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Personal schedule for Matt Lebofsky

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8:30am Monday, 07/20/2009

PHP: The Good Parts

PHP
Location: Ballroom A1

Chris Shiflett (Analog), Sean Coates (OmniTI)

Average rating:

(4.00, 8 ratings)

PHP has a reputation for being poorly designed and inconsistent. This reputation has been earned through a lifetime of organic growth. Some of this criticism is deserved, but some parts—The Good Parts—keep us coming back for more. Join us as we discuss the reasons why PHP powers most of the Web despite its flaws. Read more.

1:30pm Monday, 07/20/2009

Scaling Your Web MySQL Application (mostly PHP/MySQL)

Databases, PHP, Web Applications
Location: Meeting Room J2

Duleepa Wijayawardhana (MySQL)

Average rating:

(3.50, 12 ratings)

Scaling is a perennial problem. One day you are happily serving 10,000 users and suddenly that pesky CNN picks you on you and you have to deal with a million users. It isn't all about putting the latest hardware, more disk or more RAM. Scaling is a subtle art of discovering pain points in the application and using various Open Source software and technologies to get you to where you want. Read more.

8:30am Tuesday, 07/21/2009

Linux System and Network Performance Monitoring

Administration, Linux
Location: Ballroom A4/A5

Darren Hoch (StrongMail Systems)

Average rating:

(4.59, 32 ratings)

The Linux System and Network Performance Course teaches systems administrators practical methodologies for monitoring systems using standard system tools. The course breaks performance into 4 functional components: CPU, Memory, I/O, and Network. Read more.

1:30pm Tuesday, 07/21/2009

Using Drupal

PHP, Web Applications
Location: Meeting Room J3

James Walker (StatusNet Inc), Addison Berry (Lullabot)

Average rating:

(4.64, 11 ratings)

Drupal is a highly modular, Open Source Content Management System with a wealth of powerful add-on modules. Learn to harness it all and build dynamic websites with Drupal from authors of the book, Using Drupal. Read more.

10:45am Wednesday, 07/22/2009

Grokkin' Design

Design & Usability
Location: Meeting Room J3

Jon Tan (OmniTI)

Average rating:

(3.59, 17 ratings)

Design is 80% science and 20% art. This talk dives straight into the science to give you the techniques to create your own interfaces and demystify design. From using the golden ratio in layout and Fibonacci numbers in typography, to brand design and art direction, it covers it all in simple, tasty, bite-size pieces. Read more.

11:35am Wednesday, 07/22/2009

Even Faster Websites

Programming, Web Applications
Location: Exhibit Hall 3

Steve Souders (Google)

Average rating:

(3.95, 19 ratings)

Steve Souders, author of High Performance Web Sites and creator of YSlow, discusses his new insights into faster web pages including how to load JavaScript asynchronously, optimizing CSS, and sharding resources across multiple domains. Read more.

11:35am Wednesday, 07/22/2009

The Future of Filesystems and Storage

Linux
Location: Ballroom A2

Theodore Ts'o (Linux Foundation)

Average rating:

(3.92, 13 ratings)

What does the future hold in store for filesystem and storage technologies? Why is it that there has been a flowering of new filesystems showing up in Linux in the last 18 months? This talk will review the new file systems and storage technologies which have shown up in Linux and discuss what is likely to come in the future. Read more.

1:45pm Wednesday, 07/22/2009

Open Source and Democracy - Creating transparent, trustworthy voting systems

Emerging Topics, People, Security
Location: Meeting Room B2

James Tillman (Elections by the People Foundation, Inc.), Richard Benham (Elections by the People Foundation, Inc.)

Average rating:

(4.00, 1 rating)

Over the last few years, developments in the use of Open Source for creating efficient, verifiable, and trustworthy voting systems present viable approaches to solving technical problems in elections systems. The next wave of development will build on these recent achievements in the field by integrating them into the real, often messy, world of election administration and law. Read more.

4:30pm Wednesday, 07/22/2009

Linux Filesystem Performance for Databases

Databases
Location: Meeting Room B2

Selena Deckelmann (PostgreSQL)

Average rating:

(3.55, 11 ratings)

How do you choose the right filesystem for your database management system? Administrators have a variety of filesystems to choose from, as well as volume management and hardware or software RAID. This talk will examine how different the performance of filesystems really are, and how do you go about systematically determining which configuration will be the best for your application and hardware. Read more.

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