Join us at 6:30pm on Thursday April 29, 2010 at Appnovation Technologies for the Vancouver Drupal User Group October meeting. This month's feature presentation: Nginx is your new hammer, and everything is a nail! with Jeff Griffiths. Nginx is a high performance web server with reverse proxy, it's the fourth most popular web server and is used by such sites as Github, Hulu, SourceForge, TorrentReactor, and WordPress.com.
Date: Thursday April 29, 6:30pm
Location: Appnovation Technologies, L200-560 Beatty Street, Vancouver, BC [Map]
Cost: There is no charge and all are welcome
For those who don't need to leave right away there's typically a more social discussion at a local pub afterwards.
Agenda
Nginx is your new hammer, and everything is a nail!
Making Drupal go faster is a hot topic in the community as people launch busy community-oriented sites. In this talk Jeff Griffiths goes over 3 different ways you can add the Nginx web server into your Drupal deployment to speed and scale up your sites with minimal effort.
Jeff Griffiths is a web hacker and Drupal enthusiast at dimeRocker.
Lightning Talk: Sheetnode
Sheetnode integrates the JavaScript spreadsheet engine SocialCalc into a new Drupal node type. Module maintainer Karim Ratib (D.O. Account: infojunkie), a Vancouver freelancer and prolific module maintainer currently working with AdHack, will give us an tour of the module's features.
[Sheetnode Project Page]
Drupal Q&A
Bring your questions on anything related to Drupal from how to do something technical in PHP to what modules are needed to implement a feature you want.
Our Thanks
We wish to thank Appnovation Technologies for hosting this month's meeting.
Comments
Looking forward to present
Looking forward to present Sheetnode. I have one suggestion: how about making the lightning talk(s) before the main presentation, not after? I've noticed that typically, the audience becomes restless and unable to focus after a long talk. We could consider the lightning talks as an "opening act" for the main presentation :-)
good idea
good idea
I second the motion! It's by
I second the motion! It's by far easier for people to stay engaged than it is for people to disengage and reengage.
Request for MacBook Pro VGA cable
Hey everyone. If you own a new style Apple MacBook pro VGA cable could you bring it to the meeting tonight? Thanks.
Will a MiniDisplay Port to
Will a MiniDisplay Port to VGA work?
http://store.apple.com/ca/product/MB572Z/A
We'll bring one along.