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stefan priebsch-migration

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:07:42 GMT

The Gory Details of a PHP Migration Stefan Priebsch, e-novative GmbH *Migration [...] means the transition of a from an old to a new technology. major part of software or hardware [...] *Migration [...] means the transition of a from an old to a new technology. major part of software or hardware [...] This transition can cause problems. *Tools *xdebug ● PHP Extension for Tracing, Profiling, Code Coverage, Debugging Installation: ● ● pecl install xdebug zend_extension_ts=“/path/to/xdebug.dll“ ● ● http://www.xdebug.org *xdebug *xdebug php.ini: xdebug.auto_trace=On xdebug.trace_ou

stefan priebsch-50 reasons for php5

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:07:40 GMT

Should Be Using PHP 5 Stefan Priebsch, e-novative GmbH 50 Reasons Why You *#1 PHP 4 end of life 08/08/08 *#2 PHP 4 as old as Win 2000 *#3 PHP 5 is stable *#4 PHP 5 is faster than PHP 4* * No, really *#5 XML support actually works ● libxml-based DOM-compliant ● *#6 PHP 5 has SimpleXML ● $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($doc); print $xml->movie[0]->plot; *#7 XMLWriter ● Create XML files Stream-based, no DOM tree ● *#8 XMLReader ● Parse XML files Stream-based, no DOM tree ● *#9 PHP 5 Supports OOP* * Real OOP, that is *#10 PHP 5 can* copy objects * can, as in: you decide when ● clone

rob richards-who am i

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:07:38 GMT

Who am I? The Age of the Digital Identity Rob Richards May 21, 2008 http://xri.net/=rob.richards *“I am whatever you say I am If I wasn't then why would I say I am” Eminem, "The Way I Am", The Marshall Mathers LP, 2000 2 *What is a Digital Identity? • Digital representation of claims about an entity – Domain name – email address – username – I-name • Claims can be made by or about the entity • No built-in assumption of trust 3 *Who Am I? =rob.richards Rob Richards

jbobhick Jimbob Hick ab3544...@nyms.net Caribou, Maine rob@mashery.com Rob Richards

rob richards-web services

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:07:29 GMT

Working With Web Services Rob Richards May 20, 2008 http://xri.net/=rob.richards *Common Types Of Services • GET / POST • Restful • REST • XML-RPC • JSON-RPC • SOAP 2 *GET / POST • More Service Oriented – Actions are performed on the same/similar endpoints – Parameters or Body drive actions – Tend to be more free for all in design – Perform Read/Write operations • Any data format supported – XML – JSON Examples From Amazon EC2 Service https://ec2.amazonaws.com/?Action=AllocateAddress&AWSAccessKeyId=... https://ec2.amazonaws.com/?Action=CreateKeyPair&KeyName=example-keyname&AWSAccessKeyId=

rob richards-streaming xml

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:07:23 GMT

Streaming XML Rob Richards May 22, 2008 http://xri.net/=rob.richards *Parsing XML • Push Parser – Parser scans document and emits events to execute caller’s callbacks • Tree Parser – XML is read into memory and converted into a Tree • Pull Parser – XML data is processed as needed and determined by the caller 2 *SAX (ext/xml) • Event based push parser • Low memory usage • Works using function callbacks • No validation support • Read-only • Forward only 3 *DOM • Tree based parser • Allows for creation and editing of XML documents • Provides XPath and XInclude Support • Provides validation s

morgan tocker-performance tuning

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:07:21 GMT

May 22, 2008 Sheraton Gateway Suite O'Hare *May 22, 2008 Sheraton Gateway Suite O'Hare *Performance Tuning MySQL May 22, 2008 Sheraton Gateway Suite O'Hare *Performance Tuning MySQL Morgan Tocker MySQL Canada Inc. http://tocker.id.au/ morgan@mysql.com May 22, 2008 Sheraton Gateway Suite O'Hare *Agenda • Look at the architecture of MySQL • Discuss some potential bottlenecks. • Look at how to not build a test. • Example Topologies. • Discuss some potential performance “solutions”. May 20, 2008 Sheraton Gateway Suite O'Hare 2 *The MySQL Architecture Sheraton Gateway Suite O'Hare 3

