Sirius Software saturated the continent of Australia with its 2001 Fall Roadshow. Presentations were delivered to customers in Perth, Melbourne and Canberra. Most of the presentations dealt with our product plans and new features developed over the past year. However there was also an intensive seminar on XML and Janus SOAP comprising four one-hour presentations.

Foils from all of the presentations are available online. See the information and tips below on the alternative choices for viewing these presentations.

Presentation Title			Speaker		Available Formats
Sirius Product Overview			Alex Kodat		Single document Linked foils Freelance show
	A high-level summary of the Model 204 add-on products developed and marketed by Sirius. Includes brief overviews of each product and its benefits.
Janus Sockets Architecture - Technical Overview			Alex Kodat		Single document Linked foils Freelance show
	Janus Sockets provides Model 204 User Language programmers with direct access to low-level TCP/IP functions, via a sockets API similar to that provided by BSD Unix. This presentation provides a brief examination of Janus Sockets from a technical perspective.
Janus Web Architecture - Technical Overview			Alex Kodat		Single document Linked foils Freelance show
	Janus Web provides high-performance Web server support for Model 204. Janus Web supports extensive APIs that provide User Language programs with access to all aspects of web programming. This presentation provides a brief examination of Janus Web from a technical perspective.
Tuning File Reorgs with Fast/Reorg			Alex Kodat		Single document Linked foils Freelance show
	Fast/Reorg is a combination of Fast/Unload and Fast/Reload that provides for the efficient reorganization of Model 204 files. This presentation shows how to tune Fast/Reorg for optimum performance.
Introduction to Sirius and Our Evolving Relationship With Centrelink			Gary Gregory		Single document Linked foils Freelance show
	Sirius has a long history of working with the Department of Social Security and its successor Centrelink. All of our early work and much of our later work was related solely to improving the performance of Model 204. However, for the last six years Sirius has focussed the bulk of its energies on making Model 204 more open. This presentation reviews the history of the Sirius relationship to Centrelink and provides an overview of where we are headed.
XML - Where is Sirius Software Going with it?			Alex Kodat		Single document Linked foils Freelance show
	The combination of eXtensible Markup Language (XML) and the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is rapidly redefining distributed programming. This presentation introduces XML and provides an overview of XML support within Sirius products, including Janus SOAP.
What's New for User Language Programming in 2001			Alex Kodat		Single document Linked foils Freelance show
	Changes originally developed as part of the Perf3 project have now been included into Version 5.1 of Model 204. User Language programmers need to update their understanding of how best to code certain types of processing so as to receive maximum benefit from Version 5.1. This presentation reveiews some of the recent performance changes as well as other siginificant API changes in Version 6.1 of the Sirius mods.
Fast/Unload Version 4.1 Feature Discussion			Dave Evans		Single document Linked foils Freelance show
	The next release of Fast/Unload will contain many important extensions, such as multiple output files, FUEL arrays and so on. This presentation previews the features that we have currently planned to include in Fast/Unload Version 4.1.
Introduction to XML, XPath and XML APIs			Alex Kodat		Single document Linked foils Freelance show
	The first presentation in a four part series that is designed to teach an understanding of how to use the Sirius XML APIs. This presentation provides an overview of XML, XML APIs and XPath. XPath is to XML documents what SQL is to relational databases.
XML and XPath Concepts			Dave Evans		Single document Linked foils Freelance show
	The second presentation in a four part series that is designed to teach an understanding of how to use the Sirius XML APIs. This presentation delves deeper into the structure and navigation of XML documents, including the use of XPath.
XPath and the Sirius XML API			Dave Evans		Single document Linked foils Freelance show
	The third presentation in a four part series that is designed to teach an understanding of how to use the Sirius XML APIs. This presentation explains the relationship of XPath to the Sirius XML API, including a brief overview of how XML documents are stored.
Introduction to Janus SOAP - the Sirius XML API			Alex Kodat		Single document Linked foils Freelance show
	The final presentation in a four part series that is designed to teach an understanding of how to use the Sirius XML APIs. This presentation explores the Sirius XML API in more detail, including examples of how to perform common operations and an overview of how SOAP RPCs are handled.

Available Online Formats

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• As a single document containing all foils. This is a convenient format for viewing or printing all the foils, although it can take a long time to download the entire document.
• As a linked set of foils. This is an easy and fast way to look at the first few foils. However, it is inconvenient for printing and requires a user/network interaction per foil.