Hello World!

[Trevor Morse]

HI Everyone,

Welcome to the Halifax PHP Developers Group.

I have recently realized that I really do not know what is happening
around Halifax in the PHP world outside of the company I work for,
Azorus. After spending the last week at PHPTek in Chicago I have
realized there is so much that can be learned from sharing knowledge,
experiences and just getting to know other developers.

Maybe a good place to start is to introduce ourselves and leave a
little information about our experiences with PHP.

I currently work for Azorus Inc where I am the Lead Developer. We
develop a custom built CRM that is very specialized to Higher
Education. The current version of our system utilizes the
MDB_Querytool, Savant3 template engine and PHPUnit PEAR packages as
well Selenium for testing.

Please feel free to leave a quick blurb about who you are and what you
do so we can all start to get to know each other.

Cheers,

T

[gove...@gmail.com]

Hi there,

Thanks Trevor a lot for taking the lead.

My name is David Cao. I am an independent consultant. My background is
in EAI and BPM areas. However, not long ago, I got an opportunity to
work on a PHP project built on Smarty engine; and was attracted by PHP
instantly.

I can only part-timely engaged in PHP (or when I am idle). But for
now, my interests is around building efficient websites for especially
SMB companies as I realized there is a great demand.

Anyway, I am looking forward to the group.

Cheers everyone!
David

[geo]

Hello,

My name is George Anderson and I also work at Azorus with Trevor.
Have tinkered with PHP for quite awhile and enjoy developing websites
using this technology.

Recently I have been working on Facebook applications and I'm
currently working on
some side projects of my own.

From time to time, I'm usually helping others setup their own personal
sites which usually involve
using MySQL, Apache, PHP, Smarty, AJAX, and much more.

Hopefully we can make this group huge and pass along some great tips/
advice.

George

[keith...@gmail.com]

Hello all,

My name is D. Keith Casey, Jr. and I'm a non-local interloper based
near Washington, DC. I met Trevor last week at php|tek. In my "day
job" - not that it ever ends during the daytime - is CTO for Blue
Parabola, LLC which is a joint effort between myself and Marco Tabini
of php|architect magazine. We do quite a bit of large scale PHP
consulting for various "enterprise" customers. In my "free time", I'm
a core contributor to web2project, serve as a tech reviewer for for
php|architect magazine, organize the DCPHP Beverage Subgroup, and have
a bizarre fascination with monkeys.

Anyway, I begged Trevor for an invite to the list for one main
reason. I think we can learn from one another. Sure, DCPHP is bigger
(~200), but we'll each hit various problems in different ways with
different perspectives and goals. If nothing else, we can trade notes
and let each other know what does/doesn't work where. Sort of the
core of the Open Source ethic. Besides, when I finally make it up to
Halifax and PEI, I want to have a few people to meet for drinks. ;)

One suggestion I'll make right off the bat. Brand your mailing list's
subject line. We use "[dcphp-dev]". It's descriptive and allows
people to easily find us or filter/tag/search incoming messages.
Doing a quick search on "phpNS" shows less than 10k hits, so you could
own the term in a month.

And for the record, I'm open to USian jokes as long as you're open to
Canadian jokes. php|a is based in Toronto, so I get picked on
regularly. ;)

Have a good one,
keith

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D. Keith Casey, Jr.
Chief Technology Officer
http://BlueParabola.com

[Adam]

Hi all,
My name is Adam. I run a small web dev business in Halifax called
Shoreline Consulting. I focus pretty much on using the drupal
framework. I come from a rich background in windows dev but saw the
light years ago and haven't turned back from web based stuff.
My experience with php is growing and using more And more custom
coding as client demNds change.
I am actually also looking to work with some local consultnts in
sharing some work. My practice is pretty busy and looking to meet more
apt resources locally.
I look forward to talking with and meeting manybof you. Drop me a lone
if you may be interested in doing some drupal/php work. There may be a
food fit for some here

Cheers ,
Adam

On May 29, 6:02 pm, "mailingli...@caseysoftware.com"