don't forget wordcamp 2011 on Sept 10! the two presos i'm anxious for are Site Performance and AB testing
http://2011.slc.wordcamp.org/ mj/v On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Mac Newbold <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
