Archive for February, 2008

27
Feb

PHP Performance Series

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A blogger named Mike Willbanks has started a series of posts on PHP performance.  His first topic is caching, which was coincidentally the topic at our February meetup.
He covers many of the same topics, but in much more detail.  Check out PHP Performance Series: Caching Techniques.

22
Feb

March PHP Meetup

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The next PHP Meetup will be March 6th at 7:00pm.
This month, Christian will be giving a presentation on mod_rewrite. That’s the Apache module that makes “friendly” URLs possible.
We’ll be meeting at the “other” Panera, off Butterfield Rd. It’s at 25 Rice Lake Square in Wheaton.
See you there!

08
Feb

Upcoming Events

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The annual php|tek 2008 conference will be held May 20-23 at the Sheraton Gateway Suites Chicago O’Hare, just minutes from the airport.
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Eric Michalsen, a regular at our meetup and others, will be giving a presentation on “Image Magic for non-magicians” February 11 at 7:00pm.
Spend a couple of hours learning about creating and manipulating images with [...]

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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05
Feb

Emerging Security Vulnerabilities & the Impact to Business

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This was a talk given at Google, covering the kinds of security issues websites are facing these days.