Join the Thinktank

Thursday, April 13. 2006

Following on at somewhat of a right-angle from my last post, I've been thinking.

It seems to me, that perhaps my major beef with ##php is that it doesn't promote the discussions I want, partly because it is aiming to be a help channel. Now, I really love helping people, but it's nice to get something back once in a while.

So, I've decided to start a spin-off channel, one that does promote the things I want to talk about - and hopefully others do to.

Join #php.thinktank on irc.freenode.net and lets talk about things. What things? Well, I don't want to limit the conversations except by one factor:

No parse, logic or scripting errors.

Topics we want to promote:

1) Design Patterns
2) New concepts
3) Working with bleeding edge PHP technology (i.e. new PECL extensions, PHP 6 Unicode stuff)
4) Working with the latest ascessorial technologies and tools (i.e. MySQL stored procedures, AJAX etc)
5) Doing new things and Doing old things new ways

These are just a few things I can think of off the top of my head. I also want to see plenty of off-topic discussions and camaraderie, I think it helps peoples brains gel with one another, and so long as it doesn't interfere with an on-topic disucssion/debate in a detrimental way, great

So come join us! (yes, it's already an us and there have already been a couple of cool disucssions

- Davey

Posted by Davey Shafik in PHP at 13:08 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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You know that the freenode administration won't like an unofficial channel like that without a ##, right?

They already trolled me for php.commits (which I simply gave up as a result), and #phpdoc (which is official as you can get, considering most of the php group doesn't contribute much to the PHP Manual) (we're moving that one to EFNet:#php.doc (sort of)).

S

#1 Sean Coates (Homepage) on 2006-04-13 14:01 (Reply)

Will logs be available for public? It would be nice.

#2 Tomas Varaneckas (Homepage) on 2006-04-14 03:58 (Reply)

put up an official "thinktank wiki" so that ideas that are born on IRC will have a living/breeding area

#3 Aaron (Homepage) on 2006-04-15 06:36 (Reply)

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Davey Shafik is a full time PHP Developer with 7-10 years experience in PHP and related technologies. An avid magazine writer and soon to be book author, Davey keeps his mind sharp by trying to tackle problems from a unique perspective.