Archive for the 'PHPeople' Category

How to (not) kill a community

Sunday, July 22nd, 2007

This blog entry is an extension of an IRC discussion and email conversation that took place regarding the #phpc channel on Freenode.
Back in “the day” #phpc consisted of between 5 and 10 people, and as IRC channels go it was only us in there for about 2 years. This resulted in everyone getting to […]

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RIP Toggg

Monday, June 18th, 2007

I met Bertrand ‘toggg’ Gugger at LinuxTag 2005, and have chatted with him frequently on IRC since then. Yesterday I heard that toggg passed away on June 17th from a heart attack.
Toggg was a funny guy, he loved programming and being involved with the communities to which he contributed code. His grasp of written English […]

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Happy Birthday PHPUGFFM

Thursday, May 10th, 2007

Tonight the frankfurt PHP User Group is celebrating their 5th anniversary! It was lots of fun knowing you all - I suddenly got a craving for Persian food - and I wish you many prosperous years.
Check out the website for meeting details. Wish I could be there.

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Blast from the Past - IPC2k4 Pictures Up

Friday, December 22nd, 2006

Finally I got around to posting some of my old pictures from IPC2k4. A lot of the regulars, some faces who we haven’t seen in a while. Enjoy.
A couple blogs from back then:
http://www.wormus.com/aaron/stories/2004/11/07/php-conference-day-1.html
http://schlitt.info/applications/blog/index.php?/archives/274-PEAR-Powerworkshop-Part-II.html
Unfortunately a lot of the blogging was done on the phpconf blog which seems to be down

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What’s Wrong with PEAR?

Friday, August 4th, 2006

Disclaimer: I didn’t attend Theo’s talk, so the only information that I got was from the blog entries and slides. I realize that this short presentation was humorous, but it still brings up some points that have been nagging at the back of my head for a while now.
The comment in question is part of […]

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