Please note that the February meeting has been moved from our usual second Tuesday of the month to the third Tuesday due to a conflict with Valentine's Day. We will return to the normal schedule in March.

February in Orange County brings us a presentation by UUASC member Richard Kaiser. Richard will talk to us about the venerable CGI web server interface, and the variation on that interface known as FastCGI.

Topics to be covered will include:

• Why you should use CGI or FastCGI
• Choosing the best interface for your application
• CGI programming
• How it works
• Architecture diagram and interfaces
• Apache configuration
• Support libraries
• Testing methodologies
• System architectures with CGI scripts: a directory of programs or scripts
• Example programs
• FastCGI Programming
• How it works
• Architecture diagram and interfaces
• Apache configuration
• Support libraries
• Testing methodologies
• System architectures with FastCGI scripts: one or a few programs or scripts, maybe with loadable modules
• Examples
• Tips, tricks, errors and unclear descriptions in online documention

Richard started out as a BSEE, then transitioned into software engineering where he has worked mostly in the aerospace industry. He is currently developing his own web site application that relies heavily on CGI and FastCGI.