BCS NOOPS - Autumn 2003 Programme
From: Alan J. White (awhitec_at_cix.co.uk)
Date: 10/23/03
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Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 09:51 +0100 (BST)
You are cordially invited to our Autumn 2003 events, which are as
follows.
These events take place in the North East of England. BCS membership
is not required; there is no fee; there is no need to book.
Cheers
Alan J. White (NOOPS secretary)
Tel. 0191 252 0488, email AWhiteC@cix.co.uk
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Programme Summary
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1. "The Open Grid Services Architecture: Building the Grid Vision
using Web Services"
A talk by Dr Savas Parastatidis, N. E. Regional e-Science Centre
Thursday 6th November 2003, 7:00 pm
2. "Generating Dynamic WWW Pages using PHP"
A talk by Barry Cornelius, University of Durham
Thursday 27th November 2003, 7:00 pm
3. ".NET Enterprise Web Services: WSE and Indigo"
A talk by Benjamin Mitchell, Axxiant
Thursday 11th December 2003, 7:00 pm
All talks take place in room A002, Ellison Building, Ellison Place,
(also accessible from Northumberland Road), University of Northumbria,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8ST. Here is a street map:
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=425221&Y=564754&A=Y&Z=1
You are invited to the Carriage pub (old Jesmond Station) after each
event.
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About BCS NOOPS
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BCS, the British Computer Society, is the United Kingdom's Chartered
Engineering Institution for Information Systems Engineering.
NOOPS is the northern chapter of OOPS, the BCS specialist group on
object oriented programming and systems. We hold talks etc on object
technology topics, which we hope will help both novices and
experienced practitioners to improve their knowledge, and provide a
forum for swapping ideas.
If you feel that you could be a NOOPS Activist in any way - by giving
a talk, recruiting a speaker, helping with the organisation of events
or anything else, please contact me or any other committee member.
For more information about BCS NOOPS, please see:
http://noops.prismtechnologies.com/
To be added to the NOOPS mailing list, please contact Alan White,
tel. 0191 252 0488, email AWhiteC@cix.co.uk.
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The Open Grid Services Architecture:
Building the Grid Vision using Web Services
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ABSTRACT
The ever-increasing interest in Web/Grid Services technologies is
demonstrated by the number of research projects that are currently
funded to investigate issues related with building distributed,
loosely-coupled infrastructures enabling e-Science. Furthermore, the
industry is throwing a lot of money and effort behind standardisation
work for these technologies and the development of solutions around
them.
In this talk, we will take a closer look at the Grid and examine the
Open Grid Services Architecture as the enabling technology for
building Grid applications. Also, we will look into the relationship
between Web and Grid Services and touch on the work that we are doing
at the University of Newcastle in relation to the future of the Grid
infrastructure.
SPEAKER
Dr. Savas Parastatidis is the chief software architect at the North-
East Regional e-Science Centre (NEReSC), Newcastle, UK. He is NEReSC's
expert in Grid computing technologies and standards. Previously, Savas
co-led an R&D team at HP's middleware division that produced the
world's first XML-based transactioning system and represented HP
during the early stages of the OASIS BTP standardisation effort. He
has worked on parallel and distributed computing related projects as
part of his PhD and post-doctoral research.
For more information contact: Barry Cornelius, tel. 0191 334 2757
or email barry.cornelius@durham.ac.uk
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Generating Dynamic WWW Pages using PHP
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ABSTRACT
PHP is a server-side scripting language. When a visitor to a WWW page
visits a page that is a PHP page, the WWW server gets a PHP
interpreter to examine the page. The PHP interpreter will produce
some HTML which is then shipped by the WWW server to the visitor's
computer and is interpreted by their WWW browser.
As well as the usual constructs that most languages have, in PHP,
you can read from files, write to files and execute system commands;
you can send mail; you can interrogate an IMAP server; you can access
LDAP servers; you can process XML documents; you can do sophisticated
mathematical calculations; you can access most of the popular database
servers including Oracle, Sybase, Generic ODBC, MSQL and MySQL.
In this talk, we look at the language and at some of the above
possibilities. The talk will be illustrated with demonstrations.
SPEAKER
Barry Cornelius works for the IT Service at the University of Durham.
He uses PHP, MySQL and LDAP extensively in his work. Before moving to
his present post, he was a lecturer in Computer Science first at the
University of Hull and then at the University of Durham. His main
interest was in the design of programming languages. Recently, he
taught a course on programming using Java to first year students at
the University of Durham. In March 2001, his book on Java entitled
Understanding Java was published by Addison-Wesley. During the last
two years, he has been studying C#, Visual Basic.NET, the .NET
Framework and Web Services.
For more information contact: Barry Cornelius, tel. 0191 334 2757
or email barry.cornelius@durham.ac.uk
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.NET Enterprise Web Services: WSE and Indigo
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ABSTRACT
This talk investigates the WSE 2.0 Technology Preview recently
released by Microsoft that make it easier for .NET developers to
create enterprise-strength Web Services. WSE is a practical
implementation of a range of WS-* standards, such as WS-Security, WS-
Policy, WS-Trust, WS-SecureConversation and WS-Addressing. The
presentation focuses on why these standards are useful to developers,
and presents code-demonstrations of how:
* WS-Security allows secure SOAP messaging without having to use HTTPS
* WS-Policy and WS-SecurityPolicy can to apply policies to code
without having to use code-level Attributes.
* SOAP messages can be sent via TCP, avoiding HTTP
* How WSE supports the WS-I interoperability standards
The talk will also demonstrate Indigo, Microsoft's future Web Services
platform unveiled recently at the Microsoft Professional Developers
Conference.
SPEAKER
Benjamin Mitchell is currently working as a consultant at Axxiant,
helping enterprise customers adopt Microsoft technology. Having spent
many years working on some of the largest websites in Australia he has
come to London to experience bigger challenges. He is passionate about
improving development practices through extreme programming and making
the web easier to use for applications through web services.
For more information contact: Barry Cornelius, tel. 0191 334 2757
or email barry.cornelius@durham.ac.uk
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