Geek Dinner 2
May 29th, 2007Last 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!
Tags: Geekdinner
June 5th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
Hi Nick, do you still do any in-house PHP dev? If so, have you worked with CodeIgniter at all?
June 6th, 2007 at 11:52 am
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.