Archive for April, 2008

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. [...]

15
Apr

Electronics Recycling at MacSpecialist

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If driving to West Chicago this Saturday isn’t your cup of tea, MacSpecialist in Villa Park is hosting a big electronics recycling event as well.  Drop off some old computers or monitors, pick up a coupon on some Mac gear, help the planet, get some food, and enjoy some music.
Now isn’t that better than staying [...]

02
Apr

Free Electronics Recycling Event

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Got old electronics and/or media you want to get rid of, but you don’t want it to end up in a landfill?
Free Electronics Recycling Event
Saturday, April 19, 2008
SIMS (formerly United Recycling Industries)
1600 Harvester, West Chicago
8:00 am – 2:00 pm
What is accepted?
· Computers and computer systems
· Printers
· Ink jet cartridges
· CDs
· Diskettes
· Data cartridges
· Cassette tapes
· [...]

01
Apr

Joomla Install & Setup Class

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On April 14, the Fox Valley Computing Professionals group is giving a two hour Joomla install and setup class. The class starts at 7pm in Batavia, and is BYOB/Wine/soft drinks/snacks.
Joomla is a popular content management system rising out of turmoil in the Mambo community and an Open Source land grab by the original sponsor. [...]