From hostmaster at nyphp.com Mon Nov 3 11:12:18 2008 From: hostmaster at nyphp.com (New York PHP) Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 11:12:18 -0500 Subject: [nycphp-announce] TOMORROW@nyphp: Lighten RIA with Adobe AIR, Flex & AMF (NOV 4TH) Message-ID: <006701c93dce$f1ee66a0$d5cb33e0$@com> NOTE: This meeting is TOMORROW, NOVEMBER 4th. October General Meeting: Lighten RIA with Adobe AIR, Flex & AMF -------------------------------------- When: Tuesday, NOVEMBER 4th, 6:30pm sharp (4th Tuesday of every month) Where: IBM, 590 Madison Avenue, Room 1219 (12th Floor) RSVP: http://www.nyphp.org/rsvp.php Scared of complex RIA applications and the brain eating zombie army of acronyms like Ajax, AIR, Flex and AMF? For our October meeting, NYPHP and Adobe stand together to cover all the ghoulish details of RIA, so you don't lose your head this Halloween. NOTE: This meeting is on NOVEMBER 4th. AND stick around after the presentation for complimentary drinks and hors d'oeuvres at TGI Fridays, thanks to Adobe. Rich Internet applications (RIAs) are everywhere. With Web businesses like Google and Yahoo! and brick and mortar companies like Harley Davidson and Sherwin Williams embracing RIAs for their online presence, the media buzz is giving way to the reality of a better Internet. Adobe has recently contributed AMF support to the Zend Framework, allowing PHP developers to easily build Rich Internet Applications using Flex and Adobe AIR that interact with a PHP backend. Kevin Hoyt, a technical evangelist with Adobe, will give an introduction to Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR, and will walk through how to create a Flex application powered by PHP and the Zend Framework. Working with Zend Studio for Eclipse, and Flex Builder (an Eclipse plugin), Kevin will demonstrate how to build, debug and deploy applications built with Adobe Flex, and how to have these same applications run on the desktop using the Adobe AIR runtime. With this knowledge, developers will be able to easily build rich Internet applications that combine data from PHP and rich media like audio and video into a compelling application. About Kevin: I'm a Platform Evangelist with Adobe Systems, Inc. and I like lines. Specifically, I like moving them, breaking them, blurring them and jumping over them. If the lines form a box, that's even better because then I get to think outside of them. Pushing the envelope of what technology can do, and how people perceive and interact with it, is the name of my game. I am a frequent traveler who enjoys meeting with developers, programmers, architects, managers and anybody else involved with technology. Most of the time you'll find me somewhere in the United States speaking at conferences, user groups, or anywhere else they'll give me time in front of an audience. The rest of the time I enjoy spending with my family at home in Parker, CO. Thank you to IBM for providing a great presentation space in Midtown Manhattan. As a service to our community, New York PHP Community meetings are always free and open to the public. Come prepared with a business card to enter book and software raffles from Adobe. When: Tuesday, NOVEMBER 4th, 6:30pm sharp (4th Tuesday of every month) Where: IBM, 590 Madison Avenue, Room 1219 (12th Floor) RSVP: http://www.nyphp.org/rsvp.php You must RSVP within 30 days of the meeting you attend! --- New York PHP Community http://www.nyphp.org From hostmaster at nyphp.com Mon Nov 3 12:35:01 2008 From: hostmaster at nyphp.com (New York PHP) Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 12:35:01 -0500 Subject: [nycphp-announce] TOMORROW@nyphp: Lighten RIA with Adobe AIR, Flex & AMF (NOV 4TH) Message-ID: <008901c93dda$8028c450$807a4cf0$@com> NOTE: This meeting is TOMORROW, NOVEMBER 4th. October General Meeting: Lighten RIA with Adobe AIR, Flex & AMF -------------------------------------- When: Tuesday, NOVEMBER 4th, 6:30pm sharp (4th Tuesday of every month) Where: IBM, 590 Madison Avenue, Room 1219 (12th Floor) RSVP: http://www.nyphp.org/rsvp.php Scared of complex RIA applications and the brain eating zombie army of acronyms like Ajax, AIR, Flex and AMF? For our October meeting, NYPHP and Adobe stand together to cover all the ghoulish details of RIA, so you don't lose your head this Halloween. NOTE: This meeting is on NOVEMBER 4th. AND stick around after the presentation for complimentary drinks