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  • Justin Carmony 17:01 on Wednesday, 15 May 2013 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    May 2013 Meeting: “High Performance Websites with Scalable Workers” by Justin Carmony 

    This month’s presentation will be on “High Performance Websites with Scalable Workers.”  It is important to note we are at our new venue so please share this announcement with people you know who are coming.  It will be at Needle.com at 7:00 PM tomorrow (May 15th) and then we’ll be meeting at Applebees in Draper for the after-party.

    Here is a summary of the talk:

    There comes a point in time with a website when eventually need to do something in the background. There are always cron jobs, but eventually those either don’t scale well, or are not responsive enough. Learn about how to help your website efficiently scale by using workers. We’ll discuss the fundamental theory behind workers and how to easily implement them. We’ll learn about several different technologies to help manage workers such as Gearman, Supervisord, Redis, and others.

    I will be giving the presentation, so I guess I better put a bio here. :P Justin Carmony works for Deseret Digital Media as a Director of Development over DeseretNews.com. He has been working in PHP professionally for over 8 years, and has been attending the UPHPU meetings since 2008.

    Current Venue: Needle.com

    The current venue for the rest of this year at Needle.com. The great thing is it is in the same building complex as last year’s venue, C7. Here is the new address (and map if you like):

    Needle Inc.
    14864 Pony Express Road
    Bluffdale, UT 84065

     

  • Justin Carmony 23:12 on Wednesday, 20 February 2013 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    February 2013 Meeting: Selenium by Jon St. John 

    We’re pleased to annouce that for February we will have a presentation by Jon St. John, Director of Engineering for Drive Current. It will be this Thursday (February 21st, 2013) at 7:00 PM. We have also changed venues this year! So please check the details below! 

    Presentation on Selenium

    Jon will be presenting on Selenium, a tool for automating tests of websites. From Seleium’s website:

    Selenium automates browsers. That’s it. What you do with that power is entirely up to you. Primarily it is for automating web applications for testing purposes, but is certainly not limited to just that. Boring web-based administration tasks can (and should!) also be automated as well.

    Selenium has the support of some of the largest browser vendors who have taken (or are taking) steps to make Selenium a native part of their browser. It is also the core technology in countless other browser automation tools, APIs and frameworks.

    Current Venue: Vivint Offices in Thanksgiving Point

    For this meeting we will be meeting at Thanksgiving Point Vivint Offices, which is just one more exit south than our previous venue. Here is the address:

    2500 Executive Pkwy #200, Lehi, Utah 84043

    Here is a link in Google Maps:

    https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=2500+West+Executive+Parkway+Suite+300,+Lehi,+UT+84043&aq=&sll=39.499761,-111.547028&sspn=8.839041,10.579834&vpsrc=0&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=2500+Executive+Pkwy+%23200,+Lehi,+Utah+84043&t=m&z=17

    Here are the directions given by our very own Mac Newbold:

    Easiest way: get off I-15 at Timpanogos Highway (SR-92) and head west (right if you’re coming from Draper, left if you came north through Lehi)

    the next light in about a block is Ashton Blvd/Maple Loop – turn left and about 3-4 blocks later, after the in-construction building, there’s a road on the left right before the thanksgiving point complex starts,

    that’s executive parkway

    you’ll turn left there and we’re the building on the left that is finished

    come on in, 2nd floor

    Look forward to seeing everyone Thursday night at 7:00 PM! Don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any questions!

     

  • Justin Carmony 23:48 on Monday, 14 January 2013 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    January 2013 Meeting: An Intro to Server Configuration and Remote Management with Salt 

    Everyone, we’re going to start off the 2013 year with a great presentation from Dave Boucha. It will be this Thursday (January 17th, 2013) at 7:00 PM. We will also be changing venues! So please check the details below! 

    An Intro to Server Configuration and Remote Management with Salt

    Are you tired of repeatedly configuring each new server by hand? Is your current configuration management system driving you nuts and making you feel like you’re in a straight jacket? Are you scared because that 5 year old mission critical server could have a hardware failure at any moment, yet nobody still working at your company has any idea what’s on it or how to configure it?

