Experience with Travis County/Austin LEO's

[CodeJockey]

Well, I don't do PHP at all, but here's a link that describes the basic methodology.

http://www.sitepoint.com/article/php-mi ... sql-server

Hope that Helps!

[xbrotherx]

Boy have we hijacked this thread or what :)

I use AMFPHP (http://www.amfphp.org) to call my PHP methods from a Flash/Flex frontend. I use exclusivly for all my remote procedure calls since it keeps the datatypes between the client and server the same. An object coming out of PHP gets accepted by Flash as an object. Now that Adobe released the AMF spec, some exciting things should begin happening to AMFPHP.

[CodeJockey]

Yup, I'm curious to see how that all progresses!

[NcongruNt]

Well I am not as "hardcore" of a programmer as you. I am one of those new-fangled Rich Internet Application developers. I started in Flash about 8 years ago and in turn moved into primarily doing Actionscript development with a PHP/MySQL/UNIX scripting backend and now moving more into using Flex as my development framework (which is still a fancy way of making Flash apps).

I would like to familiarize myself with more traditional languages as C#, Java, etc. to teach myself better best-practices. So I might have mis-used the term "software" development. More of a web application developer.

*ahem*

I would not call C# and Java "traditional" languages.

moving on...

I live north-central (near DPS HQ), and have lived in Austin for 24 years. I am a UNIX sysadmin. I've had an aptitude for computer work since before the rapid influx of tech companies and their associated employees. Some of us weren't part of the invasion force .

We should have another Austin get-together soon and all meet each other.

[xbrotherx]

Well, you will have to forgive my lack of "programming" terminology. I have been known to call variables those "thingies" that hold that "data stuff". My background is music and illustration. So not only am I one of the tech invaders I am one of the WORST of the invaders to Austin riding the tech-train. But hey, gotta make a living some how.

[pt145ss]

Windows Application Developer here. Where I work we are required to do it all. A jack of all technologies and a master of none.

[HankB]

Here's a story posted a while back on another forum about a police stop in Lakeway, a suburb just west of Austin on the shores of Lake Travis:

I just wanted to pass along a story which was told to me the other evening. I was speaking with one of the board members for SAS (Second Amendment Sisters) the other evening, she told about an incident she'd had. Let me preface this by describing this person, she immediately strikes you as a sweet little grandmother, not as a "pistol-packin' mama", and is an extremely fun person to talk to. Anyhow, some of the other board members were down here visiting, and they decided they wanted to go to the range. On the way back, they were stopped for speeding in Lakeway. Of course, in TX, the first thing a CHL holder is required to tell the officer is that they are carrying a firearm. The officer was ok, until he asked where the pistol was. She pointed out that there was 1 in her purse, 1 in the console, and 1 in the glove compartment. Ok, no problem so far.... Then the little old lady in the passenger seat speaks up "Oh, and I've got 2 guns with me as well." The officer probably scratched his head.... Then from the back seat, "And officer, we've got 4 more guns back here." Then, after being told of the approx 2000 rounds of ammo in the trunk, the officer decided he didn't want to hear anything else, and went back to his cruiser to run the standard checks. When he walks back to the car, writing in his book, one of the other ladies asks him not to give the driver a ticket. The officer laughed and said that he would only give her a warning, because they had definitely just made his day.

I asked her if she had seen that officer since then, and she said she still sees him occasionally on patrol, and he just smiles and waves..... and probably swears to never pull her car over again .

I have seen a car (IIRC, a Lexus) with a Second Amendment Sisters sign on the door going down the road in Lakeway, so there's at least some basis to the story.

[srothstein]

I would like to familiarize myself with more traditional languages as C#, Java, etc.

*ahem*

I would not call C# and Java "traditional" languages.

I am glad that I was not the only one who had questions about those languages. He said traditional and I thought of COBOL, FORTAN, and BASIC - with line numbers of course. It has been a while since I used them, but that was where I started way back when a tty had paper to print on.

[WildBill]

I would like to familiarize myself with more traditional languages as C#, Java, etc.

*ahem*
I would not call C# and Java "traditional" languages.

I am glad that I was not the only one who had questions about those languages. He said traditional and I thought of COBOL, FORTAN, and BASIC - with line numbers of course. It has been a while since I used them, but that was where I started way back when a tty had paper to print on.

Boy this thread is really hijacked so I will continue the hijack.
This is not a joke. I took three years of German in high school and passed the advanced placement exam for college. Two years later I transferred to another college that had a different foreign language requirement, so I needed one more semester to complete the foreign language requirement. I found out that my department at the University accepted Fortran as a foreign language so I took it to complete my requirement.

[tbranch]

I am one of those new-fangled Rich Internet Application developers. I started in Flash about 8 years ago and in turn moved into primarily doing Actionscript development with a PHP/MySQL/UNIX scripting backend and now moving more into using Flex as my development framework (which is still a fancy way of making Flash apps)

Now I feel old! I wrote CoBOL in the 70's...you have not lived until you dropped a box of punch cards on the way to feed them into the IBM 360 Mainframe...

Tom

[KBCraig]

I am glad that I was not the only one who had questions about those languages. He said traditional and I thought of COBOL, FORTAN, and BASIC - with line numbers of course.

Heh. I took the "modern" language, FORTRAN77, in '81-'82. Very, very logical... and very, very process intensive if we were to apply it to modern applications.

Of course, this was a "modern" computer lab that still had punch cards and reel-to-reel 2" tape, and Star Trek ASCII art printouts on the wall.

[anygunanywhere]

I am glad that I was not the only one who had questions about those languages. He said traditional and I thought of COBOL, FORTAN, and BASIC - with line numbers of course.

Heh. I took the "modern" language, FORTRAN77, in '81-'82. Very, very logical... and very, very process intensive if we were to apply it to modern applications.

Of course, this was a "modern" computer lab that still had punch cards and reel-to-reel 2" tape, and Star Trek ASCII art printouts on the wall.

I speak fluent John Moses Browning.

I do not own a pocket protector and my glasses are not taped.

Anygun

[LarryH]

Started with FORGO (load-and-go FORTRAN) and FORTRAN II into an IBM 1620. By the time I graduated (1968), the North Dakota State University was going to get a SYSTEM 360.

Grad school at the University of Texas, CDC 6600, some version of FORTRAN.

Haven't actually written a line of code (BASIC) since retiring the Commodore 64 when we got a Hewlett-Packard PC XT clone with 20 meg HD.

[glock76]

I was stopped a few months ago by Pflugerville PD doing 41 in a 30. I presented my DL and CHL but did not have my glock with me. I had not received my center of mass safe and did not feel comfortable having an unsecured firearm in a vehicle while at work (at a school).

The officer walked up and I presented my plastic. I informed him I did not have it with me. He asked me, "Why would you have a CHL and not carry". I explained the school thing, He suggested a lockbox in the trunk, secured.

I did take responsibility for speeding and was contrite. He came back with a warning and did address me very directly and loud for speeding "I think for dramatic effect". Then we calmly talked about storage options.

Overall the officer was professional and respectful and I appreciated that. I can not say if having a CHL was an advantage or if it was being employed in a public school??