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Even the most conservative companies began adopting the open-source LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) to dynamically create and maintain their websites. A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. MORE
The firm said its technology framework works with NODE.JS, Javascript, ASP.net, Java, PHP, iOS, Android, and Windows Phone, and revolves around providing a many-to-many, cloud-hosted messaging system for web applications. Realtime , a startup developing technology to help power real-time web applications, said today that it has raised $100M, launched in the U.S., and opened up a new office in Santa Monica. MORE
LA CTO Forum Dealmaker Media Digital Family Reunion Startups Uncensored Social Media Club, LA Twiistup Mindshare LA LA Hadoop Meetup Dorkbot Geek Dinners LA Cloud Computing LA Web Application Developers LA PHP Developers In addition to these, I'd recommend looking at: Technology Council of Southern California – Surprised John didn't mention this one. Great post by John Shiple. MORE
He was also one of the founding Lampsig members, and has previously given lampsig talks on PHP, SVG with Ajax, and Xen. Saturday, September 20, 2008 -- "LAMP developers guide to subversion" LAMPsig. Speaker: David Rolston has a long history of web development that dates back to the earliest days of the WWW. He is currently working for a startup company in the multiplayer social network gaming space. MORE
The company, which is led by Demian Sellfors, said the accelerated performance comes from such upgrades as addition of Google PageSpeed, PHP FastCGI, and use of solid state disk drives on the company''s shared database server. MORE
Factual already had support for more widespread languages like Java and PHP. Santa Monica-based Factual extended out its list of supported APIs this week, saying that it has added new drivers for the Python, Clojure, and Haskell development languages. The new drivers allow developers using those various programming languages to access data in Factual, including the company's massive database of location and place information. MORE
Los Angeles-based Factual , the developer of application programming interfaces to a giant, database of places and other data used for location based applications, said this week that it has launched an official PHP driver for its API. MORE
The firm got its start as X-Cart, a PHP shopping cart. San Diego-based e-commerce software developer Ecwid said this morning that it has closed a $5M, Series B funding round. According to Ecwid, the funding was led by iTech Capital, and also included Runa Capital. MORE
A PHP engineer meets a charismatic founder that excites him with his vision, so much so that he can picture leaving his day job for the exhilarating experience of working tirelessly for technology stock options that could be worth millions one day. Tuesday, July 11, 2017 -- Hollywood Tech Happy Hour. Imagine if there was a place, where at one table an entrepreneur meets her next $100,000 investor. A designer meets a new client, a web developer with a great internet startup. MORE
The firm''s software helps turn any Java, PHP, or.Net application to SaaS. Aliso Viejo-based Corent Technology , which develops software that makes it easy for companies to convert their legacy applications into software-as-a-service, has added a new advisor, the firm said this week. MORE
Tuesday, January 15, 2013 -- LAPHP January Talk: Zend Framework 2.0. For our January LAPHP talk we have pretty exciting guest -- we invited Ralph Schindler from Zend to talk about Zend Framework 2.0 (aka aka ZF2). Zend Framework 2 achieved its stable release this autumn, ushering in a new era of the framework. MORE
Tuesday, November 16, 2010 -- LAPHP Talk: E-commerce with PHP Introduction to Magento. Magento attracted a lot of attention lately and quickly becomes de-facto standard e-commerce platform for PHP. Join us for a monthly LAPHP meeting. This month's talk is on e-commerce with Magento. More details and RSVP. See [link] (more MORE
The new API features interfaces and sample interfaces in Ruby, PHP, and Python. Los Angeles-based NationBuilder , which develops software-as-a-service to help groups organize their supporters, has opened up a new set of APIs for third party developers. The company--which offers up its platform to political campaigns, nonprofits, activists, and many others--said it has officially released its API, allowing developers to access its services. MORE
