DC SIGAda
Program for Thursday, Thursday, 10 February 2000

Our Next Meeting is scheduled for
Thursday, 10 February 2000 at 7:30 P.M.
David Wheeler from IDA will be speaking on
Ada95 Binding to the Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
at Lockheed Martin Corporation in Rockville, Maryland, our DC SIGAda Venue

Please also put Thursday, 9 March 2000 on your calendar
for the next DC SIGAda Meeting
Robert Dewar is tentatively scheduled to speak on
an interesting topic of his chosing.

Attention:

To Members and Friends of DC SIGAda

Next Meeting:

DC SIGAda SIGAda will feature a presentation titled Ada95 Binding to the Common Gateway Interface (CGI) by David A. Wheeler. The presentation will be on Thursday, 10 February 2000, 7:30 P.M. (Refreshments and Social at 7:00 P.M.) at the Lockheed Martin Corporation in Rockville, Maryland.

Abstract:

AdaCGI is an Ada 95 interface to the "Common Gateway Interface" (CGI). AdaCGI makes it easier to create Ada programs that can be invoked by World Wide Web (WWW) HTTP servers using the standard CGI interface. Using it, you can create Ada programs that perform queries or other processing by request from a WWW user. AdaCGI was formerly named "Package CGI".

AdaCGI is open source/free software, and is released using the LGPL ("Lesser General Public License") license. You can use this library in proprietary programs but any changes to the library must stay as open source.

Please see David Wheeler's Home Page for additional information on the AdaCGI.

Presenter:

David A. Wheeler is a research staff member at the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) in the Computer and Software Engineering Division (CSED). He has a M.S. in Computer Science and a B.S. in Electronics Engineering from George Mason University. His professional interests are in improving software development practices for higher-risk (large and safety-critical) software systems. This includes software risk assessment, process improvement, inspections, object-oriented (OO) approaches, defect detection and prevention techniques, software engineering tools and environments, the Internet, POSIX, Ada, C++, and Java. Besides being the brains behind AdaCGI, David Wheeler is also the author of Ada 95: The Lovelace Tutorial published by Springer-Verlag and the Co-author and co-editor of Software Inspection: An Industry Best Practice published by the IEEE Computer Society Press.

His coordinates are:

Dr. David A. Wheeler
Institute for Defense Analyses/CSED
1801 N. Beauregard St.
Alexandria, VA 22311-1772 (USA)
Phone: (703) 845-6662; FAX (703) 845-6848
Email: dwheeler@ida.org

Notes

This presentation represents Part II to a tutorial given at SIGAda'98 and SIGAda'99
by Currie Colket, Brad Balfour, Clyde Roby, and John McCormick and augmented by David Wheeler. The tutorial is oriented towards making SIGAda members communicate effectively using web-based technologies.

The 3 parts are:

Part I was conducted on 9 December 1999; Part II will be presented on 10 February 2000. Part III will be presented in early 2000. Parts I, II, and III are rather independent.

Venue/Directions

Lockheed Martin Corporation
9211 Corporate Boulevard
Rockville, Maryland 20874
 Directions:
From all points: Get to I-270 West from the I-495 Beltway,
  1. Take I-270 West to Shady Grove Exit;
  2. Turn left at light;
  3. Turn right on Corporate Dr (at light);
  4. Turn right at end of access road (can only turn left or right);
  5. Go to end of driveway.
  6. The building for the meeting is on the right, opposite the open courtyard area. It is building #9211, as marked. Parking lots are on the left and right.
  7. Enter main lobby. Stop at guard desk to check in.
Also, to obtain a map of the location, visit Mapquest, select Driving Directions for the destination address: "9211 Corporate Drive, Rockville, Md."

DC SIGAda Home Page

Please visit the the DC SIGAda Web site at http://www.acm.org/sigada/locals/dc/

Please provide suggestions on the Web site and its contents. Comments will be heeded as intelligently as they are sincerely offered! Provide feedback via the DC SIGAda Web site.

Business:

We will have light foods and refreshment at 7:00. The meeting begins at 7:30 pm.

Please note, at present, a consolidation effort is being made between various DC SIGAda mailing list sources. Please be advised that some e-mailings may occur more than once. We are moving to a single maillist hosted on the ACM machine. It will eventually have the SIGAda-DC@acm.org address.

Topics for talks are welcome. Please make suggestions for topics. Some suggested topics:

Many thanks to all earlier participants, contributors, speakers, advisors, and friends, who are involved in helping to produce and attend the meetings.

Please forward this message to people who might be interested in attending. We welcome all new members as our attendance and interests grow.

Consider registering for inclusion on our e-mail list. Registration instructions are provided on the DC SIGAda Web site.

Jeff Castellow, Vice Chair (Acting Chair), DC SIGAda

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updated 2 February 2000