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  • macnewbold 10:49 on Monday, 16 January 2012 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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    Best Accounting Practices for Web Development – Joanna Carmony 

    I’m pleased to announce this month’s meeting:

    Thursday, January 19th, at 7pm at C7 Bluffdale Datacenter

    Joanna Carmony: Best Accounting Practices for the Web Development Industry

    Come and learn from an accountant with years of experience what you should be doing better with your books. There should be something for everyone, whether you own a web development business, own a business that does some web development, are self-employed, or just do some freelance on the side.

    As time allows, we’ll have a round-table discussion to take advantage of the collective expertise in the group on the subject, and discuss any questions you may have about the business side of web development.

    As usual, we’ll be having our after-party at the Draper Applebees, starting around 9pm. Feel free to join us!

     

  • wade 19:46 on Wednesday, 14 December 2011 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    Blazing Data with Redis 

    For our December meeting, Justin Carmony will present on “Blazing Data with Redis.” There are several solutions about in the “NoSQL” realm, and I’ll be honest, Redis is one of my favorites. Redis is an open source, advanced key-value store. It is often referred to as a data structure server since keys can contain strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets.

    What is great about Redis is just how fast it is. In order to achieve its outstanding performance, Redis works with an in-memory dataset. Depending on your use case, you can persist it either by dumping the dataset to disk every once in a while, or by appending each command to a log.

    So come down and learn the basics of Redis, whether using it as an advanced cache alternative to Memcached, a queueing system, a data store, or anything where you would benefit from high performance reads and writes.

     

  • wade 10:56 on Monday, 14 November 2011 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    Designing with Scalability Platforms in Mind 

    For our November meeting, Joseph Brower will be visiting from Idaho to present about scalability platforms. As usual, we’ll follow it with our Applebee’s aftermeeting. We look forward to seeing you there!

    As the hype around the “cloud” continues to grow, the importance of understanding how it works becomes more and more relevant. This presentation will provide an overview of how an application should be designed to ensure that it can scale well. The presentation will start with an explanation of how some cloud services work followed by things to consider when designing your application to up scale. We’ll finish the presentation (time pending) with a demonstration of a cloud driven work flow and end with a Q/A period.

    The presentation will be given with the assumption that the people listening are familiar with PHP development, along with version control systems.

     

  • wade 10:43 on Monday, 17 October 2011 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    Scale or Fail – Give your App the Speed it Needs in the Cloud! 

    For our October meeting, Grant Shipley, from Redhat, will be flying in from North Carolina to tell us about deploying PHP on ec2 using openshift, and a little about http://www.follw.it which is a site he created using Code Igniter, and why I chose PHP over Java for the follw.it site, despite being a Java developer for over 10 years.

    Whether you have one or a million visitors accessing your web app, they are all going to demand a great user experience regardless of what it takes for you to deliver it. This invariably means quick page loads and fast response times every single time. When things go south, you just throw more hardware at the problem and increase your caches and buffers, right? Wrong. Toss in an infrastructure that resides on the cloud and now you’ve got a really interesting problem on your hands. I’ll leave the marketecure slides at the door, this is a hands-on technical talk in which we’ll deploy an application to the cloud and then turn up the heat by leveraging the right mix of elasticity and auto-sclaing.

    Grant Shipley is an OpenShift PaaS Evangelist at Red Hat focused on cloud technologies. Prior to that, Grant was a Manager of Software Development with responsibilities over the http://www.redhat.com website and supporting infrastructure. Grant has over 10 years of software development experience focusing on Java and PHP. In his free time, he contributes to several open source projects including Media Portal and http://www.follw.it as well as developing iOS applications. Grant has been using Linux on a daily basis since 1994 and is active in the FOSS community.

     

  • wade 12:57 on Thursday, 1 September 2011 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    Scale or Fail – Give your App the Speed it Needs in the Cloud! 

    For our October meeting, Grant Shipley, from Redhat, will be flying in from North Carolina to
    tell us about deploying PHP on ec2 using openshift, and a little about http://www.follw.it which is a site he created using Code Igniter, and why he chose PHP over Java for the follw.it site, despite being a Java developer for over 10 years.

