stm’s page

KTXT-FM was shutdown by the Student Media group on Wednesday. We’re fighting to resurrect it.

Join The Fight.
http://savektxt.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=40095606811

Tom made it through transition and you can kinda see him entering the katy trail in the photo here I’ve got some cycorder video I’ll post later as well.

We’re here waiting for Tom to get to the bike-run transition at the US Open tri event here in Dallas.

I passed my PHP 5 certification exam from Zend today — I’m now a Zend Certified Engineer on PHP5. I’ve also signed up to take the Zend Framework Certification, so I’ll be scheduling that soon and taking that.

The Zend site doesn’t appear to have it yet, but I guess they’ll have it updated soon. Check me out here:
http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND0064604&r=227308181

Seth Thornberry - Zend Certified Engineer

[ Final Keynote on the last day. It's funny how tiring these conventions can make you. I'm ready to finish this up get some food, then get some sleep on the plane. ]

[Speaker: Mark De Visser Marketing director at Zend]
650-700 attendees
25% international
>60 sessions (not including the unCons)
[see the flickr zendcon tag]
ZendCon in top 5 for twitter all week over presidential candidates

[Speaker: David J. Neff from American Cancer Society www.fispace.org]
“Social Media for Social Good”
ACS - for every staff member, 1k volunteers

• they fund research, education, advocacy, service

http://sharinghope.tv/

Old Media Model vs. New Media Model

• Social Media very effective for donor dollars

Online Users
48% watch video online
15% user video sharing sites

Sharing 22% shoot video, 14% upload

[demo'd cancer survivor testimonial on sharinghope.tv]

sharinghope.tv

• every video has option to donate
• technical stuff
  • VMIX API with Zend
    • upload manager
    • media encoder
    • grouping
    • tags
    • flash player
    • audio management
    • human review
    • social media tools (digg, myspace, del.icio.us, etc)
  • Slicehost
    • Virtual servers using Ubuntu Gutsy
  • OpenID auth
    • ACS Passport
  • All videos licensed using Creative Commons

First time to be using PHP as an organization, very successful.

Looking for PHP volunteers!

looking at doing a distributed coding event soon — “Code Against Cancer” (on facebook right now)

[Speaker: Maurice Kherlakian Bell Canada]

.. came in a little late after abandoning another session

appears to be talking about different scaling options, mostly all ready seen most of these at other sessions. stuff like DB partitioning, Master-Slave, Dual Master, etc.

One thing that has come up a few times is sharding or splitting your database across several servers. This is interesting but appears to require some real deep changes in your data storage design. Probably would be less involved in our Peacekeeper framework since we can use our mappers to define different data sources.

Also went over opcode caching. I’m not sure why anyone would not be using APC if not the ZendPlatform version.

Brings up HTML caching again. Unfortunately this doesn’t apply so much to our internal apps, but it is really a fantastic idea for public high-traffic sites. Writing out your rendered files to a cache that apache can use and expiring them on your own schedule is a great idea. the URL rewrite stuff with it’s file-exists rules make this not a very difficult thing to implement.