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My vote for the most stupid invention of the year.
A seat belt alarm canceler.

Thursday May 8th, 7pm
580 St Kilda Road Melbourne


CodeSniffer. You need it. You want it. Be there. - Avi Miller - 7:00 - 7:45 pm

PHP_CodeSniffer is a PHP5 script that tokenises and "sniffs" PHP and JavsScript code to detect violations of a defined set of coding standards. It is an essential development tool that ensures that your code remains clean and consistent. It can even help prevent some common semantic errors made by developers.

This talk will show you how to use PHP_CodeSniffer to ensure your PHP and JavaScript adheres to your chosen coding standard. We will also look at how to create a new "sniff" that will check a particular coding standard requirement.

Avi is the MySource Matrix Product Evangelist for Squiz. As Product Evangelist, he is contractually obliged to deeply love MySource Matrix, a state greatly enhanced by strict adherence to coding standards (great plug!). Additional daily duties include pre-sales consulting, business analysis, information architecture, hand-holding, nappy changing and other professional tasks.


MySQL Stored Procedures - Ben Balbo - 8:00 - 8:45 pm

A recent addition in MySQL 5, stored procedures allow us to automate or program our way out of many tasks directly on the server rather than having to write external scripts to do complex manipulation of data. Stored procedures can also be used to simplify data validation or enforce access control. In this talk, Ben will use a few simple stored procedures and views to demonstrate their power and usefulness, not to mention the benefits that can be reaped when the database needs refactoring.

Socialising & Networking 9:00pm onward

Pizza, softdrink, tea, coffee and comfy swivel chairs will be provided with compliments of our major sponsor, Hitwise.

lol ... when does alternative become mainstream?

With Yahoo! announcing the public beta of it's OpenID provider service, the total number of OpenID service providers now exceeds the number of users who are actually aware they have an OpenID account.

Geeeze, here's a thought. How about letting users with existing OpenID accounts log into your services!

When
Date: Thursday 13th December 2007
Time: 7.00pm

Where
Hitwise Melbourne
Level 6, 580 St Kilda Rd
Melbourne

With things starting to wind down for holidays, we're holding a social event this December. Ben Balbo & Ben Cornwell will be presenting a recap of highlights from the 2007 Open Source Developers' Conference, Ben Balbo will be presenting a lightning talk, we'll be screening Antitrust (a film by Peter Howitt) with a generous supply of popcorn & coke, then heading to the pub to toast the end of another busy year.


OSDC Recap + Patents Rock! - A Lightning Talk (tm) by Ben Balbo - 7:00 - 7:15 pm

Come along to hear the highlights from OSDC 2007, and why Ben Balbo likes patents - in 5 minutes or less!


Antitrust - A film by PeterHowitt - 7:15 - 9:00 pm

This movie is the fictional story of computer programming genius Milo Hoffman after graduating from Stanford and getting out into the competitive world of computer software. In his contemplation of where to begin his career, he is contacted by Gary Winston whose character is loosely based on Bill Gates. Winston is the CEO of a company called NURV, and they are on the brink of completing the global communication's system, Synapse. They need Hoffman to help them meet their launch date, so after much thought and with the full support of his girlfriend Alice, he accepts the job. Tragedy soon after strikes and Milo becomes suspicious of the company he has been wrapped up in. He learns that trusting anyone could be a mistake, and that nothing is as it seems. [www.imdb.com]


Socialising & Networking - 9:00 pm onward

Pizza, softdrink, tea, coffee and comfy swivel chairs will be provided with compliments of our major sponsor, Hitwise.