Austin is still number #5!! I got this info from the meetup page that tracks all the php related groups. A lot of the groups that show up on the list aren’t true PHP user groups, so I had to weed these out. This list is based on the size of the groups off of their meetup pages.
Jenkins is awesome.
I made this logo for the intro of the PHP group techvideos, but I think it makes a pretty good new logo. This is the one that I would like to get on shirts. Hopefully our recruiter will come thru!
At least until I get that PS3 I have been meaning to.
As soon as I get the desk delivered I can work on austintechvideos again. My laptop isn’t quite setup and I don’t have the room I need at the moment to do the work. I am thinking that the site will initially be a WordPress site, just because I can deploy a new WP site in little to no time. This will make adding new content easier.
Long term thou I am thinking of moving to a framework. Probably something forked from the CRUD applications we are doing at the PHP Meetups. I think that a custom built site will allow me to tweak it and build in some really cool functionality that will allow the project to expand. Not that I couldn’t do it all with WordPress, but this will be easier, and I will have to worry less about security if I build it myself.
I told Lynn that I was going to make the tech videos into wordpress before I moved, but that didnt’ end up happing because I was too busy with pre-move stuff. Oh well. I should be able to get the new site deployed in the next week or so. Speaking of which I should go measure my office area for the new desk.
The new place is awesome. I like the location, close to downtown and Zilker park and a bunch of other stuff that I haven’t had a chance to explore. The office is moving locations and will only be a couple miles from the new apt. I am going to try to start bicycle commuting into work since it will only take about 30 minutes on a bike.
My chichi, pebble is going to take some getting used to the new apt because she hasn’t quite figured out that the people above us aren’t actually in the house. The first day was pretty bad she was barking at everything. Some nights are worse than others with her barking at stuff in the middle of the nights. We are working on it.
So my parents gave me some money for new furniture, and that is getting delivered in a week. Right now i’m sitting on the bed working on the laptop which is sitting on a random chair that will eventually go into storage. I’m getting a new living room set and I need to order a new desk from IKEA tonight. Hopefully I can finish unpacking the rest of the crap in the living room this weekend.
I run the local austinPHP group and have been wanting to start recording our meetups for a while now. Then I noticed the other groups that I was going to weren’t doing it either. So I bought a video camera and just started doing it.
The domain is austintechvideos.com.
I have been talking with meetup groups in other cities and my hope is to build it a central place for tech videos on various topics. Right now I have committed to 4 local groups right here in austin and there are probably 10 or more groups that I could be recording.
So if you goto a meetup where you live and are interested in collaborating with me on this project, please get in touch. I would love to hear from you.
I met Kevin and Alex last night and it was awesome. The wordpress party was cool, I met lots of interesting people.
Jeff gave a great talk on Test Driven Development at the PHP Meetup on Tuesday. I thought I would post his slides here.
Here are the slides for the presentation I am giving at the PHP meetup on Sept 14, 2010.