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Atlanta PHP Meetup

I had the pleasure of attending the Atlanta PHP’s meetup on Thursday at StrongBox West where Ben Edmunds gave a talk about the Laravel framework.

Doug Grubba and I decided to carpool down since Atlanta1 is about 4 hours from Charlotte. I will be totally honest I really didn’t have high hopes on how the meetup would go. I have been to some local meetups and I was just not that impressed. Low turnout, weird locations, etc. But Chris Spruck and the ATL guys are top notch. They had a lot of great sponsors, food provided, free prizes, and above all a nice turn out. (I estimated about 50 people).

After the meeting a few of us went over to local pizza shop and talked about all sorts of web topics and where our next stop in hotlanta should be.2

I had a wonderful time and wished I lived closer so I could attend more of their meetups. They get two thumbs up from me and hopefully I will get to visit again.


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  2. Ended up going back to the hotel and watching some gator hunting. But hey my wife is happy about that. :)