NYCPHP Meetup

[Hans Zaunere]

All, whoever can do a presentation in April, please send me a blurb so that
we can get the calendar updated.  If someone wants to present after April,
please contact me offlist and we'll schedule something.

Thanks,

H


Hans Zaunere wrote on Thursday, April 12, 2007 4:11 PM:
> This is a good idea, too.  So, we went from not having any speaker,
> to having too much material :) 
> 
> Folks who would be willing to present (April for sure, possibly May)
> please ping me directly and we can schedule things in. 
> 
> H
> 
> 
> Kenneth Downs wrote on Thursday, April 12, 2007 4:08 PM:
> > Have you ever considered a database primer?  A very simple
> > presentation could be built around a handful of ideas:
> > 
> > 1) Vocabulary demystification,  column=field, tuple=row=record,
> > relation=table, foreign key = reference, primary_key = "code" or
> > unique value 
> > 
> > 2)  Why you can do so much with primary and foreign keys
> > 
> > 3)  Is normalization a black art, or a simple matter of technique
> > 
> > 4)  What do people mean by denormalization, why do some people hate
> > it so much?  Why do others say it is no big deal?
> > 
> > 5) Finally, why programmers have trouble with databases and why
> > database people have trouble with code, the so-called "impedance
> > mismatch". 
> > 
> > 
> > I'd be happy to prepare something.
> > 
> > 
> > Hans Zaunere wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 	Ben Sgro (ProjectSkyline) wrote on Thursday, April 12, 2007 4:01
> > PM: 
> > 
> > 
> > 		Hey all,
> > 
> > 		Some application penetration testing would be fun.
> > 
> > 		Maybe using both tools (nessus) and scripts, brute forcing,
> > cookie 		altering, sql inject. 
> > 
> > 		I dont know if that's something to put together in the next
week,
> > 		but I would donate time to providing a portion of what's
listed.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 	That's not a bad idea - maybe a cooperative presentation on a
> > specific set of topics? 
> > 
> > 	H
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 		Just some thoughts.
> > 
> > 		- Ben
> > 
> > 
> > 		----- Original Message -----
> > 		From: "Chris Shiflett" <shiflett at php.net>
> > 		<mailto:shiflett at php.net> To: "NYPHP Talk"
<talk at lists.nyphp.org>
> > 		<mailto:talk at lists.nyphp.org> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007
3:54
> > 		PM Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] [OT] Next meeting
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 			Hans Zaunere wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 				Would be great to have you present.
> > 
> > 
> > 			Anyone have any topic requests?
> > 
> > 			My favorite topics are web application security,
sessions, and
> > 			testing. I can also speak about DTD strategies:
> > 
> > 			http://handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/
> > 
> > 			Chris
> > 
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