Entries by Jim Workman

Due to holidays near the fourth Wednesday of the next two months, LAMPSIG will not have our normal meetings during November and December.

We are not hibernating though. We will be working on our project for SCALE 4 in February of next year. We will soon be asking for volunteers to help with the project. Stay tuned for more information.

Main Topic: Build an Open Source Home Entertainment Network with Myth TV
Speaker: Clay Claiborne

Clay Claiborne recently had his "Linux Beach Media Center" named the "Ultimate Linux MultiMedia System" by Linux Journal. This system, which has been describe as "Tivo on Steroids" not only allows you watch, pause and record live TV including HDTV. It also rips DVDs and CDs and stores them on the hard drive, displays on your big screen TV, outputs eight channel sound or digital audio to your surround sound system, integrates Internet and home media, and utilizes a free on-line program guide. Of course it runs on Linux and the software that runs it, including MythTV is free. Clay will be demonstrating this system and giving members a general update on developments in the Linux world.

Clay Claiborne (cjc@Cosmoseng.com) is CEO of Linux hardware integrator Cosmos Engineering Company. He has worked in the computer industry off and on for 30 years, and has been a Linux enthusiast since 1995. In 1996 Clay developed the concept of selling Linux pre-installed on a hard drive and produced Linux On A Disk. He founded Linux Users, Los Angeles and was its president for eight years. Clay currently resides in Venice, CA.

Main Topic: MySQL Replication - Solomon Chang

MySQL Replication is the means by which one or more MySQL databases can keep data synchronized with a master server. The scope of replicated data can cover any range, whether a single table, or indiscriminately all the databases on the master server. MySQL Replication is beginning to find progressively more exposure in corporate production environments, where it sees use from providing hot backups, to distributing access load amongst large numbers of users.

This lecture will cover four main topics:

* Requirements of MySQL Replication
* Concepts of MySQL Replication
* Configuring MySQL Replication
* Troubleshooting MySQL Replication

Solomon will provide a master to replicate from, so attendees are encouraged to bring their own computers running MySQL (4.1 or later, please) to configure as a hands-on slave. Attendees will also have full access to Solomon's master. If there is time, more advanced topics will be discussed:

* Pyramid Architectures
* Dual Masters
* Circular Replication
* Circular Replication of Masters

Solomon Chang, a MySQL-certified DBA, practices his skills at PriceGrabber.com and has been involved with LAMPsig since its inception in 2003. He is also currently co-authoring the MySQL Cluster Certification Guide by MySQL Press. SCALE attendees may remember Solomon entertaining us at the grand piano during lunch breaks.

Main Topic: The Symfony PHP Framework

Symfony is one of the hottest PHP framework projects in the LAMP development community. Demo apps built with Symfony recently made the front page of both Digg.com and Ajaxian, and thousands of developers have downloaded and are using symfony to build their applications. Kevin Moreland is a freelance Linux sysadmin and LAMP developer who has been using Symfony in the development of an enterprise level application. He'll provide an introduction to the framework, and demonstration of its abilities, using the same basic outline from the CakePHP presentation from last month. The presentation will cover the following material:

-Introduction
- The Symfony structure: directories explained
- Models, Views, Controllers
- Starting with symfony
- using the command line tools
- Introduction to Propel
- Prototype an Application
- scaffolding what you need
- Customize the Application
- add a nice layout and enhance the views
- Example(s)
- Extending the Application with helpers and components
- Conclusion / Q & A

Main Topic: CakePHP, Rapid Developement Framework - Garrett J. Woodworth

CakePHP is about rapid development. Therefore, Garrett Woodworth will build a sample application as a demonstration of its ease of use.

During our meeting, Garrett will lead us through:

- Installing CakePHP

- The CakePHP structure- directories explained

- Models, Views, Controllers

- Starting with bake.php - using the command line tools

- Prototype an Application - scaffolding what you need

- Customize the Application - add a nice layout and enhance the views

- Extending the Application - we probably need some helpers and
components

- Conclusion / Q & A

Garrett J. Woodworth aka gwoo has been the Project Manager for CakePHP since August 2005, just after the release of 0.9.1_dev. Now CakePHP has passed 1.0 stable and has grown into one of the largest PHP communities. The CakePHP community has over 1900 members, a solid development and documentation team, and is supported by the Cake Software Foundation. Garrett is responsible for the CakeAMFPHP package, which links CakePHP with AMFPHP for Flash remoting goodness. Gwoo also produced several sample applications with CakePHP including a blog/photo gallery, a code-sharing bin, a Google Maps application, and a web based bake utility.

Garrett started developing PHP applications in 1999. He holds a JD, focused on intellectual property, and MBA in information systems from Fordham University.