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Where the British developers at?

Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 9:24 am
by panic!
Who's from the sunny British Isles on the board, where do you live/work etc?

Re: Where the British developers at?

Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 9:29 am
by Paul Arnold
Newcastle upon Tyne :D

Re: Where the British developers at?

Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 9:34 am
by onion2k
I live in Bournemouth but work for a company near Newcastle (not the same one as Paul though).

Re: Where the British developers at?

Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 12:25 pm
by volomike
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?

:)

Re: Where the British developers at?

Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 1:16 pm
by panic!
Do Americans not say 'whilst', 'rather', and 'shall'? haha, I've not noticed that!

Re: Where the British developers at?

Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 1:22 pm
by onion2k
volomike wrote:Can I be included too?
Not until we get our tea back. :wink:

Re: Where the British developers at?

Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 3:21 pm
by JayBird
I live in York, and work in a village about 10 miles away.

Re: Where the British developers at?

Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 3:55 pm
by Luke
There's actually kind of a lot of Brits on this board. I'm an American... I guess I don't belong in here :(

Re: Where the British developers at?

Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 4:16 pm
by Jenk
London, though I rarely work with PHP anymore. :)

Re: Where the British developers at?

Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 12:08 am
by volomike
Jenk wrote:London, though I rarely work with PHP anymore. :)
What's grabbed your attention, then?

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 :offtopic:

Re: Where the British developers at?

Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 4:18 am
by Jenk
Smalltalk. Easily the best language/dialect out there, and that's said without bias. I use the Squeak (and fork project Pharo) dialect.

Re: Where the British developers at?

Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 4:35 am
by papa
panic! wrote:Who's from the sunny British Isles on the board, where do you live/work etc?
Sunny? :P

Re: Where the British developers at?

Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 4:44 am
by Jenk
It's actually very bright this morning, but very cold (by British Standards.. it's about 3 degrees centigrade.)

Re: Where the British developers at?

Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 5:01 am
by panic!
'Sunny' was a very British, almost self-deprecating sarcasm only a Brit would understand.

Re: Where the British developers at?

Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 5:04 am
by papa
panic! wrote:'Sunny' was a very British, almost self-deprecating sarcasm only a Brit would understand.
Ah, like when we say that Sweden is warm.