A short warning before I begin; [02:22:16] <Sionide> my meeting report is going to be rubbish, but nevermind - better than nothing and people can always reply with corrections / more info
And so I'll begin...
Hello all,
Summary: A good pub meet up, with 2 new faces - Jerry and Michael, which is great and is definitely what I like to see... So if you're reading this and haven't been to one of our pub meets, make sure you come along next month!
Role Call: Jerry Michael Martjin (mak) Myself, Simon (Sionide) Adam (quinophex) Mike Paul (paul_c) JT (mChicago) Ross (RossF) Richard (ironChicken) Neil (or maybe Neal?) and a late appearance from Joe (Joeboy)
I think it was Paul who had the bright idea of reserving the tables at the Reindeer as we've had problems getting decent seats in previous meets. We should probably continue this for future meets...
So there we were in the corner by the door, and discussing, as we do, open-source, linux as well as other general rubbish & nonsense.. *coughJTcough*
Discussed Topics: (which I heard) -Development of Scouting through the ages. -Adam's new job. -NiLith Batteries, pros and cons. -Lost, the TV series. -Rock Linux. -Can you drive tanks on the road? -The possibility of creating a huge aerial using 4.6km of wire to receive 9KHZ radio signals. -Discussions of Paul's very "flashy" looking camera (haha, I'm so not funny)
If anyone remembers anything else talked about or would like to continue any of these particular discussions on the mailing list, feel free!
Mak said I had to mention the fact that JT came straight from work, wearing his suit. Hehe... Well, it tickled us at the time anyway.
Thanks for coming every body, see you next month!
-Simon
On Friday 13 October 2006 02:35, Simon Elliott wrote:
I think it was Paul who had the bright idea of reserving the tables at the Reindeer as we've had problems getting decent seats in previous meets. We should probably continue this for future meets...
Guilty as charged, but well worth the effort considering the numbers that turned up. Thanks to all that made it.
If anyone remembers anything else talked about or would like to continue any of these particular discussions on the mailing list, feel free!
A short discussion about NURB curves and the plotting of equidistant way points whilst honouring velocity & acceleration limits cropped up. For anyone interested in what a NURB curve is, http://developer.apple.com/dev/techsupport/develop/issue25/schneider.html reveals some pretty gory math.... Anyone on the list a real whiz with this level of math ??
A brief session of PHP hacking also tookplace with JT producing a " 'bout 25 lines" spread over four pages of a4 paper (allegedly) designed to provide a method for serving up file downloads - Needs testing and debugging...
To finish off the evening, Adam was sent off home with the very last chocolate.
Regards, Paul.
On Friday 13 October 2006 02:35, Simon Elliott wrote:
If anyone remembers anything else talked about or would like to continue any of these particular discussions on the mailing list, feel free!
Thanks, I will.
Martijn and I talked quite a bit about content management systems. We came to the conclusion that Cocoon[1] (a consequently a similar, related project that I know of) is not a content management. But the most interesting thing was the failure of the "software as a service" paradigm. Currently, most Web-based applications take one of two approaches: either you use them to edit content stored locally, in which case the only benefit is not having to install and manage the software yourself; or you use them to edit content which is stored remotely but centrally, which depends on you being willing to trust the service provider who is storing your content.
What doesn't yet exist is truly distributed content editing. In this situation you would be able to synchronise (without any effort or even understanding of the process) your content between several remote but trusted machines (e.g. your PC, your work computer, your parents' computer, etc.) and edit it at any terminal (e.g. your laptop, at work, your PDA, etc.). The service providers would provide the seemless synchronisation mechanism and possibly on-line software as well, but the content would be distributed - not local or central.
As we were being kicked out, there was also talk of obfuscating programming languages such as Brainfuck[2], Whitepsace[3] (which has the distinct advantage of making your comments /really/ clear!) and ML[4] which isn't really an obfuscation language at all. I've just had a scan through this introduction[5] and it seems that the author believes that functional languages are quite the opposite of deliberately obfuscating: they are based on reason and only allow you to write correct programs in which testing is meaningless. Pretty cool.
Cheers, Richard
[1] http://cocoon.apache.org/ [2] http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/bf/ [3] http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/whitespace/ [4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ML_programming_language [5] http://www.dcs.napier.ac.uk/course-notes/sml/introfp.htm
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 11:12:01AM +0100, Richard Lewis wrote:
What doesn't yet exist is truly distributed content editing. In this situation you would be able to synchronise (without any effort or even understanding of the process) your content between several remote but trusted machines (e.g. your PC, your work computer, your parents' computer, etc.) and edit it at any terminal (e.g. your laptop, at work, your PDA, etc.). The service providers would provide the seemless synchronisation mechanism and possibly on-line software as well, but the content would be distributed - not local or central.
Apart from the "without any effort or even understanding of the process" bit one can do this with a CM system running on your own Linux system at home if you make it accessible from the outside world.
I have a wiki (Twiki to be exact) and use it remotely to make notes, plan holidays, etc.
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