LAMP Meetup: Owen Byrne speaks about his experiences with LAMP at Digg

What: LAMP Meetup @ TravelPod HQ

Topic: "What I learned about LAMP Development at Digg"

Speaker: Owen Byrne ( Digg.com Co-founder )

 

When: Tuesday December 2nd at 7:00pm

Where: TravelPod office (377 Dalhousie Ave., 3rd floor)

Cost: Free

Please RSVP

 

Come hear Owen speak, mingle with other LAMP (PHP and Perl) developers and check out our new TravelPod offices on the ByWard market.

Owen Byrne is currently Senior Manager of TravelPod Labs, where he is leading a 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.

Hope to see you there!

By Luc Levesque