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We will have a special speaker in October and in order to accommodate his
schedule we are changing the regular meeting day from Wednesday, Oct
18 to Monday Oct 16th.

Same time and place!
Time: 6pm
Place: Info.com 150 N Michigan, 28th floor
If you will be arriving PAST 7pm, give me your name and I’ll tell Security
to let you up.

Here’s the topic:
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What’s possible in a post Web 2.0 world? Innovation continues at a
mind-bending pace, and this presentation will showcase some
thought-provoking new directions that Web Services are headed in. The
presentation will provide an overview of Amazon Web Services, and feature a
demonstration showing how developers are able to easily utilize on-demand
server capacity.

Amazon spent ten years and over $1 billion developing a world-class
technology and content platform that powers Amazon web sites for millions of
customers every day. Most people think “Amazon.com” when they hear the word;
however developers are excited to learn that there is a separate technology
arm of the company, known as Amazon Web Services or AWS. Using AWS,
developers can build software applications leveraging the same robust,
scalable, and reliable technology that powers Amazon’s retail business. AWS
has now launched eleven services with open API’s for developers to build
applications, with the result that over 160,000 developers have registered
on Amazon’s developer site to create applications based on these services..

I learned something new the other day while studying for the PHP 5 Certification exam and when I actually read the docs on php.net for array_push I found the same tip:

Using

$arr[] = “blah”;

is faster than using

array_push($arr, "blah");

Why? because its not doing a function call. Another thing I learned, and a good use of array_push is when you have multiple items to add to the list

array_push($arr, "blah", "crap", "need more coffee");

In that case, I think it may be faster to do that then to do a for loop and add the 3 items individually.

Just a little something I thought I’d pass along ..