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From: Web-Database applications discussion list [mailto:WDA-DISCUSSION@Princeton.EDU] On Behalf Of Michael J. Barton
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 1:52 PM
To: WDA-DISCUSSION@Princeton.EDU
Subject: [WDA] CAS Information

Thanks to everyone that attended the CAS presentation at the WDA meeting this past Tuesday.

I'm including several links that should provide you with the information you need to "CAS-ify" your web application/site. Of course, if you have any questions regarding CAS implementation, please feel free to contact me. You can email me directly, but the best bet would be to email, sdp@princeton.edu

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WDA Members,

Our next meeting will be Tuesday, May 27, at noon in 035 Robertson Hall.

CAS (Central Authentication Service)

Michael Barton, OIT's Security and Data Protection Analyst, will discuss
CAS at Princeton. After a brief overview of the service he will review
programming code used to interact with CAS in PHP, Perl, and .NET
environments, and then discuss issues related to applications that use
CAS, e.g., timeouts and multiple web sites.

As always, remember to bring your lunch - beverages will be served!

Thank you,
Steve Albin
OIT Departmental Application Services

WDA Members,
Our next meeting will be held on Monday, April 28 in 035 Robertson Hall.

Joshua Kent, Web Developer for the Office of Development, will discuss the architecture of AJAX and its advantages and disadvantages in web application development. Joshua will explore and explain code examples and show how the Office of Development uses AJAX in its applications to help enrich the user interface and allow their applications to be quicker and more efficient.

As always, remember to bring your lunch - beverages will be served!

Thank you,
Carla Zimowsk

WDA Members,

Our next WDA meeting will take place on Monday, March 24 from noon to 1pm in 035 Robertson. Serge Goldstein, Associate Chief Information Officer and Director, Academic Services, OIT will review the design and coding of WASS (Web Appointment Scheduling System) -- a PHP5/MySQL object-oriented application that uses Ajax, web services (SOAP) and iterators. Although managed out of Dreamweaver, it was entirely coded by hand (uses no Dreamweaver behaviors), and represents a group effort (3 people).

Be sure to bring your lunch . . . beverages will be provided!
Thank you,
Carla Zimowsk

From http://xkcd.com/327/

For all my struggles trying to get Dreamweaver to work with dotNET, one thing I never considered was that it simply would not work because Adobe never bothered to build ASP.NET 2.0 functionality into Dreamweaver. Not only that -- I completely missed the fact that in late August 2007 Adobe announced that it would be dropping ASP.NET functionality completely.

Sorry for not getting my facts about Adobe Dreamweaver straight before I presented this to you as if it would really work. I hope nobody but me wasted time on this.

My recommendation to those of you non-programmers who would like to build web applications talking to MS Access databases would be to use CodeCharge Studio in conjunction with OIT's dotNET service. Becky Goodman of OIT Integrated Technology Services has special pricing for a group purchase. She can get CodeCharge Studio Studio for $200. Follow-up yearly licenses cost $164 per year. If you are interested, please contact Becky directly at beckyg@princeton.edu

Dave

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At today's meeting Dave Herrington and Harris Crist demonstrated the use of two code generator packages with OIT's dotNET service, which is currently still in beta testing. The service was formally unveiled in a recent SCAD/DCS meeting. Here are the slides from that meeting as a PDF.

Dave started by creating a Dreamweaver site definition connecting with his dotNET server account. Although there were a few rough edges in the functionality shown in this brief demo, presumably these will be resolved before the product is released as a supported OIT environment. For more information on Dreamweaver - ASP.NET functionality see the articles and tutorials at http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/dotnet.html.

Harris followed up by demo'ing CodeCharge Studio, which is oriented toward generating complete web applications with comparatively little effort. Harris showed how to create a CodeCharge application in the matter of a few minutes that allowed searching, add, update, and delete functionality against a table. For more information about CodeCharge, see http://www.yessoftware.com.