The Suburban Chicago PHP & Web Development Meetup

Meetup.com scheduled our first meetup of the year for New Years Day.  I reluctantly RSVPed “yes”, but it sounds like a lot of you can’t (or just don’t want to) make it that night.

So, let’s meet on the 8th instead.  RSVP at http://php.meetup.com/381/calendar/9283640/

I wish I had known about this sooner, as it’s almost Christmas (you did finish your shopping, right?).  OmniTI, a New York web development consultancy, is publishing their annual PHP Advent blog.  Today’s article, Yet, echoes a lot of my feelings toward PHP these days.

If there were a product statement for PHP, it’d probably be something like “only a drunken Martian could come up with this.” [. . .] I, myself, have been known to go through episodes of periodical rejection, during which I can’t stand a particular feature of PHP (and, often, of other products, but that’s a different story), but I haven’t given up on PHP—yet.

I also enjoyed Coping with the Holiday Shopping Spree, an article on enhancing client-side site loading performance.