morgan tocker-higher availability

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:07:07 GMT

May 20, 2008 Sheraton Gateway Suite O'Hare *May 20, 2008 Sheraton Gateway Suite O'Hare *Designing for Higher Availability May 20, 2008 Sheraton Gateway Suite O'Hare *Designing for Higher Availability Morgan Tocker MySQL Canada Inc. http://tocker.id.au/ morgan@mysql.com May 20, 2008 Sheraton Gateway Suite O'Hare *Audience Poll! Who needs 100% availability? May 20, 2008 Sheraton Gateway Suite O'Hare 2 *Sorry, It doesn’t exist. Sheraton Gateway Suite O'Hare 3 *Let’s just say in a magical world, it did exist..... Sheraton Gateway Suite O'Hare 4 *You can’t afford it. Sheraton Ga

maggie nelson-db php sync

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:06:40 GMT

KEEPING YOUR DATABASE AND PHP IN SYNC MAGGIE NELSON MAY 22, 2008 *dev prod *dev prod *dev qa prod *dev qa staging prod *(new stuff) dev1 (new stuff) dev2 (new stuff) qa1 staging prod (maintenance) dev3 (maintenance) qa2 *new stuff trunk maintenance 1.0 2.0 3.0 *PHP and DB are separate *= PHP + = PHP + *releaseNumber.sql *release 2.0 + PHP cut 2.0 release at svn revision 207 run release.2.0.sql in database install 2.0 code *reverting release 2.0 + PHP revert to previous version of code (prior to svn revision 207) ??? in database *new stuff r203 1-20

kitman cheung-xquery

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:06:32 GMT

May 21, 2008 Sheraton Gateway Suite O'Hare *XQuery: Next Generation Data Access, Today May 21, 2008 Sheraton Gateway Suite O'Hare *XQuery: Next Generation Data Access, Today Kitman Cheung IBM www.ibm.com/software/db2 cheungk@ca.ibm.com May 21, 2008 Sheraton Gateway Suite O'Hare *XML – High Growth Opportunity Growing at twice the rate of the total database market - IDC Chart Sources: XML Market Opportunities, Forecasts and Strategies, 2004-2009 WnterGreen Research Inc. ZapThink XML-Enabled Store XML Mid-tier Data Aggregation Worldwide Enterprise Database Management Systems Software Fo

joshua eichorn-pear2

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:06:22 GMT

May 20, 2008 Sheraton Gateway Suite O'Hare *PEAR2, What’s new and what you can use today May 20, 2008 Sheraton Gateway Suite O'Hare *PEAR2, What’s new and what you can use today Joshua Eichorn PEAR Group, Bluga.net WebThumb Webthumb.bluga.net josh@bluga.net May 20, 2008 Sheraton Gateway Suite O'Hare *What is PEAR • Structured library of open source code for users • Code distribution system / pear installer • Standard code style • Website, mailing lists and mirrors May 20, 2008 Sheraton Gateway Suite O'Hare Sheraton Gateway Suite O'Hare 2 2 *Current State of PEAR: Stats • 692 Regis

josh eichorn-choosing ria technologies

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:06:08 GMT

May 20, 2008 Sheraton Gateway Suite O'Hare *Choosing RIA Technologies May 20, 2008 Sheraton Gateway Suite O'Hare *Choosing RIA Technologies Joshua Eichorn PEAR Group, Bluga.net WebThumb Webthumb.bluga.net josh@bluga.net May 20, 2008 Sheraton Gateway Suite O'Hare *What a Rich Internet Application (RIA) • Web application with similar features and functionality to traditional desktop apps • UI runs on the client • Data, Logic on server May 20, 2008 Sheraton Gateway Suite O'Hare Sheraton Gateway Suite O'Hare 2 2 *Why RIA • Merging Benefits of a Web app with benefits of a Native App •

jeremiah small-filemaker

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:06:00 GMT

php|tek 2008 FileMaker® Pro/PHP Hybrids: Jeremiah Small Soliant Consulting *Session Map FileMaker Pro/PHP Hybrids Introduction When to use a Hybrid Planning for a Hybrid Beyond the API Demos Review/Resources/QA *Who am I? Tech Lead at Soliant Consulting • What’s that? • Literally: • Project Manager + Developer Independent Developer + Infrastructure • The way I see it: • • (I love my job) • soliantconsulting.com/jobs *Simple to implement Not a whole new technology to master because… PHP Developer FileMaker Pro Developer *Simple to implement …the FileMaker/PHP intersection is really sm

jeff moore-maintainable code

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:05:57 GMT

php | tek - Chicago, May 20-23, 2008 Coding For Success: Writing software you will be able to understand next month Writing Maintainable PHP Code Jeff Moore *Jeff Moore • First programming job in 1987 • 9 years working on ERP systems • PHP Since 2000 • Currently at Mashery *What is Maintainable Code? *Maintainable Code is... • Quick to change • Safe to change *Maintainability is About Change • “The system doesn’t handle this case” • “This is too hard to do” • A new law goes into effect • “Good news, we’ve been bought out” *How Do You React To Change? • Excitement! • • Great idea... We

