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September 01, 2005
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Web Connection Training & User Conference
Tempe Arizona, before Southwest Fox, Oct 11- 13th, 2005
Last Update:
01-Sep-2005
Are you a Web Connection Developer looking for an opportunity to
expand your skill set and hobnob with other Web Connection experts? Then
look no further than this year's Web Connection User Conference in Tempe
Arizona at the Twin Palms Hotel, just prior to the
Southwest Fox Conference there.
The conference is available as a 3 day or 2 day event. Experienced
users may not want to attend the 1 day introduction to Web Connection
training and can attend only for the User Conference.
Sign up now:
Introduction Training
and User Conference (All 3 days)
User Conference only
(2 days)
West Wind Technologies presents a 2 day conference on
West Wind Web Connection prior to the Southwest Fox
conference in Tempe, Arizona this year on the dates of Oct 11th through 13th.
This conference is geared towards existing Web Connection
and general VFP Web developers with specialized topics presented by
several speakers in this session style conference.
Speakers include Rick Strahl, Randy Pearson, Lauren
Clarke, Michael Hogan, Darrell Gardner and Steve Black. This
conference is different than previous Web Connection training courses in
that it aims to touch on a
variety of specialized real world Web development topics that developers
face on a regular basis in the course of Web application development. The
sessions are presented by some of the leading experts in the Web
Connection community. This workshop will give existing developers new
insight into Web Connection and provide many new and varied ideas and
perspectives on how to utilize this powerful product. There will be ample
opportunity to network and talk directly with speakers and fellow
developers for a well rounded feature packed conference.
The single track format makes sure there's a sense
of common experience for everyone involved for both speakers and
attendees alike, and the small group atmosphere makes it a natural place
for asking questions and interacting with the speakers and other
developers. Learning by association and close interaction sets this
conference apart from many others.
Where: Tempe Arizona
When: October 11th-13th, 2005
The conference will be held at the Tempe Twin Palms Hotel @ ASU.
For more info on the hotel contact:
Pricing:
Sign up for the
conference now and save!
Training and User Conference (3 days):
$599.00 - before August 1st
$649.00 - before August 31st
$699.00 - before September 30th
$799.00 - after September 30th
User Conference only (2 days):
$499.00 - before August 1st
$549.00 - before August 31st
$599.00 - before September 30th
$699.00 - after September 30th
Cancellation policy
$75 cancellation fee prior to September 15th
$300 (3 day)/ $250 (2 day) cancellation fee (after September 15th)
No refunds after October 1st
Sign up links:
Introduction Training
and User Conference (3 days)
User Conference only
(2 days)
Training
Are you a new Web Connection Developer looking to learn how to get
started with Web Connection or do you want to expand your skills using
this powerful tool? Then get on the fast track to learning and realizing
the full flexibility and power of this powerful Web development tool for
Visual FoxPro. See how you can become productive quickly and efficiently
with this all day immersion into Web Connection directly from the
author, Rick Strahl. This seminar is run as a continuous session which
walks through through creation of a small application from creating a
new project, to adding new Web handlers and refining the application,
all the way through deployment and administration. The format is
interactive walk-through style with Rick demonstrating each step of the
way from scratch usually with audience participation on direction.
User Conference
The user conference features a variety of topic content by several
speakers in conference style session format. Sessions are self contained
and 1 hour 15 minute in length covering a variety of Web Development
topics. Topcis include Security for Web Application, Integrating Client
Side Scripting, Managing Long Running and Asynchronous Request
Processing, Server Configuration and Deployment, Creating Custom
Installations for Web Connection applications.
West Wind Technologies is proud to announce a killer roster of top
notch speakers for the Web Connection User Conference. The following
speakers are experts in their fields of expertise and have been an
enormous resource to the Web Connection community. We are doubly excited
as some of the top notch speakers don't make many speaking appearances,
so this is your opportunity to see show off their stuff!
Steven Black
Canadian
Visual FoxPro developer. As principal of
Steven
Black Consulting, Steve works as a mentor, technical team leader, as
well as actively working on development projects with customers large
and small in all parts of North America and Europe. Specializes in
Object-Oriented architecture and design, software project risk
management, development team cohesion and collaboration, software
construction, and project salvage and turnarounds.
Creator of the
INTL Toolkit and is an expert in multilingual applications in
FoxPro and
Visual FoxPro.
Creator and editor in chief of the
FoxPro Wiki.
Lauren Clarke
Lauren Clarke is an independent consultant and the
director of Cornerstone Systems
Northwest Inc. Cornerstone Systems Northwest is primarily concerned
with building web-based data collection, knowledge management and
decision support tools for health-science researchers in both the
private and public sectors. Applications written and supported by
Cornerstone Systems Northwest are currently in use in over a dozen
countries worldwide supporting research in more than twenty universities
and research organizations.
