Schedule: PHP and MySQL sessions

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2:00pm - 5:30pm Monday, 04/14/2008
Writing MySQL UDFs
Location: Ballroom A
Roland Bouman (MySQL)
During this tutorial, attendees will get a detailed introduction into the MySQL UDF interface and will learn to write and deploy their own UDFs for both Windows and Linux platforms. Read more.
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10:50am - 11:50am Tuesday, 04/15/2008
Testing PHP/MySQL Applications with PHPUnit/DbUnit
Location: Ballroom A
Sebastian Bergmann (sebastian-bergmann.de)
PHP/MySQL applications are used more and more to perform enterprise-critical tasks. The audience will learn how to efficiently test PHP/MySQL applications with PHPUnit and its DbUnit extension. Read more.
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10:50am - 11:50am Tuesday, 04/15/2008
MySQL Workbench: The Ultimate Database Design Tool for Developers
Location: Ballroom B
Michael G. Zinner (MySQL)
A hands-on discussion of the MySQL Workbench tool showing the benefits for Ruby/Python/PHP, as well as .NET/Java developers. Efficient database schema design and maintenance has never been so easy. Read more.
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3:05pm - 3:50pm Tuesday, 04/15/2008
Beyond SQL and ORM: Object-oriented MySQL Querying in PHP
Location: Ballroom A
Mike Ho (Quasidea Development)
Beyond the basics of today's ORM-based approaches, this discusses object-oriented querying in PHP, allowing developers to execute complex MySQL queries without needing to write a single line of SQL. Read more.
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3:05pm - 3:50pm Tuesday, 04/15/2008
Upgrading to Elegant and Versatile Database Architecture Using PHP5 Data Objects
Location: Ballroom D
Sigurd Magnusson (SilverStripe)
Preserving backward compatibility often prevents projects from benefitting from new MySQL features. Learn how to write elegant PHP code and SQL protected against the future as well as the past. Read more.
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5:15pm - 6:00pm Tuesday, 04/15/2008
Services Oriented Architecture with PHP and MySQL
Location: Ballroom F
Joe Stump (Digg.com, Inc.)
Services Oriented Architecture offers a number of benefits over the standard paradigm including parallel asynchronous request, decoupling your code from your data, and abstracting scalability. Read more.
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3:05pm - 3:50pm Wednesday, 04/16/2008
Integration of Frameworks for Rapid Web Development
Location: Ballroom D
Markus Popp (MySQL), Duleepa Wijayawardhana (MySQL)
How to extend your LAMP stack for rapid web application development by using an integrated environment of various frameworks (Zend for PHP, YUI for Ajax), Smarty for templating, and other libraries. Read more.
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4:25pm - 5:10pm Wednesday, 04/16/2008
MySQL Hacks and Tricks to Make Phorum Fast
Location: Ballroom A
Brian Moon (dealnews.com)
Phorum is the message board software used by MySQL. One reason they chose Phorum was because of its speed. We have to use some tricks and fancy SQL to make this happen. Learn how. Read more.
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5:15pm - 6:00pm Wednesday, 04/16/2008
From One Server to a Cluster
Location: Ballroom C
Brian Moon (dealnews.com)
The more popular a web site gets, the more power it takes to run it. Brian Moon will share the journey of their web site from one server, to the cluster they run today, including how they have used MySQL. Read more.
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11:55am - 12:40pm Thursday, 04/17/2008
Code Generators for MySQL Plugins and User Defined Functions (UDFs)
Location: Ballroom G
Hartmut Holzgraefe (MySQL)
Your first MySQL Plugin or UDF extension is only 10 minutes away using this code generator. Focus on the actual functionality and let the generator take care of glue code and build infrastructure. Read more.
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2:00pm - 2:45pm Thursday, 04/17/2008
Scaling Heavy Concurrent Writes In Real Time
Location: Ballroom E
Dathan Pattishall (Flickr)
Flickr implemented a real-time collection of referrers to Photos, streams, sets and collections. MySQL myISAM/INNODB, curl, Java are the only component used in the setup and it scales linearly. This talk is about building a model for capacity planning, scaling for triple the request rate, and scaling linearly for an intensive application. Read more.
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2:50pm - 3:35pm Thursday, 04/17/2008
Deadly Sins Using MySQL and PHP
Location: Ballroom A
Arjen Lentz (Open Query)
A popular and lighthearted session in quiz format. Fun and educational, a broad range of "what not to do" is explored, taking examples from the scary real world. Read more.
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