http://ASPN.ActiveState.com/ASPN/Mail/Browse/Threaded/vancouver-announce Receive-only list of Vancouver activities hosted by ActiveState. en-us Copyright 2005, ActiveState aspn-feedback@activestate.com aspn-feedback@activestate.com ASPN Mail Archive hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://ASPN.ActiveState.com/ASPN/img/logo_78x25.gif http://ASPN.ActiveState.com/ASPN/Mail/Browse/Threaded/vancouver-announce G. Raphics (graphics @ ActiveState) http://ASPN.ActiveState.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/vancouver-announce/3154826 <PRE>ActiveState is pleased to invite you to the Vancouver PHP User Group Event on Thursday, June 8, 2006. Join Andy Latter and learn about Open Source Software and the GPL. Description: Andy Latter is an eBusiness advisor with eBusiness Connections, a business resource centre providing e-business information and services to help BC business remain competitive in an online market. Location: Sophos, 580 Granville Street (former ActiveState building) Date: Thursday, June 8, 2006 Time: 6:30 PM - 8:00PM Cost: Free More Information: Vancouver PHP User Group (http://vancouver.php.net) Thank You, Shezmeen Hudani Marketing Associate ActiveState _______________________________________________ Vancouver-announce mailing list Vancouver-announce@... To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs </PRE> Shezmeen Hudani (shezmeenh@...) vancouver-announce http://ASPN.ActiveState.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/vancouver-announce/3115747 <PRE>Hello, The next PHP User Group Meeting will be held on Thursday, April 20, 2006. Boris Mann of Bryght.com and Zack Greant of eZ systems will host a session on CMS Systems. Location: ActiveState, 580 Granville Street Vancouver Date: Thursday, April 20, 2006 Time: 6:30 to 8:00PM About Boris Mann: Bryght is a content and community management system that makes it easy for you to create and maintain a dynamic website for your organization (corporation, non profit, learning institution, etc.). It is based on the open source Drupal system. About Zak Greant: With a decade of experience in Internet-based ventures, including positions at Open Source innovators like MySQL AB and the Mozilla Foundation, Zak is nearly immune to hype. While he wears many hats at eZ systems, his primary focus is leading the North American headquarters and liaising with the Free Software and Open Source ecosystems. Admission is free, and everyone is welcome to attend this event. Information and forums for the Vancouver PHP User Group are available at: http://vancouver.php.net Hope to see you there! Shezmeen Hudani _______________________________________________ Vancouver-announce mailing list Vancouver-announce@... To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs </PRE> Shezmeen Hudani (shezmeenh@...) vancouver-announce http://ASPN.ActiveState.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/vancouver-announce/3115746 <PRE>Hello, Please join us at tonight's Van-X meeting. Dave Howard and his team from the Vancouver-based "Circle Learning" will give a talk about Visually Rich e-Learning with Flash, MySQL and XML. Location: ActiveState, 580 Granville Street Vancouver Date: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 Time: 6:00pm to 8:00pm The evening will be kicked off at 6:00pm with networking and pizza. The the talk will start around 6:30pm. Abstract: Dave Howard, president of Circle Learning, will discuss their soon to be unveiled Flash based e-learning interface called LEARN. This innovative interface provides a rich media learning environment with easy content updating using MySQL and XML. Dave will demonstrate the system at it's beta stage and discuss the value of such an application in the online learning environment. Flash and the MySQL database make extensive use of XML for the transfer of data, interface design elements and commands. Please refer to http://www.vanx.org for further details. Hope to see you there! Shezmeen Hudani _______________________________________________ Vancouver-announce mailing list Vancouver-announce@... To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs </PRE> Shezmeen Hudani (shezmeenh@...) vancouver-announce http://ASPN.ActiveState.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/vancouver-announce/2870925 <PRE>The next Vancouver Web 2.0 Forum Meeting will be held Thursday October 27, 2005. The featured speaker is Nathaniel Brown, discussing "Building CSS Templates with Drupal". Location: ActiveState, 580 Granville Street Date: Thursday October 27, 2005 Time: 6:30 PM Cost: Free Description: With the advent of CSS based templates becoming more and more a requirement for deployment, changing the mindset from a table centric paradigm to a more open and flexible CSS-based layout can be a somewhat daunting task. This talk walks through the simple steps of building CSS-based templates with Drupal as the deployment environment. Admission is free. Everyone is welcome to attend this event. Information on the Vancouver Web 2.0 Forum is available at: http://www.van2.ca -- Web: www.ActiveState.com Blog: blogs.ActiveState.com ActiveState, a division of Sophos _______________________________________________ Vancouver-announce mailing list Vancouver-announce@... To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs </PRE> Kerry Taylor (KerryT@...) vancouver-announce http://ASPN.ActiveState.