Category: Groups

These are groups I’ve taken part in. Most are pretty technical, it takes a pretty interesting group to make up for having to deal with humans.

MUD-Dev

MUD-Dev

MUD-dev is the leading forum for discussing muds, broadly defined to include virtual worlds and massively multiplayer online games. I used post about PHP Muds (comma lack thereof), but no one really cares about them.
The list quietly died February 25, 2006, but a Mud-Dev2 has been organized to continue its mission with most of the [...]

Chicago Area Ruby Group

I used to attend Chirb before I moved; now that it’s merged into Chicago Ruby in my absence from Chicago I plan to attend that.
Presentations tend to be great at this group.

Chicago Python Users Group

Chicago Python Users Group

The ChiPy meetings are almost always excellent (except when they’re in the burbs and impossible to get to without a car). Some of my favorite previous topics were on Django, functional programming, Selenium, and cvs2svn (all of which were by primary authors of the projects).
This is an excellent technical group for any programmer — spend [...]

Chicago PHP Users Group

I’ve been active in the Chicago PHP Users Group (“ChiPHPug”, pronounced “chif-pug”) since I dropped by a meeting in October 2000 and posted some terrible code to the mailing list. I don’t work a lot in PHP anymore, so I no longer attend regularly, but I still lurk on the mailing list and occasionally answer [...]