jeff moore-exceptional php

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:05:53 GMT

php | tek - Chicago, May 19-23, 2008 Exceptional PHP When Good Code Goes Bad Jeff Moore http://www.mashery.com/ http://www.procata.com/blog/ *What Impression Does this Make? •Warning: mysql_connect(): Too many connections in /www2/ anonymous/php/_Database.inc on line 18 Too many connections *Hide Your Errors • Production • Development • display_errors • display_errors = On = Off • display_errors = Off *Don’t Bury Your Head in the Sand • Production • Development • log_errors = On • log_errors = On *Error Levels 1 2 4 8 16 32 64 E_ERROR E_WARNING E_PARSE E_NOTICE E_CORE_ERROR E_CORE_WA

jason sweat-test driven development

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:05:50 GMT

May 20, 2008 Sheraton Gateway Suite O'Hare *Test Driven Development May 20, 2008 Sheraton Gateway Suite O'Hare *Test Driven Development Jason E. Sweat http://blog.casey-sweat.us jsweat_php@yahoo.com May 20, 2008 Sheraton Gateway Suite O'Hare *$this->assertTrue(intro()); Click to edit Master title style class PhpTekTestDrivenDevelopmentTestCase extends UnitTestCase { function TestAuthor() { $talk = new PhpTekTestDrivenDevelopment; $author = $talk->getAuthor(); $this->assertTrue($author->introduction()); $this->assertEqual('Jason', $author->first_name); } function TestPresentation() {

jason sweat-design patterns

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:05:40 GMT

May 20, 2008 Sheraton Gateway Suite O'Hare *Design Patterns in PHP May 20, 2008 Sheraton Gateway Suite O'Hare *Design Patterns in PHP Jason E. Sweat http://blog.casey-sweat.us jsweat_php@yahoo.com May 20, 2008 Sheraton Gateway Suite O'Hare *Technical Conference Presentation Pattern • Design Pattern –The Classic Tech Talk • Implementation: –Tell ‘em what your are going to tell ‘em –Tell ‘em –Tell ‘em what you told ‘em • Forces: –Communication information to an audience May 20, 2008 May 20, 2008 Sheraton Gateway Suite O'Hare Sheraton Gateway Suite O'Hare 2 *The “Pattern” of this pre

greg beaver-pear phar

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:05:27 GMT

May 20, 2008 Sheraton Gateway Suite O'Hare *Talk Title Here May 20, 2008 Sheraton Gateway Suite O'Hare *Talk Smart PHP PEAR, Phar, and Title Here May 20, 2008 Sheraton Gateway Suite O'Hare *Talk Smart PHP PEAR, Phar, and Title Here Gregory Beaver PEAR president 2007-2008, PEAR/PHP developer greg.chiaraquartet.net cellog@php.net May 20, 2008 Sheraton Gateway Suite O'Hare *What is this stuff? How did you get past php| tek security? • Lead developer of – PEAR Installer and Pyrus – Chiara_PEAR_Server and Pyrus_SimpleChannelServer – Phar extension – PHP_Archive – PHP_ParserGenerator/PHP_

eric david benari-project tools techniques

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:05:17 GMT

IT Project Management: Best Practice Tools and Techniques Presented by Eric David Benari About Me: • • • • • PMI-Certified Project Management Professiona Zend Certified Engineer (PHP 4 and 5) Certified Internet Webmaster Associate MySQL 5.0 Certified Developer MySQL 5.0 Certified DBA *Management -> Environment Methodologies • Agile • •  Scrum •  XP •  Lean •  Crystal  Feature Driven Development (FDD) PMI Prince2 Rational Unified Process (RUP) IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)  Rapid Application Development (RAD)  Waterfall PAGE 2 *Management ->

eric david benari-accessibility

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:04:48 GMT

*Web accessibility deﬁned Web Accessibility: Making web content and functionality accessible to everyone regardless of physical and/or cognitive ability or browsing platform. *Alternate ways of browsing Assistive Technologies • • • • • • Specialty keyboards Head wand (mouth stick) Enlarged text Screen magniﬁers Screen readers Virtouch mouse for the blind *Alternate ways of browsing Cellphone – BlackBerry • • • • Tiny screen Keyboard navigation only May not support CSS or JavaScript Some have low contrast iPhone – PDA – Internet Tablets • • Small screen – reduced resolution Mouse nav

