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  Sheri Bigelow 22:22 on Wednesday, 29 August 2007 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

  Book Review: Professional Search Engine Optimization with PHP 

  As part of my research for last Thursday’s UPHPU meeting about search engine optimization, I reviewed a new book:  Professional Search Engine Optimization with PHP: A Developer’s Guide to SEO by Jaimie Sirovich, Cristian Darie, published in April 2007 by Wrox. In my opinion, SEO should be a part of every developer’s training. The book covers all the basics, debunks a few myths, advises on how to avoid black hat SEO attacks, talks about foreign language SEO, and rounds out with chapters including an e-commerce case study and SEO for WordPress.

  You can find a more detailed review of Professional Search Engine Optimization with PHP at designsimply.com.

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  wade 10:27 on Thursday, 16 August 2007 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

  Search Engine Optimization and PHP 

  For our August meeting, Sheri Bigelow will be presenting on Search Engine Optimization and PHP. Learn more about Sheri by browsing her blog, website, and portfolio. For those who would like to come but find distance to be a barrier, we are trying to setup something so that you will be able to hear it. More info if it becomes available.

  This month’s meeting has been postponed a week and will occur on August twenty-third.

  In addition to Sheri’s topic, we will be meeting with UPHPU members to see how we can make the meetings better.

  Download an audio recording of this presentation.

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    Sheri Bigelow 8:46 on Monday, 27 August 2007 Permalink | Log in to Reply

    Here s5 the s5 slides presented at the SEO with PHP UPHPU meeting.

    I could have covered so much more, but the conversation during the meeting was great and I really enjoyed meeting a few new attendees that I hadn’t met before. Since some of the questions centered on 301 redirects, and because I didn’t get a chance to get into XML sitemaps, check out my latest blog post about 301 Redirects, Link Structure, XML Sitemaps, & Preferred Domain.

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  Bryan Petty 11:09 on Wednesday, 8 August 2007 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

  DefCon 15 Report 

  It’s that time of the year again when hackers of all types get together for their annual celebration of discoveries made throughout the year. We call this DefCon, and every year, new exploits in software and hardware are released to the public.

  I had the opportunity to attend the conference for my sixth year there (for the 15 years it’s been held now) along with more than 8,000 other hackers at the Riviera Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. Presentations were given on about 120 different subjects ranging from drive reanimation to international information warfare. More than $15,000 was raised to support the EFF. Breakout sessions were held for two full days on both wireless WEP and WPA cracking as well as lock picking.

  Contests are also held every year including the infamous Capture the Flag contest designed to find the best team of network and server security gurus that runs continuously from the beginning of the conference to the very end. Hacker Jeopardy provides a test of knowledge of both technical details as well as political and related events. More than 10 other contests are also run including WarDriving, Lock Picking, DefconBots (build an automated robot to accomplish a specific task in the shortest amount of time possible), and a Mystery Box Challenge (you have no clue what you’re up against until the competition starts).

  Highlights from this year’s conference included:

  • High-Security Medeco M3 Locks Broken
  • Dateline NBC reporter Michelle Madigan ousted after attempting an Undercover Report
  • MySpace Exploited (as well as many other trusted sites)
  • Federal Agents get Married
  • SCADA Systems Hacked (systems used for industrial infrastructure such as water treatment plants)

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    TiffanySS 12:00 on Tuesday, 12 April 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply

    Hi Bryan, will you please email me? tchambers@solutionstream.com. I have an opportunity available that I believe may be of interest to you.

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  wade 11:02 on Wednesday, 8 August 2007 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

  Geek Lunch at The Pie 

  August’s Geek Lunch will be held at The Pie Pizzeria at the University of Utah at one o’clock.