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Hi everyone, I'm new to the forums and I've just started learning PHP, I picked up a book yesterday and im reading through it very quickly, it seems kind of familiar to me because I learned C++ a year ago, but I kind of forgot it because I haven't used it in while.
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Post by wolvie »

Hey, all
My name is Tulio and speaking from Brazil....
I hate to say it, but I am a 26 year geek :)
Got into PHP in the last five months leaving some months os ASP behind me...please...don't burn at the stake...I redeem and found the true god :-)
Been looking for a good language to code for some time, I've been on basic (on my childhood), pascal (on the university only), c++ (good, but too rough), java (the best, but too slow)...I've been web designing and system administrating for 7 years now, but my thing (in computer at least) is programming...so, I'm kind of in love with PHP right now...I know, I know...I have been promiscuous and flirting with many languages up 'til now...but I want to fall in love, and marry a language I really love :)
Starting a new company when I am just programming by now...
I'll be helping on what I can...and If I can....but I can't come too often here...
Oh...I am doing a degree on psychology too....:)
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Hello! *waves*

I am fairly new to php, kinda know the basics now and learning about db connections etc. Creating a website to test all these new found skills on!!

I am a female from sunny old blighty, just finished a degree in Business Computing.
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Post by kettle_drum »

Well im glad to see that you have all found php and started to fall in love with it :)

Nice to see some local Wakefield people here - award :)
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Hi, 15 year old guy from Vancouver, have been writing PHP for just over 3 years.
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computer-redneck

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/me is a computer-redneck, not as in farmer nor as some refer to southerners; More like a part time geek that
  • enjoys braintweaking tasks on the computer
  • drives a construction-yellow 1994 Ford F-150 Longbed
  • works as a "Automation and Control Systems Engineer" in a plastics manufacturing plant
  • Takes care of anything electrical at work, from servers and network to hydraulic troubleshooting and phone system.
  • Enjoys doing things different than whats considered normal, both on the puter and in real life.. Doing stupid stuff so my friends dont know wether to get embarred or laugh at or with me
  • A Stallmann admirer but not an evangelist - if I get a money making oportunity by keeping my stuff non-free I am likely to take advantage of that
  • Repairs and fixes our 100 year old house
  • Uses fvwm (1) with default setup and solid background (why would I need more? Why would I need a menu?)
  • Enjoys making food and eats way too much bad-for-you stuff
  • Thinks that in PHP it is way to easy to make something work, resulting in many "idiots" creating insecure and resource wasting and often widely used scripts.. But that is likely the reason why PHP is so popular..
  • Uses Norwegian-redneck (bredt) writing language on IRC. I am 1972-Norwegian living in New York since 1999
  • Live on the land of the Seneca Nation of Indians, and help out quite a bit with their tax free cigarette sales
  • Traveled europe installing/tuning/programming industrial machinery for 9 years..
  • Met my wife on IRC (If that isnt geeky, what is?) it took 3 years to meet and another one and a half to get engaged and married, just passed 4 yr aniversary..
  • Got a 12 pound sledgehammer as the present from my family on my 30th birtday (as well as airfare tickets to Norway, it was fun bringing the sledgehammer home)
  • Got several incomplete websites and two different resumes depending on if I am searching for industrial/control jobs or it/development..
  • Programmed Basic at age of 10, TPascal at 13, PHP at 27 :)
  • Loves beer - beer with taste that is, always visiting Micro Breweries - favorite bottled at the time is Sierra Nevada Pale Ale...
What a collection of insignificant life achievements :wink:
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Post by katchoo »

Hi! *waves* I am really new to php, mysql and apache. I'm 27 and have been programming for 5 years. I live in socal, trying to get an apartment by the beach currently.

I enjoy sports, dancing, shopping, drinking and anime. Basically just having a good time.

I hope one day I can have enough knowledge where I can actually answer a question. ^_^

I'm online a lot during the week so feel free to pm me or im me. I love to meet people. ^_^
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Post by Crashin »

Hey all! I've been programming for a while now...not really sure how many years. Started with BASIC back in the day. I'm 29 years old, and have been PHP-ing for about 3 years now.

I work for a small software company (http://www.checkmark.com) that has been around since '86 (I think), but has never really grown all that much. I mostly am trying to get them to do something new! Their apps are really, REALLY old school in design. And, before I redesigned it, their website was...um...interesting.

