Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License Sakai Programmer's Café Sakai Training Workshop University of Amsterdam Aaron Zeckoski

2 What I hope to cover Too much information to cover everything in great depth in 2 days My goals –Show you what is possible –Expose you to the concepts –Point you to online materials –Demonstrate best practices –Provide the tools you need to develop in Sakai –Encourage you to participate in the community Not my goal –Simply stand up here and talk for awhile

3 TODO Container Debugging & Sakai building Sakai Community and Development Tips Sakai structure and Services (classloaders) Sakai tool structure & naming conventions Introductions (short) –Extending Sakai (providers) –Presentation technologies in Sakai –Persistence in Sakai Sakai App Builder plugin (this generation) –Hello Worlds Next generation Sakai development –REST in Sakai and EntityBroker –Widgets and Javascript in Sakai

4 How to get the most out of this Check your BEFORE we start –Turn off or ignore , mobile, and IM during the workshop –I have to go quickly to cover all the materials and you will have plenty of time to check and make phone calls during breaks Ask questions if you do not understand Feel free to ask me to slow down or repeat things if they are not clear

5 Who am I? Aaron Zeckoski Work –Senior Research Engineer –CARET –Cambridge University Sakai –Inaugural Fellow –Community volunteer About me –Like to work on open source projects in my spare time –Film buff (go to the cinema a couple times a week) –Java since maybe 1998, Sakai since 2004 –PHP is my favorite language (Python close second)

6 Who are you? Name –What you like to be called Affiliation / home base –Where you hail from and who you work for What do you do –Not your title; what you mostly do at work –Please mention your Java/Sakai background Expert, Competent, Familiar, Novice What do you hope to learn –Generally or specifically, ‘I don’t know’ is OK