[SGVLUG] Fwd: Web Spinners April 1st: Forms and Databases

[matti]

--- Peter Benjamin <pete at peterbenjamin.com> wrote:

> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:45:31 -0800
> To: "Web Spinners 2006/04":;
> From: Peter Benjamin <pete at peterbenjamin.com>
> Subject: Web Spinners April 1st: Forms and Databases
> 
> Web Spinners Meeting Announcement
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> 
> 
>    April 2006 Meeting:
> 
>        Forms and Databases - A Case History
> 
>    Speaker: Peter Benjamin
> 
>    Date: Saturday, April 1st, 2006
>    Time: 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM
> 
>    Location: Westside Pavilion Mall, Community Room A
>              3rd Floor (top) behind Food Court at East End of Mall
>              10800 West Pico Blvd., Corner of Overland Avenue
> 
>    Suggested Donation: $3 (for Room Rental)
> 
>    Contacts:
>       Daniel Culbertson 310.450.4013 / mailto:theman at compuserve.com
>       Peter Benjamin 310.319.9215 / mailto:pete-ws at peterbenjamin.com
> 
> 
> Editing html pages to be dynamically filled in from a database
> is a challenge to those new to web authoring.  Doing a form that
> edits values in the database ups the level of the challenge.
> 
> This talk will be an overview of the authoring collaboration 
> between the client and the web master, using an existing web
> site section under current development that has a multiple 
> page form with multiple nested external html templates.
> 
> "Extreme Programming," a concept where the requirements change
> in mid stream during a design meetings between the client and
> web master, will be covered, and how such changes are integrated
> into the existing HTML pages, CGI code, and database schema.
> This portion of the talk will cover only the HTML pages and
> schema to medium depth, with an overview of the CGI coding 
> needs  for storing and retrieving data.
> 
> The end goal of Extreme Programming is to provide in the first
> release a satisfactory software package that hits the pavement
> running by incorporating all the client's valuable expertise
> during their learning curve for designing a web section that
> is heavy on user data input form pages.
> 
> The web pages of the site will be shown, both initial, 
> intermediate, and alpha release versions (the final pages 
> are not done yet) to show how inputs were added, and moved 
> between pages, as requirements were defined in meetings.
> The database schema was changed to add fields, and additional
> tables added as needed.  The schema will be briefly reviewed
> for showing the aspect of "Relational" database design.
> 
> Various design decisions for incorporating JavaScript Wizards, 
> AJAX, Frames, and input type choices between radio buttons, 
> checkboxes, select pulldowns, text inputs, and textareas 
> will be discussed.
> 
> Agenda
> 
>  10:00 - Intro 
>  10:15 - Forms and Databases - A Case History 
>  12:00 - Lunch 
>  12:45 - News by Daniel Culbertson 
>  1:15 - Forms and Databases - Continued
>  2:00 - Fini 
> 
> 
> ******************************************************
> 
> Location:
> 
> Westside Pavilion Mall
> Community Room A
> 3rd Floor (top) behind Food Court at East End of Mall
> 10800 West Pico Blvd., Corner of Overland Avenue
> Los Angeles, CA  90064
> (310) 474-6255  Management Office (closed on Saturdays)
> 
> Free Parking - Parking Lot structure at East end of Mall.
>       Enter from Overland, just south of the mall.
> 
> 
> Directions:
> 
> http://www.westsidepavilion.com/about_us/directions
> 
> The parking you are directed to is at the south east corner of
> the mall three levels up.  Enter from Overland just south of
> the mall.
> 
> >From 405 Freeway North or South, go 10 East - see 'From 10" below.
> >From 10 East or West, exit at Overland, turn into the parking
>   structure just before the mall onto the "Express Ramp".  Exit
>   the second driveway (not the roof, but the top of the south
>   parking structure) and park near the doors to the food court.
> 
> Community Room A is behind the main food court along the main
> corridor to the south and then east of the rest rooms.
> 
> FROM the Mall's West End - Community Room C (the old location):
> Walk east the entire length of mall, through Nordstorms if it is
> open (at 10am), otherwise go down and cross Westwood Blvd in
> the crosswalk, then go to the third floor and the food court.
> 
> 


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