Free Mozilla/Firefox XUL Talk in Vancouver, Apr/27 @ VanX

Hello,

   Allow me to highlight the upcoming free VanX (Vancouver XML 
Developers Association) meeting featuring Shane Caraveo - Senior 
Developer at ActiveState.

   Time: Wednesday, April 27th at 6:30 pm

   Title: Application Development with Firefox and Mozilla

   Summary: This talk will explore the basic concepts of developing 
simple extensions for Firefox, from working with XUL and JavaScript to 
develop custom UI, to creating an installer for the extension. 
Additionally, this talk will cover some of the "in's and out's" of 
developing XUL applications on top of Mozilla or Firefox to help you 
decide if it is an appropriate platform for your development efforts. 
Major topics covered will include: * XUL and XBL; * JavaScript and UI 
event handling; * XPCOM; * Python bindings for XPCOM; * XPI, the 
Mozilla extension installer

   Speaker: Shane Caraveo is a Senior Developer at ActiveState where he 
is the technical lead for the Komodo IDE, a multi-language IDE for 
scripting languages that is developed on top of Mozilla. He has four 
years experience developing on Mozilla using XUL, XBL, JavaScript and 
Python. He is a core PHP developer where he worked extensively on SOAP, 
FastCGI and the Windows port. He also co-authored the DBGP protocol for 
providing a standardized debugger communication layer in scripting 
languages.

    More @ http://vanx.org/next_meeting.htm

   - Gerald



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