When?
6.30pm for a 7pm start, Monday 21st June 2010.
Where?
Room 18, Level 3
Building 8, RMIT
368 Swanston St
What?
Issue / bug systems for small to medium PHP projects,
by Valberg Larusson
Valberg will review and discuss several open source and hosted options to solving the problem of how to manage issues, bugs and development schedules during the lifetime of small to medium sized PHP projects. RT, Redmine, Assembla and Track will be the main focus. Attendees are encouraged to share their experiences of these and other systems as well
Objectifying Drupal, by Valberg Larusson
Valberg will also briefly introduce how you can go about turning Drupal into a more Object Oriented development environment.
iizip: Hacking together your own Dropbox, by Ben Dechrau
Dropbox is probably the current leader in the storage application and service space for desktop users. Featuring an auto-commit-and-update mechanism to transparently send updates to a file repository, changes are reflected on any other machine in near real-time.
Unfortunately, while Dropbox promises security, you cannot use your own infrastructure for data storage. Most data security policies would make this a show stopper for many organizations that wish to deploy such a facility.
By gluing a few existing open source tools together, you can replicate the functionality with a version control system, a file system watcher and a scheduled task. Add in a sprinkling of open protocols and communications mechanisms and iizip promises to deliver what Dropbox currently cannot – flexibility, security and openness.
In this talk, Ben Dechrau will discuss the problem, the solution and give a live demonstration of the current system. He will discuss the implementation and design decisions and cover the road map ahead.
Then?
We head to the Oxford Scholar Hotel or another nearby pub at about 9pm for drinks and socialising.
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