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JuiceKit 13 March 2010

Mon, 02/22/2010 - 01:46 — gjp

Come and learn about a company in Herndon, VA that embraces Open Source. We will learn what data visualization is and how JuiceKit can help.

The meeting is 13 March 2010 at the Fortnightly Library in Herndon, VA.

http://www.juicekit.org/

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Packaging Systems Under Linux (9 January 2010)

Fri, 01/08/2010 - 13:48 — gjp

LOCATION: http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/LIBRARY/BRANCHES/he/
DATE: 9 January 2010
TIME: 10am
TOPIC: Packaging under Linux

Here is a brief run down of the topics to be covered:
* Talk about Linux packages briefly, zip files, tar/gz files, rpms, and debs.
* Brief, basic usage of the above (for the wee penguins)
* How to create RPMs (for the bigger penguins)
* How to create Yum repositories
* How to deploy RPM and Yum in your organization
* Common pitfalls with RPMs and Yum repositories (what not to do, how to fix the rpmdb)
* How to create deb files and apt repositories

Bonus material:
* drpm/delta rpm
* rpm sub packages (should be simple to explain)
* rpm triggers and other advanced features

(IF you have a projector you can bring, please do so. I have not purchased one yet)

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Meeting Schedule

Sun, 11/01/2009 - 13:26 — gjp
Date     Topic     Location
9 January 2010     RPM and packagings     Herndon Library
13 February 2010     Scrum Development     TBA
13 March 2010     JuiceKit     TBA
2010     Provisioning and management     TBA
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Conference Video 12 December 2009 @ Herndon Lirbrary

Mon, 10/05/2009 - 19:30 — gjp

Title: Conference Video (not video-conferencing)
Speaker: Eric Rzewnicki

Video recordings and live internet streams of a growing number of Linux
and Free Software conferences around the world are being produced by
teams of volunteers using largely donated resources and Free Software
running on Linux. This talk discusses the hardware and software used for
a variety of the productions in which Eric has participated. The
software covered includes dvswitch and tools from xiph.org. Challenges
and experiences with regard to quality sound, lighting, volunteer
organization and workflow management will also be touched upon.

Senior System Administrator (Linux) - Washington, DC

Sat, 02/20/2010 - 18:25 — domnic123

We currently have a Long Term Contract to Hire opportunity for a Lead System Administrator (Linux) with our client located in Washington, DC

Our client a Fortune 500 media company is developing software to make the TV viewing experience more personal, intuitive, searchable and customizable. The client work environment is very casual and a cool place to hang around and be surrounded by technical professional who are passionate about their work and congregate to bounce ideas off each other.

Job Description
• will be primarily responsible for supporting the large enterprise/Hosting environment that provides production customer web presence.
• Will be responsible for providing production & development support for the installed hosting systems infrastructure.
• Provide technical, functional & administrative consultation & support for projects, initiatives and inquiries.

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Content Management System

Thu, 02/18/2010 - 13:45 — WebriQ

Whilst the majority of people are still only discussing Wordpress, Joomla and Drupal as the three best Open source Content Management Systems, more and more commercial Open source Content Mangement Systems are launched. These systems will be reviewed through first hand experience. But, we will add to the equation, a Commercial Open Source CMS system and analyze the major differences between the three open source system and then group those open source system and compare them with a Commercial Open source system.

13 February 2010 Agile Software Development

Sat, 01/30/2010 - 14:04 — gjp

Adaptive software development processes were introduced as early as 1974 as a new way to develop software. These were called "lightweight" models but they never dominated the software industry. But it wasn't until the mid-1990s, that agile software development started to be considered as a replacement to mainstream "heavyweight" models traditionally aligned under the Waterfall model, and considerable time, money and effort taken to further develop "lightweight" models/processes.

These new models or processes such as Scrum (1995), Crystal Clear, Extreme Programming (1996), Adaptive Software Development, Feature Driven Development, and Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM) (1995) have recently (2001) been brought under the Agile Methodologies umbrella and an effort undertaken by 17 leading figures in the field of agile software development to codify these principles under the "Agile Manifesto".

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Change Your Life With Affirmations Now!

Tue, 01/26/2010 - 09:01 — Fikii34

Affirmations are a great way to change your limiting and negative beliefs into positives. They are one of the most important and useful tools. Basically, you tell yourself good things about yourself until you believe it.

A few examples for affirmations:

-I love myself.
-I'm so grateful for my health.
-I'm so good-looking, wherever I go people approach me and take pictures with me.
-I'm so awesome.

One note about wording: Never use negative statements like "Nobody dislikes me". The subconscious mind does not understand negations and understands "Nobody likes me". You could turn the mentioned affirmation into "Everybody loves to be around me".

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Google Wave Notes, (1) Extension Types

Sun, 11/29/2009 - 22:18 — John W

Google Wave in it's current release version appears to support two types of extensions:

  • Robots: Apps that run outside the wave, and are contacted by the wave (mono-directional).
  • Gadgets: Apps that live inside the wave and have shared state between wave participants.

For robots the extension libraries are predictably in Python and Java and currently only use the Google App Engine as their application server.

The Gadgets on the other hand are written in HTML, CSS and Javascript, are subject to a public display condition and work primarily on the "wave" object (shared state).

[personal note]
This offers an interesting set of tools for a developer to create 
extensions, which are claimed to be first class citizens within the
wave.  It's reassuring that there is mention of how development has 
not kept to the standard API's but is mostly compatible with them.
This may either mean a forking away from standards in the future,

Presentation materials from Novembers iPhone presentation by John Franklin

Sun, 11/22/2009 - 14:53 — John W

Here is the bundle of stuff that was presented at the November meeting including the step by step PDF. See attached file.

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