    Salt is designed to solve these problems and much much more.  Manage one or two servers in a clean simple manner.  Control 20,000 to 30,000 servers like a Sith Master!  Duplicate your web server in a matter of minutes on the cloud of your choice.   Query available disk space on 100′s of servers in a matter of a few seconds right from your CLI.

    Easily create your own Salt modules to add functionality specific to your infrastructure and needs. Salt bends to your will! Use Salt’s python api or rest api to give the power of Salt to your custom application.

    And best of all, join Salt’s huge and passionate community of users on the mailing list and #salt on irc.freenode.net.  Salt was the project with the 8th most unique code contributors on Github in 2012! (https://github.com/blog/1359-the-octoverse-in-2012)  Salt has a very welcoming and helpful community and is designed to make it very simple to contribute and participate.

    New Venue: Vivint Offices in Thanksgiving Point

    We’d like to thank C7 for hosting us for this last year & excited to see their growth! Unfortunately, this means the conference room area we used for meetings is being converted into office spaces to handle their growth.

    So the new venue will be at the Thanksgiving Point Vivint Offices, which is just one more exit south than C7. Here is the address:

    2500 Executive Pkwy #200, Lehi, Utah 84043

    Here is a link in Google Maps:

    https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=2500+West+Executive+Parkway+Suite+300,+Lehi,+UT+84043&aq=&sll=39.499761,-111.547028&sspn=8.839041,10.579834&vpsrc=0&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=2500+Executive+Pkwy+%23200,+Lehi,+Utah+84043&t=m&z=17

    Here are the directions given by our very own Mac Newbold:

    Easiest way: get off I-15 at Timpanogos Highway (SR-92) and head west (right if you’re coming from Draper, left if you came north through Lehi)

    the next light in about a block is Ashton Blvd/Maple Loop – turn left and about 3-4 blocks later, after the in-construction building, there’s a road on the left right before the thanksgiving point complex starts,

    that’s executive parkway

    you’ll turn left there and we’re the building on the left that is finished

    come on in, 2nd floor

    Look forward to seeing everyone Thursday night at 7:00 PM! Don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any questions!

     

    • jason 9:43 on Friday, 18 January 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Dave Boucha gave an awesome presentation and having Thomas Hatch, the founder of Salt Stack there in person fielding questions was great too.

  • macnewbold 10:31 on Wednesday, 14 November 2012 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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    November 15th Meeting: Steve Meyers on Responsive Design 

    Have you ever wondered how some sites seem to magically work perfectly on any size browser window, any size screen, any device you use to access it? It’s called Responsive Design, and Steve Meyers is going to show you how to do it yourself.

    Thursday, November 15th, 7pm at C7 Bluffdale Data Center. See you there!

     

  • macnewbold 15:14 on Wednesday, 17 October 2012 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
    Tags: debate, git, , panel, svn, version control   

    Seeking Panelists: The Great VCS Debate, Nov. 2012 Edition 

    In an upcoming UPHPU meeting, we’d like to debate the merits of the various Version Control Systems with a panel of fans and/or experts on the various systems.

    If you think [insert your VCS here] is the bee’s knees and can tell us a little bit about it and defend your opinion, we’d love to have your help. At a bare minimum, we’ll have SVN and git represented, but I’d like to get some of the others covered too if we have anyone who uses Mercurial (hz), Bazaar (bzr), BitKeeper, TFS, CVS, RCS, or whatever other system you think we should all know about. It probably goes without saying that it will almost certainly be a lively conversation.

    If you’re interested in helping out, please contact Mac Newbold. We will likely end up with multiple panelists on the popular VCS choices, so don’t worry about having to do it alone or not being the first to reply. Within reason, the more the merrier I think.

