CohPy Link Dump

Attended the first meeting of the Central Ohio Python Users Group yesterday evening.

Here's a link dump from my meeting notes:

cohpy.org (Site was not up yet but here's the link anyhoo.)

Meeting was at TechColumbus.

Group was organized by Eric Floehr.

Eric's web sites: ForecastAdvisor, ForecastWatch.

Group page at meetup.com.

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jonEbird - Jon Miller presented...

Welcome to Apache Hadoop!

Google: MapReduce

Doug Cutting - Wikipedia

Doug Cutting's Blog - Free Search

HDFS Architecture

Apache - HBase

Apache - Hive

Apache - Pig

Apache - ZooKeeper

Python - Built-in Functions - Map, Reduce.

Sort Benchmark Home Page

Jim Gray, Microsoft Research Home Page

YouTube - Cluster Computing and MapReduce Lecture 1

Yahoo! - Hadoop Tutorial

Slicehost - VPS Hosting

Plone CMS

Plone Consulting — Six Feet Up, Inc.

PyOhio

26.1. pydoc — Documentation generator and online help system — Python v2.6.2 documentation

py2exe

Pyinstaller

blip.tv - PyOhio videos.

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Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)

Scalable Vector Graphics - Wikipedia

CONDG Meeting - August 2008

Links from the August 2008 Central Ohio .NET Developers Group meeting:

The presenters were from Exceptional Innovation. They discussed the use of Devices Profile for Web Services in their home automation products. After the presentation we were given a tour of their office which includes a model living area where they can demonstrate many parts of the system.

Also, I was not aware that there are different kinds of twilight: Civil Twilight, Nautical Twilight, and Astronomical Twilight. This came up in the discussion on programming their Life|ware system. I can't recall now if their system included Nautical Twilight. It should, for the yacht automation market, you know.

And thanks for the pizza.

CONDG Meeting - May 2008

Links from the Central Ohio .NET Developers Group May 2008 meeting:

The presentation was given by Jeff Hunsaker who works for Cardinal Solitions (thanks for the pizza) and is also one of the founders of the Central Ohio Application Lifecycle Management Group. Slides from the meeting are available on his blog.

The presentation was on Microsoft's (ADO.NET) Entity Framework. Jeff asked the audience about Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) and what tools they were using. The most common response was NHibernate. Jeff mentioned Subsonic and gave a brief demo. He also did a demo showing LINQ to SQL.

Also mentioned at the meeting was the upcoming Lansing - Day of .NET on June 21, 2008.

CONDG Meeting - April 2008

At this month's Central Ohio .NET Developers Group meeting Scott Walker and Bryan Demuth, who work at TDCI, gave a presentation on debugging production applications. The presentation had a few bugs, some intentional (it was a debugging demo) and some not. In spite of the unintentional bugs I thought Scott did an excellent job of introducing some debugging techniques that are more hard-core than stepping through code in Visual Studio. Bryan was good at the Man in Black thing and from the entry on his blog I take it some in the audience didn't know who Johnny Cash was. What's that got to do with debugging? Nothing really.

Scott's blog has a link to download the slides from the presentation (and the slides include relevant links). Here are a few links related to the debugging tools discussed at the meeting:

Troubleshooting ASP.NET using WinDbg and the SOS extension

How to use ADPlus to troubleshoot hangs and crashes

ADPlus

A blog by Tess that has some detailed debugging info.

Also mentioned at the meeting:

COSPUG: Central Ohio SharePoint Users Group.

COALMG: Central Ohio Application Lifecycle Management Group.

CONDG Meeting - March 2008

Here are a few links related to the March 2008 Central Ohio .NET Developers Group meeting:

The Central Ohio SharePoint User Group was mentioned.

James Bender gave a presentation on Windows Communication Foundation (WCF).

James recommended blogs by Michele Leroux Bustamante (That Indigo Girl), Shy Cohen, and Nicholas Allen.

COLUG Meeting - March 2008

I attended the The Central Ohio Linux User Group meeting yesterday. Rick German from Stoneware gave a presentation on their WebOS. In my over-simplified view, WebOS is a system that creates a virtual desktop within a web browser. The system is built around a set of Java applications running on servers that interface with a number of hosted applications including web services and Windows Terminal Server sessions. This provides a unified point of entry to multiple back-end services with single sign-on, and provides centralized control of who can run which applications and where. This looks like some pretty cool technology especially useful for organizations with a lot of users needing access to a limited core set of applications to do their jobs. Still there is something about the idea of the desktop within the browser within a host OS that makes me feel like this is only evolutionary. At some point that outer browser and OS should disappear like the legs on a snake.

Speaking of snakes, Python to be precise, Catherine Devlin announced PyOhio, a "daylong regional miniconference being planned for the summer of 2008 in Columbus, OH."