[ale] ITT Linux Festival!

[Narahari 'n' Savitha]

Any slides and talks recordings any place ?

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Charles Shapiro <hooterpincher at gmail.com>wrote:

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