eli white-high perf php

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:04:37 GMT

High Performance PHP & MySQL Scaling Techniques ● ● Elliott White III – Eli ● http://eliw.com/ PHP|tek Chicago 2008 May 23rd 2008 Elliott White III High Performance PHP & MySQL Scaling Techniques *What's all this then? • Introduction • Standard Solution • Quick PHP Solutions • APC User Variables • Memcached • Purpose Driven Database Servers • Database Partitioning Elliott White III High Performance PHP & MySQL Scaling Techniques PHP|tek Chicago 2008 May 23rd 2008 *Introduction ● Performance is a problem Scaling your performance is a bigger problem ● Elliott White III High Performance

eli white-hacked

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:04:35 GMT

Help, My Website has been Hacked! Now What? Elliott White III – Eli http://eliw.com/ Elliott White III Help, My Website has been Hacked! Now What? PHP|tek Chicago 2008 May 22nd 2008 *Oh noes! I can has hakkerz! Elliott White III – Eli http://eliw.com/ Elliott White III Help, My Website has been Hacked! Now What? PHP|tek Chicago 2008 May 22nd 2008 *What's included? ● Introduction A definition of hacked Three stages of security Making sure you don't get hacked Discovering that you've been hacked Immediate response Finding the security hole Q&A PHP|tek Chicago 2008 May 22nd 2008 ● ● ● ● ●

ed finkler-phpsecinfo

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:04:33 GMT

Securing the PHP Environment with PHPSecInfo Ed Finkler coj@funkatron.com 20080523 *The ubiquity of PHP PHP is very, very popular Nearly impossible to find a hosting service that doesn’t support PHP in some form About 34% of all domains report using PHP PHP is very easy to learn PHP provides results quickly Time between setup and seeing results is very short *The ubiquity of PHP PHP powers many busy, high-profile sites Wikipedia Facebook Wordpress.com Digg Flickr Yahoo! *NIST NVD: 2006 data PHP Language PHP Apps: remote file inclusion PHP Apps: other Other 13.6% 0.5% 28.9% 6604 total entrie

ed finkler-building desktop rias

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:04:13 GMT

Building Desktop RIAs with PHP, HTML & Javascript in AIR Ed Finkler, php|tek 2008, May 22 2008 funkatron.com / funkatron@gmail.com *What is AIR? For the desktop Not a browser plugin Build desktop apps with web technologies *AIR architecture A ﬂash player + special AIR-speciﬁc APIs HTMLLoader control Uses WebKit – like Safari 3 Flash OS Win/Mac/Linux Zee Cloud Webkit (HTMLLoader) web server *Building apps Flex (XML + Actionscript → SWF) Flash (the authoring tool → SWF) HTML (HTML + JS + CSS) open standards! just like regular web pages *The bare essentials Application descriptor (.xml) Ini

derick rethans-tdd

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:04:02 GMT

php|tek - Chicago, US Derick Rethans - dr@ez.no http://derickrethans.nl/talks.php *About Me ● ● ● ● ● ● Dutchman living in Norway eZ Systems A.S. eZ Components project lead PHP development mcrypt, input_filter, date/time support, unicode QA *Introduction It's OK to write code that does not work *It's OK to write code that does not work *Introduction About Testing *Web Application Testing Testable Parts Front-end ● Acceptance Tests and System Tests that run in the browser ● Testing of Web Services with Unit Tests ● Compatibility Testing for Browser/OS/etc. combinations ● Performance Te

derick rethans-search

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:03:58 GMT

php|tek - Chicago, US Derick Rethans - dr@ez.no http://derickrethans.nl/talks.php *About Me ● ● ● ● ● ● Dutchman living in Norway eZ Systems A.S. eZ Components project lead PHP development mcrypt, input_filter, date/time support, unicode QA *Introduction *Indexing Before you can search, you need to index. Indexing requires: ● Finding the documents to index (crawl) ● Separate the documents into indexable units (tokenizing) ● Massage the found units (stemming) *Crawling ● ● Domain specific: file system, CMS, Google Should indicate different fields of a document: title, description, meta-

derick rethans-php secrets

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:03:55 GMT

Welcome! php|tek - Chicago, US Derick Rethans - dr@ez.no http://derickrethans.nl/talks.php *About Me ● ● ● ● ● ● Dutchman living in Norway eZ Systems A.S. eZ Components project lead PHP development mcrypt, input_filter, date/time support, unicode QA *Introduction *Parsing Lexical analyze script source ● Divide into logical blocks of characters ● Give special blocks a meaning ● flex (but only 2.5.4!) The Parse Error: ● Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_CLASS, expecting ',' or ';' in - on line 2 *Compiling Diagram *Compiling: Example fibonacci.php:

christopher jones-web scale php

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:03:51 GMT

© 2008 Oracle Corporation * Web-Scale PHP Database Connection Management Christopher Jones, Product Development, Oracle PHP|Tek, May 2008 *The following is intended to outline our general product direction. It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described for Oracle’s products remain at the sole discretion of Oracle.

