From dave at obtiva.com Fri May 16 06:37:33 2008 From: dave at obtiva.com (Dave Hoover) Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 08:37:33 -0500 Subject: [Chicago-announce] Chris McAvoy presents Jython Reborn at Polyglot Programmers of Chicago In-Reply-To: <11c8704e0805160636o48d38cdbnd6380c84134f1a1e@mail.gmail.com> References: <11c8704e0805160636o48d38cdbnd6380c84134f1a1e@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <11c8704e0805160637g37ede7d9xbc5df846cdae0b9d@mail.gmail.com> Date & Time: Thursday, May 22nd at 6:00PM Place: Obtiva Corporation, 566 W. Adams, suite 400, Chicago Eat: Pizza Drink: Soda Topic: Jython Reborn. Despite the rumors, Jython isn't dead. Recent investment from Sun has breathed new life into the Jython project. We'll talk about some of the recent changes, the roadmap for the project, and play around with the latest trunk version of Jython. Chris McAvoy is a web developer at PSC Group LLC, and a blogger at http://lonelylion.com Questions? Contact dave at obtiva.com or post to http://groups.google.com/group/polyglot-programmers From andy at petdance.com Fri May 16 09:14:04 2008 From: andy at petdance.com (Andy Lester) Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 11:14:04 -0500 Subject: [Chicago-announce] Just enough C for open source programmers Message-ID: <5C2253D3-432A-4B6C-9D96-31AF20E949E3@petdance.com> On July 8th, 2008, I'll be giving a talk at the Wheaton branch of Polyglot Programmers. It will be the same talk I'll be giving a few weeks later at OSCON: http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3050 This session will provide a high-level overview of C, aimed specifically at the programmer wanting to get involved in a C-based open source project. We?ll cover: * Numeric types, strings and structures * Memory management: the heap, the stack, and pointers * Using the preprocessor * Understanding compiler warnings * Memory checking with valgrind * How to navigate a large C-based open source project (ctags, etc) * Security, or, how the Bad Guys smash the stack Although Perl 5 is written in C, I will NOT be getting into specifics of Perl 5 internals, so if that's what you're interested in, please don't be disappointed. The full schedule of all Polyglot Programmers talks are available at http://polyglotprogrammers.com/ I hope to see y'all there. xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester => andy at petdance.com => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance From mswier at yahoo.com Sat May 31 04:17:50 2008 From: mswier at yahoo.com (Mike Swier) Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 04:17:50 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Chicago-announce] NWCLUG's next meeting 6/3/08 Message-ID: <204674.6412.qm@web57012.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Hi, NWCLUG's next meeting will be at Harper College in A238 at 7pm on Tuesday 5/3/08. We will be discussing Podcasting with Open Source Software. For (a bit) more info see http://nwclug.org/meetings.html#nextmtg mikie -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/chicago-announce/attachments/20080531/a4df178f/attachment.html