Any slides and talks recordings any place ?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Charles Shapiro <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hooterpincher@gmail.com">hooterpincher@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">And maybe an outdoor pizza barbecue station!<br>
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-- CHS<br>
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On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:04 AM, <a href="mailto:wolf@wolfhalton.info">wolf@wolfhalton.info</a><br>
<<a href="mailto:wolf@wolfhalton.info">wolf@wolfhalton.info</a>> wrote:<br>
> I thought I saw a few lightbulbs go on over the heads of the attendees<br>
> during your talk.<br>
> The canned simple classwork code cannot be as cool and memorable as real<br>
> project code,<br>
> so I got a lot out of the talk, too.<br>
><br>
> Steven Blevins did his Opensource for newbies talk and Ron Frazier did a<br>
> talk about<br>
> dual-booting from a more windows-friendly position than what we usually<br>
> get. Changing the windows boot menu<br>
> and booting from the windows side rather than letting GRUB handle it. It<br>
> was an interesting event.<br>
> The turn-out was about 60 people, and we had to break out to 2 rooms for the<br>
> first time ever.<br>
><br>
> Next time, I am going to see about having a student man the burning station,<br>
> for people who want copies of distros we have run out of.<br>
><br>
> -Wolf<br>
><br>
> -----Original Message-----<br>
> From: Charles Shapiro <<a href="mailto:hooterpincher@gmail.com">hooterpincher@gmail.com</a>><br>
> Reply-to: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>><br>
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>><br>
> Subject: [ale] ITT Linux Festival!<br>
> Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 15:47:37 -0400<br>
><br>
> Another Day of Pizza has passed at ITT Tech. I gave my talk on<br>
> WxPython ( first presented May 2009 at the Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts).<br>
> It was I fear over the heads of many of the kids there, since the<br>
> WxPython library makes heavy use of classes and inheritance in both<br>
> its interface and its internals. But heck, at least I could give them<br>
> a flavor of what actual working Python application code looks like, as<br>
> opposed to the toy academic exercises they're doing. I remember what<br>
> a shock it was to hit datasets in the megabytes after working with<br>
> groups of records small enough to load into one page of an editor in<br>
> school.<br>
><br>
> There was one kid there who had some C background and seemed to at<br>
> least have hopes of becoming clueful. I wound up doing some wiki wiki<br>
> OO tutorial on the whiteboard in the back corner and recommending the<br>
> 2 great books for transitioning from C to C++:<br>
> _C++:The_Core_Language_ ( Gregrory Satie, Doug Brown, O'Reilly Books,<br>
> 1996), and _Effective_C++:50 ways to improve your Programs and Design<br>
> ( Scott Meyers, Addison-Wesley, 1998). I hope that the guy I talked<br>
> to works through them.<br>
><br>
> Wolf showed me the wonders of Puppy Linux 4.1, and I am quite<br>
> impressed. It's got a much spiffier GUI than the Puppy which I'm<br>
> running my print server on. I helped one of the guys there load the<br>
> Pup onto a memory stick, and we discovered that syslinux ("mbr.bin")<br>
> was really the way to go to make the stick properly bootable. The<br>
> whole OS took only 100 mb of file space. I dunno if you can install<br>
> Zope on it though.<br>
><br>
> -- CHS<br>
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