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UNIGROUP IS HOLDING A JUNE DEVELOPERS MEETING
ON PERL/CGI/DBI AT A SPECIAL MIDTOWN LOCATION...
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UNIGROUP OF NEW YORK JUNE 2000 ANNOUNCEMENTS
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1. UNIGROUP'S JUNE 2000 GENERAL MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
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When: Thursday, June 15, 2000
*** NOTE: SPECIAL MIDTOWN LOCATION ***
Where: WestLake Internet Training's Classroom Facility
Hosted at Computer Generated Solutions
1675 Broadway at 52nd Street
Floor 31
NYC 10019-5820
Time: 6:15 PM - 6:30 PM Registration
6:30 PM - 6:40 PM Ask the Wizard,
Questions, Answers and Current Events
6:40 PM - 6:50 PM Unigroup Business
6:50 PM - 9:00 PM Main Presentation
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Topic: Web-to-Database Integration with Perl
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Speaker: John Paxton, Director of Internet Training
WestLake Internet Training
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Introduction:
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Unigroup's June 2000 meeting will be a special DEVELOPERS meeting at a
SPECIAL MIDTOWN LOCATION. Our meeting is hosted by WestLake Internet
Training, our speaker for this meeting. WestLake has offered us the use of
one of their training rooms for a true hands-on Perl development
"mini-training" course. The topic for this session is Perl and
Web-to-Database Integration.
Perl is a very popular utility and language which is available on Unix and
Non-Unix operating systems. It is freely available under the GNU license and
has been ported to a variety of systems including Unix, MS-Windows and
OpenVMS. Perl is a single program which is comprises a superset of
functionality based on the following Unix Utilities: awk, ed, grep, sed, sh
and tr mixed with functionality from the C programming language. It supports
loadable modules, Unix System Calls, Networking (Sockets) and Object
Oriented Functionality. There are hundreds of freely available Perl Modules
which provide everything from native Internet Protocol Support (FTP, POP,
SMTP, SNMP) through Database Integration (Informix, Oracle, Sybase, etc).
Web Resources:
CPAN: Comprehensive Perl Archive Network http://www.cpan.org
Perl Mongers http://www.perl.org
Perl Monger User Groups http://www.pm.org
Apache/Perl Integration Project http://perl.apache.org
Food & Giveaways:
WestLake will be holding a drawing for one of the O'Reilly Perl textbooks
that they hand out in their open-enrollment classes. WestLake will be
providing food and refreshments for this meeting.
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Description of Talk:
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Our meeting will be a hands-on mini-course on Web-to-Database Integration
with Perl. Perl, Web CGI Scripting and Perl's DBI modules will be used to
demonstrate how to integrate real-time information from an existing database
with a Web site.
Topics to be explored:
* Architectures for Web-to-Database Integration and pros and cons of
each.
* Perl 5 and Database Connectivity Modules. Perl 5, in contrast to Perl 4,
supports object-oriented programming, as well as plug-in modules that
extend Perl 5's functionality. Perl 5's object-oriented features and
the DBI.pm module will be used to query and post-process data in UNIX
SQL databases.
* Adding, Searching, Editing, and Deleting Database Records. Working with
Perl 5 CGI scripts that provide facilities to add, search, edit, and
delete records stored in a SQL database. The generation of "on the fly"
HTML tables for the display of results will also be explored.
The full course (as opposed to the mini-course) is outlined by WestLake's
Course Outline Page:
http://www.westlake.com/courses/perl/database_db_summary.html
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Speaker Biography:
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John Paxton joined WestLake Internet Training Training as an Internet
Trainer in 1997. He is the Director of Trainers for WestLake's Washington,
DC and Arlington, VA offices and oversees several of WestLake's course
lines. Currently, he manages the Active Server Pages course line and parts
of the Perl course line.
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Company Biography:
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WestLake Internet Training is a fast-growing national provider of Web
development training. The firm has training centers in Washington, D.C.,
Arlington, Va., Southfield (Detroit), Mich., Pittsburgh, Pa., and will
open its fifth center in New York City (Midtown) on June 19, 2000.
WestLake provides hands-on, instructor-led training to students at all
competency levels, from first-time Web developers to seasoned Web
professionals. WestLake also offers classes at the workplaces of its
corporate and government customers. Course dates and outlines are
available online at http://www.westlake.com/register/.
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DIRECTIONS
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WestLake Internet Training's Classroom Facility
Hosted at Computer Generated Solutions
1675 Broadway at 52nd Street
Floor 31
New York, NY 10019-5820
New York City Subway - ride the:
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1, 2, 3 and 9 trains to 50th Street stop at Broadway
C and E trains to 50th Street stop at 8th Avenue.
Walk one block east to Broadway.
