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NOTE--Location for Meeting
Cleveland Park Library, 2nd Floor, Large Meeting Room
3310 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Wash., DC

Modern Web sites integrate with live data from databases. This presentation covers the advantages and disadvantages of several leading Web-to-database integration technologies: ColdFusion, Active Server Pages (ASP), and CGI scripts written in PERL or Java. We know you have questions--here's your chance to get the answers you need!

Speaker: Mike Snyder received his BA in Russian Studies from Haverford College in Pennsylvania, then spent a year in Novgorod, Russia, studying Russian literature. He returned to the United States to pursue a Ph.D. in Soviet History at the University of North Carolina (UNC), Chapel Hill. At UNC Mike taught a variety of undergraduate history courses, ranging from ancient Russian history to survey courses on western civilization. 

While at UNC, Mike became involved in Web development, taking part in an initiative to incorporate the Web into undergraduate education. He also began teaching Web skills to faculty members, enabling them to create and post Web pages for their courses. After helping several departments at UNC gain a Web presence, in May 1999 Mike joined WestLake Internet Training as a trainer. Today he is the General Manager for WestLake's Washington, DC, Metro Region. When not training or helping run the DC office, Mike works on his dissertation on Soviet Television in the 1950s and 1960s. 

Mike Synder may be reached at MSnyder@westlake.com.

WestLake Internet Training: Founded in 1995, WestLake Internet Training is the only company focusing exclusively on classroom-based, instructor-led Web development training. WestLake Internet Training provides courses and certificate programs in all aspects of Web development from beginning HTML to leading edge technologies such as XML and Java Server Pages. Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, WestLake Internet Training also has state-of-the-art training facilities in Detroit, New York City, New Jersey, Pittsburgh, Frederick (MD), and Washington, DC. In addition to open enrollment classes, WestLake Internet Training customizes any course and offers onsite training to organizations ranging from small Web design firms to federal government agencies and Fortune 500 companies. 

Location: One-half block south of the Cineplex Odeon Uptown movie theatre on Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, DC. (There are many restaurants suitable for pre- or post-meeting gathering/networking/refreshment in the block north of the library.) 

Parking: Very small lot, off Macomb St., to left of library. 

Metrorail--Cleveland Park Station on the Red Line (on Connecticut Avenue, just 1.5 blocks north of meeting site) 

Free and open to all