NYCPHP Meetup

[Hans Zaunere]

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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