OpenX issued a mantory update Tuesday to fix the issue, which opened up users of the software to arbitrary PHP code execution on its servers. Pasadena-based OpenX is experiencing some big growth pains this week, and is facing a nasty security issue with the open source version of its software. The company''s software is widely used by Internet websites and publishers to handle ad serving. MORE
Santa Barbara-based RightScale , the cloud management software developer backed by Tenaya Capital , DAG Ventures, Benchmark Capital , Index Ventures , and Presidio Ventures, and PHP developer Zend Technologies , said today that they have launched a jointly developed solution for deploying and managing PHP applications. The companies have bundled RightScale's Cloud Management Software with Zend PHP. MORE
And I hope you are not running on Cake PHP when you see these numbers. In looking at these numbers, seeing Cake PHP at 500x slower, Ruby-Rails and Django at 50x slower really surprised me. MORE
The company, which is led by Demian Sellfors, said the accelerated performance comes from such upgrades as addition of Google PageSpeed, PHP FastCGI, and use of solid state disk drives on the company''s shared database server. MORE
I recently posted about the Increase in Early-Stage Startup Activity in Los Angeles. In that post, I mentioned how one of the signals is the big increase in number of startup events and the number of attendees at those events. I realized that it has been a little while since I posted about the Los Angeles Startup Community and so needed to update my list of startup events that will be out of date almost before I finish publishing it. MORE
Thursday, October 11, 2012 -- Developing Applications with Apache Cassandra. LAPHP. Is my app a good fit for Apache Cassandra? Or is Cassandra a good fit for my app? These are the questions many developers are asking themselves taking the popularity of the new NoSQL database technologies out there on the market nowadays. MORE
Only Cake PHP requires more than 100 milliseconds. As before, Raw PHP is also very strong in this test. Again, Raw PHP makes an extremely strong showing. PHP 5.4.13 with APC, PHP-FPM, nginx. PHP ActiveRecord (Nightly 20121221). MORE
Another API has been added to support IVR (interactive voice recognition) and PHP Toolkit enables developers to get CallFire’s system running much more efficiently. MORE
With support for Windows, Linux,NET, Node.js, PHP, Java, and much more. We’ve always been huge advocates of startups. So it brings not only TechZulu, but also Gadget Review great pleasure to announce a partnership with Microsoft. MORE
Most networking events tend to either focus on specific technologies (PHP,Net, C#, Microsoft, LAMP, MySQL, Open Source, Hadoop, Java, etc.) I've helped organize the Los Angeles CTO Forum for almost 10 years. As part of doing that, I've had the opportunity to interact with a wide variety of different chief technical officers from different kinds of companies over those years. This is a private group of CTOs who are responsible for software development within their companies. MORE
The plain PHP, Slim, and Laravel tests have been upgraded to PHP 7. For example, Slim's performance in the JSON test and Laravel's performance in the Fortunes test both approximately doubled versus Round 11 with PHP 5. MORE
Huge news: Millions of PHP developers can now build mobile apps for iOS and Android — in PHP. VentureBeat | News About Tech, Money and Innovation. Whats Hot Menu. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. what’s hot? Apple. iPad Mini. Yahoo. Windows 8. Star Trek Contest. MORE
This round adds Bottle (Python), Dancer (Perl), Kelp (Perl), MicroMVC (PHP), Mojolicious (Perl), Phalcon (PHP), RingoJS (JavaScript), Spark (Java), and Wai (Haskell). We’ve posted Round 4 of our ongoing project measuring the performance of many web application frameworks and platforms. MORE
Linux (instead of UNIX), Apache (web server software), MySQL (instead of Oracle) and PHP. Of course there were variants – we preferred PostGres to MySQL and many people used other programming languages than PHP. MORE
This X can be PHP, Python, Ruby on Rails, or even Java. The concept of LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySql, PHP) VS. Microsoft must change. I’ve seen many examples of successful startups built in PHP, Java, ASP.Net, CGI, ROR, and many others. From the first day we started Docstoc people have been asking me “ why.Net ”? MORE
Check out some of the recent positions posted to socalTECH's Job Board in recent days: Senior PHP Developer , Los Angeles, Oversee.net. Who says there aren't jobs out there? The high tech industry in Southern California is hiring. Director of Research & Analytics , Santa Monica, Adconion Media Group. Web Application Developer , Irvine, GrowMetrix. Web Developer , Calabasas, lynda.com, Inc. Web UX Designer , Carpinteria, lynda.com, inc. MORE
