[Van-pm] Wednesday February 22nd: Catalyst, Ajax and Web 2.0. Are we there yet?

[Helen Cook]

This month's meeting (see details below) will be preceeded at 6 (pizza
at 5:30) by the Vancouver XML Developers Association meeting in which
Jost Klopfstein of Axos Technologies will present "The Power of
Personalized Business Communications using Open Standards (How XSL-FO
Can Work For Me)".  See http://www.vanx.org/next_meeting.htm for more
details.  Mongers are welcome to attend both.  


When: Wednesday February 22, 2006, 7:30pm

Where: Sophos, 580 Granville Street, Vancouver, BC

Speakers and Topics:

Alex Pavlovic and Slobodan Miskovic will present Catalyst, Ajax and Web
2.0. Are we there yet?
This talk will focus on using Catalyst and AJAX to deliver the look and
feel of a desktop application in a browser. We will briefly cover the
basics of the Catalyst model-view-controller structure, and then see how
to use javascript and Catalyst actions to create powerful user
interactions. There will be time for questions.

Alex Pavlovic
Mr. Pavlovic graduated in 1999 from Camosun College in Computer Science
and has been working as a developer in Canada since 1994. In the last
few years, he has worked heavily with open source web based
technologies, especially emerging W3C recommendations and standards.
Currently Mr. Pavlovic is exploring new web development concepts and
strategies that bring much needed functionality into the browser itself,
and that could ultimately replace desktop applications.

Slobodan Miskovic
Mr. Miskovic, a recent graduate from SFU's Computer Science program, has
been doing web development for 8 years, and is a rapid adopter of new
technologies. Currently he is an independent contractor who enjoys
exploring the wonderful world of Web2.0 as seen from the Catalyst
perspective.