New Year Meetup

Hi! The last meet-up actually didn't happen. I had pneumonia and it fell apart. Sorry about that, folks. Consequently - I'm going to keep the same topic, and general outline.

In the meantime, we've had a bunch of new members join. This is kind of short notice - just a week - but let's shoot for it anyway. I'll schedule something for early February as well, so if you can't make this one you can make that one.


Topic: Managing Jobs and Productivity!

Description: How do you get into 'the zone' and stay there? How do you handle scheduling, client management, distractions, last minute requests, etc. This isn't a code-focussed meeting per say, although I'm sure we'll bust out some source eventually.

Extras:

Since our last meeting, I met with a new member one on one to discuss his app idea. Bring any ideas you have about polling external sources of data such as XML or even - shudder - scraping HTML pages. I'll let him fill you in.

Last meetup Jayse shared his on-the-fly thumbnail generator. I'm asking if someone would be willing to volunteer to share a piece of code they're proud of - or that has something different about it - and speak for about 15 to 20 minutes on it.

Anyone with Zend Framework opinions or experience is encouraged to speak a bit. Keith had a question about it last time.

I also have an esoteric question about model object methods vs. their parent class methods - in regards to which should be static, and return an object vs. which should be on the object instance themselves.

Bonus Homework: Bring a silly code story involving the holidays. Goofy site redesign, etc.

Time: 7:30 to 9:PM

General Info

All of our meetups are informal.

Bring your laptop if you want to share some code.
Bring questions or esoteric topics to discuss.
Recent meetups have ranged all over but topics have included:

-- SVN usage
-- Frameworks
-- ORM
-- Different Code Idea
-- Sharing something about ourselves

Bring a willingness to get to know people and make friends.

Everyone will be encouraged to blog and link to each other afterward. I am no longer between blogs! :-)

Bring a camera!