and hors d'oeuvres at TGI Fridays, thanks to Adobe. Rich Internet applications (RIAs) are everywhere. With Web businesses like Google and Yahoo! and brick and mortar companies like Harley Davidson and Sherwin Williams embracing RIAs for their online presence, the media buzz is giving way to the reality of a better Internet. Adobe has recently contributed AMF support to the Zend Framework, allowing PHP developers to easily build Rich Internet Applications using Flex and Adobe AIR that interact with a PHP backend. Kevin Hoyt, a technical evangelist with Adobe, will give an introduction to Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR, and will walk through how to create a Flex application powered by PHP and the Zend Framework. Working with Zend Studio for Eclipse, and Flex Builder (an Eclipse plugin), Kevin will demonstrate how to build, debug and deploy applications built with Adobe Flex, and how to have these same applications run on the desktop using the Adobe AIR runtime. With this knowledge, developers will be able to easily build rich Internet applications that combine data from PHP and rich media like audio and video into a compelling application. About Kevin: I'm a Platform Evangelist with Adobe Systems, Inc. and I like lines. Specifically, I like moving them, breaking them, blurring them and jumping over them. If the lines form a box, that's even better because then I get to think outside of them. Pushing the envelope of what technology can do, and how people perceive and interact with it, is the name of my game. I am a frequent traveler who enjoys meeting with developers, programmers, architects, managers and anybody else involved with technology. Most of the time you'll find me somewhere in the United States speaking at conferences, user groups, or anywhere else they'll give me time in front of an audience. The rest of the time I enjoy spending with my family at home in Parker, CO. Thank you to IBM for providing a great presentation space in Midtown Manhattan. As a service to our community, New York PHP Community meetings are always free and open to the public. Come prepared with a business card to enter book and software raffles from Adobe. When: Tuesday, NOVEMBER 4th, 6:30pm sharp (4th Tuesday of every month) Where: IBM, 590 Madison Avenue, Room 1219 (12th Floor) RSVP: http://www.nyphp.org/rsvp.php You must RSVP within 30 days of the meeting you attend! --- New York PHP Community http://www.nyphp.org From hostmaster at nyphp.com Fri Nov 7 15:55:26 2008 From: hostmaster at nyphp.com (New York PHP) Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 15:55:26 -0500 Subject: [nycphp-announce] special@nyphp: Writing a Social Application with PHP/MySQL Message-ID: <02ce01c9411b$28ffb960$7aff2c20$@com> We're stuffing November with another great presentation. This time we're pleased to host Sun/MySQL with Duleepa Wijayawardhana and Giuseppe Maxia on two of the hottest topics - as in pumpkin pie - social applications and performance. Join this special event at the Suspenders Bar and Restaurant for a great talk from the technical leaders at Sun/MySQL. NOTE: This meeting is NOT at IBM and on 11/12/08. RSVP is not required, but arrive early as space is limited. When: Wednesday, November 12th at 6:30pm sharp Where: Suspenders Bar and Restaurant (www.suspendersnyc.com) 111 Broadway at Thames Street, back meeting room -- Writing a Social Application with PHP/MySQL And what happens when a million people show up on opening day Imagine you've decided to create a social application for the web. Imagine that contrary to popular belief amongst all your peers, you've managed to find the secret missing ingredient to social networking and a million people show up, 990,000 more than you thought would actually bother. We'll discuss real life scenarios where that actually happened to me and all the lessons learned "on the job". Some of what we will go into: - Creating Social Applications with PHP/MySQL and how it's changed over the years. - The difference between High Performance and High Availability in an application and database. - Identifying the pain points in an application. - Using MySQL features to scale an application. - Building the ability into your application and database to scale including the use of memcached. - Some details and/or introduction to using XDebug, Explain and monitoring. Consider this a fun interactive talk filled