Hi all, I'm making some progress on my goal of scheduling/announcing meetings earlier. Here are the upcoming events of note:
[Don't let this deter you from contacting me about presenting... we haven't scheduled November and beyond yet. In the past we've often cancelled the December meeting it seems, but if there's sufficient interest we can hold one.] 1. UPHPU Meeting, September 15th, 7pm @ C7 Data Center (Bluffdale) First, we'll have a brief presentation from a visitor from the FBI, I believe about 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. 2. UTOS Project Day, Sept. 17th 10am-5:30pm @ SLCC Miller Campus (Professional Development Center) Come hack on your favorite open source project, and participate in the raffle drawing to win a Motorola XOOM tablet, worth >=$500 iirc. 3. UPHPU Meeting, October 20th, 7pm @ C7 Data Center (Bluffdale) 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 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. Scale or Fail - Give your App the Speed it Needs in the Cloud! 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. Bio: 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 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 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. Thanks! Mac -- Mac Newbold [email protected] 801-694-6334 _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
