Juan Sequeda (CV) and John De Oliveira of Semantic Web Austin just sent me the list of speakers for tonight’s Launch Party. Here are the speakers:
Christopher St. John
Mike Kaply
Troy Lane Williams
Robert Pettengill
As stated previously, this will be a departure from recent GeekAustin events. In addition to the drinks and conversation, the above speakers and members of Semantic Web Austin will be hosting presentations /sessions back in the BoomBoom Room. If you are interested in the semantic web, ontology, microformats, info architecture — or just want to toss back some drinks with folks who are — we look forward to seeing you.
Event: Semantic Web Austin Launch Party
Host: GeekAustin
Date: Tuesday, June 17, 6PM-10PM
Location: Union Park Austin ( 612 W. 6th St.)
Event listing on Facebook
Event listing on Upcoming
Juan just created the following:
SemanticWebAustin Facebook Group.
SemanticWebAustin LinkedIn Group
I know of no one in Austin who knows more about Postgres than Decibel. For quite a while, he has been threatening to start a Postgres user group. He’s finally done it. Here is the scoop:
Event: Austin Postgres User’s Group - First Meeting
Date: Tuesday, May 6th at 6PM-8PM
Location Sun Microsystems (Map)
Building 8 - Longhorn Conference Room
5300 Riata Park Ct
Austin, TX 78727
The rough agenda will be:
6:00 - 6:30 Meet ‘n greet
6:30 - 7:15 Discuss goals for the AustinPUG
7:15 - 7:45 Presentation: What’s new it 8.3?
7:45 - 8:00 Wrap-up
Everyone who is attending will have to register as a visitor; to make this as efficient as possible, please RSVP to austinpug@decibel.org. There will be free Pizza from Mangia’s. When you register, please specify pizza preference: spinach, pepperoni, or Chicago style, etc.
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I really love C — largely because I learned it at the same time I learned Unix, but my knowledge of C is largely limited to the chunks of Unix source code with which I am familiar. I’d love to learn C++ but I doubt that that will ever happen. Tonight I caught up with Matt Weigel,an old friend who just happens to be the organizer of the Austin C/C++ meetup. I took the opportunity to ask Matt about the Austin C/C++ meetup. |
(10:12:16 PM) Linear: C or C++: Is there more emphasis on one or the other?
(10:13:16 PM) Matthew Weigel: It’s a mix. We have a few Linux kernel developers who come, and a few old-school Unix developers of other stripes who stick to C.
(10:13:18 PM) linearb: Do you have presentations? or are these just meet and greets.
(10:13:24 PM) Matthew Weigel: no presentations as of yet.willing to host one, but so far no one has been chomping at the bit to give one.
(10:14:25 PM) linearb: Do you think that is because of the suitability of the venues, or do you think that the guys are just looking for an opportunity to get together?
(10:14:46 PM) Matthew Weigel: a bit of both? I mean, some people come strictly for the socialization. Any kind of presentation, I’d want to precede it or follow it with meet’n'greet. With B.B. Rovers we have the back room available, which is sufficiently separate and quiet that presentations are a possibility. The capacity is around 30? we usually have about 10-15 people show up. So, we have room to grow.
(10:18:36 PM) linearb: BB’s seems to be rife with geeks.
(10:18:53 PM) Matthew Weigel: indeed. wireless+beer.
(10:20:55 PM) linearb: How many of BB’s beers have you sampled? Any beer reccommendations ?
(10:21:05 PM) Matthew Weigel: 80+%, but not all of them there. Recommendations: Full Sail Session Lager, Fuller’s ESB, Great Divide Titan IPA
(10:23:40 PM) linearb: so, are you more of a C or C++ guy?
(10:23:50 PM) Matthew Weigel: “meh” :-). at this point I’ve probably actually spent more time working in C, but the current job is C++, so that will change before too long. I’m probably more of a C++ guy, but I also miss C’s simplicity
(10:25:11 PM) linearb: There is a real poetry about it. What are your favorite C/C++ books?
