From michael.southwell at nyphp.org Mon Mar 7 08:46:44 2005 From: michael.southwell at nyphp.org (Michael Southwell) Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 08:46:44 -0500 Subject: [nycphp-announce] Registration closes soon for two-day in-depth training Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20050307084143.02083de8@mail.optonline.net> The next session of NYPHP's two-day in-depth training, the Designer's Track (no programming experience needed), is scheduled for Monday-Tuesday, 21-22 March. Registration will be closing soon, so don't delay to sign up! More information is at http://www.nyphp.org/content/training/track.php?month=3&day=21&year=2005 . Michael Southwell VP, Education Department New York PHP michael.southwell at nyphp.org From noreply at nyphp.org Wed Mar 16 23:44:45 2005 From: noreply at nyphp.org (New York PHP) Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 23:44:45 -0500 Subject: [nycphp-announce] FW: [nylug-announce] NY Linux Users Grp. 29 Mar. Meeting: CraigNevill-Manning (Google) on Finding Needles in a 20 Terabyte Haystack Message-ID: <20050317044447.E91A8A85FE@virtu.nyphp.org> Interesting meeting by NYLUG at our usual meeting space at IBM... remember to RSVP according to NYLUG's requirements (this is not a NYPHP meeting). --- New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org AMP Technology Supporting Apache, MySQL and PHP > March 29th, 2005 > Tuesday > 6:30PM-8:00PM > IBM Headquarters Building > 590 Madison Avenue at 57th Street > 12th Floor, home to the IBM Linux Center of Competency > > ** RSVP Instructions ** > NEW POLICY: You must R.S.V.P. for *EVERY* meeting. > Register at http://rsvp.nylug.org/ > Check in with photo ID at the lobby for badge and room number. > > > Craig Nevill-Manning (Google) > -on- > Finding Needles in a 20 Terabyte Haystack > > > Due to scheduling, venue problems this month's meeting will be on > Tuesday, 29 March. Please mark your calendars. If you can help with > a modern (projector, connectivity), large, regular space we would > like to hear from you. > > What to think when a company's name becomes a verb? When through word of > mouth and no paid advertising it is commonplace? We are witnessing > something especial no doubt, a rare a bird. We are speaking of Google, > Inc. of course. The preeminent, global entity in Net search. > > Tuesday, March 29 Craig Nevill-Manning of Google will make a > presentation for the New York Linux Users Group entitled "Finding > Needles in a 20 Terabyte Haystack: 200 million times per day." > > In Craig's own words. ``Google faces two large technical challenges: > Ensuring that our search results are as relevant as possible, and > serving hundreds of millions of queries in a fraction of a second each > at a reasonable cost. To solve the first problem we perform an offline > matrix computation to produce PageRank, a query independent measure of > page reputation, and combine it with more traditional query-specific > scoring. To solve the distributed computing problem, we use tens of > thousands of commodity PCs and highly fault-tolerant software. I will > discuss some details of these solutions, and also share some interesting > statistical tidbits about search and the web.'' > > Google has taken an unorthodox approach to its mission, and it has paid > off handsomely. To exerpt a passage from a developerpipeline.com > article: > > To search the [Google] index quickly, Google breaks it "into pieces > called shards," scattered across servers so they may be searched in > parallel, each server coming up with part of the answer to a question > and feeding it back for aggregated results. > > Google's file system, indexing technology, and grid of commodity > servers allow it to achieve search times of a quarter of a second on > a typical query. The replication and constant heartbeat messaging > built into the file system gives it high reliability and > availability, he noted. > > In addition, as Google servers parse queries, they break them down > into smaller tasks and make one trip to the database for a result > that may satisfy many users. The process is called "map reduction." > Hoelzle said Google once "lost 1,800 of 2,000 map-reduction machines > in a large-scale maintenance incident." Because of the load balancing > built into the system, Google still completed all queries by steering > uncompleted tasks to the machines that showed they had processing > power. > > This will be a highly attended meeting, space is limited. > > For More Information Visit: > > * developerpipeline.com article > http://developerpipeline.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=60404907 > * Interesting projects coming out of Google Labs > http://labs.google.com/ > * A paper on the Google File System > http://www.cs.rochester.edu/sosp2003/papers/p125-ghemawat.pdf > * A paper on the Google MapReduce system > http://labs.google.com/papers/mapreduce.html > > About Craig Nevill-Manning: > > Dr. Craig Nevill-Manning is a Senior Staff Research Scientist and New > York Engineering Director at Google. While at Google, he has led the > development team for Froogle, a product search engine. Prior to his four > years at Google, Dr. Nevill-Manning was an assistant professor in the > Computer Science Department at Rutgers University and a postdoctoral > fellow at Stanford University. > > Swag (Give Away) - During the meeting... unusally terrific swag of > non-predetermined origin will be given out to all attendees at the > regular meeting for free as usual. > > Stammtisch > After the meeting ... Join us around 8:30pm or so at TGI Friday's, > located at 677 Lexington Avenue and 56th Street, second floor. > Northeast corner. > > Please see our home page at