http://upcoming.yahoo.com/group/1560/ Events feed for the London Ruby on Rails Group on Upcoming. Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:45:10 -0700 Upcoming 60 en-us
The escapee is flying in on Tuesday 21st July. To ensure he can't get his bloody revenge, we're going to hide out upstairs in "The Ship" near Monument tube station.

All the best, Mitch.
]]> http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/3017757/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/3017757/ lrug_mitch http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/3017757/#comments 51.5109 -0.084854 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:45:10 -0700 2009-07-02T09:45:10-07:00 LRUG Nights, Episode 18: Vengeance 20090721T180000 20090721 http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/583522/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/583522/ The Ship 11 Talbot Court London England EC3V 0BP United Kingdom http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/583522/ Social
Tom Stuart - talking about the uses of abstract algebra in ruby and the pub.
Tomasz Wegrzanowski - ruby + arduino

After the talks we head to The Crown Tavern (http://www.fancyapint.com/pubs/pub199.html) for a few drinks. We're usually there from about 8pm.

NOTE: You *have* to register with our hosts Skills Matter if you want to attend the talks. This upcoming event page is for convenient calendaring only.
]]> http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2884083/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2884083/ h-lame http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2884083/#comments Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:07:09 -0700 2009-06-10T02:07:09-07:00 London Ruby User Group (LRUG) July 2009 Meeting 20090708T183000 20090708T200000 http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/9104/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/9104/ The Crypt, St James Church Clerkenwell Clerkenwell Close, London EC1R 0EA London England EC1R United Kingdom http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/9104/ Social We will start by introducing Ajax from a business, design and coding perspective. We will then look at Ajax and The Network, consider HTTP traffic Patterns, object serialisation across HTTP and management and measurement of HTTP traffic. You will also learn about reverse Ajax and Enterprise Comet.
You'll then be introduced to the impact of Ajax on the User Interface, Prototype and some important Data Validation Patterns. You will also learn how to use event-driven code and callback functions and Scriptaculous.
Then, we will discuss Ajax within the context of your Enterprise Architecture. You will learn how Ajax works with SOAP and REST web services and how to use Mash-Ups to interact directly with third-party web services.
Finally, you will learn how to look after your code, with Unit Testing and Functional testing using jsUnit, TestMaker and Selenium.

NEXT UK SESSION
The next course will be delivered at Skills Matter - London, on 04 aug 2009 by Sébastien Gruhier. Sébastien is the founder of Mapeed.com and Xilinus.com and has created open-source projects often cited in ajaxian.com like prototype-ui or prototype-graphic and is very well-know in Javascript community.

LEARN HOW TO:
* Apply the technologies underlying Ajax
* Manage and measure HTTP traffic
* Use Ajax UI libraries, including Prototype and Scriptaculous
* Implement Ajax with REST and SOAP Web Services
* Select and implement server-side Ajax Toolkits, such as Sajax, DWR, Backbase, JSF and GWT
* Look after your code through UnitTesting and JavaScript code profiling

REGISTRATION & INFORMATION:
http://skillsmatter.com/course/ajax-ria/enterprise-web-with-ajax/wd-33

PROGRAMME

AJAX BASICS

Getting started with Ajax

* Ajax from a business, design and coding perspective
* Good coding practices
* Scaling your code.

Ajax in the bigger picture

* Low-level 'plumbing'
o the HTTP protocol
o XHR object

Refactoring the XHR object

* Refactoring in Javascript
* Writing JavaScript objects
* Creating usable Wrapper Objects with the XHR object

Dialects of Ajax

* Server Responses
o HTML Content
o Generated script
o Structured data (XML and JSON)
* Pro’s and Con’s

Ajax libraries

* Prototype,
* jQuery
* YUI,
* Leveraging the power of the JavaScript language

DAY 2: THE NETWORK

HTTP Traffic Patterns

* A single HTTP request and response
* HTTP traffic patterns across the lifecycle of an entire application.

Data round-tripping

* Object Serialisation Patterns across the HTTP interface
* JSON
* XML

Managing HTTP from the Client-side

* HTTP transport Strategies
* Prototype's X-JSON headers and Responders (principles and approach)
* Rico's Ajax.Engine (principles and approach)

Measuring HTTP traffic

* Creating visual HTTP traffic Reports
* Tools: Firebug, Fiddler, LiveHTTPHeaders

Comet & Reverse Ajax

* When to use Comet/Reverse
* Other Reverse Ajax approaches

DAY 3: USER INTERFACES

UI Libraries

* Good JavaScript Coding and Encapsulation Techniques
* Implications of the User Interface

Prototype & the DOM

* Prototype's support for
o The DOM
o HTML forms
* Data Validation Patterns for Ajax

Scriptaculous

* Scriptaculous
o visual effects
o drag and drop
* Event-driven code
* Callback functions

Ajax UIs for Navigation and Data Manipulation

* Web and desktop UI metaphors
o Differences
o Fusion
* Data categorisation vs classification schemes

DAY 4: AJAX WITHIN THE ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE

Ajax in your Enterprise Architecture

* Server
* Business

Ajax & Web Services

* SOAP Web Services
* REST Web Services
* How does Ajax work with SOAP and REST

Server-side architecture

* Ajax toolkits and the patterns that they adopt.
* Ajax Toolkit Overview:
o Sajax
o DWR
o Backbase
o JSF
o GWT
* Mash-ups and how to interact directly with third-party web services from the client in a "Web 2.0" style.

Looking after your code

* Unit testing in Ajax
* Functional Testing in Ajax
o jsUnit
o TestMaker
o Selenium
* Profiling JavaScript code for execution speed and memory footprint.
]]> http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2294880/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2294880/ SkillsMatter http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2294880/#comments 51.5336 -0.10471 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:39:54 -0700 2009-03-30T01:39:54-07:00 Core Ajax: Enterprise Web Development with Ajax 20090804T090000 20090807T170000 http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/40854/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/40854/ Skills Matter 1 Sekforde Street London England EC1R 0BE United Kingdom http://www.skillsmatter.com 0207 107 2620 Education