ANOTHER SCHEDULE/VENUE CHANGE, WE MEET THE FIRST THURSDAY OF EVERY MONTH AT ActiveLAMP IN VICTORVILLE.
MEETING AT 12pm (LUNCH TIME)... AND FREE LUNCH
That's right, ActiveLAMP will be buying pizza and soda for all attendees. Come join us at the new ActiveLAMP office, and tell your friends.
The High Desert Drupal group meets the first Thursday of every month. This local group is a nice place for people to learn and talk about Drupal, a world popular content management system (CMS). We also talk about web development in general, covering all aspects from planning, design, development, and maintaining a web site. RSVP is not required and attendance is free. Tell all your friends!
What are we going to talk about?
High Performance / High Availability Hosting.
When shared hosting just isn't cutting it, and you need more computing power, where do you go? This month Tom Friedhof from ActiveLAMP will be talking about hosting in the cloud, specifically Amazon EC2.
"EC2 allows scalable deployment of applications by providing a web service through which a user can boot an Amazon Machine Image to create a virtual machine, which Amazon calls an "instance", containing any software desired." --Wikipedia
We'll go over where to start with Amazon Web Services, how to setup Mercury instances on EC2, what is included in the Mercury stack, and what each component in the Mercury stack does. We'll look at Elastic Block Storage (EBS), Elastic IP's, and Elastic Load Balancers (ELB). Finally, we'll talk about how to host a Drupal site on a multiple server architecture.
then...
Community Time / Lightning Talks
We'll open up the floor to the community where anyone can talk about anything technology related. Do you have anything cool you want to share with the community this month? Don't be shy, share your knowledge!!!
Where are we meeting?
ActiveLAMP in Victorville
We are meeting at the new ActiveLAMP office in Victorville, on the corner of Ridgecrest Rd and Bear Valley Rd, in the Ridgecrest Business Park.
If you plan on attending, sign up for an account on this site and then click the "Sign Up" button below to let us know you're coming. You DO NOT have to sign up on this site to attend, you can just show up. If you do sign up, you'll be emailed a reminder for the meeting on one day before the meeting.
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Google Geocoding API
Here are notes for the quick talk I gave on Google's location search API.
The actual API URL is http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=<location>
The documentation is at http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/geocoding/v2/
A quick example of using it within Drupal code would be:
$location = 'Victorville, CA';
$response = drupal_http_request('http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=' . urlencode($location));
if ($response->code == 200) {
$location = json_decode($response->data);
$address = $location->Placemark[0]->AddressDetails->Country;
$city = $address->AdministrativeArea->SubAdministrativeArea->Locality->LocalityName;
$state = $address->AdministrativeArea->AdministrativeAreaName;
$zip = $address->AdministrativeArea->Locality->PostalCode->PostalCodeNumber;
}