N and R trains to 49th Street stop at 7th Avenue.
Walk one short block west to Broadway.
D, B and F trains to 50th Street Rockefeller Center stop on
Avenue of the Americas (6th Avenue), walk one block and one
short block west to Broadway.
Parking
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Ample parking is available in garages near Computer Generated Solutions.
Note: Broadway is One Way, going Downtown. 52nd St. is One Way, going East.
Allied Parking Systems
888 8th Ave. @ 53 St.
(212) 977-9791
Central Parking System
810 7th Ave. @ 52 St.
(212) 957-7781
Central Parking System
301 W. 53 St. @ 8th Ave.
(212) 445-0044
Circle Parking Corp.
200-62 W. 52 St. @ 7th Ave.
(212) 397-9029
Park-Serv Inc.
140-166 W. 53 St. @ 6th Ave.
(212) 397-9028
Real Park
239 W. 53 St. @ 7th Ave.
(212) 262-5506
Square Park
810 7th Ave. @ 52 St.
(212) 974-9317
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Complimentary Refreshments will be served. This now includes salads
and sandwiches! WestLake is providing deli sandwiches, pasta salad,
soda and cookies/brownies for dessert.
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Fee Schedule:
Yearly Membership (includes all meetings): $ 50.00
* Non-Member Single Meeting: $ 20.00
Student Yearly Membership: $ 20.00
Non-Member Student Single Meeting (with ID): $ 5.00
Cash, Check, American Express.
* Employees of Chase (with ID) can attend general meetings at no charge.
==> Unigroup is the Greater NYC Regional Area Affiliate
of UniForum - an International Unix Users Group.
Our Joint Membership Program with UniForum is currently
on hold due to circumstances at UniForum.
For information about UniForum visit http://www.uniforum.org.
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Please mark this meeting on your calendar and join us!
Please tell your friends about Unigroup!
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2. PC EXPO
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PC EXPO will be in NYC at the end of this month at the Javits Center.
The exhibit dates are:
Tue June 27 10am - 5pm
Wed June 28 10am - 5pm
Thu June 29 10am - 4pm
Complimentary Online Registration is available at:
http://www.pcexpo.com
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3. UPCOMING MEETINGS
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We have a couple of meetings in the works.
Other meetings being planned are:
- Unix Office Tools: Word Processors, Spreadsheets, Accounting Packages.
- What's New In Data Storage Technologies: From SANs to NAS.
- Linux Beowolf Clusters
- Building a FreeBSD Firewall
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4. PRIOR MEETING
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We had two talks at out last meeting. Thanks go to all our speakers.
Ram and Toni really helped us out on very short notice.
The first session was on DSL. Our speakers were Ram Tanamy from Ultinet
and Robert Weiner from Programming Plus (myself).
The second session was on Unix Web Proxy Gateways. Our speakers were
Dan Budne from Budne Software Consulting, Robert Weiner from
Programming Plus and Toni Wuersch from SIAC.
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5. UPDATES TO MEMBERSHIP DATABASE
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We are updating and reworking our membership database. If you will be
attending our next meeting please look up the last time you paid for
membership, paid the single meeting fee or simply the last time you
attended a meeting and bring that information with you to the meeting.
We need to make sure that we have the correct renewal dates on file
for your yearly membership. For the most part, any joint UniForum
memberships should be expired by now as well. UniForum had stopped
collecting joint memberships a long time ago.
For those who cannot attend our next meeting, we will be sending out
a notice and preparing a web page on which your mailing address and
Email addresses can be updated.
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6. UNIGROUP INFORMATION
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Unigroup is one of the oldest and largest Unix User's Groups serving the
Greater New York City Regional Area since the early 1980s. Unigroup is a
not-for-profit, vendor-neutral and member funded volunteer organization.
Unigroup holds regular and special event meetings throughout the year on
technical topics relating to Unix and the Unix User Community. Unigroup
is also the Greater NYC Regional Area Affiliate of UniForum - an
International Unix Users Group.
Thanks to Chase, Unigroup holds regular meetings planned for the Third
THURSDAY of Odd Months at The Chase Manhattan Bank, 55 Water Street, NYC.
Planned meeting dates are: 7/20/2000, 9/21/2000, 11/16/2000, ...
Watch for our Special Event meetings at the various trade shows in NYC.
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If you have recently attended a meeting and you are not receiving
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Please Email the Board with any suggestions, especially potential meeting
topics and speakers. Unigroup welcomes contributions and content
suggestions for our newsletter. Unigroup is a volunteer organization and
we need your assistance! Please let us know if you can help!
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I hope to see you all at our next meeting!
-Rob Weiner
Unigroup Executive Director
unilist@unigroup.org
http://www.unigroup.org
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