<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> August 2006 Seattle Perl Users Group (SPUG) Meeting</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> =======================
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Title: Introducing the Solstice Framework</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> Speaker: Patrick Michaud and Miles Crawford</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> Meeting Date: Tuesday, 15 August 2006</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
Meeting Time: 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> Location: <a href="http://Whitepages.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
Whitepages.com</a> offices, downtown Seattle
</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> Cost: Admission is free and open to the public</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> Info: <a href="http://seattleperl.org/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://seattleperl.org/</a></span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
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<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Please join us Tuesday evening on 15 August 2006 at</span><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> the (otherwise) regular monthly meeting of the Seattle Perl Users Group.
</span><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br><br>Due to last minute scheduling conflicts, Mark Jason Dominus is unable to join us this month. Instead, we are very happy to have Miles Crawford and Patrick Michaud as our guests to talk
</span><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">about their web framework, Solstice.<br><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"></span><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Thank you to our hosts at
<a href="http://Whitepages.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
Whitepages.com</a> for giving us a great place to</span><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> hold our meetings and presentations, </span><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">to the SPUG-Workers list
</span><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">for making speaker arrangements, to all the SPUG members that show up at</span><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> meetings or participate on the list to make the group worthwhile in the
</span><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> first place, and all the JAPHs out there for just being.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br>
</span><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">See below for more information on...</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"></span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> - Speaker Background</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> - Presentation Description</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> - Meeting Location</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"></span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Speaker Background</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">==================</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"></span><br><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Miles Crawford & Patrick Michaud<br>--------------------------------<br><br></span><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="sg">
Software Developers for Catalyst Research and Development, Office of Learning Technologies at the University of Washington, Miles and Patrick developed a web framework named after everyone's favorite coffee shop on the Ave. They gave a version of this presentation at YAPC::NA this year in Chicago, and thought it was worth all the travel hassles it took to get them there.
</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"></span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Presentation Description
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</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Introducing the Solstice Framework</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
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<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"></span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">The Solstice framework is a new MVC-oriented web development framework
for mod_perl. Stressing scalability, embedability of application
components, and a state-machine driven navigation model, Solstice
provides some new approaches to creating Perl web applications.
Developed by a group at the University of Washington, this system has
allowed our four developers to create and maintain 8 campus-wide
applications in two years. We intend to introduce the strengths and
features of Solstice as well as do a quick demo of the development
process.<br><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"></span><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Meeting Location</span><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br>================</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
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</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><a href="http://Whitepages.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Whitepages.com
</a> is located on the 16th floor of the Rainier Square Tower </span><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">(1301 5th Avenue, Seattle) which is across from the 5th Avenue Theater.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">See the directions[1] for a quick primer on how to reach us from various</span><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> locations across Puget Sound.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"></span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">There are plenty of locations to park in the area, including on the
</span><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> street. If you're looking for off-street parking, you can park in the </span><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Rainier Square garage which has an entrance on Union St.
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<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"></span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">After 6PM, the building management restricts access to most floors. Our
</span><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">host is trying to take care of this, but if unsuccessful, they will</span><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> station someone on the 1st floor near the elevator bank and 5th Avenue
</span><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> entrance to let people in. Worst case scenario, give our host a call on</span><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> his cell phone[2] and he'll run down to let you in.
</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"></span><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br>Our hosts are providing a generous assortment of free sodas, fruit drinks,
</span><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">teas, and coffee, and also have some snacks. You definitely won't</span><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> dehydrate here.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"></span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">We look forward to seeing you!</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> </span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">[1] - <a href="http://www.whitepagesinc.com/l" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://www.whitepagesinc.com/locations/</a></span><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"></span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">[2] - (206) 354-7789
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spug-list@pm.org</a></span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">SUBSCRIPTION: <a href="http://mail.pm.org/mailman/lis" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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