Irc

[redrabbit]

I dont know weather or not there is an irc channel, but we should take this to irc.

It would be good to all chat in real time.

i suggest:
#phpbuilder @ freenode ----OR
#phpbuilder @ efnet

What do you all think.

[piersk]

Originally posted by redrabbit
#phpbuilder @ freenode

Already exists. Used to be mainly me, goldbug and shrike on there mostly, but I havent been able to get to an irc client for a while. One rule: no talking about coding. Use the board for that.

[redrabbit]

Yea, im there now. Only goldbug is there.

Why havent you been able to get an irc client?

[Merve]

I think we should have a sticky about the IRC channel just so that people know it exists.

[piersk]

Originally posted by redrabbit
Yea, im there now. Only goldbug is there.

Why havent you been able to get an irc client?

Cos I was on a computer at work and now im on one on campus and they dont like irc here

Originally posted by Merve
I think we should have a sticky about the IRC channel just so that people know it exists.

I'm liking that plan...

[Mordecai]

I'm all for IRC, but I hate Freenode..

[ScubaKing22]

Originally posted by piersk
One rule: no talking about coding. Use the board for that.

What's the point of the channel then? Shouldn't a channel derived from a forum about PHP involve at least some talk about PHP?

[LordShryku]

Talk of php, I think, is okay. Asking help questions isn't. That's the point of the forum, and should be left at the forum. The IRC channel was created as a place to just go hang out and talk.

[piersk]

Originally posted by ScubaKing22
What's the point of the channel then? Shouldn't a channel derived from a forum about PHP involve at least some talk about PHP?

Cos the idea of the channel (twas me that set it up btw) was (as LordShryku said) to just hang out and chat about random stuff, like which burrito goldbug is gonna have for lunch and the such like :D

[bubblenut]

Originally posted by piersk
like which burrito goldbug is gonna have for lunch and the such like :D
Stuff that really matters

[piersk]

Originally posted by bubblenut
Stuff that really matters

Exactly

[Merve]

Whoa, this thread actually became a sticky :D

Yeah, the IRC channel will be great once we get a few more people on.

And you have to remember the rules:

No asking for help with anything...we can go ahead and discuss the future of PHP-GTK or which class is better suited for a task, but no coding questions...pasting code in IRC can get very ugly...most of the time we won't be talking about PHP anyway.
Use the same nick as you use on this forum. Makes everything simpler...and we know exactly who you are.
Follow the same rules as you would on the board, in addition to the above rules.


That about covers it. I think that's all the rules that Buzz had set out for us.

Happy IRCing people! :)

[bubblenut]

Originally posted by Merve
No asking for help with anything

What? Not even the best ways of playing one man hide and seek?


I just re-read that and it sounds like it could be a rather dirty euphemism ... it's not :glare:

[Merve]

Originally posted by bubblenut
What? Not even the best ways of playing one man hide and seek?


I just re-read that and it sounds like it could be a rather dirty euphemism ... it's not :glare:


Bubble, sometimes things are better left for the reader to interpret ;)

[ZibingsCoder]

That's a bit of a stretch for a euphamism. Would be better to be blatant, say something about Piersk's balls.

[piersk]

Originally posted by ZibingsCoder
That's a bit of a stretch for a euphamism. Would be better to be blatant, say something about Piersk's balls.

:glare: You leave my balls alone. Unless you're female. And not ugly. Not that I'm picky. I just am. :glare:

[goldbug]

Originally posted by piersk
... like which burrito goldbug is gonna have for lunch and the such like :D

Just dong my part to contribute to the meaningless fluff and filler that makes up most of the internet :D

[piersk]

Originally posted by goldbug
Just doing my part to contribute to the meaningless fluff and filler that makes up most of the internet :D

And you do it so well :D

[Merve]

How I long for a bean burrito...;)

BTW this sticky doesn't seem to have had an impact on the number of people who visit the IRC channel.

[planetsim]

i joined :p

[piersk]

We all know thats it's because I don't hang out there anymore :p

[ZibingsCoder]

More people!!!