With papers published in peer-reviewed medical journals such as the New
England Journal of Medicine, as well as trade journals such as Foxtalk,
CoDe, and FoxPro Advisor, Lauren brings scientific, statistical and
information technology perspectives to his projects. A charter West-Wind
Web Connection MVP, Lauren also enjoys working on interesting projects
with fellow VFP developers, exploring new web-based technologies, and
supporting the Visual FoxPro Web development community in general. His
primary interests lie in learning and developing patterns of practice in
software development, graphical representations of data and processes,
collaboration tools, stochastic simulation modeling and when the weather
permits, fly fishing. You can contact Lauren via email at
lauren@cornerstonenw.com.
Darrell Gardner
Darrell Gardner is the owner of DNG Solutions (Data Center and Managed
Services) and has been an XBase programmer since 1984. He received a
B.S. in Computer Science in 1986 from the University of Georgia. He
spent most of his development years working in the clipper S87
environment and switched to FoxPro 2.x in 1991 and to Visual FoxPro in
1997. Received Network certification from Novel back in 1986, and kept
up with the networking knowledge to help the programming side. Prior to
working at DNG Full time, Darrell was the Director of IT at two
companies, one in the distribution industry and the other in the high
tech consulting arena (including data centers). Darrell is a Web
Connection MVP and is active on the support boards at West Wind
Technologies. DNG Solutions is based in Southern California. You can
contact Darrell via email at
darrellg@dngsolutions.net or visit the website at
www.dngsolutions.net.
Michael Hogan
Michael Hogan is a building Architect who has become
an independent VFP consultant in Chicago. Michael runs Ideate, LLC to
provide business solutions in the Chicago area. His primary tools are
Visual FoxPro and Web Connection. While practicing Architecture, he has
been solving Business problems with FoxBase and FoxPro since the late
80's, and created the first National Bulletin Board for Architects and
Engineers in 1985. He has been focusing exclusively on technology and
application design for over 10 years and now only dabbles in Architecture.
Michael has written for several monthly publications in the A/E/C
(Architecture/Engineering/Construction) world, and currently writes a
monthly technology column in 'Structural Engineer' magazine. He has spoken
at several 'Technology in Architecture' oriented seminars and trade shows,
and is a popular speaker at Chicago's FUDG. Through Ideate LLC, Michael
has created several custom web applications ranging from simple but
dynamic web sites to complex, integrated web-based business applications.
Descriptions and case studies are available at the Ideate web site:
www.id-8.com. Michael can be reached at
mhogan@id-8.com.
Randy Pearson
Randy Pearson is a Partner with Cycla Corporation in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He has been developing Visual FoxPro and
predecessor solutions for over 17 years. Randy has spent the last 5 years
developing web-based applications using West Wind Web Connection with
Visual FoxPro. He is a co-author of "WebRAD: Building Database
Applications on the Web with Visual FoxPro and Web Connection" (Hentzenwerke,
ISBN 1-930919-07-7). He has spoken at conferences and user groups, and has
written articles for both FoxTalk and FoxPro Advisor. Randy is also the
creator of the well-known public domain "CodeBlock" program (FoxTalk,
December 1994). Randy now spends part of his time providing mentoring and
coaching services for other Web Connection developers. He has also
developed a framework that he uses in conjunction with Web Connection, and
is evaluating the commercial potential of that framework. Randy can be
reached by email at
randyp@cycla.com.
Rick Strahl
Rick Strahl is president of West Wind Technologies on
Maui, Hawaii. The company specializes in Web and distributed application
development and tools with focus on Visual FoxPro and the .Net Framework
for Web and distributed technologies. Rick is author of
West Wind Web Connection,
a powerful and widely used Web application framework for Visual FoxPro and
West Wind HTML Help Builder.
He's also a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional, and a frequent
contributor to magazines and books. He is co-publisher and co-editor of
CoDe magazine, and his book, "Internet Applications with Visual FoxPro
6.0", is published by Hentzenwerke Publishing. For more information please
visit:
www.west-wind.com or contact Rick at
rstrahl@west-wind.com.
Lauren Clarke
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Web Application Performance: Tools,
and Techniques
Performance-tuning web applications can be a challenging task due to
the various independent systems involved in delivering requested
content to users. There are a number of server-side and client-side
techniques that can be applied to reduce the mean response time and
bring the “snap” back into your applications. In this session,
Lauren will focus on philosophy of optimization, design techniques
for efficiency and tools for optimization. Lauren will review the
major areas of processing expense for a typical web application and
address ways of attacking each area with both design and
implementation strategies. This session is geared toward giving you
the tools you need to attack the areas most likely to yield the
greatest performance gains with the least amount of programming time
and minimal loss of extensibility. Special Note: In this talk,
Lauren will release a major update to his
CSNWPerfLog tool. This updated version leverages some new
features in VFP and allows greater flexibility in tracking the
performance of any part of your application at run-time, even in
production environments. If you have a thorny optimization issue,
this tool can be a tremendous weapon in finding and eradicating the
bottle-necks in your application.
