[clue] July Meeting

[Raymond DeRoo]

Folks--

As the winds of fortune would have it I'll be in town when the July meeting happens. As I looked at the calendar it seemed there was not topic yet set for the next meeting. So I'll toss this offer out, I have a number of presentations which I do at various conferences throughout the year. If there is any particular in one of these topics I'd be happy to do my spiel. All of these are Data Management and often MySQL related ( Hey, it's my job. :) and deal with large scale, high performance computing.

For those who haven't seen ( suffered? ) me speaking before, my talks are engaging, interesting, technically deep, and politically incorrect. I will cause you to think about they way you work, and *WHY* you work that way. I speak in absolutes to engage the audience and get folks to defend their methodologies, then work to peel back "Because we always done it that way." to show other ways of development and resource utilization.

Application Data Cacheing
	- A look at memcached and redis and how these tools can dramatically improve application performance by effective usage.

Character Sets Suck
	- Dealing with characters sets in your LAMP environment can be problematic. Learn how to get the most out of apache/MySQL/PHP while ensuring the integrity of your data.

Data Normalization
	- First Normal Form, Third Normal Form, BCNF, demoralization, OLAP vs OLTP.  Explore data management from the relational model and into the Business Intelligence. 
  
From Order to Chaos - Using MySQL and Mongo Together
	- MySQL and MongoDB are two great technologies and can be used together for improvised performance. This is a discussion on using MySQL of hot data and MongoDB to manage and keep accessible long-tail data.

MySQL Performance Turning ( this is typically done as a 3 hour tutorial, so I would need to shorted it for CLUE )
	- A fast past overview on the "big win" knobs and levels to adjust for your MySQL server.

PHP - RAD or Performance
	- Frameworks, ORM, customers demands, high performance... A discussion on the various aspects of software development. Though this was originally geared to the PHP developer, the basic concepts hold true for any modern ( and some aging ) programming languages.

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