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<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2><b>Next NMIPA membership meeting is
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2 color="#000080">this week -
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2 color="#000066">THURSDAY,
AUGUST 14th!</b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2><br>
8/14/2008 @ 11:30am<br>
<a href="http://www.visitsantafe.com/businesspage.cfm?BusinessID=1150">
Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge</a><br>
Santa Fe, NM <br>
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<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2>Presentation by Peter Small<br>
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<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2>Topic: <b>Ajax and Web 2.0<br>
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<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2>Cost for members is $16, for non
members the cost is $26. Cost includes presentation, lunch, drink, tax,
and tip.<br>
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<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2>The term Web 2.0 is used to describe
the explosion in web-based applications that have appeared over the last
4 years. These include Social Networking sites (MySpace, Facebook,
etc.), rich internet applications (Google Maps, Apple's Me.com, 280North,
Google Docs, etc), wikis, blogs, and folksonomies (the practice of
categorizing content through tags).<br>
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<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2>Although the technology behind these
applications has existed for years before they appeared, it is the
mindset change in software developers and end users that has allowed this
explosion to occur. In the presentation, Peter will present the
technology of AJAX that underpins the rich user experience of many of
these apps, and discuss Web 2.0 in general.<br>
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<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2>Peter Small has over 21 years of
software engineering experience in many different environments. For
the past 10 years, he has been involved exclusively in web
applications. He was using AJAX before he knew it be that name.
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<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2>Currently, Peter is the sole
developer of Aurora Borealis Design and also works as a senior software
engineer at Deep Web Technologies in Santa Fe, developing web
applications. Current areas of research are developing web applications
in JavaScript, Object-Oriented PHP, and applying design patterns to web
applications.<br>
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<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2>I hope to see you all at this
membership meeting!<br>
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<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2>Best,<br>
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<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2>Kerri Korschgen<br>
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<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2>Chair of NMIPA<br>
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