BringABox 20 October 2007

Around 20 people were present.

Location:

University of Surrey, Guildford

Topics:

• The End of the IT Dept as we know it !
  • https://www.google.com/a/
  • http://osde-info.vox.com/library/post/sun-webcast-the-end-of-it-as-we-know-it.html

Shorts:

• CMV/MVC software development with the CodeIgnite & SeaGull PHP frameworks
  • http://codeigniter.com/tutorials/watch/intro/
  • http://osde-info.vox.com/library/post/seagull-cvm-php-framework.html
• Creating beautiful PHP code with PHP PEAR Beautifier & PHP PEAR CodeSniffer
  • http://pear.php.net/package/PHP_Beautifier
  • http://pear.php.net/package/PHP_CodeSniffer
• How to make money by making customers to pay for Open Source by using JumpBox

Two people were making progress with MythTV. Quantities of spare kit were brought (mainly of interest to those of a nostalgic turn of mind), some of which found new homes. Afterwards we adjourned to the student bar (Chancellors) and watched the sun setting.