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Introduction to SynApp2 - Web Application Generator and MVC Framework

nospam@example.com (Jorge Garifuna) — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 13:00:00 -0400

Introduction to SynApp2 - Web Application Generator and MVC Framework

Background - leading up to SynApp2. (When and Where)
Purpose - what is it used for? (What and Why)
Audience: who needs it? (Who)
Example - how do you use it? (How)
Giving it away - am I nuts? (How much)
The MVC's of SynApp2 generated applications

A structured discussion with interleaved Q & A

Anatomy of a SynApp2 powered web application

The database design/schema and engine (Model)
The web browser, DOM, JavaScript (X)HTML, CSS and PDF (View)
The AJAX exchange cycle and PHP (Controller)

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About the Speaker

Richard Howell has been creating software for many years, both as an independent consultant and as a captive software engineer for several technology companies, including MicroSim Corporation, OrCAD Inc., Cadence Design Systems and Panasonic Avionics Corporation. Throughout his career, Richard's interest in computer-aided design and development has focused on producing effective and practical application programs and tools.

Agile Development thrives in the PHP-powered web applications environment. By using smart tools to almost instantly create web applications that harnesses today's SQL databases, developers further their ability to quickly produce solutions, deploy them and then move on - crisply and cleanly. This scenario is the motivation for Richard's latest endeavor, a free open source software project named SynApp2 - Web Application Generator and MVC Framework. As a full time effort, Richard is continuing to build SynApp2 and spread the word.

Please visit SynApp2.org: http://www.synapp2.org

Contact Richard: richard @ synapp2.org

Twitter: @synapp2

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rhowelljr

5 TurnKey Linux Appliances Workshop

nospam@example.com (Jorge Garifuna) — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 13:00:00 -0400

bring your laptops
by Kenneth Wyrick

Kenneth will spend 10-12 minutes on average for each of the following appliances
Appliance categories

Specials
OpenBravo Appliance - Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Openbravo is a web-based, ERP business solution for small and medium sized
businesses. It allows users to view the entire status of a company,
including production information, inventory, customer information, order
tracking, and workflow information. Openbravo can also create and export
reports and data to several formats, such as PDF and Microsoft Excel.

Content Management
Moodle Appliance - Course Management System
Moodle is a popular e-learning software platform, also known as a Course
Management System. Moodle is a popular e-learning software platform, also
known as a Course Management System, with tens of millions of users around
the globe. Moodle is designed to help educators create online courses with
opportunities for rich interaction. Moodle is modular in construction and
can readily be extended by creating plugins for specific new
functionality. tens of millions of users around the globe. Moodle is
designed to help educators create online courses with opportunities for
rich interaction. Moodle is modular in construction and can readily be
extended by creating plugins for specific new functionality.
Learn more

Issue tracking

Web development
LAMP Stack Appliance - Web Stack (MySQL)
LAMP is a popular open source web platform commonly used to run dynamic
web sites and servers. It includes Linux, Apache, MySQL, and
PHP/Python/Perl and is considered by many the platform of choice for
development and deployment of high performance web applications which
require a solid and reliable foundation.

Messaging

SDK
TurnKey Core - Common Base for All Appliances
This is the common base system on top of which all TurnKey Linux
appliances are built, or in other words our appliances lowest common
denominator. It includes the live installer, configuration console, web
interface, automatic daily package updates and all other common features
(and bugs). Take a look at some screenshots.

Database
PostgreSQL Appliance - Object-relational Database System
PostgreSQL is a fully featured object-relational database with many
enterprise features: ACID transactions, inheritance, unicode and strong
support for the SQL-92 standard including subqueries, views, outer joins,
foreign keys, sequences and triggers. It is also highly extensible and
allows users to define internal functions in C, C++, Java, Perl, TCL,
Python, Ruby, PHP and PL/PgSQL.

Kenneth’s profile:

Interests:

Empowerment via the usage of common Information Technology (IT) & Learning Management Systems (LMS)

Goals:

To provide communications technology tools to individuals and start- up projects * to aid individuals, start-up and established organizations in non-competitive information exchange

Main Skills:

Research and Development of California communications technology infrastructures and public resources. The usage of Free Open Source Software (FLOSS) and Learning Management Systems (LMS) as tools for Training-the-Trainers.

MySQL User-Defined Table Partitioning

nospam@example.com (Solomon K. Chang) — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 13:00:00 -0400

By Solomon Chang

Table partitioning is a data organization scheme in which table data is divided across multiple files according to values in one or more table columns. Each data partition is stored separately and may even exist on separate block devices in the same server.

Many databases implementations generally don't give the administrator much control over which records are stored on a specific partition, but a user-defined partition in MySQL (5.1.6 and later) will let you specify exactly which partition a record is stored by default, based on a specific value.

