Announcements

March 18: Rasmus Lerdorf, Creator of PHP!

Posted by Adam Glass on Monday March 1st, 2010 at 1:15 AM

We are very fortunate that Rasmus Lerdorf has volunteered to speak while he is in town! Rasmus Lerdorf is known for having gotten the PHP project off the ground in 1995. He is also a member of the Apache Server core development team and a member of the Apache Foundation board of directors, and has contributed to a number of other open source projects over the years. He has also been an engineer at Yahoo! He was born in Greenland, grew up in Denmark and Canada and has a Systems Design engineering degree from the University of Waterloo. Mr. Lerdorf is a frequent speaker on PHP and Open Source at conferences around the world.

Date: Thursday March 18, 2010
Time: 6:30pm Refreshments and (social) networking, Presentation begins 7:00pm
Location:We expect a large audience, so we will be in a different building on the Nova Southeastern campus. The meeting will be held in the Mailman-Hollywood building. See driving and parking directions below

It turns out that another event is being held on campus the same night as our meeting. People attending that event will be using the same lot, and they will have to pay to park.

When you enter the parking lot, tell the attendant that you are here for the computer event in the Mailman building, and they will NOT charge you to park.

Just in case, you may want to print out this announcement.

About the Presentation:
There has been a lot of interest in PHP performance lately spurred by Facebook's HipHop PHP announcement in February. Most people don't know how fast their site is and will make uninformed architecture decisions or spend time optimizing the wrong things based mostly on myths and innuendo. This talk will try to get you started down the path of a systematic approach to benchmarking, profiling and optimizing your entire web site. If there is time and interest, we'll have a look at Web security as well. Most of the concepts covered are not PHP-specific, but I will of course be using PHP to illustrate concepts.

Sponsor for refreshments! We are very happy to announce that Commcare Pharmacies will be sponsoring refreshments! Many thanks to FLUX member Nicholas Saraniti of Commcare Pharmacies for this generous donation!

Location/Directions: Nova Southeastern University is located in Davie between I-595 and Griffin Road. Each of the links below includes a driving map and a second map showing the path from parking to the building entrance. They use overlays on Google maps, so give them time to load:

From the West if you are coming from I-75 or the Sawgrass Expressway

From the East if you are coming from I-95 or the Florida Turnpike

SPREAD THE WORD! As always, FLUX events are free and open to the public. Let your co-workers know, and anybody else who does web development, even on those other operating systems!

MARK YOUR CALENDAR! MARCH 18 AT NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY!