Reminder: UNIGROUP's AJAX/Javascript Talk is TODAY (Thursday)...
Some updated info in this meeting reminder:
1) O'Reilly just sent us a bunch of AJAX books.
The books will be at today's meeting. Thanks O'Reilly!
2) New Trade Show information for Interop NY 2006.
For all those who have already RSVP'd, thanks, we received them.
-Rob
Unigroup
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UNIGROUP OF NEW YORK - UNIX USERS GROUP - JULY 2006 ANNOUNCEMENTS
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1. UNIGROUP'S JULY 2006 GENERAL MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
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When: THURSDAY, July 20th, 2006 (3rd Thursday)
Where: Alliance for Downtown NY Conference Facility
Downtown Center
104 Washington Street
South West Corner of Wall Street Area
Downtown, New York City
** Please RSVP (not mandatory) **
Time: 6:15 PM - 6:25 PM Registration
6:25 PM - 6:45 PM Ask the Wizard, Questions,
Answers and Current Events
6:45 PM - 7:00 PM Unigroup Business and Announcements
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM Main Presentation
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Topic: AJAX and other Advanced JavaScript Techniques
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Speaker: Dan Phiffer
ShiftSpace
INTRODUCTION:
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This month's meeting will continue on the Web Technologies theme
we started a few months ago when we covered LAMP (Part 1) - MySQL.
AJAX is a JavaScript technique that has become required learning
for anyone building the new generation of web applications.
Behind all the hype is a practical workhorse that can actually
make web applications more useful.
AJAX seems to be a very hot topic right now... from SlashDots
and Google Maps, to magazine articles and professional seminars...
just look and you are bound to find something being said about
AJAX on a daily basis. It seems like a great time to hold
this meeting!
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SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS:
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To REGISTER for this event, please RSVP by using the Unigroup
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Please try to RSVP as soon as possible.
Note: RSVP is not mandatory for this location, but it does help
us to properly plan the meeting (food, drinks, handouts,
seating, etc.).
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MAIN PRESENTATION OUTLINE:
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Topic: AJAX and other Advanced JavaScript Techniques
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- What is AJAX?
- Origins
- "Fancy JavaScript"
- Cutting through the hype
- On asynchronosity
- AJAX in the wild
- Popular examples:
- Google Suggest (http://google.com/webhp?complete=1)
- Google Maps (http://maps.google.com/) - mash-ups
- Flickr (http://flickr.com/)
- Backpack (http://backpackit.com/)
- TiddlyWiki (http://tiddlywiki.com/)
- Some of my own projects:
- Box grid weblog (http://phiffer.org/projects/box-grid)
- Wikipedia Animate (http://phiffer.org/projects/wikipedia-animate/)
- url(x) (http://urlx.org/)
- GridFilter (http://gridfilter.com/)
- ShiftSpace (http://shiftspace.org/)
- Breakneck JavaScript primer
- Knowledge through syntax osmosis
- Everything is an object (kind of)
- DOM overview
- How does AJAX work?
- XMLHttpRequest
- Requesting data
- Processing responses
- Do we really need this?
- When it makes sense to use AJAX
- Alternative technologies
- Performance benchmarks
- Application Walkthroughs.
- Live search
- Inline text editing
- Processing RSS
- How to Debug AJAX?
- Firefox JavaScript console
- Venkman JavaScript debugger
- Logging to the page
- Frameworks
- Prototype JavaScript Framework (http://prototype.conio.net/)
- Scriptaculous (http://script.aculo.us/)
- Dojo (http://dojotoolkit.org/)
- My own toolkit
- http.js
- animate.js
- utils.js
- Compatibility considerations
- Browser requirements & quirks
- Accessibility & failing gracefully
- Addressing AJAX apps
- Tinker Tool
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Web Resources:
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Mozilla Developer Center
http://developer.mozilla.org/
The XML HTTP Request Object
http://jibbering.com/2002/4/httprequest.html
QuirksMode
http://www.quirksmode.org/
JavaScript (Re)Introduction
http://simon.incutio.com/slides/2006/etech/javascript/js-reintroduction-notes.html
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Speaker Biography:
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Dan Phiffer is a programmer and creative worker from California
currently enrolled at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications
Program, where he helps coordinate a weekly hands-on tutorial
series called drive-bys. Dan has worked with clients such as The
New York Times, The Smithsonian, KCET Public Television and
National Geographic, helping to improve the online experience for
both users and publishers. Dan's current project to promote
web-based creative expression, called ShiftSpace (shiftspace.org),
was recently recognized by Ars Electronica and will be presented
at their annual Prix Ars festival in Austria later this summer.