chris shiflett-security 20

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:03:43 GMT

Security 2.0 Chris Shiﬂett Principal, OmniTI chris@omniti.com 1 1 *Talk Outline ‣ What Is Web 2.0? ‣ Cross-Site Scripting ‣ Cross-Site Request Forgeries ‣ Attack Mashups ‣ Live Demo? ‣ Questions and Answers 2 2 *What Is Web 2.0? Web 1.0 DoubleClick Ofoto Britannica Online Personal Web Sites Screen Scraping Directories (Taxonomy) Web 2.0 Google AdSense Flickr Wikipedia Blogs Web Services Tagging (Folksonomy) 3 3 *Cross-Site Scripting A ATTACKER TARGET VICTIM 4 4 *Cross-Site Scripting HTML Attacker XSS Target XSS Victim 5 5 *Cross-Site Scripting echo $_GET['user']; http://host/

brian-deshong robust-batch-processing

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:03:39 GMT

ROBUST BATCH PROCESSING WITH PHP BRIAN DESHONG MAY 23, 2008 *Intro *Who am I? Senior Software Architect, Schematic (Atlanta) Open Source Platforms Group *What inspired this talk? Work with Nokia MOSH http://mosh.nokia.com/ and http://mosh.nokia.mobi/ Previous (bad) experiences with poorly-designed back end scripts There’s no “one stop shop” for writing batch scripts in PHP *Our agenda Review some of the basics How to: Make them robust and scalable Developing responsibly An example scenario Zend Framework components *What Is Batch Processing? *What does Wikipedia say? Batch processing

brian shire-apc facebook

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:03:30 GMT

Brian M. Shire PHP Tek 2008, Chicago May 23rd 11:15am-12:15pm *About Facebook A social utility to communicate & share information Over 70 million active users. 5th most-trafficked website in the world. (source: comScore) *Open Source Facebook uses and modifies Open Source technology..... Global collaboration is beneficial! Customization. “Own the stack.” *Alternative PHP Cache (APC) “APC is a free, open, and robust framework for caching and optimizing PHP intermediate code.” Provides a significant PHP interpreter performance increase. Open source allows collaboration, bug fixes and optim

brian deshong-grown up dev

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:02:58 GMT

THE GROWN-UP COMPANY’S GUIDE TO DEVELOPMENT BRIAN DESHONG MAY 22, 2008 *INTRO *Who am I? Senior Software Architect, Schematic Full-service interactive agency Open Source Platforms Group Former Manager, Open Source Platforms Group (NYC) Systems Administration background IT support, Developer and Technical Lead, Community Connect Inc. My previous life… *What are we covering here? How to increase quality of development Coding standards Code reviews Robust development tools How to become more efﬁcient Adoption of frameworks Building modules for reuse *What about this stuff at Schematic? Open

Paella Recipe

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:39:48 GMT

Paella Recipe Paella is a one of the world's most famous rice dishes, and this version is a seafood extravaganza. Traditionally, paella is prepared in a paellera (a wide, shallow pan with looped handles) and cooked over an outdoor fire. However, it's easy to cook paella to authentic perfection in your own kitchen over the stovetop. The following paella recipe serves 4, and for best results cook in a 14 or 15-inch paellera. A large shallow frying pan makes an acceptable substitute. Ingredients • • • • • • • 1 or 2 diced onions 1 can of diced tomatoes 4 cloves of garlic 2 yellow peppers Shrim

Secrets of the CSS Jedi

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:33:54 GMT

Secrets of the CSS Jedi An Event Apart Chicago 27 August 2007 *

Be Pure. Be Vigilant. Behave.

