Meetings

WebGUI, Not Just Another Web Development Framework

J T Smith

Tuesday May 9th 2006 at 7:00pm
Wheaton, Illinois Institute of Technology - Rice Campus, Room 103

Abstract

The WebGUI Content Engine is two things in one, it's an enterprise level content management system and a development platform for building web apps. WebGUI has all the features you'd expect to find in a dev platform like Catalyst or AxKit, because everything in WebGUI has a standardized pluggable API. But at the same time, WebGUI is completely built ECMS that you can use immediately with no modifications. This means you can get up and running quickly, and add in what you need. This session will walk you through how to use WebGUI, spend a few minutes on the architecture and API of WebGUI, and then dig in to writing a couple of plugins for WebGUI. And best of all, we'll do all that in 60 minutes or less!

Speaker Bio

JT Smith is the lead developer of WebGUI. He started the WebGUI project exactly five years ago from nothing and has nurtured it into a giant application with more than 250,000 lines of code. Since you know how small Perl programs are, you understand what it takes to make one that big! JT has been a contributor and leader in the open source community for more than 10 years. Besides WebGUI he helped organize the Chicago Perl Mongers meetings for a year, ran OSS Chicago for a year, and lead the open source Business Integration Engine (BIE) project for three years.

Getting to the meeting

The next PerlSIG meeting of UniForum Chicago will be at:

        IIT Rice Campus
        Room 103
        201 East Loop Road
        Wheaton, IL 60187-8489

Directions to IIT - Rice Campus in Wheaton
The 19-acre campus is located just northeast of the intersection of Naperville and Butterfield roads in south Wheaton's Danada development. The campus is three miles west of the Butterfield Road interchange of the N orth-South Tollway (I-355) and two miles north of the Naperville Road interchange of the East-West Tollway ( I-88).

From the North or South: From I-355 (North-South Tollway), exit westbound at Rt.56/Butterfield Road and proceed west 3 1/2 miles on Butterfield Road to East Loop Road. Turn right onto East Loop Road (Phillip's 66 Gas Station on the corner); the campus will be on your right about a block north of Butterfield Road, behind Cozymel's. Park in the Student parking lot behind the building. Room 103 is the first room inside the north enterance.

From the I-294 (Tri-State Tollway), take the I-88 (East-West Tollway) westbound and follow directions "From the East or West" below.

From the East or West: From I-88 (East-West Tollway), take the Naperville Road exit. At the traffic light, turn left onto Naperville Road and continue north for 1\275 miles to Rt. 56/Butterfield Road. Turn right onto Rt. 56/Butterfield Road and proceed 1/4 mile to the first traffic light (East Loop Road). Turn left on to East Loop Road, ( Phillip's 66 Gas station on the corner); the campus will be on your right about a block north of Butterfield Road, behind Cozymel's. Park in the Student parking lot behind the building.

Room 103 is the first room inside the north enterance.

Contact Deborah Vose at vosedj@yahoo.com for additional information about the meeting.