Join us for the next regular LAPHP monthly talk.

We will have a special guest in September: Kevin Schroeder from Zend will be coming to LA to speak to our group. This should be an interesting talk and a great opportunity to hear about PHP from the first hands, so mark your calendars!

More details and RSVP here: http://bit.ly/laphp-9-2010


What: LAPHP September Talk: Kevin Schroeder on PHP Deployment and Unit Testing.

When: Tuesday, September 7th, 2010 7:00 PM

Where:
CoLoft
920 Santa Monica Blvd
Santa Monica, CA 90401
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Here's a preliminary agenda (please come back later to see the updates):

- Introduction to Zend/Zend Products – 15 minutes
- Deployment – 30 minutes (will probably cover some cloud stuff here)
- Unit Testing – 30 minutes
- Queuing/Scalable computing – 30 minutes

About presenter:

Kevin Schroeder, Technology Evangelist for Zend Technologies, is well versed in a wide variety of technologies pertinent to both small and large scale application deployments. He has developed production software using a wide variety of languages including PHP, Java (standalone and web-based applications), Javascript, HTML, SQL, Perl, Visual Basic, ASP and occasionally C. His software development experience is accompanied with extensive experience as system administrator on platforms including Linux, Solaris and Windows on scales of a single server up to several hundred servers on installations that range from a few to millions of users. He has spoken at several conferences and is also the co-author of “The IBM i Programmer’s Guide to PHP” and author of the upcoming “You want to do WHAT with PHP?”. In his spare time he races Ferraris, with a dismal win record in his Honda. He can be found online at http://www.eschrade.com/ speaking in the first person.

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Meet Our Venue Sponsor: CoLoft

Please send you love and thanks to our friends at CoLoft, offering a great meeting space for our group.

The CoLoft is a community driven space, offering an inspiring place to work, network and prosper. It is located just one block away from the Santa Monica Public Library at 920 Santa Monica Blvd.

Make sure to check out their website at http://www.coloft.com/

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This month's talk is also sponsored by Prosum.

Prosum Technology Services specializes in placing IT professionals and IT executives with Fortune 1000 companies and mid-size privately held companies throughout Southern California.

Check their web site at http://www.prosum.com/

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Like usual, for those of you who cannot attend in person, we will be streaming the talk live on Ustream.tv at http://bit.ly/dh7ymG

The meetup opens at 7 PM for networking, the presentation will start at 7:30 PM to give people time to arrive comfortably.

Admission is free, snacks and drinks will be served.

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More details and RSVP here: http://bit.ly/laphp-9-2010