[Ottawa-pm] Ottawa Perl Mongers present: Owne Byrne, "What I learned about LAMP Development at Digg"

[Yanick Champoux]

When:  Tuesday December 2nd at 7:00pm
Where: TravelPod office (377 Dalhousie Ave., 3rd floor)

Speaker: Owne Byrne
Topic: What I learned about LAMP Development at Digg

Owen Byrne is currently Senior Manager of Travelpod Labs, where he is 
leading a crack team of developers building a large travel-related 
application for launch in early 2009. He is probably best known as the 
co-founder and original developer of digg.com, which at one point was 
the 55th largest website in the world according to alexa.com. He was the 
primary technical decision maker there for most of its period of 
explosive growth, from inception to the Series A financing. He holds 3 
degrees from Saint Mary's University and Dalhousie University, as well 
as an ABD from the University of Manitoba. He has over 20 years 
experience in software development and managerial roles, including a 
brief stint as a university professor. He has presented at several 
conferences, including O'Reilly's Web 2.0 Expo, Digital Hollywood: 
Building Blocks, Webmasterworld PubCon, Administrative Sciences 
Association of Canada and most recently University of Illinois 
Urbana-Champaign's Reflections/Projection.

About TravelPod: TravelPod.com was launched in 1997 as the Web's 
Original Travel Blog. The first site to enable members to create online 
travel blogs which revolutionized the way people travel and share their 
adventures with the world.


Please RSVP to me if you have intentions to show up, just so that we 
have an idea of how many peeps to expect.


Hope to see you there!
`/anick