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Leslie Fisher

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Leslie Fishers interest in technology began while studying music at the University of Southern California. She quickly realized the value of utilizing computers for music mixing and recording. She grabbed her 300 baud modem, jumped on the Internet (before anyone really called it the internet) and started looking for music resources. She soon realized she was spending more time discovering technology than playing music so she changed her major and tried to figure out what geeky thing she could do for the rest of her life.

Dori Smith

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Backup Brain Weblog

JavaScript & Ajax Book Site

Dreamweaver Book Site

Wise-Women's Web Lists

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How many hats can one woman wear?
I'm an expert in fields from the Mac (since 1992), Web development (since 1995), programming (since 1977--yes, really), online communities (since 1994), and weblogging (since 1999). I've written and taught about all of these, and more. I've authored or co-authored:
• "Ajax Essential Training" video course (Lynda.com, 2008)
• "JavaScript Essential Training" video course (Lynda.com, 2007)
• "Dreamweaver CS3 for Windows & Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide" (Peachpit Press, 2007)

Previous Presentations:

• Macworld Expo, on topics from "Web Design and Delivery" (two-day Power Tools conference), "Webmaster 2003," "Advanced Webmaster Applications," "JavaScript Bootcamp," and "JavaScript Dynamic HTML Wizardry." Led one of the two MacBrainiac challenge teams in 2006.

• Web-related conferences including Voices that Matter, Webstock (New Zealand), SxSW (2002, 2006, 2007, 2008), Web Design World, Web Builder, CNET Builder.com Live!, Script 'Scape Geek Cruise, Perl Whirl Geek Cruise, Web Design '99, Web Design World '99, and JavaScript '98.

• Mac-related conferences including O'Reilly Mac OS X Conferences, NCMUG Mac Computer Expos, and MacMania Geek Cruises.

Brenda Wallace

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Blog - coffee.geek.nz

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Brenda writes and uses opensource code for telcos. She works with SMS, WAP, and embedded applications for cellphones and PDAS, realtime billing, remote data access and phone number portability. She wishes she had more Erlang projects. Brenda likes the technology coming from the PHP community and knows life is too short to use java.

Previous Presentations:

Memcache - Linux.conf.au 2008

Php + eacclerator - OSCON 2007

Memcache, postgresql - Wellington Perl Mongers

Memcache, eacclerator - Wellington PHP Users' Group

Bucardo - Wellington Postgresql Users' Group

Adding SMS to applications @ Super Happy Dev House Aotearoa

Wellington Geek Networking @ Summer of Code (Wellington)

Open Source Licensing @ Linuxchix Wellington

Linuxchix in NZ @ Perl Mongers

Managing Database Schema Patches with Perl

Simple Test -- Natcoll Wellington