http://www.nylug.org for the HTMLized > version of this announcement, our archives, and a lot of other good > stuff. > > Monthly Reminder! > Please read the NYLUG-Talk Posting Guidelines at: > http://www.nylug.org/mlistguide/ > > ________________________________________________________________________ > March 2005 - The New York Linux Users Group, NYLUG.org > ______________________________________________________________________ > Hire expert Linux talent by posting jobs here :: http://jobs.nylug.org > nylug-announce mailing list > nylug-announce at nylug.org > http://nylug.org/mailman/listinfo/nylug-announce From noreply at nyphp.org Fri Mar 18 10:42:43 2005 From: noreply at nyphp.org (New York PHP) Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 10:42:43 -0500 Subject: [nycphp-announce] next@nyphp: Certified Stacks with SourceLabs at March Meeting, SEO Part II, PHP Designer Track Seat Available Message-ID: <20050318154247.3D49CA862F@virtu.nyphp.org> New York PHP March Meeting -------------------------- When: March 22nd, 2005 at 6:30pm *sharp* Where: 590 Madison Avenue, Room 1219 (12th floor) Post-Meeting: TGI Fridays at Lexington and 56th NEW RSVP POLICY: You must RSVP within 30 days of the meeting you will attend and must RSVP for every meeting. This means you likely need to RSVP! Please http://www.nyphp.org/rsvp.php to check your RSVP status. If there are any questions, contact us at http://www.nyphp.org/contact.php As old man winter finally begins to take a vacation, New York PHP is proud to have Open Source industry leader SourceLabs in town for a presentation on the certified LAMP stack. Due to the length of February's meeting, join us at this meeting for SEO Series Part II, with John Andrews. All this as the weather warms in midtown Manhattan at IBM. SourceLabs and the Certified LAMP Stack SourceLabs is releasing it's first LAMP stack this Spring, and wants to come share with the New York PHP community what is special and different about it, including detailed results of SourceLabs CERT7 stress and scalability testing on the LAMP stack. Part of the strength of the open source development is its distributed, participatory process. But a byproduct of this strength is a lack of integration. Today open source projects are not tested together as integrated systems, forcing users to integrate, and test the open source "stack" themselves, which slows open source adoption and increases costs of deployment. SourceLabs CERT7 process enables testing and release of projects together as an integrated stack, with a level of thoroughness and process transparency that exceeds that of commercial vendors. SourceLabs' Jeff Ort will explain how SourceLabs has adapted the enterprise software testing methods used by vendors such as Oracle, IBM and SAP to create CERT7. CERT7 augment the open source development process to deliver highly dependable and well integrated software stacks. Details provided include: * Descriptions and examples of the scalability, security, failover, stress, regression, and integration tests included in the CERT7 regime. * How CERT7 has been applied to LAMP for stress and scalability and the test data generated by that process * How LAMP users can adapt and build on CERT7 and what?s involved Jeff has 14 years of software engineering experience working for leading companies such as Microsoft, Texas Instruments, Cirrus Logic and Openwave, and has been granted 9 patents for his hardware and software inventions. Cool technologies Jeff has worked on include digital video, 3D rendering technology, mobile IM platforms and open source CMS systems. He joined Source Labs as the Certification Team Lead, and is the architect of SourceLabs CERT7 testing process. SEO Series, Part II (moved from February) Website optimization, Search Engine Optimization and PHP John Andrews continues the SEO/Website optimization series with a follow up discussion of Custom 404 exception handling applied in a customer-friendly and SEO-savvy manner. During the first SEO presentation, John highlighted the need to smartly handle missing file errors, and emphasized the importance of serving up appropriate content instead of a generic error message. Based on feedback from the community, John will briefly review available Apache and PHP mechanisms for 404 exception handling, and present a didactic example of an SEO-savvy implementation co-developed with Stefan Antonowicz of Vespa Technologies. John Andrews is an independent professional Website Optimizer with 9 years of experience planning and building goal-oriented websites using LAMP technologies. The SEO mini-series is intended to help prepare the PHP programmer, site designer, or webmaster for the kinds of challenges that can be expected should a site be considered for search engine optimization (SEO). The mini-series will introduce and address common problems and typical solutions implemented by professional optimizers. Join New York PHP as we approach spring to explore the next generation of open source with certified solution stacks, and the second part of leveraging PHP for a powerful SEO solution. Thanks to Dan Krook and Platinum sponsor IBM for providing a great presentation space with seating for plenty. As a service to our community, New York PHP meetings are always free and open to the public. Come prepared with a business card to enter book raffles. When: March 22nd, 2005 at 6:30pm *sharp* Where: 590 Madison Avenue, Room 1219 (12th floor) Post-Meeting: TGI Fridays at Lexington and 56th Join us after the meeting for good food and discussion! NEW RSVP POLICY: RSVP online at http://www.nyphp.org/rsvp.php Designer Track Training Seat Available -------------------------------------------------------------- We have