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Hey guys
Just writing up another update of the blug meet! This was another great turn-out of alot of people! The tap house was quite quiet too which was nice. But we also found an awesome new place for the next blug meets. When you walk into the Tap house you can walk to the bar and you will see a yellow shirt in a picture frame, on the right if you walk to it you will see a small set of stairs and you will see a small area which is v. quiet and may be a great place for next blugs!
Anyways highlights were many:
* @jeff he write an awesome application using Bash with python and
SAGE. With bash he has created a script to iostat, vmstat and other random performance reporting applications but the nice part was he made the bash script , run and when canceled, SAGE/python generates a full webpage of graphs of all kinds of preformace output! He took us though the output of the code and in SAGE you can make object called 'line' which you can add so say you make x = line(...), y=line(...),... he done: newgraph =x+y which put both those lines on the one graph png! This is similar to a project called: http://pymeter.sourceforge.net/ but jeff has a more modern and much easier system! If continued for some kind of networking for distributed system monitoring could be a very good project as landscape management is a hot topic ATM! :)
* @steve: he started a new job and Steve likes eggs! :) Steve has a
24" iMac for his work, but because he is a !blug member he spends his time in a shell! Good man! http://sickbiscuit.com/blog/2009/06/16/developer-rehab/
* @david: interviewing for a new job and likes python! But he hates
twisted because it makes something awkward to work with!
* @peter: has hayfever: he has also created a linux.com blug group for
us: http://linux.com/community/groups/viewgroup/941-Belfast+Linux+User+Group
* @noodles(Jonathan): ARM/x86: cross architecture programming, little
endian vs big endian alignments using qemu-system-arm and sractch-box for testing embedded linux programming! He promises to post some links on this soon :) ! He is going to debconf soon: http://www.earth.li/~noodles/blog/2009/06/going-to-debconf-9.html
* @colin: Research in security: DSA, SHA1 hashing algorithms and prime
number prediction, for high security systems. He liked Terminator too! http://www.piglets.org/serendipity/archives/86-Ethics-and-Terminators.html
* @redbrain(Philip): Working on GCC pretty much full time, writing up
documentation on how to build your own front-end with gcc, ie your own programing language! I hate wiki source code formating, finally starting to apply for GNU software copyright, for automake gcc, so i can post my patches for automake and work with the gcc-manual for gcc-front-end documentation for a parallelizing compiler. http://redbrain.co.uk/?p=361
*@all but me(redbrain): aren't bothered about Transformers 2 Movie :( !
I loved the first one! :)
* @all: we like debian :)
Anyways was a great turn out of people, note that next month noodles won't be in the country due to debconf and blug will still continue and i know i should still be there! :) If anyone has any other things they discussed and remembered please post them! As i was late as usual :) . I hope everyone had a great evening i think were all tired from work!
--Phil