clancats (php). limonade (php). Round 11 of the ongoing Web Framework Benchmarks project is now available! We'll keep this blog entry short and sweet. The highlights for Round 11. Three new languages are represented in Round 11: Crystal , D , and Rust. MORE
Round 3 includes Snap on Haskell; Elli and Cowboy on Erlang; Openresty on Lua; Tornado on Python; Onion on C; Slim, Codeigniter, Phreeze, Kohana, Lithium, Laravel, Silex, Fuel, and Symphony2 on PHP; Grizzly-Jersey and Play1 on Java; Scalatra, Lift, Unfiltered, and Finagle on Scala. MORE
And let us simply draw the curtain of charity over the Cake PHP results. We were surprised by the performance of Raw PHP in this test. We suspect the PHP MySQL driver and connection pool are particularly well tuned. However, the penalty for using an ORM on PHP is severe. MORE
Sunday, March 14, 2010 -- The Los Angeles PHP Developers February Meetup. See [link] (more MORE
We had an interesting presentation at the LA CTO Forum by the CTO of a startup who chose Groovy / Grails as the framework for their startup. t prompted a good discussion around how CTOs go about choosing the programming language and framework for their startup. MORE
The HipHop PHP VM with no framework and thanks in part to the MySQL driver for PHP, yields dominion over the Updates test. However, hhvm trails plain PHP in the Fortunes test presently. Merry Christmas web framework performance aficionados! MORE
And let us simply draw the curtain of charity over the Cake PHP results. We were surprised by the performance of Raw PHP in this test. We suspect the PHP MySQL driver and connection pool are particularly well tuned. However, the penalty for using an ORM on PHP is severe. MORE
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JANUARY 25, 2012
Los Angeles-based Factual , the developer of application programming interfaces to a giant, database of places and other data used for location based applications, said this week that it has launched an official PHP driver for its API.
socalTECH
APRIL 19, 2011
Santa Barbara-based RightScale , the cloud management software developer backed by Tenaya Capital , DAG Ventures, Benchmark Capital , Index Ventures , and Presidio Ventures, and PHP developer Zend Technologies , said today that they have launched a jointly developed solution for deploying and managing PHP applications. The companies have bundled RightScale's Cloud Management Software with Zend PHP.
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MARCH 8, 2010
Sunday, March 14, 2010 -- The Los Angeles PHP Developers February Meetup. See [link] (more
TechEmpower
APRIL 5, 2013
Only Cake PHP requires more than 100 milliseconds. As before, Raw PHP is also very strong in this test. Again, Raw PHP makes an extremely strong showing. PHP 5.4.13 with APC, PHP-FPM, nginx. PHP ActiveRecord (Nightly 20121221).
SoCal Tech Calendar
OCTOBER 10, 2012
Thursday, October 11, 2012 -- Developing Applications with Apache Cassandra. LAPHP. Is my app a good fit for Apache Cassandra? Or is Cassandra a good fit for my app? These are the questions many developers are asking themselves taking the popularity of the new NoSQL database technologies out there on the market nowadays.
SoCal Tech Calendar
JANUARY 9, 2013
Tuesday, January 15, 2013 -- LAPHP January Talk: Zend Framework 2.0. For our January LAPHP talk we have pretty exciting guest -- we invited Ralph Schindler from Zend to talk about Zend Framework 2.0 (aka aka ZF2). Zend Framework 2 achieved its stable release this autumn, ushering in a new era of the framework.
SoCal Tech Calendar
NOVEMBER 10, 2010
Tuesday, November 16, 2010 -- LAPHP Talk: E-commerce with PHP Introduction to Magento. Magento attracted a lot of attention lately and quickly becomes de-facto standard e-commerce platform for PHP. Join us for a monthly LAPHP meeting. This month's talk is on e-commerce with Magento. More details and RSVP. See [link] (more
TechEmpower
FEBRUARY 25, 2016
The plain PHP, Slim, and Laravel tests have been upgraded to PHP 7. For example, Slim's performance in the JSON test and Laravel's performance in the Fortunes test both approximately doubled versus Round 11 with PHP 5.
TechEmpower
NOVEMBER 23, 2015
clancats (php). limonade (php). Round 11 of the ongoing Web Framework Benchmarks project is now available! We'll keep this blog entry short and sweet. The highlights for Round 11. Three new languages are represented in Round 11: Crystal , D , and Rust.
