[BozemanLUG] March Meeting Report

[Robert Potter]

I am open to all three, but if I was picking one first it would probably be
EMACS.

-Rob Potter

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 7:10 AM, David Eder <david at eder.us> wrote:

> 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
> > 704 Church Street
> > Belgrade, MT 59714
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> > (406)994-3931 [work]
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