{"id":126,"date":"2006-09-06T20:28:27","date_gmt":"2006-09-06T18:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/wordpress\/?p=126"},"modified":"2006-09-06T20:28:27","modified_gmt":"2006-09-06T18:28:27","slug":"the-p-in-lamp-is-booming-in-cape-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=126","title":{"rendered":"The P in LAMP is booming in Cape Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The P in LAMP can stand for PHP, Python or Perl, and it&#8217;s good to know that this week sees the launch of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctpug.co.za\/\">PHP user group<\/a>, as well as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.python.org.za\/pugs\/cape-town\">Python user group<\/a> in Cape Town. The acronym CTPUG is already in dispute!<\/p>\n<p>The PHP meeting is Thursday 7 September, at 18h30 (<a href=\"http:\/\/php.meetup.com\/341\/events\/5043693\/\">more info<\/a>), while the Python meeting is on 9 September at 13h00 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.python.org.za\/pugs\/cape-town\/first-meeting\">more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still pretty desperately looking for some contract PHP programmers to work onsite, and am even mulling over going back to the Krypto Plus model (K+ being a highly-innovative company I worked for from 1997) of running a training course (it was Perl in those days) and then hiring the best developers. With the demand for good PHP developers seeming to greatly outstrip the supply, anything that encourages PHP programming in Cape Town can only be good. The tertiary institutions certainly aren&#8217;t (COBOL anyone?)<\/p>\n<p>For those more interested in the LAM part, Cape Town also boasts a <a href=\"http:\/\/mysql.meetup.com\/156\/?gj=sj3\">MySQL meetup group<\/a>, next meeting 2 October, and of course a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clug.org.za\">Linux Users Group<\/a>, next meeting 12 September. I&#8217;m not aware of a local Apache user group!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The P in LAMP can stand for PHP, Python or Perl, and it&#8217;s good to know that this week sees the launch of a PHP user group, as well as a Python user group in Cape Town. The acronym CTPUG is already in dispute! The PHP meeting is Thursday 7 September, at 18h30 (more info),&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=126\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The P in LAMP is booming in Cape Town<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metal-technical","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}