- Managing File Access with your Web
Connection Application
A new feature in version 4.65 of
Web-Connection allows us to send files to the user directly
through the ISAPI dll. This new functionality allows our
Web-Connection applications to send very large files on demand
via HTTP and more importantly, to control access to those files
from our application’s internal security system. Since the files
are sent to the user via the ISAPI .dll, and not our VFP
application, our application’s availability will not be as
impacted by large file requests and we are no longer limited by
the 16meg maximum imposed by the VFP string-length limit. With
this exciting new feature, we now have the pieces we need to
assemble a first-class file-access management system for our
applications. In this session we will do exactly that. Lauren
will discuss strategies for sending varied content types
directly from our applications and will demonstrate and
distribute a tool for managing access to files directly from any
Web-Connection application.
Randy Pearson
- Introduction to Page Elements
In this session, Randy presents the concept of "page elements",
which are classes that can be used to manage different sections of
overall responses (pages). As with Web Connection responses, page
elements may be assembled from code, templates, or scripts; and
different strategies can be mixed and matched in assembling an
overall response. Attendees will receive reusable extensible
classes, in addition to example working concrete subclasses. Also
discussed will be an approach that employs simple templates (no need
for compilation or Codeblock) for common situations where previously
scripts were required.
- Security and Web Connection Applications
This session presents a wide range of security-related issues
for Web Connection applications. We will examine both problems
within the domain of your application to address, as well as those
that are impacted by the server, network, and physical environment.
Among threats that applications must handle, we will examine URL and
form hacking, session hijacking, and others. Randy will show how
common bad practices can expose a site to damage via these hacker
techniques, and how to eliminate those problems. Outside your
application, the session also examines several common types of
threats, such as denial of service (DOS) attacks and viruses, and
discussed both the prevention techniques and the policies that can
be employed to mitigate overall risk.
Steven Black
- Common Design Pattern Extensions for Web
Connection
In this session Steven Black presents a philosophy for extending Web
Connection in a data-driven way by using several common design
patterns. What results is a multi-site environment that is
extensible, scalable, and, moreover, conducive to team development.
- Bonus Session Case Study: The Wiki
Framework
In this session, Steve takes you behind the scenes and talks
about how the Visual FoxPro Wiki is built and managed, as well
discussed some interesting trends about the FoxPro community, how
RSS is changing visitor's viewing habits, the effect of Google and
other bots of its ilk, and future steps.
Michael Hogan
- Client Side Scripting
Enhance response time and reduce server load with client-side
scripting using JavaScript and DHTML. Endow widely available
JavaScript code with WC functionality and control. This session
demonstrates populating a JavaScript tree menu with VFP/WC data,
simple use of a date picker by setting the default date from VFP
data, create your own expand buttons with JavaScript and the 'style.display'
property, enabling and disabling form controls and more…
- Using a single Web Connection Servers for
multiple Applications
Set up multiple web connect applications on one server, and multiple
web sites using one WebConnection application. See site structures
and techniques allowing individual customers their own ‘look and
feel’ and their own domains. Includes examples of Host Headers,
Cascading Style Sheets, Distinct web sites (traffic individually
monitored) with shared virtual directories and templates to simplify
maintenance and updates. Includes simplified VFP assisted site
duplication techniques in IIS6.
Darrell Gardner
- Configuring and Deploying your Web
Connection Applications
This is an extended session that packs in a lot of
information on deployment, configuration and server setup. We'll
look at the options for setting up a production Web Connection
site from single sites to multiple sites and check out using the
Web Connection Console vs. manually setting up your server both
in File and COM modes. Did you ever think about setting up your
server in a limited security environment? Do you know what to
tell your ISP what you need to get your application to run?
We'll cover these questions and much more. We'll also delve into
synchronizing multiple environments to safeguard your code and
site (Development/Staging/Production). Finally we'll take a look
at the hardware end by reviewing equipment and setup of services
required to host your own website (from DNS to IIS). Self
hosting is possible and might be right for you. We'll actually
walk through setting up a domain and hosting it from scratch and
discuss when it makes sense to host your site in a hosted
facility.
Rick Strahl
- Building Distributed Applications with Web
Connection
Web Connection is a server based tool, but you can also build
rich client applications that can take advantage of your Web
Connection application by communicating with your server
applications. You can access data remotely, pass XML around the wire
and otherwise interoperate between the client and server to build
anything from application plug-ins that retrieve data from a server
to full-fledged distributed applications that get all of their data
from the server.
- What's New and Coming in Web Connection 5.0
This session gives a high level overview on what's coming in Web
Connection 5.0. The key new feature on 5.0 will be the addition of a
new page framework that provides an ASP.NET style programming model
to FoxPro. With visual editor support (using any visual editor that
can render ASP.NET controls) and full support for FoxPro based
Codebehind classes this new model promises faster development and
improved organization for your Web applications.
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