[Davy]

I'm in IRC now :)

Can you guys recommend a good, easy to use client that I don't have to pay for.

Unlike mIRC. Stupid program I could swear this program used to be free!

Any recommendations? I'm a cheap ass student. Ok ex-student. But my ass is still cheap...

[planetsim]

Well i use Chatzilla. You can get it with the Mozilla Suite, or by getting Firefox and installing it as an Extension ;)

[piersk]

I personally use Trillian (when my laptop's not screwed up :glare: )

I like being able to have one program for all IM/chat programs. I even bought a copy of the pro edition (:eek:). $25 which works out at about £13, so well worth it :)

[LordShryku]

Not-so-random IRC clip:

x17:25x [Davy27] I'm just enjoying the fact I've foudn the file. mmmm :)
x17:25x • goldbug hates php

[Davy]

lol!!

And ya know what now? It won't find the file!! Even though it's there!! I put it in the C:\php\ext\folder but the damn thing gets mixed up and confused with the /'s and the \'s so I gave up...

:glare:

[suepahfly]

mmhh, seems like a double post.
Anyway see my post below :)

[suepahfly]

Originally posted by Davy
I'm in IRC now :)

Can you guys recommend a good, easy to use client that I don't have to pay for.

Unlike mIRC. Stupid program I could swear this program used to be free!

Any recommendations? I'm a cheap ass student. Ok ex-student. But my ass is still cheap...
Try X-Chat.

Althought ist's a orginally a *u*x client there is a fine Windows port as well, I use it with sattisfaction.

Although the 2.4 version is nolonger free, you can still download it's soucecode and build your own with MS Studio or download the pre-build 2.10 version (wich i have).

There is also a 2.4 build available on http://www.silverex.info/

(Ok this might seems strange, but the fact is that Zedd (Developer of X-chat decided no that the windows build would nog longer be free, but the source still is. So some other guy decided to make a Windows build on the freely available soucecode and make it freely availabe to the public)

[piersk]

Woo!! I've got my laptop fixed so I'm back on IRC (although not right at this minute, cos I don't have it with me)

[suepahfly]

I would like to (ab)use this topic for a great opperunity for people to get in toutch with KVIrc (http://www.kvirc.net) [/spam :D]

KVIrc is in my oppinion a great client for both *n*x and windows.

And provides more that you could ever dream off. It's one of the few clients outthere that truely has it's onw powerfull scripting language. It's open source and free for every one.
Fully theme-able, support many different encoding types.
Has an build-in encryption engine (with SHA, Rijdeal, etc, etc)
And many more!
(and i get to build thier new site :))

So forget about mIrc, *****X (wich looks lousy) xChat and every other client. KVIRc is the way to go!

[bubblenut]

Did this go to heaven when it died? :(

[ZibingsCoder]

Well...It appears the channel is still there, and still horribly unpopulated. Would anyone like to fix that with me? A lot easier than using the forums for some people.

You should make one or two more people ops Piersk...Let them get things started, etc.

[piersk]

Yeah, like I know how :rolleyes:

[bradgrafelman]

/nickserv identify <password>
/chanserv access #phpbuilder add bradgrafelman 30
/chanserv set contact bradgrafelman
/quit

:)

EDIT: Or just PM me the channel password (different than your NickServ password, i.e. /msg chanserv register #phpbuilder <pw>)

[Elizabeth]

I see that dalecosp is trying to revive the PHPBuilder IRC channel... I've been poking around avoiding work way too much on IRC these days as well.

[BuzzLY]

I would love to participate, but my company does not allow us out on the appropriate ports.

[Elizabeth]

I would love to participate, but my company does not allow us out on the appropriate ports.
Sounds like you need a new job (http://oink-pug.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=2) :)

[BuzzLY]

Oh, snap! :D

[goldbug]

I would love to participate, but my company does not allow us out on the appropriate ports.

With ssh/proxy/tunneling...any port can be the appropriate port :D

[piersk]

I found a program that meant you could talk on IRC via a browser.. It was pretty fast too!

I'll see if I can hunt it down again...

