Sunday, January 4. 2004

For the longest time I have been lurking on the Chicago User Group's mailing list since its really the only user group close to me. I haven't ever really been into the user group thing in the past, but today I had an opportunity to be their Guest Speaker for this month's meeting! Being a user-group virgin, I didn't really know what to expect -- so I was happy to find them all a great group of PHP-interested folks. They paid attention during my talk, asked a lot of questions (a lot more then in more formal talks I've given), and we all learned a thing or two!

If you live in the Chicagoland area and weren't at the meeting this month you missed out on a great time. For those interested in getting involved with the Chicago user group their web site is http://chiphpug.php.net/. Apparently it is having problems right now due to some unrelated php.net changes but I'm sure it'll be up soon.

Oh, and in case you were curious I gave a talk on Tidy version 2.0. It will be available at talks.php.net as soon as the server syncs with CVS.

Thanks for having me gentlemen -- it was a great time.