This month Adogo is going to have a joint meeting with the ORUG or using Flex, Rails, and RubyAMF.  Myself and Jake Swanner from the ORUG will be giving the presentation.  What’s really cool about this is that I’ll be using the code base that Darryl created for us for the Flex/AIR Restaurant Guide application as a basis for my presentation.  Thanks to Darryl for all of his hard work!  If you can spare a Thursday evening, the meeting will be held on September 10th, 2009 at 7:00 PM at Devry in Millenia in Orlando.  For more information on the meeting, check out the Adogo or ORUG blog.

Hope you can make it!

We’ve published the EventBrite page for November, so if you think you’ll be able to join us for a beer and some code at Charlie and Jake’s this Thursday, 11/20, @ 7:00 PM, please RSVP.

In preparation for this Thursday’s meeting, we’ve also updated the site a bit.  We’ve added the subdomain http://apps.itsrandom.info which contains the restaurant review application from our August meeting.  We’ve also updated the restaurant service to work via JSONP and updated the code base for the client and service in our SVN repository.  In this Thursday’s meeting we’ll be working with Selenium and this application to show examples of integration testing in web applications.

Hope you can join us!

Thanks to everyone who made it out to the October meeting last night.  We had a great turn-out of 8 people at our new venue, Java Surf.  Although, there were only a few laptops, I think we were able to have a good dialog about RESTful web services and, for those who toughed it out, a working client finally came to be.  I’ve committed my client code to get the client working on an instance of the Rails application running locally, but I was unable to get the JSONP code working with jQuery and Rails.  I hope to get something working over the next few weeks for anyone who is interested.  

We are interested in getting feedback about our new venue.  If you have time, please leave a comment on this post with what you did and didn’t like.  I know there were a few complaints about parking and internet access being limited to 60 minutes, so if these are points of concern, please let us know so we can look for another place to meet.

In any case, we will have the November meeting date and topic posted soon, so thank you to Zach for offering to present next month.  See you all next month!

I’ve published the code we will use for our October meeting being held tomorrow. You can find the code in our SVN repository. The /restexample folder is the source for the extremely simple Rails application that we will use to talk about RESTful interfaces. The /client folder is the source from the AJAX application we built in August with a some hints for integrating the application with these RESTful services. Additionally, we’ve setup a new subdomain (http://services.itsrandom.info) which you can use to access the services being used for tomorrow’s meeting.

For the meeting, as usual, we suggest bringing a laptop with your preferred HTML editor and an SVN client to get a hold of the code. Don’t forget about our new location this month at Java Surf; if you’d like to get wifi, make sure to bring money for a purchase. See you there!

This month we’re going to hop over to the server side of things and take a look at one of the most common protocols used to create services for rich clients, representational state transfer (REST). REST is based on the transmission of data as resources. These resources are identified by Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) and HTTP methods (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE) are used to describe how the state of these resources are to be accessed or changed. Think of it as a simple way to represent CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations over the web.

For this time around, we’re going use a very simple set of RESTful services built using Ruby on Rails. We won’t be focusing on the code of the services in great detail, but more on their RESTful interfaces. We’ll also look into integrating these new services with our Restaurant application we created in our first meeting.

I hope to have the code ready and in SVN by Thursday at the latest Don’t forget about our new venue, Java Surf. Bring your RAnDOM coffee mugs! See you there.