(10:26:43 PM) Matthew Weigel: for C, The C Programming Language, and The Practice of Programming, and for C++, Effective C++. The Practice of Programming isn’t really about C, it just uses C to illustrate a lot of points (along with awk, Perl, and Java)… but the C is the best.
(10:28:20 PM) linearb: Effective C++ seemed to spawn a bunch of similar books for other languages.
(10:29:24 PM) Matthew Weigel: the important part about the Effective C++ books (there are at least 3, but I’ve only read one) is that they’re written by Scott Meyers
(10:31:15 PM) linearb: I was thinking about Effective Perl Programming, Effective Java
(10:32:01 PM) Matthew Weigel: hehe, wow
(10:32:16 PM) linearb: and all the other books influenced by Meyer’s books
(10:32:53 PM) linearb: Although I don’t expect to see Effective Haskell anytime soon.
(10:33:06 PM) Matthew Weigel: parse error
(10:34:26 PM) linearb: So back to the meeting, do you find that meetup works for helping coordinate the meetings? Can you get contact info for the members? or does all communication have to be mediated through meetup?
(10:34:39 PM) Matthew Weigel: it works pretty well.Enough people use meetup that there’s a stream of newcomers, and meetup.com provides a mailing list, tools to track who has RSVP’ed and who’s active/inactive
(10:34:40 PM) linearb: So when is the next meeting and what is the linkedin page?
(10:34:54 PM) Matthew Weigel: 3/18 the URL is http://c.meetup.com/48/
(10:35:15 PM) linearb: Hey, thanks for the info.
(11:36:12 PM) linearb: hey, so do you know that joke? : “Two C strings walk into a bar….
(11:03:53 PM) Matthew Weigel: the first one says “I’d like a beer, please098u807g23pdhoenueuth,,.’ and the second one says “you’ll have to excuse my friend, he’s not NULL-terminated”
(11:04:20 PM) linearb: hehe, that’s the one
Brad Knowles just sent this in:
Folks, I just wanted to give you a centralized list of all known LUGs here in the Austin area. There’s the Austin Linux Group which meets every Thursday night from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM at the Waller Creek Complex at 625 E. 10th St.; Austin Linux Enthusiasts (used to be GoodWill Linux User Group) which meets every Wednesday night, from 7:15 PM to 10:00 PM (or later), at Tek Republik, a computer shop and gaming center; there’s Central Texas LUG, which meets the first Monday of the month at 7:30pm at the office of UnWired Buyer in the MCC building; and then there’s the Austin Linux Meetup Group which meets on the first Tuesday of each month, currently at Green Mesquite BBQ, 1400 Barton Springs,
(512) 479-0485.
Matthew Weigel just sent this in: The Austin C/C++ Meetup is coming up (November 20 at BB Rovers), and we’d like you to know about it! People wanting to talk shop for just about any programming language, or software engineering in general, are welcome. Mostly, we talk about recent programming experiences and drink beer.
Once again it’s time for Lunchies.
Your pals at geekaustin.org have reserved the back room
at Star of India for Lunchies this Friday at noon.
For those of you who haven’t been, Star of India is a buffet.
Credit cards are welcome. Separate checks are no problem.
RSVPs are welcome but not necessary.
Here is a map to Star of India (Anderson Ln, just off Mopac)
Hope to see you there!
-LinearB
davidday writes: The first topic is LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP).
I’m using O’Reilly “Web Database Application with PHP and MySQL”, 2nd
Edition, ISBN: 0596000413, but lets see which (if any) text the group
prefers when we meet.
Meetings are at KPI Consulting (2900 Jazz St, Round Rock) each Saturday at noon.
First meeting is 9/24/06. Duration is based on pace and scope
established by the group. Some have suggested adding Ruby on Rails, and if we do this will extend the length.
Legal stuff:
You don’t have to: be affiliated with CTLUG, pay fees, attend all
meetings, already be an expert. And noobs are encouraged to attend (I
don’t want to be the only one).”