    Whether you have one or a million visitors accessing your web app,
    they are all going to demand a great user experience regardless of
    what it takes for you to deliver it. This invariably means quick page
    loads and fast response times every single time. When things go south,
    you just throw more hardware at the problem and increase your caches
    and buffers, right? Wrong. Toss in an infrastructure that resides on
    the cloud and now you’ve got a really interesting problem on your
    hands. I’ll leave the marketecure slides at the door, this is a
    hands-on technical talk in which we’ll deploy an application to the
    cloud and then turn up the heat by leveraging the right mix of
    elasticity and auto-sclaing.

    Grant Shipley is an OpenShift PaaS Evangelist at Red Hat focused on
    cloud technologies. Prior to that, Grant was a Manager of Software
    Development with responsibilities over the http://www.redhat.com website and
    supporting infrastructure. Grant has over 10 years of software
    development experience focusing on Java and PHP. In his free time, he
    contributes to several open source projects including Media Portal and
    http://www.follw.it as well as developing iOS applications. Grant has been
    using Linux on a daily basis since 1994 and is active in the FOSS
    community.

     

  • wade 12:55 on Thursday, 1 September 2011 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    FBI recruiter and PHP Security 

    For our September meeting, first, we’ll have a brief presentation from a visitor from the FBI to discuss tech opportunities within their organization. Then, the main event will be Steve Meyers presenting on PHP Security. We will be giving away more UTOS Raffle Tickets.

     

    • jmalan 0:15 on Friday, 30 September 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      I wish I wouldn’t have missed this meeting. Will there be a followup meeting or are there notes from it somewhere?

  • wade 12:26 on Monday, 18 July 2011 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    PHP profiling 

    For our July meeting, Justin Carmony will be teaching us some of his tips, tricks, and techniques for doing performance profiling and optimization in PHP applications. Our meeting is at 7pm on Thursday, July 21, at Center7 Networks’ Bluffdale data center, and after the meeting everyone is welcome to join us at the Draper Applebees.

    If you have something you’d be willing to present at a future meeting, please let me know and we’ll get you on the schedule.

     

  • mindjuju 10:33 on Tuesday, 14 June 2011 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    MySQL Forks: Which One Is Right For Me? 

    I’ve got to admit, i didn’t even know there were forks to mysql, but in discussing the matter with Steve Meyers, I can understand better what he means when he says : if you’re not using a mysql fork, you have no idea what you’re missing out on.

    For our June meeting, Steve will be discussing the benefits of Oracle MySQL, Drizzle, Percona Server, and MariaDB. Don’t forget that we’re at out new location: Center 7 in Bluffdale.

    A little about Steven:

    I started out as a developer at Omniture (known as MyComputer.com back then, among other names) from 1998 to 2001. I was the Chief Architect, involved in all new code and database design. I then worked for MingleMatch (bought by Spark Networks in 2005) from 2001 to 2009. For a while, I was the entire Development and IT department. As we hired more employees, I transitioned into a full-time IT management role, while still maintaining a close relationship with the Development group. I left there in 2009, and began working for CrimeReports.com in a similar role. I left in January 2011 to pursue my own businesses. Since 2001, I have been running CougarBoard.com, a community of BYU sports fans. I wrote the site from scratch, although it uses a few external libraries.

    Over the years, I have become fairly proficient with PHP and MySQL. My understanding of the system as well as programming side of things has helped me to optimize SQL, PHP, and general web serving.

     

  • wade 11:40 on Thursday, 12 May 2011 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    Frameworks and content management 

    For our May meeting, Wade Shearer will present on frameworks and content management. He will be giving a presentation on a custom system that he developed.

    Note that we will be meeting at our new (old) location, Center 7‘s new data center in Bluffdale (the old LinuxNetworx building). ID will be required for admittance.

     

  • Justin Carmony 10:59 on Thursday, 21 April 2011 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    Open discussion on cloud-hosting 

    Our April meeting with be an open-ended discussion. We’ll talk about running your php application on things like Amazon’s and Rackspace’s cloud, as well as other things to keep in mind about your production environment. Should be a good discussion.

     

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