JASIG 2009 Seminar Changes* The two supplementary Sakai seminars on Sunday, March 1st have changed. The new descriptions follow, and, as you can see, the afternoon session covers technical content of more general interest that will also help prepare developers for the next generation of Sakai.
Conference registration: http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/09spring/registration.html. Special offer: Attendees who wish to register for these or other seminars but who cannot attend the full conference may do so by calling Jenn Cummings, Registrar, at +1.303.254.6600 to register by telephone. 1. Sakai Bootcamp (Sunday morning) Aaron Zeckoski, University of Cambridge, CARET Nicolaas Matthijs, University of Cambridge, CARET Zach Thomas, Aeroplane Software Sakai bootcamps are intensive workshops consisting of presentations and exercises designed to ease the learning curve for those interested in developing for and integrating with the Sakai framework. The workship is an introduction to development, deployment, and integration with Sakai. Sakai bootcamps also highlight new Java development technologies and elucidate best practices. The Dallas boot camp will include the more traditional discussion of how to write tightly integrated Java-based Sakai applications and also introduce attendees to lighter-weight RESTful approaches that leverage Sakai's entity broker data feeds and widget based frontend development. 2. REST Data Feeds and AJAX Frontends (Sunday afternoon) Aaron Zeckoski, University of Cambridge, CARET Nicolaas Matthijs, University of Cambridge, CARET A workshop on developing apps using a split approach where the backend data feeds are managed by Java services and the frontend interface is written using Javascript/HTML and PHP. This approach provides for a clear division of labor which allows the front end to be developed in any technology that can interact in a RESTful way. The Java developers can focus on producing high performance RESTful data feeds with good documentation while the UI developers can use the technology of their choice (AJAX driven widgets, Ruby on Rails, PHP, etc.) to consume the data and produce an awesome user experience. We will touch on JAX-RS and technologies for producing data feeds and also demonstrate use of jQuery and widgets to produce the interface. -- Andrew Wills UNICON, Inc. Office: (480) 558-2476 http://cernunnos.googlecode.com/ -- You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: [email protected] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