with many horror stories of the amazing things that go wrong in real life when you've thought you've planned well. This talk can cover as much technical detail as needed! Duleepa Wijayawardhana (Dups) is MySQL's newly minted North American Community Relations Manager and was plucked from the clutches of MySQL Web Team where he has worked for the last 1.5 years. The Web Team manages the external web sites of MySQL which draw a considerable amount of web traffic. Before joining MySQL, Dups worked for game developer BioWare Corp. in Edmonton, Canada where he helped develop and run the extremely popular BioWare Community Site (Neverwinter Nights Community), BioWare Store, and various other web properties as well as Manager for BioWare's Application Support Team. NOTE: This meeting is NOT at IBM and on 11/12/08. RSVP is not required. When: Wednesday, November 12th at 6:30pm sharp Where: Suspenders Bar and Restaurant (www.suspendersnyc.com) 111 Broadway at Thames Street, back meeting room Post-Meeting: Enjoy food, drink and discussion after the presentation at the Suspenders Bar and Restaurant --- New York PHP Community From hostmaster at nyphp.com Mon Nov 10 14:06:26 2008 From: hostmaster at nyphp.com (New York PHP) Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:06:26 -0500 Subject: [nycphp-announce] WEDNESDAY@nyphp: Writing a Social Application with PHP/MySQL Message-ID: <022101c94367$6deb7610$49c26230$@com> We're stuffing November with another great presentation. This time we're pleased to host Sun/MySQL with Duleepa Wijayawardhana and Giuseppe Maxia on two of the hottest topics - as in pumpkin pie - social applications and performance. Join this special event at the Suspenders Bar and Restaurant for a great talk from the technical leaders at Sun/MySQL. NOTE: This meeting is NOT at IBM and on 11/12/08. RSVP is not required, but arrive early as space is limited. When: Wednesday, November 12th at 6:30pm sharp Where: Suspenders Bar and Restaurant (www.suspendersnyc.com) 111 Broadway at Thames Street, back meeting room -- Writing a Social Application with PHP/MySQL And what happens when a million people show up on opening day Imagine you've decided to create a social application for the web. Imagine that contrary to popular belief amongst all your peers, you've managed to find the secret missing ingredient to social networking and a million people show up, 990,000 more than you thought would actually bother. We'll discuss real life scenarios where that actually happened to me and all the lessons learned "on the job". Some of what we will go into: - Creating Social Applications with PHP/MySQL and how it's changed over the years. - The difference between High Performance and High Availability in an application and database. - Identifying the pain points in an application. - Using MySQL features to scale an application. - Building the ability into your application and database to scale including the use of memcached. - Some details and/or introduction to using XDebug, Explain and monitoring. Consider this a fun interactive talk filled with many horror stories of the amazing things that go wrong in real life when you've thought you've planned well. This talk can cover as much technical detail as needed! Duleepa Wijayawardhana (Dups) is MySQL's newly minted North American Community Relations Manager and was plucked from the clutches of MySQL Web Team where he has worked for the last 1.5 years. The Web Team manages the external web sites of MySQL which draw a considerable amount of web traffic. Before joining MySQL, Dups worked for game developer BioWare Corp. in Edmonton, Canada where he helped develop and run the extremely popular BioWare Community Site (Neverwinter Nights Community), BioWare Store, and various other web properties as well as Manager for BioWare's Application Support Team. NOTE: This meeting is NOT at IBM and on 11/12/08. RSVP is not required. When: Wednesday, November 12th at 6:30pm sharp Where: Suspenders Bar and Restaurant (www.suspendersnyc.com) 111 Broadway at Thames Street, back meeting room Post-Meeting: Enjoy food, drink and discussion after the presentation at the Suspenders Bar and Restaurant --- New York PHP Community From hostmaster at nyphp.com Wed Nov 12 11:51:32 2008 From: hostmaster at nyphp.com (New York PHP) Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:51:32 -0500 Subject: [nycphp-announce] TONIGHT@nyphp: Writing a HIGH PERFORMANCE Social Application with PHP/MySQL Message-ID: <008401c944e6$eaf08d50$c0d1a7f0$@com> We're stuffing November with another great presentation. This time we're pleased to host Sun/MySQL with Duleepa Wijayawardhana and Giuseppe Maxia on two of the hottest topics - as in pumpkin pie - social applications and performance. Join this special event at the Suspenders Bar and Restaurant for a great talk from the technical leaders at Sun/MySQL. NOTE: This meeting is NOT at IBM and on 11/12/08. RSVP is not required, but arrive early as space is limited. When: Wednesday, November 12th at 6:30pm sharp Where: Suspenders Bar and Restaurant (www.suspendersnyc.com) 111 Broadway at Thames Street, back meeting room -- Writing a Social Application with PHP/MySQL And what happens when a million people show up on opening day Imagine you've decided to create a social application for the web. Imagine that contrary to popular belief amongst all your peers, you've managed to find the secret missing ingredient to social networking and a million people show up, 990,000 more than you thought would actually bother. We'll discuss real life scenarios where that actually happened to me and all the lessons learned "on the job". Some of what we will go into: - Creating Social Applications with PHP/MySQL and how it's changed over the years. - The difference between High Performance and High Availability in an application and database. - Identifying the pain points in an application. - Using MySQL features to scale an application. - Building the ability into your application and database to scale including the use of memcached. - Some details and/or introduction to using XDebug, Explain and monitoring. Consider this a fun interactive talk filled with many horror stories of the amazing things that go wrong in real life when you've thought you've planned well. This talk can cover as much technical detail as needed! Duleepa Wijayawardhana (Dups) is MySQL's newly minted North American Community Relations Manager and was plucked from the clutches of MySQL Web Team where he has worked for the last 1.5 years. The Web Team manages the external web sites of MySQL which draw a considerable amount of web traffic. Before joining MySQL, Dups worked for game developer BioWare Corp. in Edmonton, Canada where he helped develop and run the extremely popular BioWare Community Site (Neverwinter Nights Community), BioWare Store, and various other web properties as well as Manager for BioWare's Application Support Team. NOTE: This meeting is NOT at IBM and on 11/12/08. RSVP is not required. When: Wednesday, November 12th at 6:30pm sharp Where: Suspenders Bar and Restaurant (www.suspendersnyc.com) 111 Broadway at Thames Street, back meeting room Post-Meeting: Enjoy food, drink and discussion after the presentation at the Suspenders Bar and Restaurant --- New York PHP Community From hostmaster at nyphp.com Mon Nov 17 15:02:05 2008 From: hostmaster at nyphp.com (New York PHP) Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:02:05 -0500 Subject: [nycphp-announce] next@nyphp: Coding Secure with PHP and Enterprise LAMP Security Message-ID: <006101c948ef$5e224e60$1a66eb20$@com> November General Meeting: Coding Secure with PHP and Enterprise LAMP Security --------------------------------------------------- When: Tuesday, November 25th at 6:30pm sharp (4th Tuesday of every month) Where: IBM, 590 Madison Avenue, Room 1219 (12th Floor) RSVP: http://www.nyphp.org/rsvp.php What would another November meeting be without cliche turkey jokes? Security isn't just gravy for web developers, but trying to understand all the latest buzzwords will make you feel like you're running around without a head. This month, New York PHP Managing Member Hans Zaunere provides a cornucopia of best practices and simple security fundamentals that will prevent you from being the turkey. Given originally at OWASP's AppSec Conference, join NYPHP and get the buckshot you need to knock the stuffing out of that wiley script kiddie. Anyone involved in web application development over the last five years should be aware of the security ecosystem surrounding PHP. Often overhyped, sometimes dramatic, and always interesting, the topics of PHP and security are usually linked at the hip, and a favorite comedy topic for those involved with other languages. While PHP has made some security mistakes