Announcing an *** UPDATE *** to February Meetup for Greater San Francisco Bay Apache LAMP Group!

What: *** Olio Web 2.0 Tool Kit and TidyHTML ***

When: Thursday, Feb. 19, 6:30-8:30 pm

Meetup Description:

6:30-7:00 pm - Pizza, Refreshments and Networking

7:00-7:45 pm - Shanti Subramanyam, Sun Microsystems, speaks on Olio Web 2.0 Tool Kit

7:45-8:30 pm - Michael Tougeron, CBS Interactive: GameSpot.com and GameFAQs.com; grepmymind.com, speaks on TidyHTML.

Olio is a web2.0 toolkit to help evaluate the functionality and performance of web technologies. Olio defines an example web2.0 application and provides three initial implementations : PHP, Java EE and RubyOnRails (ROR). The toolkit also defines ways to drive load against the application in order to measure performance. We will describe Olio and explain how you could use it and also showcase some unique ways in which it is currently being used.

Bio for Shanti:
Shanti Subramanyam is a Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems Inc. She is currently leading a project to analyze and improve the performance of web2.0 applications using open source technologies on Solaris. She has previously been instrumental in the development of several industry-standard and proprietary benchmarks for database and Java technologies.

Michael Tougeron, CBS Interactive: GameSpot.com and GameFAQs.com; grepmymind.com:

Validating user submitted content for forums or other commenting style systems can be a complex nightmare. Using regular expressions and other common methods of validation fall short of the requirements for most external facing applications. TidyHTML (http://php.net/tidy... & http://tidy.sourcefor...) greatly simplifies this process. This highly technical talk will go in-depth on how to use Tidy to parse and then validate HTML input. Working code examples will show how Tidy compares to other validation routines.

Michael Tougeron (http://www.grepmymind...) runs the PHP engineering team for GameSpot.com and GameFAQs.com at CBS Interactive, formerly CNET. The combined forums of GameSpot & GameFAQs serve millions of page views each day and are one of the largest forum systems on the Internet. He is also the organizer of the San Francisco PHP & MySQL meetup groups.

Per Greater San Francisco Bay Apache LAMP Meetup standard practices, sessions will consist of:

- approximately 30 minute *** UNINTERRUPTED *** Presentation by our Speaker, followed by 15 minute Q&A...whose beginning and end will be controlled by the Speaker (and Marina Fisher, Sun host).

*** UNINTERRUPTED *** means we will not tolerate interrupting the speaker's presentation with questions before they are called for! Please be courteous to the Speaker and other Meetup Members....and wait for the Q&A!

*** YOU MUST RSVP BY 6 am PACIFIC TIME, THURSDAY, Feb. 19th, LIMITED TO 40 MEMBERS ***

Here is the location info:
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Location (firm):
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Agnew Mansion's Ballroom (Building 7)
Sun Microsystem's Santa Clara Campus
Lafayette Street at Palm Drive
Santa Clara, CA
Santa Clara Campus Google Map available at (cut and paste):

http://maps.google.co...

Park in any legitimate parking space per California law and norms not marked "Reserved".

Link to Santa Clara Campus map at (cut and paste):

http://www.tishwood.c...

Note that on the campus map if you enter at center-left from Lafayette Street onto Palm Drive, the "Mansion" is on the next road just above on the map...and is marked "Mansion" and "7".