Here we go: http://cgiirc.sourceforge.net/

[dalecosp]

I'm there occasionally. I try and at least set up a topic. Mostly I see me, tekky, and Huggeeee <whomever that is?>. Come on, join in ... ;)

[bradgrafelman]

Talk about reviving a dead topic... :x

[dalecosp]

Today's Topic: "It's Tuesday --- do you know where your functions are?"

Latest IRC news: tekky and dalecosp are both stumped by a PCRE question posed by BradGrafelman. BradGrafelman and Elizabeth share a tete a tete. dalecosp leaves his desk (all night) and forgets to change his nick to dalecosp_away ....

and lots more, in real-time, at irc://chat.freenode.net/#phpbuilder ... :D

[bradgrafelman]

Speaking of a stumping PCRE question... :p

[dalecosp]

Did ya fix it? I kinda took a few glances and decided that it was time for bbcode, striptags, and str_replace().

[bradgrafelman]

Yeah, I think I'm just going to go with some code I found in the PHP manual in the user comments. Thanks for trying though!

[dalecosp]

So, didja have fun at the piano?

I didn't know you played. Classical training?

[bradgrafelman]

Heh. I don't really *play*, I just tought myself how to play some stuff. Classical, sure, modern songs (Coldplay, etc.) sometimes, but definitely Christian songs as well.

Awesome God by Michael W. Smith -- awesome song talking about our awesome God ;)

[dalecosp]

Haven't heard MWS's version. Rich Mullins, of course; Carman Licciardello did it in an interesting way, too. Speaking of "awesome" songs ... heard "How Great is our God" by Chris Tomlin yet?

I'll be glad to get the house done, if I ever do; I've a 100 year old 5.5' baby grand to restore and put in the sun room if I ever find the cash.

[bradgrafelman]

Of course I've heard it!

Wow. Yeah, mines an electric piano (big huge antique - almost the size of a regular piano! :p) and... well, from playing on the real piano at school I can tell there's a difference between the electric and the real thing. Maybe it's on old technology, but certain chords clash worse electrically than acoustically.

[dalecosp]

Of course I've heard it!

Wow. Yeah, mines an electric piano (big huge antique - almost the size of a regular piano! :p) and... well, from playing on the real piano at school I can tell there's a difference between the electric and the real thing. Maybe it's on old technology, but certain chords clash worse electrically than acoustically.Heh, I had a Yamaha CP30 until the early 90s. Quite a dinosaur.

I'd probably give a toe to own a well set-up Rhodes suitcase, though. </oldfart>

[dalecosp]

BTW, IRC (irc://chat.freenode.net/#phpbuilder) has now contributed a thread idea (http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?t=10318483) to the EL ....

[dalecosp]

Well, during a period of time yesterday (that was, in North America, mid/late afternoon), we had several peeps on IRC who'd not been 'round in a long time, I suppose.

'Tween the USA'ers and a couple of fine Brits, we found lots to chat about for a while. And, to top it off, tk/tekky bopped in (late, but understandable) from the Eastern Pacific.

Other things you'd only know if you kept your client pointed to IRC:

-Where bubblenut's going for vacation next month ...
-Which board regular is participating in a "Madrigal"
-What the weather was near London, Southampton, Missouri, and the coast of Egypt.
-Who drove (and damaged) goldbug's truck before he did.
-Who's looking for JSON ...
-Who parties on Friday evening ...
-Who's not coded in a while ....

etc., etc., etc.

If you've a client, a connection, and a "safe" office, why not just point it to our channel and leave it there? You never can tell who'll "pop in" ...

[bradgrafelman]

Alternatively, if you don't have an IRC client but can access outside servers on the port 6667, you can use the web IRC client I'm soon to remodel to connect.

Click here (http://brad.njoe.com/irc/), or point your browsers to http://brad.njoe.com/irc/ !

[kardiostep]

there's stuff like mibbit that does the same thing. nice work though!

[dalecosp]

there's stuff like mibbit that does the same thing. nice work though!Lol, mebbe. Near as I can tell, mibbit didn't exist, per se, in February of 2006, tho. :D

Brad, do you own Mibbit? Or didja miss a bit of money? :eek: