PHP

Went to a SF PHP Meetup last night, held downtown on 2nd street. Speaker was Andrei Zmievski. Andrei is one of the principal developers of PHP, and he talked about the new features coming out in PHP 6, most importantly the support for unicode. His talk tonight was entitled PHP::$unicode->i18n().

Learned much from the talk. Very sharp fellow and a good speaker.

Also met w/ Stephen Frost, founder of Carticipation, which just launched 8 weeks ago, with funding. Just launched a client app on the iPhone. Idea is to use cell phones to arrange car pooling into the city. This is his fourth startup.