In this talk, Solomon will cover:
- In which situations Table Partitioning would increase performance
- How to set up a basic Partition on a single server
- Organization schemes: hash vs. range
- Managing Table Partitions
- Determining Partition usage

Solomon Chang is a MySQL-certified DBA, and currently a Senior SysAdmin at Sosbuzz Inc., a social marketplace centered around helping people. SOSBUZZ connects buyers, sellers and causes for the benefit of all.

Joomla Content Management Systems, Part 3 at 10 AM

nospam@example.com (Jorge Garifuna) — Sat, 15 May 2010 10:00:00 -0400

Continuing his second talk on Content Management Systems, Jorge will further explain the details of the Mambo/Joomla CMS.

Content Management systems offer the promise of publishing tools, user authentication, modular structure and support for plugins, and most of the things an average person or business needs to build a professional looking full featured website.

Mambo/Joomla is both a CMS and one of the highest profile open source LAMP projects going, boasting a substantial user community and a number of open source awards.

Jorge will present a brief history of Mambo & Joomla, clarifying the connection and differences. They will include an installation of Joomla, explanation of the basic paradigms and terminology one needs to know to effectively install, administer and configure Mambo or Joomla, and offer some insight into the extensibility of Joomla from a developer's standpoint, by looking at some of the parts of a Joomla component and Joomla module.

Jorge Garifuna is the CEO of Garinet Media Network. which offers a multitude of Website services for organizations, businesses, entertainers and family members. Jorge joined LAMPsig over four years ago and has added a new spark of enthusiasm to our group. He is quick to answer maillist questions or bring up new topics of interest to LAMP developers.

Cloud computing

nospam@example.com (Jorge Garifuna) — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:00:00 -0400

By Ralf Pieper

Cloud computing is Internet-based computing, whereby shared resources, software and information are provided to computers and other devices on-demand, like a public utility.

It is a paradigm shift following the mainframe and client-server shifts that preceded it. Details are abstracted from the users who no longer have need of, expertise in, or control over the technology infrastructure "in the cloud" that supports them.

Cloud computing describes a new supplement, consumption and delivery model for IT services based on the Internet, and it typically involves the provision of dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources as a service over the Internet. It is a byproduct and consequence of the ease-of-access to remote computing sites provided by the Internet.

In this talk, Ralf will cover reasons to use it, or not too. Will highlight EC2, S3, RightScale, PoolParty, Chef, and Eucalyptus.

Ralf Pieper started out interested in electronics, then discovered programming and his interest moved to computers. He had a really good living during the personal computers entrance to the business world doing database programming and then Linux Sys Admin. A few jobs back he had the chance to use EC2/S3 and got very interested in specializing in automating clouds.

Synergy Desktop Integration

nospam@example.com (Solomon K. Chang) — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:00:00 -0500

By Solomon Chang

Synergy is a software application for sharing a keyboard and mouse between multiple computers. It is used in situations where several PCs are used together, with a monitor connected to each, but are to be controlled by one user. The user needs only one keyboard and mouse on the desk — similar to a KVM switch without the Video.
Once the program is installed, users can move the mouse "off" the side of their desktop on one computer, and the mouse-pointer will appear on the desktop of another computer. Key presses will be delivered to whichever computer the mouse-pointer is located in. This makes it possible to control several machines as easily as if they were a single multi-monitor computer.

Synergy is able to integrate Unix, Linux, Macintosh and Windows machines, even down to the clipboard and synchronization of screensavers. Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Synergy is free software.

Setting up a virtual LAMP development server using VirtualBox

nospam@example.com (Solomon K. Chang) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:00:00 -0500

By David Rolston

In this session, Dave will walk through everything needed to create a self contained Centos based LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) server which you can run on your development workstation or notebook computer. This allows you to develop for your target server platform (assuming that’s a RHEL or Centos based server) whenever you want, with or without an active Internet connection. Another advantage of virtualization is that you can set up multiple virtual servers to test out clustering and configurations that would difficult if not impossible to simulate using one server. Dave will cover prerequisites, gotchas, and walk through the building and setup of the VM.

David Rolston is a Los Angeles based system developer who has worked for a variety of entertainment and game companies including Paramount Pictures, Broderbund software, and Vivendi Universal Games. He has focused most of his recent efforts on LAMP and is one of the founders of LampSIG. He contributes to a number of open source projects including Joomla, and is the project lead of a popular Joomla gallery component called PonyGallery.

SCALE 8x Discussion

nospam@example.com (Solomon K. Chang) — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:00:00 -0400

This meeting will be for the discussion of booth topics for SCALE 8x.

Encrypted MySQL Replication with SSL

nospam@example.com (Solomon K. Chang) — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:00:00 -0400

By Solomon Chang

MySQL Replication has been a standard practice of scaling and failover for a long time, but what happens when you need to set up replication that routes through an insecure network? You have two options: you can either eliminate everyone you do not trust on that insecure network in the messiest way possible, or you create your own home grown SSL certificate and use that to encrypt all database traffic. In this talk, Solomon will teach the boring way that doesn't send you to jail, while providing an overview of setting database replication for those who may have missed it in earlier LAMPSIG meetings.

