Where the British developers at?
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Where the British developers at?
Who's from the sunny British Isles on the board, where do you live/work etc?
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Paul Arnold
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Newcastle upon Tyne 
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I live in Bournemouth but work for a company near Newcastle (not the same one as Paul though).
- volomike
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My clients are often British or Canadian and I'm often typing 'colour', £, €, and find myself slipping and saying 'whilst', 'rather', and 'shall' in my conversation a lot. Can I be included too?

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Do Americans not say 'whilst', 'rather', and 'shall'? haha, I've not noticed that!
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Not until we get our tea back.volomike wrote:Can I be included too?
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I live in York, and work in a village about 10 miles away.
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There's actually kind of a lot of Brits on this board. I'm an American... I guess I don't belong in here 
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London, though I rarely work with PHP anymore. 
- volomike
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What's grabbed your attention, then?Jenk wrote:London, though I rarely work with PHP anymore.
You know what I find fascinating? SpiderMonkey Javascript, from Mozilla. Wouldn't it be cool to:
- Build an Apache module for SpiderMonkey so that it could run in a prefork mode instead of CGI?
- Fork SpiderMonkey so that it has C#-like classes, properties, and class methods, and support inheritance; polymorphism; and public, private, and protected modes?
- Make an easy way to build libraries in C and link them in so that even a C newbie could build stuff?
And why? Well, because then I could program in almost one language -- Javascript -- on both client and server. I think that's the future. I'm on PHP for now because it's got a great community, great code snippets, marketshare, runs great on Linux, is duck typed, and is a scripting language. But if anything came out that just like that but was Javascript-oriented, and wasn't a Microsoft thing or a Windows-only thing -- I'd definitely be picking that up and doing half or 2/3rds my work in it.
I know guys -- you can PM me the responses or paste me into a new thread. I know I'm
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Smalltalk. Easily the best language/dialect out there, and that's said without bias. I use the Squeak (and fork project Pharo) dialect.
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Sunny?panic! wrote:Who's from the sunny British Isles on the board, where do you live/work etc?
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It's actually very bright this morning, but very cold (by British Standards.. it's about 3 degrees centigrade.)
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'Sunny' was a very British, almost self-deprecating sarcasm only a Brit would understand.
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Ah, like when we say that Sweden is warm.panic! wrote:'Sunny' was a very British, almost self-deprecating sarcasm only a Brit would understand.