Jax Bar (CLOSED)

Monthly Meeting of the Personal Telco Project.

Speaker: Eric Wilhelm

Codeless GUI Programming A Declarative Syntax Layer for Desktop Graphical User Interfaces

This will be the world premiere of a game-changing advancement in the development of desktop graphical user interfaces (GUIs). FreeTUIT removes the verbosity, tedium, and confusion from GUI development and provides a unified syntax for widget layout and configuration which supports good software design practice without getting in the way of rapid application development.

FreeTUIT is a syntax and runtime for concisely declaring the layout and configuration of GUI widgets (such as forms, toolbars, buttons, and dialogs). The freetuit interpreter drives a unified object layer which is accessible from event callbacks. This takes you from a blank page to a static demo of the layout with zero setup and allows desktop applications to be developed and deployed faster than web applications by simply removing the HTML, CSS, XML, HTTP, Javascript, Database, Network, and User Agent components.

Jax Bar 826 SW 2nd Ave

Speaker: Eric Wilhelm

Codeless GUI Programming A Declarative Syntax Layer for Desktop Graphical User Interfaces

This will be the world premiere of a game-changing advancement in the development of desktop graphical user interfaces (GUIs). FreeTUIT removes the verbosity, tedium, and confusion from GUI development and provides a unified syntax for widget layout and configuration which supports good software design practice without getting in the way of rapid application development.

FreeTUIT is a syntax and runtime for concisely declaring the layout and configuration of GUI widgets (such as forms, toolbars, buttons, and dialogs). The freetuit interpreter drives a unified object layer which is accessible from event callbacks. This takes you from a blank page to a static demo of the layout with zero setup and allows desktop applications to be developed and deployed faster than web applications by simply removing the HTML, CSS, XML, HTTP, Javascript, Database, Network, and User Agent components.

Our November Monthly Meeting was delayed a week due to the Thanksgiving holiday, so this time the November meeting is in December!

Speaker: Russell Senior Topic: OpenWrt - It's not just for Linksys Routers anymore

Russell has been fiddling around with OpenWrt for a couple years, on various platforms. He'll give a step-by-step on how to build OpenWrt for your device, various ways to get it onto your device, and how configuration is handled in the OpenWrt way.

Normal meeting rules apply.

Location: JaxBar Date and Time: Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 6:30-8:00pm Scribe: Roll Call:

Agenda

* 6:30pm Introductions, order food and drinks.
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  7:00pm Presentation: RussellSenior explains how to build a node with an Alix board.
* 7:30pm Questions and answers.
* 7:45pm General Discussion, more food or drinks. 

The monthly meeting of the Personal Telco Project, providing free wifi for all citizens of Portland.

Speaker: brian d foy Topic: Indexing CPAN

BackPAN is the historical archive of the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, where most Perl modules live. Going back to 1993, BackPAN has about 100,000 distributions, taking up 12 GB of space. So far, there has not been a comprehensive index of all of these distributions. I'm working on a project to go through each distribution, record as much information as I can, and store that in a way that other people can ask questions. The big goal now is to take any Perl module file you have installed locally and query my index to determine exactly which distribution it came from, when it was released, what other files came with it, and at the time of it's release what its dependency list was.

My talk is a demonstration of what I have so far, which is still in the data collection phase. I have an indexer that knows how to go through distributions and record information, and can do some with pluggable components for each portion of the work. In my talk, I'll demonstrate the current indexer and talk a little bit about the tools and techniques I use. There's plenty of cool Perl things going on, and I'm sure some of the Linux people will have valuable comments about software indexing.

http://pdxlinux.org/

TiddlyRose will be an informal meet-up of TiddlyWiki enthusiasts. It is timed to coincide with the OSCon 2008 conference, which is being attended by Jeremy Ruston, the original creator of TiddlyWiki, along with some of his colleagues from Osmosoft.

The event is open to the public, and all fans of TiddlyWiki are welcome to attend! Meet in the Jax Bar on the roof terrace.

http://jaxbar.com/

Look for Phil: he'll be wearing a black polo shirt, with Osmosoft written on the front, and the BT logo on the back.

And if you're wondering where we got the name TiddlyRose...you can find out how on the Portland Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland%2C_Oregon

Tuesday, July 22, 7pm, Jax Bar: Python BoF and Django Drinkup!

Join local and visiting Pythonistas and Djangonauts for a casual meetup on the rooftop patio at Jax.

It's easy and free to get to from the Convention Center on the MAX -
directions are [1]. We'll be getting started in between 6 and 7.

[1] Jax Bar ( http://jaxbar.com/ ) is located at 826 SW 2nd Avenue .
To get there from the Convention Center, take any MAX train downtown
and get off at Morrison/SW 3rd Avenue, then walk a tiny bit south and
you're there. Jax is on the east (river) side of the street on 2nd in
between Yamhill and Taylor. Yamhill is one block south of Morrison.
For a map and Street View, see http://tinyurl.com/57yorz

Speaker: Timothy D. Morgan

             Virtual Security Research, LLC.

Subject: IPv6

IPv6 is the next generation Internet protocol designed to expand usable address space and implement evolutionary improvements to the current IPv4 protocol. As the address space shortage looms near, it is becoming increasingly clear that the networking and systems communities remain ill-prepared for this transition. This talk provides a broad overview of IPv6, it's features and transition technologies, and follows with a demonstration of how to set up an IPv6-enabled firewall for a simple network using Linux.

And a basic BIO:

Timothy D. Morgan is a long-time programmer, systems administrator, security consultant, and Linux user. Tim's work in IPv6 has consisted of home networking experiments and research in utilizing the expanded IPv6 address space for spoofed attack mitigation. Tim currently works as an application security specialist and digital forensic investigator at Virtual Security Research, LLC.

Remember to buy food and drinks and tip your waitress well. Jax has been very good to us over the years and we want to make sure they survive.

POSSE stands for the Portland Open Source Software Entrepreneurs. We are a membership only group that works to support entrepreneurs working in open source in Portland. We are looking for new members and are opening up our meetings for non-members so that you can see what meetings are like and join us. Our website is http://possepdx.org.

Our next meeting is Wednesday April 16th at 5 pm at Jax Bar (jaxbar.com)

This is a great opportunity to join the group, help (re)define our goals moving forward, and help us spread the word about open source software in Portland and Oregon.
If you do plan on coming, please RSVP Chris Dawson so I can figure out how many people are coming.

xrdawson at gmail dot com

Sure, Smalltalk is where we got our modern view of windows and mice and "the desktop" and object-oriented programming and extreme programming two decades ago, but what has Smalltalk done for us lately?

I'll answer this by showing off the Seaside web application framework: an open-source (but vendor supported) challenge to the classic web design strategies. Imagine being able to debug a broken web-hit in the middle of the hit, fixing the code, and continuing before the browser knows that something went wrong. Imagine being able to re-use control flows and web components with the ease of OO programming. Imagine being able to do test-driven development, even for HTML delivery. Imagine taking an application from "three guys in Starbucks on a laptop" to "3000 hits per second on your Amazon EC2 cloud" with no major changes in design. No need to imagine... I'll demonstrate all this and more.

Smalltalk knowledge is not required: I'll start with a brief overview of Smalltalk using Squeak, the free implementation that's even included in the OLPC XO. General knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming basics would be helpful, though.

Please note that this talk is a work in progress... this presentation is a rehearsal for the actual delivery in mid-April in Brazil at FISL 2008. Some parts are still a bit rough.