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/vancouver-announce/2858572 <PRE>The next Vancouver XML Developers Association meeting will be held Wednesday October 19, 2005. The featured speaker is Dave Johnson, discussing "AJaX: Old Dog New Tricks". Topic: AJaX: Old Dog New Tricks Location: ActiveState, 580 Granville Street Date: Wednesday October 19, 2005 Time: 6:30 PM Cost: Free Description: The recently coined term AJaX has given new life to web development and spurred on the advance of Web 2.0. This talk will take a look at the history of AJaX techniques, today's best practices, and where AJaX might be going in the future. In particular, identification and analysis of some of the more important AJaX techniques will be discussed. As well as the technologies behind AJaX, the talk will also touch on both usability and development issues facing the Web today. About the Speaker: Dave Johnson is co-founder and XML Evangelist at eBusiness Applications, a software consulting company based in North Vancouver. Dave has been working with all things XML (XSD, XSLT, WS-*, ebXML, XAML) for over 7 years. He has a BASC degree from the University of British Columbia and a Masters degree from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine. Admission is free. Everyone is welcome to attend this event. Information on the Vancouver XML Developers Association is available at: http://www.vanx.org -- Web: www.ActiveState.com Blog: blogs.ActiveState.com ActiveState, a division of Sophos _______________________________________________ Vancouver-announce mailing list Vancouver-announce@... To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs </PRE> Kerry Taylor (KerryT@...) vancouver-announce http://ASPN.ActiveState.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/vancouver-announce/2836017 <PRE>The next PHP User Group Meeting will be held Friday October 7, 2005. The featured speaker is Andrei Zmievski, Senior Software Engineer at Yahoo!. Andrei will discuss PHP 6 and Unicode. Location: ActiveState, 580 Granville Street Vancouver Date: Friday October 7th, 2005 Time: 6:30 to 8:00PM Description: Up to now, PHP has provided only marginal multibyte and Unicode support. In this age of international business and globalization, the less than full Unicode functionality is unacceptable. This session covers the work being done on the native Unicode support in PHP 6, based on the ICU library. About Andrei: Andrei Zmievski works on internal tools at Yahoo! Inc. specializing in i18n and infrastructure software, such as PHP and Apache. He is also a core PHP developer, leader of the PHP-GTK project, and a co-author of "PHP Developer's Cookbook" and Smarty templating system. His current focus is the native Unicode support in PHP. In his free time he studies languages and linguistics, goes sailing, and travels to other countries. Admission is free, and everyone is welcome to attend this event. Information and forums for the Vancouver PHP User Group are available at: http://vancouver.php.net _______________________________________________ Vancouver-announce mailing list Vancouver-announce@... To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs </PRE> Kerry Taylor (KerryT@...) vancouver-announce http://ASPN.ActiveState.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/vancouver-announce/2827552 <PRE>The next Vancouver XML Developers Association meeting will be held Wednesday September 28, 2005. The featured speaker is Dave Shea, discussing "Working with Cascading Style Sheets". Topic: Working with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Location: ActiveState, 580 Granville Street Date: September 28, 2005 Time: 6:30 PM Cost: Free Description: CSS-based layouts are taking the Web by storm. Looking to make the switch, but haven't quite figured them out yet? CSS Zen Garden creator Dave Shea is here to guide you through the various layout techniques, demonstrate fixes for browser compatibility quirks, and answer your questions. Admission is free. Everyone is welcome to attend this event. Information on the Vancouver XML Developers Association is available at: www.vanx.org _______________________________________________ Vancouver-announce mailing list Vancouver-announce@... To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs </PRE> Kerry Taylor (KerryT@...) vancouver-announce http://ASPN.ActiveState.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/vancouver-announce/2819318 <PRE>The next Vancouver Web 2.0 Forum Meeting will be held Thursday September 22, 2005. The featured speaker is Roland Tanglao, discussing "Remixing RSS - past, present and future". Location: ActiveState, 580 Granville Street Date: Thursday September 22, 2005 Time: 6:30 PM Cost: Free Description: Learn about the Really Simple Syndication (RSS) news feeds used in blogs and on the Web. Join the Vancouver Web 2.0 Forum and speaker Roland Tanglao, Bryght's Chief Blogging Officer, for a look into RSS. Admission is free. Everyone is welcome to attend this event. Information on the Vancouver Web 2.0 Forum is available at: http://www.van2.ca _______________________________________________ Vancouver-announce mailing list Vancouver-announce@... To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs </PRE> Kerry Taylor (KerryT@...) vancouver-announce http://ASPN.ActiveState.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/vancouver-announce/2819175 <PRE>Sorry for the correction. The Ruby Talk is September 27, 2005. Who: VanRuby with Alex Bunardzic What: Ruby and Ruby on Rails Where: ActiveState Headquarters, 580 Granville Street, Vancouver BC When: Tuesday September 27, 2005 6:30 PM Cost: Free More: http://vanruby.com Kerry _______________________________________________ Vancouver-announce mailing list Vancouver-announce@... To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs </PRE> Kerry Taylor (KerryT@...) vancouver-announce http://ASPN.ActiveState.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/vancouver-announce/2819132 <PRE>Want to learn more about Ruby and Ruby on Rails? Join the Vancouver Ruby Association and guest speaker Alex Bunardzic at ActiveState Headquarters. Find out why Ruby is gaining popularity as a programming language. Who: Vancouver Ruby Association with Alex Bunardzic What: Ruby and Ruby on Rails Where: ActiveState Headquarters, 580 Granville Street, Vancouver BC When: 6:30 PM Cost: Free Description: One of the most popular domain specific languages creating a lot of buzz these days is Ruby on Rails. Built entirely upon Ruby, the Rails technology introduces new concepts into the field of software development. Some of these concepts will be exposed and discussed during the presentation. Admission is free. Everyone is welcome to attend this event. Information and forums for the Vancouver Ruby Association (VanRuby) are available at: http://vanruby.com _______________________________________________ Vancouver-announce mailing list Vancouver-announce@... To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs </PRE> Kerry Taylor (KerryT@...) vancouver-announce