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:33:51 GMT

be pure be vigilant be pure behave behaviour progressive enhancement separation presentation CSS JavaScript CSS p{} content english lolcat get all the p elements i can has p elementz? structure HTML DOM CSS #foo { } document. getElementsByTagName("p") DOM document. getElementById("foo") *CSS #foo p { } DOM document. getElementById("foo"). getElementsByTagName("p") example adactio.com

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The State of CSS In an IE7 World

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:33:49 GMT

The Gorilla Awakes! The State of CSS in an IE7 World An Event Apart Chicago 28 August 2007 Much With the Uptake !...on January 8th "2007#, we had the 100 mi$ionth IE7 insta$ation. However, even more important than insta$ations is usage. According to WebSideStory %the company we use to measure browser usage&, as of this week, over 25' of a$ visitors to websites in the US (ere using IE7, making IE7 the second most used browser a)er IE6.* !Tony Chor IE Group Program Manager 12 January 2007 http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2007/01/12/100-million-ie7-installations.aspx Advances in Standards • F

Search Analytics For Fun and Profit

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:33:45 GMT

Who I Am Search Analytics for Fun and Pro t An Event Apart Chicago, Illinois August 27, 2007 Lou Rosenfeld www.rosenfeldmedia.com Information architecture consultant to Fortune 500s Publisher and founder, Rosenfeld Media Blog at www.louisrosenfeld.com Co-author, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web (3rd ed., 2006; O’Reilly) New book: Search Analytics for Your Site: Conversations with your customers (2008; Rosenfeld Media): www.rosenfeldmedia.com/books/searchanalytics Anatomy of a Search Log (from Google Search Appliance) Critical elements in pink: IP address, time/date stamp, que

Writing the User Interface

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:33:36 GMT

Writing the User Interface hypertext Writing the User Interface JEFFREY ZELDMAN HAPPY COG A computer-based text retrieval system that enables a user to access particular locations in web pages or other electronic documents by clicking on links within specific web pages or documents. Presentation Copyright ©2007 An Event Apart. These slides may not be reproduced with written permission from aneventapart.com. Presentation Copyright ©2007 An Event Apart. These slides may not be reproduced with written permission from aneventapart.com. Writing the User Interface Writing the User Interface

Selling Design

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:33:17 GMT

Selling Design Selling Design JEFFREY ZELDMAN HAPPY COG Underwear Presentation Copyright ©2007 An Event Apart. These slides may not be reproduced with written permission from aneventapart.com. Presentation Copyright ©2007 An Event Apart. These slides may not be reproduced with written permission from aneventapart.com. Selling Design Selling Design Glory days and entrance tunnels Helsinki on the beach Presentation Copyright ©2007 An Event Apart. These slides may not be reproduced with written permission from aneventapart.com. Presentation Copyright ©2007 An Event Apart. These slid

Accessibility: Lost In Translation

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:33:15 GMT

Accessibility: Lost in Translation Checklist Syndrome compliance Quality Assurance impersonal An Event Apart, Chicago August 27-28, 2007 Derek Featherstone Accessibility as Checklist vs User Experience patterns/techniques from real sites interplay between XHTML/CSS/JS overarching strategy custom widgets custom widgets • provide us with more intuitive controls than what HTML allows • requires code/design to emulate native controls • if we “fake it” so well that people can’t tell the difference, is that good or bad? • what problems arise if we don’t “fake it” well? *i

Best Practices For Form Design

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:32:57 GMT

Luke Wroblewski Yahoo! Inc. • Senior Principal, Product Ideation & Design LukeW Interface Designs BEST PRACTICES FOR FORM DESIGN LUKE WROBLEWSKI AN EVENT APART, CHICAGO 2007 • Principal & Founder • Product design & strategy services Author • Site-Seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability (Wiley & Sons) • Form Design Best Practices (Upcoming) • Functioning Form: Web applications, product strategy, & interface design articles Previously • eBay Inc., Lead Designer • University of Illinois, Instructor • NCSA, Senior Designer http://www.lukew.com 2 1 WHY DOES FORM DESIGN M

The Seven Lies of Information Architecture

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:32:27 GMT

The Seven Lies of Information Architecture Introduction The Seven Lies of Information Architecture Information architect, usability analyst, teacher, editor. The Seven Lies of Information Architecture The Seven Lies of Information Architecture Introduction Introduction Recently, I realized something. The Seven Lies of Information Architecture The Seven Lies of Information Architecture Introduction Introduction Lies! Rules are easy, but guidelines are hard. *The Seven Lies of Information Architecture The Seven Lies of Information Architecture Lies, rules, and guidelines Typica

