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Podcast - Designing, deploying and operating high-traffic PHP

We've all heard about PHP in high volume applications like Yahoo, Facebook, and Wikipedia, etc. but how many of us really know what it's like to run "consumer grade" websites. To answer that question, we asked Jack Steadman, Manager of Architectural Development at Smarter Travel Media to share his experiences running high volume PHP. Smarter Travel Media LLC operates two high-traffic PHP sites, SmarterTravel.com and BookingBuddy.com, which together serve millions of page views per week. During his presentation, Jack discussed many of the design decisions that were made to maximize performance as traffic scales upward.

We had over 70 people attend Jack's session, if you weren't one of them you can Listen Now! (slides: bostonphp20080507 152.91 Kb)

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Sunday, 18 May 2008

June User Group:: An introduction to jQuery

PACKT jQuery book jQuery is a concise open source JavaScript Library used for Document Object Model (DOM) traversal, event handling, Ajax requests, and animations. Whether you're new to JavaScript entirely or experienced with JavaScript but looking to shorten and simplify your code, jQuery is a framework you need to be familiar with. A real-time demo and hands-on walk-through will be done, include the writing of an animated Accordion widget and Ajax to-do list from scratch.

Please join John Resig, the creator and lead developer of the jQuery JavaScript library ,and BostonPHP as John introduces us to his library (examples written PHP) including discussion of several different PHP frameworks that use jQuery (Wordpress, Drupal, CakePHP).

Date:	Thursday , June 5th 08
Time:	6:30 pm
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July User Group:: Beach Blanket Summer School

Traditionally, summer user group meetings are "lightly" attended. Between schools vacations, playing hooky from work, and just enjoying the [brief New England] nice weather who's got this time? Well, er, we do...but we're holding off on the formal presentations.

Bring your "thinking cap", a tough OSS/PHP problem, and an appetite for participation, we're throwing a Beach Blanket Summer School Party (beach blanket optional). We will have all the fixin's to throw code on the table, dissect and discuss the ins-and-outs of PHP.

So bring a topic/problem, bring a friend, bring Anette Funicello (remember, you can't play beach ball without a-net), bring your wallet (we're meeting at the Cambridge Brewing Company).

Date:	Thursday, July 10th 08
Time:	6:30 pm
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August User Group:: Beach Blanket Summer School II

So bring a topic/problem, bring a friend, bring Anette Funicello (remember, you can't play beach ball without a-net), bring your wallet (we're meeting at the Cambridge Brewing Company).