Re: [CODE4LIB] Online PHP course?

2010-01-10 Thread MJ Ray
graham wrote: MJ Ray wrote: I'll send a note to suggest that any Koha ones are mentioned here. I hope it will be using something like Lernid or Muji rather than selling us out to the private sector Skype, though ;-) muji? can't find any references to it - is it a typo? Muji can be found

Re: [CODE4LIB] Online PHP course?

2010-01-10 Thread Celeste Mackintosh
] On Behalf Of Tim Spalding Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 8:21 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Online PHP course? I wonder if Code4Lib would ever be a good outlet for online programming tutorials or hack sessions. I mean, get 10 people on Etherpad or CodeArmy together

Re: [CODE4LIB] Online PHP course?

2010-01-08 Thread graham
MJ Ray wrote: Tim Spalding t...@librarything.com wrote: I wonder if Code4Lib would ever be a good outlet for online programming tutorials or hack sessions. I mean, get 10 people on Etherpad or CodeArmy together, and Skype, and you could learn a lot, and do a lot. I'll send a note to suggest

Re: [CODE4LIB] Online PHP course?

2010-01-08 Thread David Kane
What is CodeArmy? can't find a reference to it anywhere. David. 2010/1/8 graham gra...@theseamans.net MJ Ray wrote: Tim Spalding t...@librarything.com wrote: I wonder if Code4Lib would ever be a good outlet for online programming tutorials or hack sessions. I mean, get 10 people on

Re: [CODE4LIB] Online PHP course?

2010-01-08 Thread Tim Spalding
Sorry. https://squadedit.com/ Brain error. Tim On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 9:52 AM, David Kane dk...@wit.ie wrote: What is CodeArmy? can't find a reference to it anywhere. David. 2010/1/8 graham gra...@theseamans.net MJ Ray wrote: Tim Spalding t...@librarything.com wrote: I wonder if

Re: [CODE4LIB] Online PHP course?

2010-01-08 Thread Tim McMahon
Gobby? http://gobby.0x539.de/trac/ Doesn't do voice chat, but has text chat and shared coding and it's open source. Tim Spalding wrote: Sorry. https://squadedit.com/ Brain error. Tim On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 9:52 AM, David Kane dk...@wit.ie wrote: What is CodeArmy? can't find a reference

Re: [CODE4LIB] Online PHP course?

2010-01-07 Thread MJ Ray
Tim Spalding t...@librarything.com wrote: I wonder if Code4Lib would ever be a good outlet for online programming tutorials or hack sessions. I mean, get 10 people on Etherpad or CodeArmy together, and Skype, and you could learn a lot, and do a lot. I'll send a note to suggest that any Koha

Re: [CODE4LIB] Online PHP course?

2010-01-06 Thread MJ Ray
Thomas Krichel kric...@openlib.org wrote: Joe Hourcle writes ps. yes, I could've used this response as an opportunity to bash PHP ... and I didn't, because they might be learning PHP to migrate it to something else. controversial ;-) what's the problem(s) with PHP? Oh please

Re: [CODE4LIB] Online PHP course?

2010-01-06 Thread MJ Suhonos
I think that the single critical question to ask about any development in a digital library environment is it's ability to deal with Unicode and it's related standards such as UTF-8. Last time I looked at it, PHP had problems is that area. These problems will bedevil anything you write

Re: [CODE4LIB] Online PHP course?

2010-01-06 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, MJ Ray wrote: Thomas Krichel kric...@openlib.org wrote: Joe Hourcle writes ps. yes, I could've used this response as an opportunity to bash PHP ... and I didn't, because they might be learning PHP to migrate it to something else. controversial ;-) what's the

Re: [CODE4LIB] Online PHP course?

2010-01-06 Thread Tod Olson
On Jan 5, 2010, at 3:36 PM, Tod Olson wrote: One of our staff needs to learn PHP, and an online course is preferred. Is there an online PHP course that any of you would recommend? Thanks to the list for all of the responses. Very helpful. -Tod Tod Olson t...@uchicago.edu Systems

Re: [CODE4LIB] Online PHP course?

2010-01-06 Thread Tim Spalding
I wonder if Code4Lib would ever be a good outlet for online programming tutorials or hack sessions. I mean, get 10 people on Etherpad or CodeArmy together, and Skype, and you could learn a lot, and do a lot. Tim

Re: [CODE4LIB] Online PHP course?

2010-01-06 Thread Ross Singer
Seems to me that Dan's Hacker 101/201 preconfs fall into this sort of category. I think it would be really useful to see at a conference that didn't already appeal to the hacker set, like CiL or LITA or something. Even Access. -Ross. On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Tim Spalding

[CODE4LIB] Online PHP course?

2010-01-05 Thread Tod Olson
One of our staff needs to learn PHP, and an online course is preferred. Is there an online PHP course that any of you would recommend? -Tod Tod Olson t...@uchicago.edu Systems Librarian University of Chicago Library

Re: [CODE4LIB] Online PHP course?

2010-01-05 Thread Sharon Foster
http://www.ed2go.com/nvcc/online_course/iph/detail/Introduction_to_PHP_and_MySQL.html?CategoryId=41 Sharon M. Foster, JD, MLS Technology Librarian http://firstgentrekkie.blogspot.com/ Have you tried switching it off and on again? On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Tod Olson t...@uchicago.edu

Re: [CODE4LIB] Online PHP course?

2010-01-05 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Tod Olson wrote: One of our staff needs to learn PHP, and an online course is preferred. Is there an online PHP course that any of you would recommend? If they already understand basic programming, and just need to pick up the syntactic issues, some of the documentation

Re: [CODE4LIB] Online PHP course?

2010-01-05 Thread Thomas Krichel
Joe Hourcle writes ps. yes, I could've used this response as an opportunity to bash PHP ... and I didn't, because they might be learning PHP to migrate it to something else. controversial ;-) what's the problem(s) with PHP? Cheers, Thomas Krichel

Re: [CODE4LIB] Online PHP course?

2010-01-05 Thread Walker, David
...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Thomas Krichel [kric...@openlib.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 2:13 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Online PHP course? Joe Hourcle writes ps. yes, I could've used this response as an opportunity to bash PHP ... and I didn't, because they might