Design Your Way Out of a Paper Bag

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:31:39 GMT

Copyright ©2007 Jason Santa Maria. All Rights Reserved. www.jasonsantamaria.com These slides may not be used or distributed without written permission. *Hi, I’m Jason Creative Director, Happy Cog Studios **Good to Great *DISCOVERY ******Research ********A List Apart ********Happy Cog ***We DESIGN beautiful websites PUBLISH our best ideas SPEAK to a worldwide community **PROCESS *Iterative design **********************BRANDING *Brand vs logo *A brand is a person’s gut feeling about a product, service, or company. —Marty Neumeier, The Brand Gap *Make it bigger Animation by o

Interface Design Juggling

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:30:48 GMT

INTER FACE DE SIGN J UG GLING by DAN CEDERHOLM http:/ /www.flickr.com/photos/designerbrent/194242417/ http:/ /www.flickr.com/photos/shawnzlea/137209564/ COLO R TYPOGRA PHY ICONO GR AP HY MICRO FO RMATS FLEXI BIL ITY Learning to juggle - Passing one object from one hand to the other. - Then two ... - Then three ... - You’re still not juggling. *Juggling is ... - Keeping all objects consistently in the air - Adapting to shift, changes in pattern, etc. MY BACKYARD http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/stuartyeates/ 45919678/ SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT (Wig 2.0?) Color. Start with a small, core palett

php|tek - Writing Maintainable Code

Tue, 29 May 2007 16:54:54 GMT

php | tek - Chicago, May 16-18, 2007 Writing Maintainable PHP Code Organizing for Change Jeff Moore http:/ /www.procata.com/ *Jeff Moore First programming job in 1987 9 years working on the same ERP system PHP Since 2000 *What is Maintainable Code? *Maintainable Code is... Quick to change Safe to change *Maintainability is About Change “The system doesn’t handle this case” “This is too hard to do” A new law goes into effect “Good news, we’ve been bought out” *How Do You React To Change? Excitement! Great idea... We can do that... *How Do You React To Change? Fear That

php|tek - Exceptional PHP

Tue, 29 May 2007 16:54:51 GMT

php | tek - Chicago, May 16-18, 2007 Exceptional PHP When Good Code Goes Bad Jeff Moore http:/ /www.procata.com/ *I Want to Improve How My Code Deals With Errors *What Impression Does this Make? Warning: mysql_connect(): Too many connections in /www2/ anonymous/php/_Database.inc on line 18 Too many connections *What Can Go Wrong? Programming errors Violation of preconditions Violation of postconditions Violation of invariants Invalid input Resource failures Hardware failures Who knows what else? *Formally Deﬁning Correctness Precondition Must be true before the code can be Executed Inv

phptek-may2007-dependency

Tue, 29 May 2007 16:54:50 GMT

php | tek - Chicago, May 16-18, 2007 Dependency Injection Modularity for Reuse Jeff Moore http:/ /www.procata.com/ *Interdependence Technology has made us wealthy Nobody in our society is self-sufﬁcient We specialize We build on the work of others *Source of Material Wealth Interchangeable parts Mass production Machine tools *A Tale of Two Clocks Master Clockmaker Well organized More reliable Apprentice Haphazard Lesser quality *A Modern Clock Cheap Reliable Available Predictable Ugly? *Soft ware Craftsmanship Each piece largely unique Large variation in quality bet ween master and ap

jeff griffiths-php xul jquery

Tue, 29 May 2007 16:54:49 GMT

XulDb as case study with XUL, PHP and jQuery Jeff Griffiths, ActiveState phptek Chicago 2007 *Part 1 the legend of George Nava ‘in the beginning, there was digg’ - a digg post over a year ago about a demo site featuring a bunch of Xul example applications caused a lot of buzz at ActiveState. The site was georgenava.com ( now defunct ) *Aside: Who is this George Nava guy anyway? ??? *What is XUL? XML User Interface Language cross platform Gui HTML-like mark-up, DOM & JavaScript allows HTML tags basis for Firefox development Komodo, Songbird, etc. remote XUL, but more on that later *Wh

jay pipes-kill mysql performance

Tue, 29 May 2007 16:54:48 GMT

15 Ways to Kill Your MySQL Application Performance Jay Pipes Community Relations Manager, North America MySQL, Inc. jay@mysql.com *Before we get started...a quick poll ➔ ➔ 3.23? 4.0? 4.1? 5.0? 5.1? 5.2/6.0? PostgreSQL? Oracle? SQL Server? DB2? SQLite? Others? OLAP? OLTP? Mix? MyISAM? InnoDB? Others? (Falcon or PBXT, anyone?) Developer? DBA? Mix? ➔ ➔ ➔ 5/17/07 php|tek - Chicago page 2 *Oh, and one more thing... The answer to every question will be... It depends. 5/17/07 php|tek - Chicago page 3 *Get your learn on. ➔ ➔ ➔ ➔ ➔ 15 tips of what not to do Some may su

