From announce at lists.nycbug.org Wed Jun 2 10:05:02 2010 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2010 10:05:02 -0400 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Tonight Message-ID: <4C06650E.3080508@ceetonetechnology.com> June 02, 2010, Tonight Introduction to GDB for System Administrators and Programmers. 6:45 PM, Suspenders Restaurant http://www.suspendersbar.com/location.php System administrators often have to diagnose and report software anomalies back to developers while programmers often find themselves asking system administrators for specific information about production issues. GDB, while being a debugger and thus mainly a programmer`s tool, allows for gathering enough information from either running or crashed process, so support and development groups can communicate more effectively. We will touch upon relevant usage of GDB and associated tools. Nikolai Fetissov is a professional software developer with a long history of working with various Unixen and broad interests ranging from kernel internals to C++ meta-programming. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Mon Jun 21 16:34:41 2010 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:34:41 -0400 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Upcoming Message-ID: <4C1FCCE1.5040101@ceetonetechnology.com> * Future Meetings * NYCBSDCon 2010 set for November 12-14 at Cooper Union * EuroBSDCon Call for Papers * * * * * July 07, 2010 Mark Chu-Carroll on The Go Programming Language 6:45 PM, Suspenders Restaurant http://www.suspendersbar.com/location.php Go is ? ? simple package main import "fmt" func main() { fmt.Printf("Hello, ??n") } ? fast Go compilers produce fast code fast. Typical builds take a fraction of a second yet the resulting programs run nearly as quickly as comparable C or C++ code. ? safe Go is type safe and memory safe. Go has pointers but no pointer arithmetic. For random access, use slices, which know their limits. ? concurrent Go promotes writing systems and servers as sets of lightweight communicating processes, called goroutines, with strong support from the language. Run thousands of goroutines if you want?and say good-bye to stack overflows. ? fun Go has fast builds, clean syntax, garbage collection, methods for any type, and run-time reflection. It feels like a dynamic language but has the speed and safety of a static language. It`s a joy to use. ? open source Mark Chu-Carroll is a software engineer at Google, who is utterly obsessed with programming languages. He?s been working on software development tools for close to 20 years. In his free time, he writes the blog Good Math/Bad Math at scienceblogs.com. August 4 is Ivan Ivanov on OpenSSL Solutions September 1 is Bruno Scap on Building Email Infrastructure * * * * * NYCBSDCon 2010 is set for November 12-14 at Cooper Union in Manhattan. www.cooper.edu. We are very excited for this year's event. We have a discussion mailing list for planning details at http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/nycbsdcon. If you are interested in helping out, sorting out travel arrangements, etc., we encourage you to use that list. We will have an open organizing meeting for the conference in mid-July, so keep an eye out for details. We'll also have a flier ready for anyone attending other events over the next few months. * * * * * EuroBSDCon (http://2010.eurobsdcon.org/) has announced its Call for Papers, and released a number of details. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Mon Jun 28 10:10:21 2010 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:10:21 -0400 Subject: [announce] BSD Certification Group: content reviewers needed for next exam Message-ID: <4C28AD4D.6070200@ceetonetechnology.com> The more advanced BSDP certification exam is being developed. Becoming a reviewer is a great way to contribute. * * * * The BSD Certification Group needs your help in reviewing the exam objectives for the upcoming BSDP (BSD Professional) exam. Even if you don't have the time to do this yourself, help us spread the word so we can get as many eyeballs as possible reviewing the objectives in preparation for their publication by the end of July. The first study domain for the objectives (Installation and Setup) is available for review at http://bsdwiki.reedmedia.net/wiki/installation_and_setup.html. If you can help, please read the Guidelines (http://bsdwiki.reedmedia.net/wiki/bsdp_goals.html) first so you know what is useful in a review. If you're wondering where the exam objectives came from, see the BSDP JTA Survey Report pdf (http://www.bsdcertification.org/downloads/BSDP_JTA_Report.pdf). There are many ways to comment on the objectives. The most direct way is to create an account on the wiki and follow the Guidelines when adding content (please do not remove existing content). You'll need an account creation password first. Either contact me directly or pop into #bsdcert on IRC freenode to receive this password. Alternately, you can start a discussion on the BSD Certification Facebook group (http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/group.php?gid=55432547309), on the BSDCert mailing list, or send me an email with your comments. Finally, if you'd like to help actually write the objectives (not just review what is already there), we definitely could use your help! Pop into #bsdcert on IRC freenode and we'll get you up to speed on what needs to be written.