February Meeting: The Making of our SCALE Demo

LAMPsig Meetings

3rd Saturday of the Month 1-3pm
Tom Bradley Youth and Family Center
5213 West Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90019

Wednesday, February 22. 2006

February Meeting: The Making of our SCALE Demo

SCALE 2006

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)

Crowded LAMPsig Booth

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.

What they saw

Agenda:
7:00pm Introduction
7:15pm The Making of our SCALE Project - David Rolston
9:00pm Fini

Please arrive before 7:00pm so that you are
seated for the speaker.

Cost: Free
Non-Member Cost: Free

David Rolston developed systems for a variety of entertainment companies including Paramount Pictures, Broderbund Software, Vivendi Universal Interactive and Z.com. While at Paramount he introduced the use of HP/UX servers, and set up the first company email and webserver. He employed the use of servers running AIX, Irix and Solaris in subsequent projects, then caught open source fever.

Having learned PHP and MySQL during a stint as head moderator of the PHP community site PHPFreaks.com and MySQLFreaks.com, he went on to author tutorials on LAMP and PHP Oop which have been read by over 100,000 people. He's participated in several opensource projects, including The Serendipity Blog, as the author of the GeSHi plugin, and is the project leader of the Mambo & Joomla gallery plugin PonyGallery. These days he works as a consultant focused on open source technologies used in the creation of interactive web sites and web services.

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