derick rethans-xdebug

Tue, 29 May 2007 16:54:44 GMT

Welcome! php|tek 2007 - Chicago, US Derick Rethans - dr@ez.no http://files.derickrethans.nl/xdebug-phptek7.pdf *About Me ● ● ● ● ● ● Dutchman living in Norway eZ Systems A.S. eZ Components project lead PHP development mcrypt, input_filter, date/time support, unicode QA *I Do Need a Debugger ● ● ● ● Xdebug: An Open Source debugging tool About 4 years old Version 2 is about to be released Works (at least) on Linux and Mac and Windows *Installing Xdebug Compiling With PEAR: ● pear install xdebug-beta Without PEAR: ● wget http://xdebug.org/files/xdebug-2.0.0RC3.tgz

apc@facebook

Tue, 29 May 2007 16:54:17 GMT

Brian M. Shire PHP Tek 2007, Chicago May 17th, 10:15-11:15 am Facebook © 2007 *About Facebook A social utility that connects you with people around you Networks based around a workplace, region, high school or college Typical uses: Look up people around you See what’s going on with your friends Share information with people you know Facebook: 60+ Engineers 200+ Total Employees 23 Million active users in the last 30 days *Facebook Growth 15.5 ● 14 ● ● ● User Accounts ● ● ● ● Page Views per Day 12 Exponential (k=1.56/year) Exponential (k=0.96/year) ● ● ● ●

PHPTEK 07 PHPonWindows

Tue, 29 May 2007 01:03:02 GMT

Programming MS AJAX with PHP Joe Stagner Microsoft Corporation Joe.Stagner@Microsoft.com http://www.JoeOn.net February 9, 2008 Hyatt Regency Chicago, Illinois *MIX 07 Part ying wit h PHP on W indo ws Joe Stagner Opinionated Misfit Geek Microsoft Corporation Joe.Stagner@Microsoft.com www.JoeOn.net **Joelogical maxim …. Good Information Does Not Displace OTHER Good Information. *A PHP Guy at Microsoft ? • I write REAL PHP Every Day. • In my personal life I run PHP Websites. • My sites get millions of visitors. • I've been the MSPHP guy for 6 years. *Microsoft & Open Source •

PHPTEK 07 MSAJAX

Tue, 29 May 2007 01:02:35 GMT

Programming MS AJAX with PHP Joe Stagner Microsoft Corporation Joe.Stagner@Microsoft.com http://www.JoeOn.net February 9, 2008 Hyatt Regency Chicago, Illinois *ASP.NET AJAX Architecture Client XHTML/CSS Server-generated Proxy Scripts Server ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX-enabled pages ASP.NET Web Services (ASMX) Microsoft AJAX Library Components ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions Application Services Bridge ASP.NET AJAX Server Controls Web Services Bridge Browser Compatibility Networking Core Services ASP.NET 2.0 Page Framework and Server Controls Application Services Browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefo

jason sweat-test-driven-development

Tue, 29 May 2007 01:02:09 GMT

Test Driven Development Jason E. Sweat blog.casey-sweat.us jsweat_php@yahoo.com May 15, 2007 Hyatt Regency Chicago, Illinois *$this->assertTrue(intro()); class PhpTekTestDrivenDevelopmentTestCase extends UnitTestCase { function TestAuthor() { $talk = new PhpTekTestDrivenDevelopment; $author = $talk->getAuthor(); $this->assertTrue($author->introduction()); $this->assertEqual('Jason', $author->first_name); } function TestPresentation() { $talk = new PhpTekTestDrivenDevelopment; } } $this->assertTrue($talk->introduceTesting()); $this->assertTrue($talk->liveExample()); $this->assertTrue($t

Chicagoist Guide to Chicago

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 21:37:05 GMT

The guide to Chicago Act Like You’ve Been Here Before *Chicagoist is a lover of many things. Food. Theatre. Drinking. Music. The list has the potential to go on and on. In no city, however, are these activities more enjoyable than right here in Chicago, home to some of best grub, best live entertainment and best of well, everything, that the world has to offer. We’re biased, we know, but we’re right on this one. We’ve slapped together the Act Like You’ve Been Here Before guide as a small—but handy— way for those of you who visit our fair city this year to check out Chicago in