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

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JSConf 2009 April 24 & 25 Washington DC

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.”

An interesting overview of the migration, and custom modules used in the development of the “crooks and liars” site can be found online here:

http://drupal.org/node/341231

What is more interesting, is after the post was published, WordPress / Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg weighed in personally on the issue, by commenting on the post and listing ways to configure WordPress to scale to 20 million hits per day – at a cost of only $100 per month. He writes:

“Always sorry to see someone leave WordPress, but you ended up pretty much the other best place I could think of. Features are a great reason to switch, but scaling doesn’t need to be. We host some of the largest poltical blogs like all of CNN’s which regularly get thousands of comments per day and we do about a billion pageviews a month on WordPress.com, so here are some tips for future people who may come across this post (some which may be useful to the Drupal community as well):

1. Every release of WP gets faster, so upgrading can get you sometimes significant boosts depending on your bottleneck.
2. Use the memcached object cache backend.
3. If memcached is set up, use Batcache instead of wp-cache.
4. If you get a lot of comments, consider using InnoDB as your storage engine instead of MyISAM inside of MySQL.
5. Double-check that your webserver is set up properly for static requests, this is the cause of 90%+ of the problems we see.

With the above and a single $100/month server from LT you can get around 20,000,000 pageviews a day. With shared Batcache and HyperDB (which you already used, nice) it’s a lot easier to scale out both the web and database tier independently as needed. We haven’t found the upper limit of this strategy yet.”

Included are links to Quantcast’s statistics proving 1 billion page hits per month on wordpress.com (globally): http://www.quantcast.com/p-18-mFEk4J448M/traffic

Link to the Memcache Plugin: http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/memcached/trunk

Link to the Batcache Plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/batcache/

According to the site:

“Development testing showed a 40x reduction in page generation times: pages generated in 200ms were served from the cache in 5ms. Traffic simulations with Siege demonstrate that WordPress can handle up to twenty times more traffic with Batcache installed.”

Based on Quantcast statistics, Drupal.org ranks 13,298 overall while WordPress.org ranks #11. Global tracking statistics are not available for drupal.org on the site.

http://www.quantcast.com/drupal.org

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

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.

New on silex-ria.org

With the new “subscribe” button on the silex-ria.org home page, choosing your mailing list is no longer a mission.

For this occasion, you have 2 tutorials (in French for now, still looking for translators):

• How to put a “Join the newsletter” button in a SILEX website
• Use a contact form in SILEX

You can find samples in the package “silex-samples” on SILEX website.

New documentation pages

- How to create a page? Yes, with an icon! (in French for now, still looking for translators)
- Tutorial “create a return button” for lovers of the past

Join us

- Positions are open for translation, design, animation, development, tutorial …
=> contact@silex-ria.org

Links

Archive news
SILEX official website
Download SILEX
SILEX Resources
List of themes
List of samples
Vote for SILEX feature requests (beta version)

+++ SILEX team

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Silex en rajoute !

Le petit cafouillage entre Mailing List et Newsletter est rétablit. Mais rassurez vous, d’autres surprises vous attendent…

En avant les stats

En septembre Silex a été installé dans les pays suivant : Allemagne, Australie, Bangladesh, Belgique, Bosnie Herzegovine, Bresil, Canada, Colombie, Corée, Danemark, Espagne, Estonie, Etats-Unis, Finlande, Grande-Bretagne, Grece, Hongrie, Italie, Japon, Lituanie, Pays-Bas, Perou, Pologne, Portugal, Roumanie, Russie, Serbie.

Toujours en septembre, sur les 1405 téléchargements, il y a eu 141 installations en ligne et environ 400 en local. Pour les installations en ligne, la répartition est :
- Europe 60 % / Amérique du Nord 30 %
- France 27 % / USA 26 %

Plus de 30% de ces installations sont faites par des agences de webdesign.

En octobre il y a eu 2454 téléchargements soit une augmentation de 75% par rapport à septembre et une augmentation de 173% par rapport à août.

> les stats silex

Du nouveau sur silex-ria.org

Avec l’apparition du bouton “s’inscrire” sur le site silex-ria.org, choisir sa liste de diffusion n’est plus une mission. Le déchiffrage se fait en douceur.

Pour cette occasion, vous sont proposés 2 tutoriels.
- mettre en place un composant d’inscription à une mailing list
- faire un formulaire de contact dans son site SILEX

Vous trouverez les samples qui leur sont associés dans la distribution “silex_samples”.
Liste des samples

Du nouveau dans la doc

- Comment créer une page ? Oui, avec une icone !!!
- Tutoriel “créer un bouton retour” pour les amateurs du passé

Joignez vous à nous

- L’appel à contribution : traduction, design/animation, developpement, tutoriels
=> contact@silex-ria.org

Liens

Archives des news
Site officiel de SILEX
Téléchargement
Les ressources
Liste des thèmes
Liste des samples
Voter pour les futures fonctionnalités (version beta)

+++ SILEX team

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