Past Events

May SIG Meeting (TBD, from 2004-05-24 06:00 PM to 2004-05-24 08:00 PM) — by atrauring

Zope is an open source application server for building content managements, intranets, portals, and custom applications. The Zope community consists of hundreds of companies and thousands of developers all over the world, working on building the platform and Zope applications. Plone is an out-of-the-box ready content management system that is built on top of the Zope Application server. It requires minimal effort to set up, is deeply flexible, and provides you with a system for managing web content that is ideal for project groups, communities and intranets. Our expert speakers share their customer experience developing and deploying Zope and Plone based web sites. This evening should be of great interest to anyone wanting to learn more about one of the leading and most widely deployed open source application server and content management systems.

February SIG Meeting (BM 590 Madison @ 57th Street, 12th Floor, from 2004-02-26 06:00 PM to 2004-02-26 08:00 PM) — by atrauring

Open Source: Effective Strategies for Licensing, Development, and Valuation A panel of executives representing an IP legal firm, software development firms, and venture capital discuss the issues surrounding Open Source product planning, licensing strategies, and code development. Gain insight into effective strategies for creating value through project management techniques, due diligence and contracting, product licensing terms, and negotiation strategies with large customers.

January SIG Meeting (IBM 590 Madison @ 57th Street, 12th Floor, from 2004-01-27 06:00 PM to 2004-01-27 08:00 PM) — by atrauring

The Salmon Open Framework for Internet Applications (SOFIA) is a J2EE based class and tag library for building database driven web applications. Conceptually it's similar to other open source frameworks like Apache Struts. What makes SOFIA stand out from other frameworks is the built-in tools integration. SOFIA integrates with Macromedia's Dreamweaver so that visual portions of an application can be "painted" instead of hand-coded. SOFIA also provides code generators for many non-visual tasks such as database access and event handling. Finally, SOFIA integrates these tools, along with J2EE servers (Apache Tomcat, BEA Weblogic, IBM Websphere), into best-of-breed integrated development environments (IntelliJ IDEA and Eclipse). SOFIA's goal is to improve programmer productivity while avoiding vendor lock in. SOFIA integrates the products from several different vendors into a cohesive development environment. The various tools supported by SOFIA can be swapped out to suit your individual taste and needs as well as your budget.

October SIG Meeting (TBA, from 2003-10-07 06:00 PM to 2003-10-07 08:00 PM) — by atrauring

The PHP Scripting Language PHP is one variation of the P in the open source LAMP (Perl and Python being the other alternatives). PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. PHP is used in over 13 million domains and is the most popular Apache module. Our panelists will bring you up-to-date on the latest developments in PHP - where it is deployed, how it is being used and where it might be relevant in your own web projects. An evening sure to be of interest to both IT managers and web developers.