Starting a Startup - The Hands-On Technical Evolution of an IT Architecture

John Coggeshall, CTO of Individual Digital, presents:

Starting a Startup, Learn from our Missteps! The Hands-On Technical Evolution of an IT Architecture

John Coggeshall is CTO of Individual Digital, Inc., a social commerce platform designed to connect consumers and advertisers directly together. A former senior member of Zend Technologies' Global Services team, he got started with PHP in 1997 and is the author of four published books and over 100 articles on PHP technologies with some of the biggest names in the industry such as Sams Publishing, Apress and O'Reilly. John also is a active contributor to the PHP core as the author of the tidy extension, a member of the Zend Education Advisory Board, and frequent speaker at PHP-related conferences worldwide. His web site, http://www.coggeshall.org is an excellent resource for any PHP developer and you can follow him on twitter by adding @coogle (http://www.twitter.com/coogle).

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Monday, May 23, 2011

Power-Networking at 6:30pm
Presentation starts at 6:45pm