This month, Doug Hughes, President of Alagad Inc. presents on Patterns and Techniques for Data Persistence and Access.

Virtually all web applications depend on storing and retreiving data of some sort. The most common place this data is stored is a database, however developers also may use other systems such as flat text files, web services, and more. Furthermore, the ways in which data are stored tend to be different from what our applications require. The way in which we interact with this data can have a dramatic impact on our applications. As a result, a number of design patterns and techniques have arisen to help make data interaction more manageable. In this presentation we will cover some of the more basic data access design patters such as Data Access Objects and Gateways as well as more advanced techniques and patterns like Active Record and metadata based persistance techniques.

The meeting begins at 6:00 and will be held at PStrat in a new Location:

10 Laboratory Drive, Building 2
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709

Directions: From I-40, take the Davis Drive exit (280).
Turn right at the end of the ramp.
Turn right onto Laboratory Drive (if you reach Cornwallis Road, you've gone too far).
Turn right at 10 Laboratory Drive.
Veer left and drive around back to get to the main entrance for the building on the left (Building 2).
The meeting space is on the second floor.

See you there!