in the past, the focus of criticism is often misguided. The applicable codebase for the security notices - whether it be the PHP core, an extension, or an application - is forgotten and PHP as a whole gets one more strike. PHP also provides great power and flexibility. But with it, comes great responsibility. As with any application living on the internet, it's the entire support staff's responsibility architect, developer, and administrator - to ensure an application meets organization security requirements. In this talk, Hans Zaunere, Managing Member, New York PHP, provides tips, tricks, and fundamental best practices from the trenches for ensuring your code and LAMP deployment isn't caught off guard. He'll then review the PHP security ecosystem and available resources, debunk myths, and reveal some surprising facts that could leave you thinking PHP is one of the most secure languages available today. Thank you to IBM for providing a great presentation space in Midtown Manhattan. As a service to our community, New York PHP Community meetings are always free and open to the public. Come prepared with a business card to enter book and software raffles. When: Tuesday, November 25th at 6:30pm sharp (4th Tuesday of every month) Where: IBM, 590 Madison Avenue, Room 1219 (12th Floor) RSVP: http://www.nyphp.org/rsvp.php You must RSVP within 30 days of the meeting you attend - RSVP Now! --- New York PHP Community http://www.nyphp.org From hostmaster at nyphp.com Mon Nov 24 13:37:14 2008 From: hostmaster at nyphp.com (New York PHP) Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:37:14 -0500 Subject: [nycphp-announce] TOMORROW@nyphp: Coding Secure with PHP and Enterprise LAMP Security Message-ID: <01cc01c94e63$abc43060$034c9120$@com> November General Meeting: Coding Secure with PHP and Enterprise LAMP Security --------------------------------------------------- When: Tuesday, November 25th at 6:30pm sharp (4th Tuesday of every month) Where: IBM, 590 Madison Avenue, Room 1219 (12th Floor) RSVP: http://www.nyphp.org/rsvp.php What would another November meeting be without cliche turkey jokes? Security isn't just gravy for web developers, but trying to understand all the latest buzzwords will make you feel like you're running around without a head. This month, New York PHP Managing Member Hans Zaunere provides a cornucopia of best practices and simple security fundamentals that will prevent you from being the turkey. Given originally at OWASP's AppSec Conference, join NYPHP and get the buckshot you need to knock the stuffing out of that wiley script kiddie. Anyone involved in web application development over the last five years should be aware of the security ecosystem surrounding PHP. Often overhyped, sometimes dramatic, and always interesting, the topics of PHP and security are usually linked at the hip, and a favorite comedy topic for those involved with other languages. While PHP has made some security mistakes in the past, the focus of criticism is often misguided. The applicable codebase for the security notices - whether it be the PHP core, an extension, or an application - is forgotten and PHP as a whole gets one more strike. PHP also provides great power and flexibility. But with it, comes great responsibility. As with any application living on the internet, it's the entire support staff's responsibility architect, developer, and administrator - to ensure an application meets organization security requirements. In this talk, Hans Zaunere, Managing Member, New York PHP, provides tips, tricks, and fundamental best practices from the trenches for ensuring your code and LAMP deployment isn't caught off guard. He'll then review the PHP security ecosystem and available resources, debunk myths, and reveal some surprising facts that could leave you thinking PHP is one of the most secure languages available today. Thank you to IBM for providing a great presentation space in Midtown Manhattan. As a service to our community, New York PHP Community meetings are always free and open to the public. Come prepared with a business card to enter book and software raffles. When: Tuesday, November 25th at 6:30pm sharp (4th Tuesday of every month) Where: IBM, 590 Madison Avenue, Room 1219 (12th Floor) RSVP: http://www.nyphp.org/rsvp.php You must RSVP within 30 days of the meeting you attend - RSVP Now! --- New York PHP Community http://www.nyphp.org