TechEmpower
DECEMBER 17, 2013
The HipHop PHP VM with no framework and thanks in part to the MySQL driver for PHP, yields dominion over the Updates test. However, hhvm trails plain PHP in the Fortunes test presently. Merry Christmas web framework performance aficionados!
TechEmpower
MAY 2, 2013
This round adds Bottle (Python), Dancer (Perl), Kelp (Perl), MicroMVC (PHP), Mojolicious (Perl), Phalcon (PHP), RingoJS (JavaScript), Spark (Java), and Wai (Haskell). We’ve posted Round 4 of our ongoing project measuring the performance of many web application frameworks and platforms.
TechEmpower
APRIL 30, 2013
And let us simply draw the curtain of charity over the Cake PHP results. We were surprised by the performance of Raw PHP in this test. We suspect the PHP MySQL driver and connection pool are particularly well tuned. However, the penalty for using an ORM on PHP is severe.
TechEmpower
APRIL 22, 2013
Round 3 includes Snap on Haskell; Elli and Cowboy on Erlang; Openresty on Lua; Tornado on Python; Onion on C; Slim, Codeigniter, Phreeze, Kohana, Lithium, Laravel, Silex, Fuel, and Symphony2 on PHP; Grizzly-Jersey and Play1 on Java; Scalatra, Lift, Unfiltered, and Finagle on Scala.
SoCal CTO
MARCH 28, 2013
And I hope you are not running on Cake PHP when you see these numbers. In looking at these numbers, seeing Cake PHP at 500x slower, Ruby-Rails and Django at 50x slower really surprised me.
SoCal Tech Calendar
JULY 10, 2017
A PHP engineer meets a charismatic founder that excites him with his vision, so much so that he can picture leaving his day job for the exhilarating experience of working tirelessly for technology stock options that could be worth millions one day. Tuesday, July 11, 2017 -- Hollywood Tech Happy Hour. Imagine if there was a place, where at one table an entrepreneur meets her next $100,000 investor. A designer meets a new client, a web developer with a great internet startup.
socalTECH
AUGUST 13, 2013
The company, which is led by Demian Sellfors, said the accelerated performance comes from such upgrades as addition of Google PageSpeed, PHP FastCGI, and use of solid state disk drives on the company''s shared database server.
socalTECH
AUGUST 13, 2013
The company, which is led by Demian Sellfors, said the accelerated performance comes from such upgrades as addition of Google PageSpeed, PHP FastCGI, and use of solid state disk drives on the company''s shared database server.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 9, 2013
The new API features interfaces and sample interfaces in Ruby, PHP, and Python. Los Angeles-based NationBuilder , which develops software-as-a-service to help groups organize their supporters, has opened up a new set of APIs for third party developers. The company--which offers up its platform to political campaigns, nonprofits, activists, and many others--said it has officially released its API, allowing developers to access its services.
socalTECH
MAY 28, 2014
The firm got its start as X-Cart, a PHP shopping cart. San Diego-based e-commerce software developer Ecwid said this morning that it has closed a $5M, Series B funding round. According to Ecwid, the funding was led by iTech Capital, and also included Runa Capital.
socalTECH
JUNE 7, 2013
The firm''s software helps turn any Java, PHP, or.Net application to SaaS. Aliso Viejo-based Corent Technology , which develops software that makes it easy for companies to convert their legacy applications into software-as-a-service, has added a new advisor, the firm said this week.
socalTECH
AUGUST 8, 2012
The firm said its technology framework works with NODE.JS, Javascript, ASP.net, Java, PHP, iOS, Android, and Windows Phone, and revolves around providing a many-to-many, cloud-hosted messaging system for web applications. Realtime , a startup developing technology to help power real-time web applications, said today that it has raised $100M, launched in the U.S., and opened up a new office in Santa Monica.