     

    • wade 15:52 on Wednesday, 17 October 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      In addition to a lively discussion, I hope that this meeting will include a live demonstration where tasks are completed with the various systems in parallel (multiple projectors would be great).

  • macnewbold 15:09 on Wednesday, 17 October 2012 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
    Tags: continuous integration, , unit testing   

    October 18th Meeting: Bryan Petty on Unit Testing and Continuous Integration 

    Bryan Petty will be showing us some of the cool things he’s been working on with automatic testing and continuous integration.

    Same time, same place: 7:00pm at C7 Bluffdale, then Applebee’s after the meeting

     

  • Bryan Petty 10:27 on Thursday, 20 September 2012 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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    Sept 20th Meeting: Justin Carmony on Refactoring 

    Justin’s been around the block a few times, and knows how to find and identify code that is in need of a redo, and will show us the right way to do the update. He will show us how to take old code and make it new again, preparing it for years of maintenance-free bliss. He may even do some live demos I think, so bring some of the worst PHP code you can get your hands on, and perhaps we can try to stump him. If you’ve been to one of Justin’s presentations before, I don’t need to tell you that it will be one you won’t want to miss.

    Usual meeting details apply:

    7:00pm at C7 Bluffdale Datacenter

    Afterparty at Draper Applebee’s (12300 South, just east of I-15)

     

  • wade 9:28 on Wednesday, 6 April 2011 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    New meeting location, starting in May 

    Center 7, a gracious sponsor for several years has offered to bring us back home to the old Linux Networx building in Bluffdale. Center 7 purchased the building recently and added it to their list of data centers along the Wasatch Front. You might have read in the news a few months back about Twitter hosting their service (at least in part) from there. Feedback indicates that the location is more convenient for most of the group.

     

    • clintonb11 9:37 on Thursday, 21 April 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Wade. I work for a company called Idea Partnership which is a small incubator for web start-ups. This building would also be available for meeting in the future. We are located at 4770 S. 900 E. If in the future you need something more between downtown and draper, let me know.

  • wade 13:03 on Sunday, 20 February 2011 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    There’s a new conversation happening at uphpu.org. You asked. I listened. I’ve upgraded to the P2 WordPress theme. It’s all hopped-up on ajax and social juice. Everyone can now post directly from the home page and comment inline anywhere on the site. A customized version of P2 is forthcoming, but we might was well start enjoying the benefits of this platform in the meantime.

    I have deleted all user accounts with zero posts so that we may start fresh. So, if you haven’t posted or comments on uphpu.org previously, you’ll need to create a new account.

     

    • justincarmony 13:09 on Sunday, 20 February 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Thanks Wade! Site looks nice and looking forward to using it. :)

    • bluewaves 13:40 on Sunday, 20 February 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Does your group meet together anywhere? I’d like to go if you do.

    • wade 13:49 on Sunday, 20 February 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      We meet on the Third Thursday of each month at Code Greene in Salt Lake. More info here.

    • smithworx 13:54 on Sunday, 20 February 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      This is pretty slick! Nice work Wade.

    • Michael Jones 14:16 on Sunday, 20 February 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Very nicely done.

    • smfop 15:15 on Sunday, 20 February 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      phew .. just got a ‘You have been denied’ message from the mailing list. Glad its just from cleaning house .. I’ve been on the list for many many moons and its been very helpful.

    • zephenryus 1:13 on Monday, 21 February 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Nice stuff.

    • josephscott 9:47 on Monday, 21 February 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Looks good.

      WPS – time to sign up for gravatar :-)

      The ‘Subscribe To Comments’ plugin can be really handy as well, for those that want to follow a specific post/thread without having to subscribe to the whole comments feed.

    • beandog 17:52 on Tuesday, 22 February 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      I’m only here to meet chicks.

    • redroy 13:58 on Tuesday, 8 March 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Awesomesauce.

  • wade 20:08 on Thursday, 18 November 2010 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    Meetings cancelled for the holidays 

    There will be no group meetings in November and December. We’ll see you in January.

     

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