About Me
It’s come to my attention that I don’t have a good “about me” page on this blog. So here’s the standard life story…
Elizabeth M. Smith has been using PHP since time immemorial (PHP 4.0beta), but has used PHP 5 for so long now she’s forgotten how she ever got by without SPL and a real object model. Elizabeth is a certifiable (yes, we mean men in white coats coming to put on strait jackets) windows geek, if it can be compiled on windows, she’ll compile it, if not… she’ll fix it so it does. She enjoys doing very perverse things to Windows using PHP as well - all this in between caring for her 4 kids and husband.
She recently joined the crew at OmniTI and hopes to learn something from the masters. She went to college for an English degree and instead wound up with several children and a career in computers… Her first foray into PHP was running an anime/manga fan site. She liked creating applications and websites so much, it became her “day job”.
Elizabeth is a charter member of PHPWomen.org and asks the question “Why didn’t I ever try this in school”, and wants to make sure other women have the same opportunity to see how much fun programming can be. She is active in several PHP projects including PHP-GTK, where she claims to be the constant thorn in Andrei’s side, and gets things working and building for windows. Elizabeth also contributes to PEAR and is currently helping out on PEAR2 (at the prodding of her brother Joshua Eichorn). Her current pet projects include Forkr (an ADP - Attention Deficit Programming - framework), Callicore (a PHP-GTK framework), Perisama (Various PHP windows builds on multiple compilers) and the WinAPI extension (win32api wrapper).
Elizabeth really does Laugh Out Loud whenever she types “LOL”, talks animately, continuously, and with her hands in person, and isn’t fond of shoes or housework.