When he is not deliberately scheduling LAMPSIG meetings to conflict with Rosh Hashanah *and* Shabbat, Solomon is a professional DBA in Glendale and bears the guilt of being a co-author of the MySQL Cluster Certification Study Guide. He is MySQL-certified, although his mother really wishes he would have become a doctor or a lawyer instead, and settle down with a nice Jewish girl.

Testing Security with Nessus

nospam@example.com (Solomon K. Chang) — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 13:00:00 -0400

By Solomon Chang

Nessus is a vulnerability scannner. Despite being proprietary, it is free of charge for personal use in a non-enterprise environment. Its goal is to detect potential vulnerabilities on the tested systems. It accomplishes this by maintaining its own database of every vulnerability known to its contributors (for specific mainstream Operating Systems), with each vulnerability rendered into executable scripts. After selecting the vulnerabilities you want to test for, you simply launch... and wait. Nessus then returns a report of any backdoors, admin passwords, etc. that it has found, as well as helpful links to instructions on how to patch them.

Nessus is meant to be a security-testing tool that you deploy against your own machines before you put them on the public internet. It is not meant to probe other people's machines, although this is very commonly the case. Solomon will briefly discuss other security tools and common probing techniques, as well as protecting yourself against probes.

When he is not teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts 101 at Hogwarts, Solomon Chang is a MySQL certified DBA and the current acting director of LAMPSIG. He works as a professional Database Administrator four stories underground in an organization he is not allowed to talk about, and is a co-author of the MySQL Cluster Certification Study Guide.

Augmented Reality with Adobe Flash

nospam@example.com (Solomon K. Chang) — Sat, 16 May 2009 13:00:00 -0400

By George McKinney

Augmented reality (AR) is a field of computer research which deals with the combination of real-world and computer-generated data (virtual reality), where computer graphics objects are blended into real footage in real time." -- Wikipedia

Using a web camera, the Adobe Flash player, and open-source tools, it is possible to generate animated 3D objects in real-time. This Augmented Reality presentation utilizes the Papervision3D project and the FLAR Toolkit. We will also address Collada, which originated from Sony, and Google Sketchup. These are two tools for generating 3D objects that are free.

General Electric corporation showcased Augmented Reality in a recent marketing campaign for its Smart Grid, renewable energy program. http://ge.ecomagination.com/smartgrid/#/augmented_reality

About George:
George McKinney is a web developer and marketing strategist with Hookstream.com. George enjoys manipulating bitmaps and coding assembly language. He received his MBA from the University of Southern California and his BA in History from Stanford University.

No meeting Saturday

nospam@example.com (Solomon K. Chang) — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:00:00 -0400

There will be no meeting in April. It appears all the major industry conferences are happening this weekend, and the Tom Bradley Center needed this time slot. We will resume our regular meeting on May 16th. Have a good weekend!

The Elgg Social Networking Framework

nospam@example.com (Solomon K. Chang) — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:00:00 -0400

By Jorge Garifuna

Elgg is a white label, open source social networking platform. It offers blogging, networking, community, collecting of news using feeds aggregation and file sharing features. Everything can be shared among users with access controls and everything can be cataloged by tags as well.
Elgg was originally started by Ben Werdmuller and David Tosh, who subsequently founded Curverider in order to provide Elgg-related services. It has been under development since 2004.

Version 1.0 was released on August 18, 2008. This version was rewritten from scratch and included many powerful features including: a new data model; import / export; support for OpenDD) and more.

Jorge Garifuna is the CEO of Garinet Global Inc. which offers a multitude of Website services for organizations, businesses, entertainers and family members. Jorge joined LAMPsig at the end of last year and has added a new spark of enthusiasm to our group. He is quick to answer maillist questions or bring up new topics of interest to LAMP developers.

No meeting today

nospam@example.com (Solomon K. Chang) — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 13:00:00 -0500

See you all at SCALE!

An Introduction to Magento

nospam@example.com (Solomon K. Chang) — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:00:00 -0500

Magento is an Open Source e-commerce web application created by Varien, building on components of the Zend Framework. In addition to being open source, various commercial additions are available as well, from hosting plans to pre-built style templates. With Magento, you can get your e-commerce site up and running in minimal time. Magento also has integrated features reminiscent of modern e-commerce sites, including:
- Flexible Coupons (pricing rules) with ability to restrict to stores, customer groups, time period, products, and categories.
- Catalog Promotional Pricing by percentage or fixed amount with ability to restrict to stores, categories, products.
- Multi-Tier Pricing for quantity discounts.
- Bundled Products.
- Customer Group-specific pricing and group-specific tier pricing.
- Up-sells in Shopping Cart.
- Cross-sells on product pages.

This talk will go into the basics of installing Magento and getting a basic ecommerce site up in going in record time.