SoCal CTO
MAY 22, 2012
I recently posted about the Increase in Early-Stage Startup Activity in Los Angeles. In that post, I mentioned how one of the signals is the big increase in number of startup events and the number of attendees at those events. I realized that it has been a little while since I posted about the Los Angeles Startup Community and so needed to update my list of startup events that will be out of date almost before I finish publishing it.
socalTECH
AUGUST 7, 2013
OpenX issued a mantory update Tuesday to fix the issue, which opened up users of the software to arbitrary PHP code execution on its servers. Pasadena-based OpenX is experiencing some big growth pains this week, and is facing a nasty security issue with the open source version of its software. The company''s software is widely used by Internet websites and publishers to handle ad serving.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 29, 2010
Check out some of the recent positions posted to socalTECH's Job Board in recent days: Senior PHP Developer , Los Angeles, Oversee.net. Who says there aren't jobs out there? The high tech industry in Southern California is hiring. Director of Research & Analytics , Santa Monica, Adconion Media Group. Web Application Developer , Irvine, GrowMetrix. Web Developer , Calabasas, lynda.com, Inc. Web UX Designer , Carpinteria, lynda.com, inc.
InfoChachkie
SEPTEMBER 14, 2015
Even the most conservative companies began adopting the open-source LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) to dynamically create and maintain their websites. A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes.
Tech Zulu Event
MARCH 25, 2015
With support for Windows, Linux,NET, Node.js, PHP, Java, and much more. We’ve always been huge advocates of startups. So it brings not only TechZulu, but also Gadget Review great pleasure to announce a partnership with Microsoft.
SoCal Tech Calendar
SEPTEMBER 16, 2008
He was also one of the founding Lampsig members, and has previously given lampsig talks on PHP, SVG with Ajax, and Xen. Saturday, September 20, 2008 -- "LAMP developers guide to subversion" LAMPsig. Speaker: David Rolston has a long history of web development that dates back to the earliest days of the WWW. He is currently working for a startup company in the multiplayer social network gaming space.
socalTECH
MAY 11, 2012
Factual already had support for more widespread languages like Java and PHP. Santa Monica-based Factual extended out its list of supported APIs this week, saying that it has added new drivers for the Python, Clojure, and Haskell development languages. The new drivers allow developers using those various programming languages to access data in Factual, including the company's massive database of location and place information.
SoCal CTO
OCTOBER 6, 2009
LA CTO Forum Dealmaker Media Digital Family Reunion Startups Uncensored Social Media Club, LA Twiistup Mindshare LA LA Hadoop Meetup Dorkbot Geek Dinners LA Cloud Computing LA Web Application Developers LA PHP Developers In addition to these, I'd recommend looking at: Technology Council of Southern California – Surprised John didn't mention this one. Great post by John Shiple.
SoCal CTO
JUNE 13, 2011
We had an interesting presentation at the LA CTO Forum by the CTO of a startup who chose Groovy / Grails as the framework for their startup. t prompted a good discussion around how CTOs go about choosing the programming language and framework for their startup.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 28, 2011
Linux (instead of UNIX), Apache (web server software), MySQL (instead of Oracle) and PHP. Of course there were variants – we preferred PostGres to MySQL and many people used other programming languages than PHP.
SoCal Delicious
AUGUST 28, 2012
Huge news: Millions of PHP developers can now build mobile apps for iOS and Android — in PHP. VentureBeat | News About Tech, Money and Innovation. Whats Hot Menu. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. what’s hot? Apple. iPad Mini. Yahoo. Windows 8. Star Trek Contest.
SoCal CTO
OCTOBER 7, 2009
Most networking events tend to either focus on specific technologies (PHP,Net, C#, Microsoft, LAMP, MySQL, Open Source, Hadoop, Java, etc.) I've helped organize the Los Angeles CTO Forum for almost 10 years. As part of doing that, I've had the opportunity to interact with a wide variety of different chief technical officers from different kinds of companies over those years. This is a private group of CTOs who are responsible for software development within their companies.
Alon Schwartz
DECEMBER 14, 2008
This X can be PHP, Python, Ruby on Rails, or even Java. The concept of LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySql, PHP) VS. Microsoft must change. I’ve seen many examples of successful startups built in PHP, Java, ASP.Net, CGI, ROR, and many others. From the first day we started Docstoc people have been asking me “ why.Net ”?
Tech Zulu Event
SEPTEMBER 17, 2013
Another API has been added to support IVR (interactive voice recognition) and PHP Toolkit enables developers to get CallFire’s system running much more efficiently.
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