NYCPHP Meetup

[New York PHP]

April General Meeting:
Web 2.0 and RESTful Applications with WebSphere, sMash and PHP
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 When: Tuesday, April 28th at 6:30pm sharp (4th Tuesday of every month)
Where: IBM, 590 Madison Avenue, Room 1219 (12th Floor)
 RSVP: http://www.nyphp.org/rsvp.php

It's April and spring is here (or at least it's supposed to be). So it's
time to take a RESTful break from the monotony and join our IBM crew as we
welcome Roland Barcia, IBM Senior Technical Staff Member and published
expert on Web 2.0 technologies. Be sure to join us and get sMash'd with all
the latest in the need-to-know world of Web 2.0, WebSphere, and PHP.

IBM WebSphere sMash is a platform for developing and running agile Web
applications using scripting languages and Web 2.0 technologies such as
RESTful Web services, JavaScript Object Notation, and Atom and RSS feeds. It
supports the Groovy language, familiar to Java programmers, and PHP for
access to thousands of PHP applications and libraries,and the huge PHP
developer community. IBM WebSphere sMash is focused on significant
improvement in time-to value for Situational Applications and Mashups.
Partners and community have found that by combining PHP applications and
libraries with new code written in PHP or Groovy for the IBM WebSphere sMash
platform, they can achieve significant reduction in development time for
Situational Applications and Mashups. We cover an overview of the PHP
support in IBM WebSphere sMash and the support for generating new PHP code
before exploring more detailed scenarios demonstrating PHP Applications
being extended, integrated and mashed up.

Roland Barcia is a Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) and Lead Web 2.0
Architect within IBM Software Services for WebSphere. He is the coauthor of
the book IBM WebSphere: Deployment and Advanced Configuration. He has
published over 40 articles and papers on topics such as Java Persistence,
Ajax, REST, JavaServer Faces, and Messaging Technologies. He frequently
presents at conferences and customers on various technologies. He has spent
the past 10 years implementing middleware systems on various platforms,
including Sockets, CORBA, Java EE, SOA, and most recently the Web
2.0[nd]based platform called Project Zero. He has a Masters Degree in
Computer Science from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Roland
maintains a blog called Web 2.0 and Middleware at
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/barcia

Thank you to IBM for providing a great presentation space in Midtown
Manhattan. As a service to our community, New York PHP Community meetings
are always free and open to the public.

Come prepared with a business card to enter book and software raffles.

 When: Tuesday, April 28th at 6:30pm sharp (4th Tuesday of every month)
Where: IBM, 590 Madison Avenue, Room 1219 (12th Floor)
 RSVP: http://www.nyphp.org/rsvp.php

You must RSVP within 30 days of the meeting you attend - that means RSVP
now!

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