Meetings:2010-02

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Date

Tuesday February 9, 2010

Time

7:30 pm

Topic

Overview of the LAMP stack

Speakers

Khalid Baheyeldin

Description

Khalid will tell us about the LAMP stack, the basis of oodles and oodles of websites that distract and upset us.

  • What is LAMP
  • Why LAMP
  • Some applications running LAMP (Drupal, Joomla, Zope/Plone, Django)
  • Some sites running LAMP (Slashdot, Digg, ...etc.)
  • The L we all know and love
  • The A and alternates (lighttpd, ngnix)
  • The M (MyISAM, InnoDB)
  • The Ps (PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby [not a P!]) Focus more on PHP
  • Installing LAMP
  • Different ways of running PHP
  • Performance considerations
  • Security considerations

Location

TBA, but will likely be:

   Room GB244, Galbraith Building, University of Toronto
   35 St George St
   Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G8 
   University of Toronto

Schedule

6:00 PM - Pho Hungs is closed on Tuesday, the informal get together of Linux fans has been moved to Pho 88 restaurant 270 Spadina Ave (South of Dundas). There we talk about Linux related topics over Vietnamese style food.

7:30 PM - Meeting and presentation.

Late evening - After the presentation a large group of Linux fans will move to a nearby pub for further informal socializing.

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