Greets All,
We are postponing our August meeting for one month so that we can focus on the Utah Open Source Conference on August 28 – 30. This year’s conference topics look really solid with many national and community level speakers including:
- Paul Frields (Red hat, Inc) - KEYNOTE: Fedora: The Future, First
- Joe Brockmeier (Novell) - KEYNOTE: How to bootstrap a community
- Matt Asay (Alfresco) - The Billion Dollar (Free) Software Opportunity
- Mac Newbold (Code Greene) - Local Keynote: How To Leverage Open Source in a For-Profit Business
- Jared Smith ( co-author of O’Reilly’s Asterisk: The Future of Telephony) - Dialplans for Dummies: An Introduction to the Asterisk Dialplan
- Joseph Scott (Automattic) - WordPress Performance and Scalability
These are literally, just a handful of an awesome lineup of speakers. Having participated last year and this year, I can tell you Clint Savage and the UTOS foundation spend a lot of time getting this conference up and running right. I strongly recommend if you have time to attend some or all the days that you take advantage.
The line up can be seen here - http://2008.utosc.com/speaker/list/
Registration is here - http://utosc2008.eventbrite.com/+
UPHPU Group code – UPHPUOTWOH
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I am pleased to announce the formation of a new local users group: The Utah Apple Users Group. We are a group of technophiles that use—and even cherish—products designed by Apple in California. We mainly exist simply as a mailing list where we converse and assist each other.
The state currently has two other related user groups—the BYU Macintosh Users Group and the Utah Macintosh Users Group—but both are affiliated with universities and thus governed by external policies and politics.They are also Macintosh groups, whereas this group covers all things Apple; and, as you are probably aware, Apple has recently expanded it’s product line in significant areas other than their Macintosh computer. UMUG also doesn’t have a mailing list and their forum has been offline for a long time. So, wether you’re a photographer using Aperture, a home theater nut hooking up your Apple TV, an entrepreneur using an iPhone, or a novice with a new iPod, jump on our mailing list and lets chat. We want everyone to feel welcome wether you are a student, a professional, or anyone else.
We do not plan on coordinating any events; we’re going to keep this simple. A website will be coming soon with syndicated news and events and we have an IRC channel for chatting in real time. Join the mailing list by sending an email to utahapple-subscribe@utahapple.org.
Greets UPHPU!
Pleased to announce Kevin Carter as the presenter for this month. The topic is error Handling and Debugging with PHP All code has bugs. In order to fix them you have to find them. This presentation will go over tips and tricks for detecting when errors occur. Then it will go over ways to efficiently track down bugs. It will also cover some code optimization items.
More about Kevin:
Kevin Carter works as a backend php developer for Code Greene. He’s been coding php nonstop for the past 3 years. Is a linux enthusiast, serving as vice-president for the Ogden Area Linux Users Group. His (almost) never updated blog can be found at http://dexterthedragon.com
Greets Geeks!
The July Geek Lunch is going to be at Tucano’s at the Gateway in Salt Lake.
Now, I know, we tried Tucano’s before, and true they dogged us at the last moment; but, they have tried to make things right. Those that RSVP’d last time will have their plate at half! When you RSVP, please let me know if you were in this group.
Like our last event, expect to see all kinds of coders (Python, PERL, PHP, etc), bloggers, graphic artists, local businesses owners and shutterbugs in the fray.
You can RSVP at this URL - http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/843968/
Tucanos @ the Gateway
July 11th @ 1:30p
162 South 400 West
Phone: (801) 456-2550
Victor Villa
UTOS.org | UPHPU.org
Have you signed up for the Utah Open Source Conference?
June’s UPHPU meeting will be Thursday, June 19th at 7p in Draper (address / map below).
We are very pleased to have Travis Barney of Progrexion presenting on QCodo.
The Qcodo Development Framework is an open-source PHP 5 framework that focuses on freeing developers from unnecessary tedious, mundane coding. It is a completely object-oriented framework that takes the best of PHP and provides a truly rapid application development platform. (http://qcodo.com/ )
Meeting Information:
UPHPU
June 19th, 2008 @7pm
12393 Gateway Park Place, Suite 600
Draper, Utah 84020
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=12393+Gateway+Park+Pl,+Draper,+UT+84020&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=61.711173,104.0625&ie=UTF8&z=17&iwloc=addr
This month’s Geek Lunch is going to be in downtown SLC at the Rodizio Grill in Trolley Square!
I have setup reservations for 15 though I’m pretty sure that will need to increase this. Please Please Please RSVP so that I can give an accurate count to them. This is their opening week, in fact, the day after grand opening, so it’ll likely be packed!
Info:
RSVP : mindjuju at gmail // please give count of how many are coming with you or at
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/470822/
Salt Lake Location
600 S. 700 E. Trolley Square
Salt Lake City, UT 84102
Ph: (801) 220-0500
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=600+S.+700+E.+84102&jsv=107.hc&sll=40.756291,-111.871053&sspn=0.007404,0.013433&ie=UTF8&z=17&iwloc=addr
I’m pleased to announce this month’s meeting topic is High availability with memcache. Memcache is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load. The talk will include live demonstrations of memcache.
Presenting will be Jeff Sherlock who is primarily a LAMP developer with a focus on creating scalable solutions. He’s been working with PHP for over 4 years with most of that geared towards backend work. He loves designing database schemas, optimizing existing processes, and generally making slow things run fast. He currently work as a PHP Developer for a financial services company in Salt Lake City. He is also a part-time student in the U of U Computer Science program.
You can catch Jeff at his blog at www.hoodlu.ms.
Meeting info:
UPHPU
Thursday April 17, 2008 – 7p
12393 Gateway Park Place Suite 600
Draper, Ut 84020
Asterisk is the leading PBX in the open source world. Combining Asterisk and PHP produces a great tool for building custom telephony applications.
Presenting is Senior member of the UPHPU family, David Boucha.
David works for the State of Utah and the Utah Army National Guard as an IT Analyst and does a lot of technical consulting for the federal law enforcement and medical fields.
Inquires to David about consulting should be directed to boucha@gmail.com .
Meeting Info:
Thursday, March 20th 7pm
Bill Good Marketing
12393 Gateway Park Place Suite 600
Draper, Utah, 84020
We are intending to have audio streaming and wifi restored at this meeting. Please contact me for details on audio streaming.
The very kind Laura Moncur has brought to my attention that Bombay House is closed for lunch!
Instead, we are going to eat at the BrickOven in Provo. The address is
Brickoven in Provo at 12:30p
111 E 800 N
Provo, UT 84606-1713
My most sincere apologies for the new location. Here is a map:
This month’s Geek Lunch is going to be at Lorena’s near Bountiful (Woods Cross). So for all you Northside geeks, this is for you! The reviews on Google show this as 5 stars and has top recommendations from our very own Bryan Petty.
See you there this Friday!
Lorena’s Restaurant
2477 S 800 W
Woods Cross, UT 84087
(801) 295-2441
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