December 2009

Basic Database Architecture – Jim Duff

The latest instalment. Following Don Macrae’s presentation in October, Jim presented the case for RAD. His presentation is in a chm file which you can download from here.

Rapid AJAX Development – with the Ext JS library – Glenn Lawrence

Ext JS is a Javascript library which simplifies AJAX interaction, provides a powerful abstraction of the DOM, sophisticated layout managers and lots of UI widgets. Glenn demonstrated it’s use in the form of a Web front end to the Cumulus asset management system.