LAMPsig

Los Angeles LAMP sig's February meeting will be on Wednesday, Feb 22
from 7:00 to 9:00 pm at the Tom Bradley Center (home of LULA)

Main Topic: The Making of our SCALE Demo: Interactive SVG with Ajax
Speaker:David Rolston

Last month we learned about Scalable Vector Graphics(SVG) from Inkscape leader Ted Gould. Several of our members, lead by David Rolston, were inspired to see what they could accomplish using this up and coming technology. With help from Peter Benjamin, David created a terrific application which was a big hit at SCALE.

David wrote the SCALE Schedule Web page in PHP, rendering SVG with embedded AJAX and JavaScript using data pulled from a MySQL database. One goal for the demo was to write all the code from scratch so no libraries were employed. The end product looks and acts like a web page, without using any html. David worked on the project right up to the last minute, even adding a small change to accomodate the resolution of the projector. David will fill us in on the challenges he faced, tools he employed to help in the development process, and how some challenges were overcome while others were not.