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Company Biography:
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ShiftSpace is an Open Source platform that seeks to add an
additional layer of abstraction above our current web. Using a
loosely coupled network of distributed proxies. ShiftSpace seeks
to provide a new set of virtual public spaces intended to enhance
and offer a greater variety of online experiences.
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Giveaways:
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O'Reilly has been kind enough to provide us with some of their
books, which we will continue to raffle off as giveaways at our
meetings.
Addison-Wesley Professional/Prentice Hall PTR has been kind
enough to provide us with some of their books, which we will
continue to raffle off as giveaways at our meetings.
Unigroup would like to thank both companies for the support
provided by their User Group programs.
Note: The chances tend to be about 1 in 5, that any attendee of
our meeting will walk away with a fairly valuable giveaway
(ie. most books are valued between $30 and $60)!
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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
Payment Methods: Cash, Check, American Express.
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Complimentary Food and Refreshments will be served. This includes
"wraps" such as turkey, roast beef, chicken, tuna and grilled
vegetables as well as assorted salads (potato, tossed,
pasta, etc), cookies, bottled water and assorted beverages.
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Directions:
Alliance for Downtown NY Conference Facility
Downtown Center
104 Washington Street
Wall Street Area
Downtown, New York City
This building is located on the West side of the street, the
second building north of Rector Street. Cross Streets:
Between Rector (South) and Carlisle (North) Streets.
Our meeting location is in the Lower West Corner of Downtown,
North of the Battery Tunnel, South of the Downtown Hotel,
East of West Street, and West of Greenwich Street. Walking West
on Rector Street from Broadway, you pass Church, Greenwich then
Washington Streets.
There are multiple blocks of parking lots right there, between
Washington and Greenwich Streets, starting at the Battery Tunnel
and extending North for a number of blocks.
Nearest mass transit stations, in order, are the '1/9' (Rector
Street), 'R/W' (Rector Street) and the '4/5' (Wall Street).
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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. UPCOMING MEETINGS
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We have a series of meetings in the works:
- AJAX / Advanced JavaScript
- LAMP Part 2 - PHP
- NO SPAM! (know any speakers on SPF and DNSrbl?)
- Asterix / VoIP
- Field Trip to Sun - Solaris 10 Update and/or Networking Stack (planning)
- Field Trip to HP - Invited
- Are there too many Linux Distributions?
- Unix 35th Birthday Celebration (Sun has offered to host this!)
- IPsec and IPv6
- Samba
- DNS
- Unix Clusters and Clustered Databases
- Linux Clustering Part 3: Beowulf version 2
- Building a Firewall using FreeBSD and Linux
- High Performance Internet Servers / Web Acceleration
- Unix Office Tools: Word Processors, Spreadsheets, Accounting Packages.
- PKI
- GNU Development Environments
- iSCSI, Serial ATA, and other new peripheral technologies
Please let us know about any other meeting topics that you may be
interested in. Potential speakers on Unix related technology topics
should contact the Unigroup Board.
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3. PRIOR MEETINGS
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May 2006: The AMANDA Open Source Enterprise Backup System
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Unigroup would like to thank Ian Turner from Zmanda for his
presentation about Amanda and the Amanda Project. We learned about
Amanda, its capabilities for cross-platform enterprise backup, and
we discussed various aspects of emergency restoring from tape when
when Amanda has not yet been installed.
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4. LOCAL EVENTS and TRADE SHOWS
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A) Interop NY 2006
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When: September 18-22, 2006.
Where: Javits Center
For show information visit: http://www.interop.com/succeed
B) InfoSecurity 2006
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When: October 24-25, 2006.
Where: Javits Center
For show information visit: http://www.infosecurityevent.com
Please let us know about other Unix/Linux/Networking/Internet/Security
related events in our area (especially ones with no-charge admission),
that we have not yet mentioned.
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5. 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/was also the Greater NYC Regional Area
Affiliate of UniForum - an International Unix Users Group.
Unigroup holds regular meetings planned for (at a minimum) the Third
THURSDAY of Odd Months. We generally try to hold Field Trip or
Vendor Specific Meetings on the Even Months, although we do have the
ability to hold monthly meetings at our new downtown meeting location.
Planned regular meeting dates are: 7/20/2006, 9/21/2006, 11/16/2006...
Watch for our Special Event meetings at the various trade shows in NYC
as well as "Field Trips" to the facilities of local hardware and
software vendors.
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I hope to see you all at our next meeting!
-Rob Weiner
Unigroup Executive Director
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