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Rasmus Lerdorf in Houston! -- Houston PHP Users Group June Meetup

Jun 10
Wed 6:00 PM
Location
Alert Logic, Inc.

1776 Yorktown St.
7th floor
Houston, TX 77056
936-718-1376

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Estimated attendance
 50  people attended.
5.00 5.0013

Who organized?
Joao Prado Maia

Rasmus Lerdorf, creator of the PHP language, will be in Houston in June and graciously volunteered to do a presentation to our group! Sorry about the last minute modification, but we will need to move our meeting from our usual date/time to Wednesday June 10th at 6:00pm. The presentation details below from Rasmus himself:
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Architecture, Performance, Optimization and Security.

I take a look at the performance of some popular PHP applications and go
through and show the common mistakes people make and show how much of a
difference just a little bit of optimization makes.

Then, if there is still time and interest I'll explain the current state
of XSS on the Web with some live examples of XSS issues on some local
sites. I usually like to have 2-3 hours, but I can squeeze it into less.

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I hope to see you all here for this great opportunity!

--Joao

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Talk about this Meetup

  • Kevin
    Posted Jun 12, 2009 10:56 PM
    Kevin
    Try and top that. He covered several significant PHP related topics in depth within a single 4 hour session. Like an angry parent, he called out bad practices all of us are guilty of. Watch the video if you didn't make it. Heck, watch the video again anyways.
  • Kevin
    Posted Jun 12, 2009 10:46 PM
    Kevin
    <script>alert("We learned about security at this meeting, so hopefully this JS can't post");</script>
  • Chris Jokinen
    Posted Jun 11, 2009 9:24 AM
    Chris Jokinen
    I wish I could have stayed for the entire meeting, great info. BTW - does anyone have a list of the tools Rasmus was using, I was not able to write them down.
  • Joao Prado Maia
    Posted Jun 11, 2009 8:28 AM
    Joao Prado Maia
    Organizer
    Marc, Yes we will put the video online, but it might take us a few days to do it. I'll send an email announcement when we have it ready for you all. --Joao
  • Posted Jun 10, 2009 11:45 PM
    Marc Betts
    This was an awesome presentation! Is the video going to be available at sometime?
  • Pre-Meetup comments below
  • Posted Jun 1, 2009 3:41 PM
    Clint Valusek
    I'm excited to see that Rasmus is going to be attending this meet-up. Can't wait!
  • Ryan Hargrave
    Posted May 30, 2009 11:26 AM
    Ryan Hargrave
    Can't wait!

Who attended?

  • 50 attendees
    • “ My head is spinning. Rasmus covered many interesting topics in about 4 hours. Thanks Joao for organizing this Meetup! ”
    • “ more information than I could digest - excellent ”
    • “ Awesome meetup. Rasmus was entertaining and informative, a wealth of information about what PHP is all about. Thanks so much for putting this all together. ”
    • Wayne (+1 guest)
      “ Rasmus was great! He is an excellent speaker and shared a ton of useful information. Rasmus also spend a great deal of time answering questions from the floor. I hope he can find time to visit Houston again and would share more information with this group. ”
    • “ Great presentation, chock full of great tips on performance and security of web applications! ”
    • “ A great meeting - Lerdorf was entertaining and opinionated. He covered an amazing amount of ground, discussing optimization, new features in 5.3, XSS and a variety of other security threats, and PHP techniques for guarding against them. ”
    • “ Awesome! Rasmus covered quite a range of topics. I was really surprised at some of his views on frameworks and template engines but he did back them up with real statistics. Definitely will be at least reconsidering some of my practices. Thanks again to Rasmus & Joao! ”
    • “ A four-hour presentation from the creator of the PHP language? How cool was that?!? ”
    • “ It was great opportunity to hear about strengths and weaknesses of PHP from the creator of PHP himself. Also, to learn about his (Rasmu's) creative process of thinking, not only when creating PHP, but when working in internet and computer area in general. ”
    • “ Awesome presentation! Already gained some performance using Rasmus's profiling techniques. ”

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