive advocacy group, mostly doing video
editing, website maintenance, and solving general tech problems. I also
study graphic design at a local college. I am currently looking for an
entry-level job as a designer/developer, a position in which I can grow on
the PHP/Javascript side, but is probably weighted to HTML/CSS and the Adobe
Creative Suite for now. I'd be open to a paid internship at the right
place. Thanks!

I'm Keith and I'm the nuisance emeritus of the group. I was super active
in the group for a number of years until I moved to Austin, TX about two
years ago.

I've led the open source project web2project for 3+ years now and
specifically led the refactoring efforts. I'm heavily involved in
php|tek and have written an article or two for php|architect magazine.

In my current professional life, I am a developer evangelist for Twilio
where my whole job is to run amok and show off cool technology. In part
because of my job I am doing a bunch of work in the API design &
architecture space with Twilio, Contactually, and a flock of others:
https://github.com/caseysoftware My current fascination - besides
monkeys - is the OPTIONS verb.

And oddly, I still own http://dcphp.net ;)

kc

On 9/19/12 11:18 AM, Ben Israel wrote:

Hello DC,

I am Travis Black and I have been living in DC for about 3 years now. I
have only been to a few of the meetups, but I lurk on the mailing list
pretty regularly.

I came into PHP via osCommerce back in 2004. From there I have bounced
around quite a bit. I worked in Rails for a while, did a lot of Wordpress
and Drupal work, and finally settled into Symfony a few years back.

I am working at http://www.NationalField.com right now on a small team of
developers trying to find new/interesting ways to bring social networking
into the enterprise. Its fun work and we get to try lots of new things.

Current fascinations: Node.js & Data Visualizations.

You can find my neglected twitter at http://twitter.com/travib

Travis Black

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 7:12 PM, D Keith Casey Jr
<ke...@caseysoftware.com>wrote:

Hi All,

I am Jayesh Wadhwani, DC/Reston resident for the past 3 years.

I started programming in Assembly language in the early eighties using the Intel 8080, Z-80 and the Motorola 6800 microprocessors later graduating to C/C++ and finally defecting to PHP in 2003.

I work as a Senior Product Developer for IntraPoint, Inc a Norwegian company based in Oslo and Reston. My work mainly involves researching new  technologies in the field of emergency management. The primary language being PHP.

My current work is to do with "Internet of Things" and "early warning systems"  and use PHP and Node.js as core technologies.

Time permitting I also maintain my blog at http://phptouch.com.

Jayesh Wadhwani

On Sep 20, 2012, at 9:37 AM, Travis Black <tbl...@nationalfield.org> wrote:

Hello DC,

I am Travis Black and I have been living in DC for about 3 years now. I have only been to a few of the meetups, but I lurk on the mailing list pretty regularly.

I came into PHP via osCommerce back in 2004. From there I have bounced around quite a bit. I worked in Rails for a while, did a lot of Wordpress and Drupal work, and finally settled into Symfony a few years back.

I am working at http://www.NationalField.com right now on a small team of developers trying to find new/interesting ways to bring social networking into the enterprise. Its fun work and we get to try lots of new things.

Current fascinations: Node.js & Data Visualizations.

You can find my neglected twitter at http://twitter.com/travib

Travis Black

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 7:12 PM, D Keith Casey Jr <ke...@caseysoftware.com> wrote:

I'm Keith and I'm the nuisance emeritus of the group. I was super active in the group for a number of years until I moved to Austin, TX about two years ago.

I've led the open source project web2project for 3+ years now and specifically led the refactoring efforts. I'm heavily involved in php|tek and have written an article or two for php|architect magazine.

In my current professional life, I am a developer evangelist for Twilio where my whole job is to run amok and show off cool technology. In part because of my job I am doing a bunch of work in the API design & architecture space with Twilio, Contactually, and a flock of others: https://github.com/caseysoftware My current fascination - besides monkeys - is the OPTIONS verb.

And oddly, I still own http://dcphp.net ;)

kc

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Greetings,

My name is Yusef Pogue.  I did attend a couple of Drupal meetups, but no
PHP meetups.  I joined this list earlier this year and moved to DC for a
job in 2010.  Currently, I am a Web Developer with SRA International.

I started my tech adventure during middle school, but only got serious in
high school.  I first taught myself BASIC, then C/C++.  Currently, I prefer
programming in PHP or Python.

--Yusef Pogue

I'm Ray Paseur.  I teach PHP for the Boston University Center for Digital
Imaging Arts here in Georgetown, and I support Experts-Exchange.com by
answering questions in the PHP Zone.
http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_3774417.html

I'm also renovating a house for sale.  Predictably, it has its own web
site.  The site would validate, except for the "Redfin" widget!
http://www.6327everglades.com/

Best regards to all, both near and far,
Ray

I've been a full-time PHP web developer since '04. Before that I
worked networks and servers and dabbled through a myriad of
programming languages at home and at school. I still do servers
as-needed and grudgingly work in JavaScript too. Between agencies and
startups I've done many, many types of sites.

- Philip

--
Philip Sharp
phi...@kerzap.com
www.kerzap.com