Archive for the 'Presentation' Category

04
May

Dan’s Ruby XML Presentation

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Here’s Dan’s presentation from this month, on XML processing with Ruby.
I know what you’re thinking…Ruby?!?! But, I think it’s important to see how the other languages out there do things. Maybe you’ll like what you see and decide to become a Ruby programmer, or perhaps you’ll pick up some ideas for writing your [...]

18
Apr

My mod_rewrite presentation

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Here’s the presentation I put together for last month’s meetup. I hear nobody showed it in my absence, but I thought at least some of you might be interested.

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18
Apr

High-Performance javascript: Why Everything You’ve Been Taught is Wrong

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Yeah, we’re a PHP group. But most of the PHP code out there is on the web, and modern web sites rely heavily on Javascript for AJAX & DHTML effects.
This talk from last year’s OSCONconference talks about ways to improve Javascript performance. Some of these techniques are pretty sneaky, and aren’t immediately obvious. [...]

07
Feb

Tonight’s Presentation — Caching

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Here’s my presentation for tonight, in case you don’t feel like going out in the snow…

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04
Jan

Links from Chris’s January Presentation

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Codeigniter framework
Codeigniter video tutorials
jQuery Javascript framework
jQuery tutorials
Zend Framework
Google Code Search

02
Nov

Webinar — PHP4 to PHP5

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Zend posted video “webinar” on their website explaining why you should be planning your migration to PHP5 now, rather than later.  You will need a zend.com account, but they’re free.  If you’re worried about privacy, you might even find one that works at BugMeNot.
Then again, if you’re looking for any excuse you can find to [...]

02
Nov

Dave’s November “Presentation”

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Dave’s Toolkit
Browsercam.com
I can’t say enough nice things about Browsercam. You can have them take “snapshots” of your site in different browsers on different operating systems, or even get “remote access” to a machine with your choice of OS.
But, it tends to be pricey, starting at $19.95/day, $59.95/month, and $399.95/year. Ouch!
If you go [...]

11
Sep

register_globals

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Christian’s presentation from August:
Register Globals
 
Why are webhosts paranoid and turn register_globals off? PHP version 4.2 and later comes with register_globals turned off by default and rumor has it that PHP 6 does not even support register_globals.

11
Sep

PHP Security Issues & Options

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Dave’s presentation from August: