January 2010 Meeting

This month we have a different location for the DC PHP Developer's Group meeting, as Greenpeace is out of the office on an all-staff retreat.

We will be meeting at Fathom Creative, which is located at 1333 14th St, NW, Washington DC (you can see a Google map here: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Fathom+Creative,+Washington,+DC). This is Anthony D. Paul's company, and he tells us that employees use Dupont Circle, McPherson Square and Shaw-Howard to access the site. Afterwards, Keith Casey will lead the brave to a spot for some drinks.

The meeting description:

MongoDB: NoSQL Made Easy

This talk will cover why and how to use MongoDB, addressing the following topics:
• Scaling with MongoDB (replica pairs, master/slave, sharding)
• Creating a schema for a non-relational
• Basic MongoDB syntax
• Interesting MongoDB features for developers (capped collections, file storage, upserts)

Bio: Kristina Chodorow is a software engineer at 10gen, where she wrote and maintains the MongoDB PHP driver (available through PECL). Kristina has spoken at meetups and conferences around the world.