[ale] [ANNC] ALE-NW @ SPSU MTG. for Thurs., Feb. 9, 7:30pm

[Aaron Ruscetta]

The next ALE-NW at SPSU meeting is being held
Thursday,  Feb. 9th, 2012 at 7:30pm in room 131
of the Atrium (J) building on the SPSU campus.

The feature presentation will be Michael Potter's
most excellent presentation on:
   SEAT BELTS AND AIR BAGS FOR BASH.

Abstract:
- bash (and scripting languages in general) act as the glue that
hold other system components together.  This presentation will
focus on the underutilized features of bash that are critical to
building production quality scripts, Demos will show you how to
turn on options that expose the hidden timebombs in the code.
- Turning these features on should be considered a requirement
much like turning on strict and warnings are considered a
requirement for Perl.
-Much of the bash syntax is redundant; I will also explain which
syntax to use and which syntax to avoid.
- Knowledge of any of the common UNIX scripting languages
will be sufficient to attend this meeting.  Scripters at all proficiency
levels will get value from attending this presentation.  Although I
do not address differences between Korn shell and bash, much
of what I talk about also applies to Korn shell.
- I developed this presentation after getting frustrated with bash's
default behavior of continuing to process after an error occurred.
I was determined to find a way to make bash a more reliable
language.
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Bio:
- Michael has been working in IT since 1989 when he switched
from programming automotive embedded systems. Since that
time he has been involved in projects related to moving mainframe
applications to UNIX and Linux using open-source technologies.
- Recently Michael incorporated Tapp Solutions, LLC.  A company
dedicated to serving the insurance industry with mobile, desktop
and web applications.  Including handheld quote calculators and
scanned document handling.

You can reach Michael at michael at potter.name

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For a campus map and a link to directions please see
<http ://www.spsu.edu/visitspsu/campusmaps/index.htm>
or visit the ALE NW wiki page at
<http://tomshiro.org/twiki/view/ALE/AleNwOrg>
Parking in non reserved spaces in the P60 deck is best.
building J, the Atrium building, is a short distance east
of the parking deck.
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ALE-NW at SPSU meetings are open events and we hope
you will join us!  Also remember that topic suggestions
and presentation offers the meetings can be emailed to
[ jdp (at) algoloma ]

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Thanks to JD for preparing this notice. As always, the
info is also available to the public on our sit:
<http://ale.org>