The Los Angeles PHP Developers Group (LAPHP)

Meetup Reviews

Reviews from
Global Accessibility Awareness Day! on Wednesday May 9, 2012

Meetup Rating
4.507

Attendees
100
Great event with a lot of eye opening methods.
— Alan Baker
Nice demo of text-to-speech features on Android & IPhone ;>
— Philip Chan
Awesome event, Great idea! Very important topic that we as developers often overlook. The fact that we discuss this is a real eye opening and would lead to a lot of improvements in the field, I'm certain of that.
— Ron Peled
Reviews from
Sphinx in the MySQL Ecosystem on Monday Apr 9, 2012

Meetup Rating
4.504

Attendees
31
Great topic, great speaker!! Thank you Oleg and Joe, you guys always put on great events!!!
— Evelina Zograbian
Great gathering, learned about a tool that I very well may use in the future.
— Dallas Caley
Great Meetup. I felt it started a bit late (the presentation didn't really begin until about 7:45!) and we went on until 9pm which wasn't ideal but Vlad did a great job explaining how Sphinx works and I am now very interested in getting it working myself :)
— Alex Gemmell
Thanks to all - this was one of my best user group meetings ever. We actually use Sphinx where I work and your suggestions and pointers will clearly help us. Thanks to Que and CoLoft as well.
— Mark Jones
Reviews from
Edmunds' Pomelo: Automobile Dealership Analytics in Real Time Using MongoDB on Tuesday Apr 3, 2012

Meetup Rating
4.009

Attendees
86
Great presentation
— Pablo Perez
great!! THANKS!!!
— pat gander
I got excited because I expected to see how a large company handles "enterprise" scale using mongodb. Turns out Mongodb was just an appetizer. I drove all the way out from Tustin to Santa Monica. Also I could barely make out what the the main speakers were saying. Mostly due to sound issues. Was a very large room. Turns out they were just using hBase / bigtable and using mongo for a very small component.
— Robert Kraig
It was very interesting to see how the leveraged mongoDB and the stack they used. Too bad they hadn't suffered any real quirks that we could have learned from.
— Bilal Clarance
The architectural review for the data pipeline is great. For the MongoDB side, have they run performance/ load tests against it before making the move? If so, it would be great if they can provide some benchmark data.
— raymond hon
Reviews from
Selenium, Sauce Labs & Automated Cross Browser Testing on Thursday Mar 22, 2012

Meetup Rating
5.006

Attendees
78
I've been building a CI system using Selenium and was good to see the options using Sauce would offer me.
— Steve B.
Santi gave a great presentation. Creating automated cross-browser tests for you apps have never been easier.
— Oleg Baranovsky
Reviews from
LAPHP February Talk: Web App Security - Top Ten Necessary Security Controls on Wednesday Feb 15, 2012

Meetup Rating
5.0013

Attendees
96
It was great. Mr. Manico gave a very informative and entertaining presentation.
— Carlos Candeloro
One of the best meetups yet, always impressed with the great quality of these meetups. Thank you!
— Joshua L
It's very very useful information... :D
— Kiet Nguyen
excellent speaker. extremely informative and very captivating.
— Matthew
Really informative and met some really great people. Thanks for a great meetup.
— Alan Baker
Great Topic, and Jim is a fantastic speaker and presented the information very well in the short time that was provided.
— Joe Reymann
really, really good.
— Mike Flynn
good sharing of experience, better to split an informative talk into a series of meetings (2 or 3)
— Philip Chan
Jim is an energetic and passionate speaker, and I felt thoroughly engaged in the information he presented on Web Security. One of my favorite talks to date. Only wish we could have spent a few more hours diving into it all deeper, but for a FREE talk, I can't complain. Big thanks to Jim, Oleg, and Joe for this event.
— Billy Montgomery
Reviews from
LAMPSig/LAPHP Joint Session: Intro to OpenTok -The New Video API on Tuesday Jan 31, 2012

Meetup Rating
4.503

Attendees
20
Interesting topic and information.
— Philip Chan
Reviews from
LAPHP/LAMySQL: Fast, Flexible, and Fun--The Tungsten Replicator on Wednesday Jan 11, 2012

Meetup Rating
5.004

Attendees
38
Great talk!
— Ron Peled
Reviews from
NASA/JPL Talk: Aerospace Engineering, Entry Descent and Landing on Mars on Monday Dec 12, 2011

Meetup Rating
5.009

Attendees
80
Cool crunchy good nerd food.
— Jeff Albrecht
Dr. Anita Sengupta—A Space Professional—delivered a fascinating lecture while addressing dozens of questions from an engaged audience of self-admitted Space Nerds, without skipping a beat. My imagination has been filled with visions of amateur rocket science ever since. Inspiring stuff. My thanks to Dr. Sengupta, Oleg Baranovsky, LAphp, LAWebSpeed, LAMySQL, LASemWeb, CyberCoders, CoLoft, and the rest of the organizers for making it happen. "To infinity... and beyond!"
— Daniel Stewart
Interesting & Excellent Presentation & Presenter
— George
Lots of interesting, intelligent information! Great talk!
— Ed K
What a fantastic amount of knowledge for a young woman !!! Awesome
— Sergio