JSConf 2009 April 24 & 25 Washington DC

JSConf 2009 is the first conference dedicated to JavaScript developers in all forms and it is shaping up to be one amazing conference. The conference brings together some of the greatest visionaries and developers within the JS community including John Resig creator of jQuery, Jason Huggins creator of Selenium testing environment, and Stefan Stoyanov from YUI. This is an incredible opportunity for anyone doing web based development since the conference material will show you how to use JavaScript in the browser, on the server, and on mobile handsets. Over two days you will learn about cutting edge technologies, how to get a great job in the web development world, and network with some of the most important people in the next generation web industry.

JSConf 2009 will be held in Washington DC between April 24 and 25, 2009. The conference brings together 16 speakers to present on JavaScript development in the browser, mobile, desktop, and server environments. If you haven’t had much of a chance to do some deep JavaScript work, this conference is a great way to learn from some of the best. Although many people don’t realize it, JavaScript can also be used to build thick client desktop applications. In addition, it is one of the only languages to successfully bridge object oriented and functional programming in a way that anyone can use it. JavaScript has seen an incredible rise with modern web application frameworks and it only seems to be increasing in the coming years, this is the only conference that will show you how important JavaScript is to your programming and design capabilities.

The conference is purposefully being kept small and intimate so you will be able to interact with the speakers and attendees during the day and during the social events. Also there will be many opportunities to interact with the sponsors and select vendors that will present to network and potential pursue employment opportunities. The conference costs $450 right now for two full days worth of speakers, breakfasts, lunches, a beer and wine tasting social event on Friday Evening, and a networking social event on Saturday Evening. If you are looking for more work, this conference has also drawn the attention of a lot of hiring employers who are looking for top notch developers.

If you are interested in going, we recommend getting your tickets soon at http://jsconf2009.eventbrite.com as they are selling very quickly. For more information or other speakers, check the website at http://www.jsconf2009.com or twitter us @jsconf

Mullenweg: Scale WordPress to 20,000,000 Views per Day for $100 p/month

An interesting article appeared on the front page of the drupal.org website, detailing the migration of the popular “crooks and liars” blog from WordPress to Drupal. According to the developers, when the site was averaging around the “200,000 hits per day mark, we started experiencing a lot of down time from server overloads. We were utilizing the famous wp-cache plugin for Wordpress, as well as hosting the database on a single master and two slaves, using the HyperDB class for Wordpress to handle the replication.” After experiencing a high degree of server downtime from the massive number of comments on the site, “crooks and liars” began to consider porting the site to Drupal for performance issues.

According to the site development team, benchmark tests showed that a Drupal 5.x installation was able to serve more than 8 times the number of pages per second vs. a standard WordPress 2.3 set up:

“I setup default installations of Wordpress 2.3 and Drupal 5. I only enabled the core caching mechanisms in both setups and populated them with the exact same data and display options. Both systems also used the default themes and features. After running a series of tests through JMeter, I quickly confirmed my beliefs and even exceeded them as I saw Drupal was able to handle about eight times the requests per second as Wordpress, both on the front page and the same single post view with 157 comments.”

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Some more SILEX – usage statistics & new ressources (en / fr)

Statistics to go!

In September SILEX has been installed in the following countries: Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Korea, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia.

Also in September, on the 1405 downloads, 141 installations have been made online and about 400 on local computer. For the online websites: Europe 60% – North America 30% – (27% France – 26% USA)

Over 30% of these installations have been made by webdesign agencies.

In October SILEX has been downloaded 2454 times, 75% increase as of September and 173% increase as of August.

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