a couple seats available in the upcoming training next week. If you'd like to attend see http://www.nyphp.org/contactedu and learn more at http://www.nyphp.org/content/training/twodaycourse.php --- New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org AMP Technology Supporting Apache, MySQL and PHP From noreply at nyphp.org Sun Mar 20 12:28:35 2005 From: noreply at nyphp.org (New York PHP) Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 12:28:35 -0500 Subject: [nycphp-announce] next@nyphp: Certified Stacks with SourceLabs at March Meeting, SEO Part II, PHP Designer Track Seat Available Message-ID: <20050320172252.DC64A99DA@mailrelay.t-mobile.com> New York PHP March Meeting -------------------------- When: March 22nd, 2005 at 6:30pm *sharp* Where: 590 Madison Avenue, Room 1219 (12th floor) Post-Meeting: TGI Fridays at Lexington and 56th NEW RSVP POLICY: You must RSVP within 30 days of the meeting you will attend and must RSVP for every meeting. This means you likely need to RSVP! Please http://www.nyphp.org/rsvp.php to check your RSVP status. If there are any questions, contact us at http://www.nyphp.org/contact.php As old man winter finally begins to take a vacation, New York PHP is proud to have Open Source industry leader SourceLabs in town for a presentation on the certified LAMP stack. Due to the length of February's meeting, join us at this meeting for SEO Series Part II, with John Andrews. All this as the weather warms in midtown Manhattan at IBM. SourceLabs and the Certified LAMP Stack SourceLabs is releasing it's first LAMP stack this Spring, and wants to come share with the New York PHP community what is special and different about it, including detailed results of SourceLabs CERT7 stress and scalability testing on the LAMP stack. Part of the strength of the open source development is its distributed, participatory process. But a byproduct of this strength is a lack of integration. Today open source projects are not tested together as integrated systems, forcing users to integrate, and test the open source "stack" themselves, which slows open source adoption and increases costs of deployment. SourceLabs CERT7 process enables testing and release of projects together as an integrated stack, with a level of thoroughness and process transparency that exceeds that of commercial vendors. SourceLabs' Jeff Ort will explain how SourceLabs has adapted the enterprise software testing methods used by vendors such as Oracle, IBM and SAP to create CERT7. CERT7 augment the open source development process to deliver highly dependable and well integrated software stacks. Details provided include: * Descriptions and examples of the scalability, security, failover, stress, regression, and integration tests included in the CERT7 regime. * How CERT7 has been applied to LAMP for stress and scalability and the test data generated by that process * How LAMP users can adapt and build on CERT7 and what?s involved Jeff has 14 years of software engineering experience working for leading companies such as Microsoft, Texas Instruments, Cirrus Logic and Openwave, and has been granted 9 patents for his hardware and software inventions. Cool technologies Jeff has worked on include digital video, 3D rendering technology, mobile IM platforms and open source CMS systems. He joined Source Labs as the Certification Team Lead, and is the architect of SourceLabs CERT7 testing process. SEO Series, Part II (moved from February) Website optimization, Search Engine Optimization and PHP John Andrews continues the SEO/Website optimization series with a follow up discussion of Custom 404 exception handling applied in a customer-friendly and SEO-savvy manner. During the first SEO presentation, John highlighted the need to smartly handle missing file errors, and emphasized the importance of serving up appropriate content instead of a generic error message. Based on feedback from the community, John will briefly review available Apache and PHP mechanisms for 404 exception handling, and present a didactic example of an SEO-savvy implementation co-developed with Stefan Antonowicz of Vespa Technologies. John Andrews is an independent professional Website Optimizer with 9 years of experience planning and building goal-oriented websites using LAMP technologies. The SEO mini-series is intended to help prepare the PHP programmer, site designer, or webmaster for the kinds of challenges that can be expected should a site be considered for search engine optimization (SEO). The mini-series will introduce and address common problems and typical solutions implemented by professional optimizers. Join New York PHP as we approach spring to explore the next generation of open source with certified solution stacks, and the second part of leveraging PHP for a powerful SEO solution. Thanks to Dan Krook and Platinum sponsor IBM for providing a great presentation space with seating for plenty. As a service to our community, New York PHP meetings are always free and open to the public. Come prepared with a business card to enter book raffles. When: March 22nd, 2005 at 6:30pm *sharp* Where: 590 Madison Avenue, Room 1219 (12th floor) Post-Meeting: TGI Fridays at Lexington and 56th Join us after the meeting for good food and discussion! NEW RSVP POLICY: RSVP online at http://www.nyphp.org/rsvp.php Designer Track Training Seat Available -------------------------------------------------------------- We have a couple seats available in the upcoming training next week. If you'd like to attend see http://www.nyphp.org/contactedu and learn more at http://www.nyphp.org/content/training/twodaycourse.php --- New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org AMP Technology Supporting Apache, MySQL and PHP