Hi . I'm new here (though I recognize one or two familiar names from another list i'm on - LIPHP) --
When I subscribed to the list, there was a link to the Charter/Appropriate Use Policy for the list, but the link was broken. I thought someone who manages the list server might want to know.
From memory, I think the link was http://www.nyphp.org/charter - I
received back a 404 Not found error. A little about me as long as i'm writing (relating to PHP): I learned PHP because I was home sick from work (for 5 years and counting) and when Tom Melendez started the LIPHP group on Long Island, after seeing repeated announcements for his group on another server i'm subscribed to (LILUG), I finally decided to see what it was about and was excited to see the language was just like C in many ways, except it was being used for the web (primarily). C was a language I liked because when I graduated in 1996 I had taken a few classes in C(including one on Linux Kernel Hacking, which landed me a job doing UNIX kernel hacking for a few years). Anyway, I've put it off for a long time, and finally decided to formalize my knowledge of PHP by taking a college class on it at Farmingdale State (on Long Island), which Tom was supposed to be teaching, but his section of the class had little interest and was cancelled. My professor is on this mailing list too. In addition to the class, I currently have a paying PHP project (and C#, I'll explain in a second), which i'm doing with my one and only customer : Anritsu Company. My project is a C# client (Windows Forms) which talks to a PHP-script on the linux server, and manages contacts in a heirarchy (read: tree structure) -- i.e. so my customer knows who works for who within their customer's companies (i.e. So they can follow the "food chain" of their customers.) I talk to my server in a pseudo-xml structure. Requests from client to server come in $_POST["variable"], and responses are loosely xml (may not have propper xml headers, etc. and no documented stylesheets or data definitions and the like.) I've been thinking of making a public demo of the project, but I've been having difficulty finding the time to set up a test database on an isolated server on the net. I'm also participating in the Zend Certification study group by LIPHP and am hoping to have a Zend Certification by the end of February or March (I'm passing the practice tests now.) Well, I've been talking about myself here wayyyy to long, at least now it's out of my system. In short: I'm still learning PHP and hope I can continue to learn from you all too. I'm not hoping to be (at this time) an ace web developer, I'm more of a hobbyist who is actually getting paid to do some PHP. I'll try to stay out of the way when I realize I don't know what I'm talking about, I'm not here looking for trouble. -Rob p.s. I attended (paid my own way) the NYPHP Conference last year, but I walked out after the first talk (Rasmus Lerdorf?). Had nothing to do with the quality of the conference, I was just in a different place in life then and it wasn't right for me. Were the same conference held today, trust me, I'd stay -- I actually stayed through the whole Microsoft Windows Vista Launch celebration at the Nokia Theater this past Monday, not quite the same thing but I handled myself well and lasted a few hours. _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
