Introduction to SynApp2 - Web Application Generator and MVC Framework

Background - leading up to SynApp2. (When and Where)
Purpose - what is it used for? (What and Why)
Audience: who needs it? (Who)
Example - how do you use it? (How)
Giving it away - am I nuts? (How much)
The MVC's of SynApp2 generated applications

A structured discussion with interleaved Q & A

Anatomy of a SynApp2 powered web application

The database design/schema and engine (Model)
The web browser, DOM, JavaScript (X)HTML, CSS and PDF (View)
The AJAX exchange cycle and PHP (Controller)

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About the Speaker

Richard Howell has been creating software for many years, both as an independent consultant and as a captive software engineer for several technology companies, including MicroSim Corporation, OrCAD Inc., Cadence Design Systems and Panasonic Avionics Corporation. Throughout his career, Richard's interest in computer-aided design and development has focused on producing effective and practical application programs and tools.

Agile Development thrives in the PHP-powered web applications environment. By using smart tools to almost instantly create web applications that harnesses today's SQL databases, developers further their ability to quickly produce solutions, deploy them and then move on - crisply and cleanly. This scenario is the motivation for Richard's latest endeavor, a free open source software project named SynApp2 - Web Application Generator and MVC Framework. As a full time effort, Richard is continuing to build SynApp2 and spread the word.

Please visit SynApp2.org: http://www.synapp2.org

Contact Richard: richard @ synapp2.org

Twitter: @synapp2

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rhowelljr

bring your laptops
by Kenneth Wyrick


Kenneth will spend 10-12 minutes on average for each of the following appliances
Appliance categories

Specials
OpenBravo Appliance - Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Openbravo is a web-based, ERP business solution for small and medium sized
businesses. It allows users to view the entire status of a company,
including production information, inventory, customer information, order
tracking, and workflow information. Openbravo can also create and export
reports and data to several formats, such as PDF and Microsoft Excel.


Content Management
Moodle Appliance - Course Management System
Moodle is a popular e-learning software platform, also known as a Course
Management System. Moodle is a popular e-learning software platform, also
known as a Course Management System, with tens of millions of users around
the globe. Moodle is designed to help educators create online courses with
opportunities for rich interaction. Moodle is modular in construction and
can readily be extended by creating plugins for specific new
functionality. tens of millions of users around the globe. Moodle is
designed to help educators create online courses with opportunities for
rich interaction. Moodle is modular in construction and can readily be
extended by creating plugins for specific new functionality.
Learn more

Issue tracking

Web development
LAMP Stack Appliance - Web Stack (MySQL)
LAMP is a popular open source web platform commonly used to run dynamic
web sites and servers. It includes Linux, Apache, MySQL, and
PHP/Python/Perl and is considered by many the platform of choice for
development and deployment of high performance web applications which
require a solid and reliable foundation.

Messaging

SDK
TurnKey Core - Common Base for All Appliances
This is the common base system on top of which all TurnKey Linux
appliances are built, or in other words our appliances lowest common
denominator. It includes the live installer, configuration console, web
interface, automatic daily package updates and all other common features
(and bugs). Take a look at some screenshots.


Database
PostgreSQL Appliance - Object-relational Database System
PostgreSQL is a fully featured object-relational database with many
enterprise features: ACID transactions, inheritance, unicode and strong
support for the SQL-92 standard including subqueries, views, outer joins,
foreign keys, sequences and triggers. It is also highly extensible and
allows users to define internal functions in C, C++, Java, Perl, TCL,
Python, Ruby, PHP and PL/PgSQL.


Kenneth’s profile:

Interests:

Empowerment via the usage of common Information Technology (IT) & Learning Management Systems (LMS)

Goals:

To provide communications technology tools to individuals and start- up projects * to aid individuals, start-up and established organizations in non-competitive information exchange

Main Skills:

Research and Development of California communications technology infrastructures and public resources. The usage of Free Open Source Software (FLOSS) and Learning Management Systems (LMS) as tools for Training-the-Trainers.

Continuing his second talk on Content Management Systems, Jorge will further explain the details of the Mambo/Joomla CMS.

Content Management systems offer the promise of publishing tools, user authentication, modular structure and support for plugins, and most of the things an average person or business needs to build a professional looking full featured website.

Mambo/Joomla is both a CMS and one of the highest profile open source LAMP projects going, boasting a substantial user community and a number of open source awards.

Jorge will present a brief history of Mambo & Joomla, clarifying the connection and differences. They will include an installation of Joomla, explanation of the basic paradigms and terminology one needs to know to effectively install, administer and configure Mambo or Joomla, and offer some insight into the extensibility of Joomla from a developer's standpoint, by looking at some of the parts of a Joomla component and Joomla module.

Jorge Garifuna is the CEO of Garinet Media Network. which offers a multitude of Website services for organizations, businesses, entertainers and family members. Jorge joined LAMPsig over four years ago and has added a new spark of enthusiasm to our group. He is quick to answer maillist questions or bring up new topics of interest to LAMP developers.