I'm not that great of a designer AT ALL, though I'm trying to improve. But, I do love the coding...oh yeah! I'm also into mountain biking, skiing, camping, hiking, soccer, and Physics. I like long walks on the beach and candle-lit dinners.
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Re: computer-redneck

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Stoker wrote:[*]Met my wife on IRC (If that isnt geeky, what is?) it took 3 years to meet and another one and a half to get engaged and married, just passed 4 yr aniversary
Met my future wife on IRC, on irc.freenode.net, in the #php channel.

Is that geek enough for you?
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Re: computer-redneck

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jason wrote:Met my future wife on IRC, on irc.freenode.net, in the #php channel.
Heh, yeah :) A quite crowded channel compared to [url=irc://newark.ny.us.irclink.net#Dreamland]IRCLink[/url] where I have my session hangin.. When I'm at [url=irc://irc.freenode.net#PHP]#PHP[/url] I get so hung up (in discussions) that I dont get anything else done, dangerous place to be :wink:
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SpiderX arriving here

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Hi all,
Just call me Spider. I got a degree in CS (it's not Counter Strike :lol: ) and I'm 22 now. Working with VB, ASP, VB.NET and ASP.NET for a yr. And somehow, I interested PHP and now starting to learn about it. I'm from Rangoon, Burma. I hope you know where it is.
Last edited by SpiderX on Fri Oct 10, 2003 10:36 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Post by Nay »

Hey SpiderX!

wah.......finally someone from Burma.......rangoon? i come from Mandalay. right now, i'm in Malaysia.

:).......oh, btw, i'm Nay Myo San. Call me Nay. I'm 14 and i got into web stuff around 9 months ago. I know XHTML 1.0, HTML 4.01, CSS 1, Javascript, some ASP and learning XML, XSL, PHP and MySQL now! oo...........and i love soccer! XD

am i the youngest here? :P

-Nay
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Post by Toneboy »

I'm English, living in Scotland (working in Glasgow), 28 and married (to a total non-techie, which keeps me balanced).

I got into php via a post on cpfc.org, got a virtual server and started from there. I was basically just using include/require :oops: but have advanced a bit from there, as you can probably see now (random banner displays, users online, sessions, news display, etc.). Learning all the time and enjoying the challenges.[/url]
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Post by evilmonkey »

Hello everyone. Some of you might know me because you've answered scores of my stupid questions on this forum. Anyway, my real name is Vitali, I live in the suburbs of Toronto (Canada), although I was born in Moscow, Russia. I'm a high-school student (going into gr 11), and I've been doing PHP for a little more than a year now. I do PHP and MSQL programming just for fun. A friend and I make websites for no reason, he does the design, I do the programming. All hell breaks loose when it's time to put the two together. :lol: I've also done some C/C++ programming in the past, and quickBasic when I was very young. I've also programmed in a language called Turing, if anyone here took programming in an Ontario high-school, you'd know what it is.

Anyway, this is an awsome community, and I owe most of my knowledge and love for PHP to it. Keep at it everyone!
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Post by JAM »

As Stoker, enjoys a (read; >1) good, tasty beer. If not beer, it's coffee. Addicted to coffee, and the stomach has not complained yet.

Works as a warehouse worker in the spare parts area, at a company selling/manufacturing heat exchangers. Got programming skills noticed at work when rewriting some systems using VBA (in Excel) and MSSql 2 years ago, and has since also been lend out to the IS/IT dept. coding Jeeves, Pascal, VB/VBA, abit PHP and a heapload of SQL.
Got opportunity to advance in the ladder, but am still not sure wither I should as I feel scared about actuall working to close with my hobbies. (Pragramming at work, and at spare time feels like to much for me.)

Currently big project is rewriting everything we have at work(ASP, Win32, Pascal), into a PHP solution, just to see if I can 'copy' it using another language while learning it at the same time.

Not married, but living with an lovely, and more important, understanding lady that doesn't bother to much when I'm behind the keyboard. Also, her 8y. old daughter that doesn't share the same entusiasm as her mother with my coding hours...

Hates spam, and will be an a billionaire in 4 or so years, when I can erase spam globally when pressing a single button...
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