[dundee] Meeting January 17th - Developing websites and web apps with a snake

[Stuart McCulloch Anderson]

Remember remember the 17th of January ... okay so the limerick doesn't 
travel, but the message is still important

Here are the details, use them anyway you see fit -
Next Meeting: January 17th @19:00
Paul Sutherland - "Developing websites and web apps with a snake"
@ The Burgh Coffee House (Up Stairs), Commercial Street
http://thesoftwaresociety.org.uk/calendar

Modern web development of dynamic websites has moved on considerably 
from the days of serving static hand coded HTML pages which required 
modification by a web-master or sysadmin. Consideration of database 
access, templating, session management, user management, security, new 
Ajax and JavaScript libraries and many more advances that take time to 
implement and crucially to get right. To alleviate this overhead, a web 
application framework helps to ease this burden and free you to 
concentrate on being productive.
This talk will give an introduction to an Open Source Python Web 
Framework built on top of the Zope application server which can be used 
for any kind of website, including blogs, internet sites, webshops and 
internal websites.
The talk will give an overview of what the framework is and what it 
does, how to set up an EC2 Ubuntu server for testing purposes, 
downloading and installing the Framework, extending the Framework for 
our custom content types and custom theme, discuss a production server 
scenario and how to deploy the finished application complete with web 
accelerator, load balancer, multiple zeo clients all serving the object 
database from within one config file.
You will gain another tool for your geek toolbox from this talk. You 
should hopefully understand how to download, install and start using 
the framework out of the box. If you need to extend the framework, I 
will give pointers to the latest documentation for the modern 
development techniques that are covered in the talk.
Slides, Code and a Tutorial will be available after the talk for your 
own reference

Stay sane and remember, I like you cause you join in on my madness....

And as always...
If you have been, thanks for reading

Stuart McCulloch Anderson
Chairman

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