[BozemanLUG] March Meeting Report

[David Eder]

My vote is for GIT.

David.

> Greetings,
>
> Turnout for the meeting tonight was great.  There were two new people, the
> regulars, and a few lost sheep that returned.  Let's see if I can remember
> them all... without some last names.
>
> Bruce (new)
> Paul (new)
> Rob Potter (semi-regular... almost back to regular)
> David Eder (regular)
> Gary Bummer (regular)
> Matt (has attended a few meetings)
> Jordan Schatz (fairly new, presenter)
> Scott Dowdle (me)
>
> I think that is everyone.  Did I miss anybody?  Darn it... I forgot to
> bring my digital camera so I didn't get any pictures.  Please someone next
> month reply to my meeting announcement with a "Hey Scott.. don't forget
> your camera" reply, ok? :)
>
> Jordan's presentation on NoSQL was very technical and in-depth.  He
> crammed a lot of information into it... lots of concepts... went over a
> large number of existing NoSQL projects... why they exist... what
> environments they come from... how they differ... strengths and
> weaknesses.  We learned about shards as well as various replication
> styles.  We learned about CAP and ACID.  I found the concepts to be very
> helpful.  We learned a little bit about ERLANG.  He talked about JSON.  He
> talked about the Thrift and Packet Buffer protocols... and the fact that
> many of the NoSQL databases speak HTTP and can in some cases eliminate the
> need for a webserver.  There were lots of acronyms but Jordan explained
> all that we asked about.  Jordan said he would share with us all of his
> presentations materials. I look forward to that and will post them on the
> website... because I plan on going through them... following many of the
> links and doing some reading.
>
> Then Jordan was asked (I believe by Rob) what development tools he uses in
> his web development career.  EMACS is a big part of almost everything
> Jordan does as it provides a usable interface to virtually everything.
> His favorite distro is Debian stable.  He likes PHP, especially the
> enhancements they have made in the 5.3.x series.  He prefers git for
> source control.  He likes the CAKE PHP framework.  He likes JQuery. He
> uses VirtualBox when he has to fire up other OSes to verify browser
> compatibility.
>
> Jordan told us how busy with work he has been lately and how he stayed up
> until 3AM last night working on a critical project that isn't finished
> yet... and that he will probably be up until 3AM again tonight. We decided
> to give him a break and end the meeting relatively early (9:20ish) so he
> could get back to work... and thanked him.  I gave him a copy of the
> three-part PBS series from 1997 entitled _Triumph of the Nerds_ although I
> don't know when he is going to have time to watch it.
>
> For next month Jordan has volunteered to do another presentation.  The
> potential topics are:
>
> 1) An Introduction to LISP programming with Racket
> 2) Doing everything with EMACS
> 3) An Introduction to source code management with GIT
>
> Any of those sound good to me.  Does anyone have a preference?
>
> TYL,
> --
> Scott Dowdle
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