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Hello everyone,

Below you will find the details of the LAMPsig November talk:

RSVP Link:
http://www.meetup.com/LAMPsig/events/40412812/


Topic:
An Introduction to BASH Scripting

Date & Time:
Saturday, November 19, 2011
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Location:
Tom Bradley Youth and Family Center
5213 West Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90019

Details:

So you've learned a few Linux commands to get around the system, and unless you explicitly said otherwise during the installation process, you are most likely using the Bourne Again Shell (BASH). BASH offers much more than just typing commands to navigate around the Operating System - almost anything you can do in other basic scripting languages, you can do in BASH. This talk will cover:
- The structure of a BASH script
- Setting and reading variables and arguments
- Loops
- Branches and comparisons
- Piping
- Background Processes
- Output literals
- Commenting out code

This talk will include plenty of examples of useful BASH scripts to automate common database administration tasks. However, these concepts will be applicable to any aspect of system administration as well.

About the speaker:

Solomon Chang is MySQL certified, and works as a senior DBA for Ooyala. He is the former president of LAMPSIG and an evangelist of Open Source.

RSVP Link:
http://www.meetup.com/LAMPsig/events/40412812/

Intro to SendGrid - Learn how to avoid the pain of building out a reliable and scalable email infrastructure.


Summary:


Email delivery is a complex and difficult problem, SendGrid makes sure developers never have to deal with that type of pain.
Come learn how easy it is to replace your email sending infrastructure with SendGrid and all of the benefits to you and your customers.
Then, this question becomes less important: What does it cost you if an email does not get delivered to one of your customers?

About Presenter:


Elmer Thomas is a Developer Evangelist at SendGrid.com with experience as a developer and manager. His goal is to take the pain and suffering related to implementing email solutions away from developers so they can focus on realizing their passions through code.
If you offer him an IPA, it's likely his eyes will light up with glee.

What: Lambdas in PHP 5.3
When: Saturday, August 20, 2011 1:00 PM

Where: Tom Bradley Youth and Family Center
5213 West Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90019
213-915-4402

This is a Joint meetup between LAPHP and LAMPsig.

PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION

One of PHP5.3's terrific features is the ability to use lambdas. But, wait, didn't we already have that with PHP5? What was create_function() about after all? What is the difference between a lambda and a closure or is there any in PHP? Come and explore with me these and other questions in an adventure to discover the truth about lambdas in PHP. The presentation touches on the origins of the lambda and its implementation in PHP5.3. Far greater emphasis is on live code demonstrations of lambdas (and closures, too!) as well as in-depth discussion about the code.

ABOUT SHARON LEVY

Sharon is a Zend Certified Engineer in PHP5, equally comfortable working with UNIX, Linux or Windows platforms. Her accomplishments in public speaking include dynamic, multi-media presentations at code camps and PHP meetups. She has also presented at SCALE (WIOS) and was the local speaker representing the Los Angeles area at the 2009 Code Works conference. The premier magazine php|architect has published several of her articles whose subjects range from email verification to web-based retrieval, to her latest endeavor regarding PHP's support for lambdas. Writing and public speaking activities compliment her primary focus, providing professional web development services for companies in diverse industries, from startups to the Fortune 500.


RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/LAMPsig/events/24247121/

Announcing a new Meetup for LAMPsig - Los Angeles Web Development User Group!

What: Intro to Twilio - Texting and Making Calls From Your Web App
When: Saturday, July 16, 2011 1:00 PM

Where: Tom Bradley Youth and Family Center
5213 West Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90019
213-915-4402

Summary:

PHP in the Real World: Reach Out and Text Someone

As software developers, we spend much of our time in a digital world.Ever wish your code could reach out and make your phone ring? Or textyour friends? In this talk, we'll learn how your web app can easilymake & receive phone calls and send & receive SMS messages.


About Presenter:

Rahim Sonawalla is a Developer Evangelist at Twilio. He spends histime traveling the nation attending Startup Weekends, hackathons, andhelping people make awesome things. When not on the road, he calls LosAngeles home.

Check it out and RSVP at!

http://www.meetup.com/LAMPsig/events/23735201/

I look forward to seeing you at the presentation,

Jorge Garifuna
LAMPsig President
213-915-4402
http://lampsig.org

Download presentation:

pythonintro_by_solomon_061811.odp (Open Office Format)
pythonintro_by_solomon_061811.ppt (Power Point Format)
pythonintro_by_solomon_061811.pdf (PDF Format)

Topic: Getting started with Python
When: Saturday, June 18, 2011 1:00 PM

Where: Tom Bradley Youth and Family Center
5213 West Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90019
213-915-4402

By Solomon Chang

Python is an interpreted (as opposed to compiled) language created by Guido Van Rossum. Unlike most modern scripting languages, which can trace their heritage to C, Python has a number of unorthodox syntax idiosyncrasies, such as lines of code being terminated by newline characters (most of us are used to semicolons) and discrete blocks of code defined by indentation (most of us are used to putting them in curly braces). Despite these odd-seeming rules, Python is remarkably easy to learn, and flexible enough to accommodate anything between a quick and dirty service script to full blown object oriented projects.

This tutorial will focus on getting started with Python, with all the basics of any scripting language: I/O, loops, control structures. Any remaining time after that will be used for showing you how to do those things most people use a scripting language for: connecting to databases, sending out emails, requesting webpages, and other network operations.
Solomon is a fully certified MySQL DBA and former president of LAMPSIG. He uses Python in building a scalable storage engine for his current company. He spends too much time chasing after the latest geek toys.



Show up or RSVP at:

http://www.meetup.com/LAMPsig/events/21697631/


See you there,

Jorge Garifuna
LAMPsig President
Tel: 213-915-4402