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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.