Re: EWD Course before the VistA Community Meeting Jan. 14-16th

[Nancy Anthracite]

This is a reminder that and EWD.js course is being offered before the VistA
Community Meeting and the hotel discount registration is now possible and
guaranteed until December 31. After that it may be available but not
guaranteed. Detailed information about the course is below from the prior
email.

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Nancy Anthracite

On Monday, December 09, 2013, Nancy Anthracite wrote:
> EWD.js is a framework for quick and easy development of modern,
> state-of-the-art browser-based client/server applications. It is
> specifically designed for use with Mumps databases, and is therefore ideal
> for use with VistA. EWD.js has become the de-facto toolset for modernising
> VISTA for both desktop and mobile devices within the Open Source VistA
> development community, and has also recently been approved for use by the
> VA. If you want to be involved in VistA modernisation, then you need to
> find out about EWD.js!
>
> This 3-day course will provide in-depth, intensive training in the
> installation, configuration and use of EWD.js. The course is suitable for
> not only beginners, but also active users of the older "classic" EWD
> product who want to update their skills. The course will be a mixture of
> classroom teaching/presentation and practical hands-on development
> exercises. By the end of the course, you should be in a position to develop
> modern HTML5-based desktop and mobile browser-based applications on top of
> VISTA.
>
> Course Summary:
>
> EWD Course will be held Jan. 14-16th at the Marriott Hotel next to the UC
> Davis Medical Center in Sacramento.
>
> The VistA Community Meeting will immediately follow this course Friday,
> Jan. 17 through Sunday, Jan. 20.
>
>
> This course is designed for all VISTA developers who wish to learn about
> EWD.js and its ground-breaking features:
>
> • the Node.js-based ewdGateway2 platform;
> • developing EWD.js applications entirely in Javascript and JSON;
> • the abstraction of the MUMPS database as a Native JSON database;
> • lightweight, realtime browser-based client/server applications using
> EWD.js's WebSocket framework;
> • VISTA integration with EWD.js.
>
> The course will assume no prior knowledge of EWD.js or browser-based
> development. By the end of the 3-day course, all students should be capable
> of creating desktop and mobile web front-ends for VISTA. The course will
> focus on how EWD.js works, its design principles and philosophy. The next
> step will be to demonstrate how to build a browser-based application on top
> of VISTA using EWD.js.
>
> Along the way, students will participate in hand-on exercises. To this end,
> all students should come prepared with a laptop and have an installed and
> running version of the dEWDrop Virtual Machine.
>
> This course will be suitable for not only MUMPS developers who have at
> least a basic understanding of JavaScript, but also JavaScript developers
> who want to learn how to implement browser-based interfaces for VISTA
> without having to learn and understand the MUMPS language.
>
> Student are encouraged to read the EWD.js documentation in advance of the
> course, although this is not an essential requirement.
>
> Students must have:
>
> • A web browser, ideally Chrome, and a good text editor.
> • For Mac OS X users, Coda 2 is a highly recommended toolset for EWD.js
> development.
> • Bring a laptop computer with the dEWDrop VM installed and running (on
> either VMWare or VirtualBox).
>
>
> You'll need to be able to create and edit files on your dEWDrop VM and run
> the GT.M shell. Windows users should install WinSCP and puTTY in order to
> do this.
>
> The link for registration for the course is:
>
> https://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1371971
>
> The course fee is $1200.
>
> The information for the hotel is found on the VistA Community Meeting page.
> We are awaiting the registration code but the rooms will be $124 a night.
> There is remodling going on in the hotel which will cut the total number of
> rooms available at the hotel down to 100, so book ASAP. If you are staying
> for a week, at the moment, you can get a reduced long term rate of $119 by
> booking on the Marriott web site.
>
> The VistA Community Meeting site is:
>
> http://worldvista.org/Conferences/28th_VCM