How many of us have searched Source Forge for a project that appears to
fit our needs only to find there's no community or documentation behind
it; or the code is really poorly written; or the project is about to
fork...Sometimes selecting an open source project is like renting
B-grade
movies at the video store; it's not so much the cost that concerns you,
but rather the time wasted if you select a dog.
Please join BostonPHP when Seth Aaronson continues our panel discussion on how to select a robust PHP framework culminating in
a "PHP framework bake-off" (more).
Showcased frameworks:
Matthew Weier O'Phinney - Zend Framework developer, and
Chuck Hagenbuch - founder of HORDE
Each framework will develop a CRUD (create, read, update, delete)
catalog application (e.g. products and categories) that generates
multiple formats (xhtml + some xml, etc).
Without a doubt, the concepts behind AJAX are providing the catalyst to
move the web from its old clunky "send it all back the server for an
update" into the thick client "desktop" feel the average computer user
has come to expect.
Earlier this year we heard from the AJAX community to get a primer and snapshot of where the technology sat (click here for a meeting summary). This time around we're going to listen to two more players in the AJAX space:
November User Group:: AJAX update
Without a doubt, the concepts behind AJAX are providing the catalyst to
move the web from its old clunky "send it all back the server for an
update" into the thick client "desktop" feel the average computer user
has come to expect.
Earlier this year we heard from the AJAX community to get a primer and snapshot of where the technology sat (click here for a meeting summary). This time around we're going to listen to two more players in the AJAX space:
Max Carlson - Co-Founder OpenLaszlo.org
The Road to AJAX
- In the past, OpenLaszlo been regarded as a Flash-only tool. In fact,
OpenLaszlo is a powerful language for rich, custom declarative user
interface programming that's been under development for over 5years.
It's a powerful framework, and it has an exciting future as a single
(OpenSource) language that can target Flash, DHTML and soon,other
runtimes.
In this talk Max will talk about the process of
making OpenLaszlo a runtime-independent platform, including the first
year of AJAX. He will ive an overview of the current multi-runtime
architecture, includingtechniques for using and extending it. See an
overview of the language, and talk about the future of OpenLaszlo as an
AJAX platform.
Alex Russell - President of the Dojo Foundation.
Dojo - Dojo is the Open Source Javascript toolkit that makes
professional web development better, easier, and faster. This talk
will cover some of Dojo's core APIs, including those for Ajax, Drag and
Drop, Animations, and AOP-style event handling. Alex might also discuss
some
of the stock widgets, various ways to take advantage of them, and how
you can use Dojo's package system to help make your own code faster and
more portable.
This should be a great opportunity to hear more about the technology
and cut through all the hype to determine if AJAX is moving to prime
time, or is it just another page in the browser wars (e.g. redundant
code that conducts extensive checking of agent type in the HTTP
header).
Please Join BostonPHP on Wednesday evening, 6:30PM on October 25th - NOTE, THIS IS NOT OUR NORMAL THURSDAY MEETING TIME. More information here.
Reservations accepted only from Thu, Oct 5th, 2006, @12:00am to Wed, Oct 25th, 2006, @11:59pm.
How many of us have searched Source Forge for a project that appears to
fit our needs only to find there's no community or documentation behind
it; or the code is really poorly written; or the project is about to
fork...Sometimes selecting an open source project is like renting
B-grade
movies at the video store; it's not so much the cost that concerns you,
but rather the time wasted if you select a dog.
Please join BostonPHP on October 5th at 6:30PM (more) when Seth Aaronson will moderate a
panel discussion on how to select a robust PHP framework culminating in
a "PHP framework bake-off".
BostonPHP members will showcase their respective frameworks:
Justin Hannus - founder of Opifex;
Nate Abele - core developer of Cake, and
Chuck Hagenbuch - founder of HORDE
Each framework will develop a CRUD (create, read, update, delete) catalog application (e.g. products and categories) that generates multiple formats (xhtml + some xml, etc).
This presentation will become the foundation of future
bake-off/presentations (e.g. Zend, Drupal, Symfony) and the basis of an
upcoming article in php|architect.
Upcoming events
November User Group:: AJAX update
Without a doubt, the concepts behind AJAX are providing the catalyst to
move the web from its old clunky "send it all back the server for an
update" into the thick client "desktop" feel the average computer user
has come to expect.
Earlier this year we heard from the AJAX community to get a primer and snapshot of where the technology sat (click here for a meeting summary). This time around we're going to listen to two more players in the AJAX space:
Dojo - Dojo is the Open Source Javascript toolkit that makes professional web development better, easier, and faster.
JackBe
- JackBe is the first to integrate the flexibility and reusability of
SOA with the desktop-like interactivity of Ajax to deliver complete
Rich Enterprise Applications (REA).
This should be a great opportunity to hear more about the technology
and cut through all the hype to determine if AJAX is moving to prime
time, or is it just another page in the browser wars (e.g. redundant
code that relies upon the agent type in the HTTP
header).
We're leveraging the presence of the AJAX Experience in Boston - please mark your calendars (note this not our normal date).