Last night was another Geek Dinner, this time at the very nice Wild Fig restaurant (great food!). I did a quick 3-minute talk on Ruby on Rails, largely borrowed from one of DHH’s presentations. It seemed to go down well and I didn’t get attacked by any hecklers :)
Other talks covered the (obvious) advantages of Python over PHP (I don’t think that was an argument anyone was going to contest), the OLPC project, which included a real laptop for us to play with – pretty impressive. Also a talk on project management, one on mindgames, and probably the most interesting an invitation from Robin Ronne about Ripple, an opensource project to create a networked credit system, sans banks. Very interesting, and an idea that if it takes off, could have far-reaching consequences. Robin’s coming for a job interview tomorrow, so let’s just say he made a favourable impression last night!
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Hi Nick, do you still do any in-house PHP dev? If so, have you worked with CodeIgniter at all?
Hi Brett. Yes we do some PHP stuff, although not much – we try to stay away from it where we have a choice. We haven’t used CodeIgnitor before, although I have played with Symfony previously and we’re starting a project with CakePHP soon.