From announce at lists.nycbug.org Sun Oct 2 17:00:01 2011 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2011 17:00:01 -0400 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Wednesday Message-ID: <4E88D0D1.1000503@ceetonetechnology.com> October 05, 2011 ADAM David Alan Martin on Clang on FreeBSD 6:45 PM, Suspenders Restaurant backroom 111 Broadway in Manhattan http://www.suspendersbar.com/ Clang: What is it? Where to get it? How to build FreeBSD with it Why use it/advantages? Fun bits in clang Remaining GNU toolchain bits, and what`s being done about them Demo of Clang on FreeBSD, and some of its neat features Speaker Bio ADAM has been using Unix systems since early childhood (truth be told he can hardly remember using anything but). He messed with Rogue and Larn and even a C program or two on old SunOS 4 and 4.4BSD based systems at his dad`s office in the early 1990s. Shortly after the Y2K problem, the Linux User Group at Case Western Reserve University (where nobody actually seemed to run Linux!) first exposed him to FreeBSD. He now tinkers with a lot of different bits of FreeBSD, but he vacillates between being too lazy and too obstreperous in his insistence on C++ to get a commit bit. He still jests that he`s really a Computer Physicist, despite abandoning Physics for Computer Science in 2003. He`s always been easy to spot at conferences -- find the guy with the unique hat. (It`s different every few years.) He worked in Erez Zadok`s FileSystem and Storage Laboratory at SUNY Stony Brook, mostly writing code for linux, but he did take on a Google Summer of Code project for FreeBSD with the Lab. Currently he works for FalconStor Software, Inc. writing Deduplication engines for Linux platforms. Somehow he always seems to wind up writing more code for Linux than FreeBSD systems. His specialties are Computer Science, and Applied Mathematics & Statistics. Some penguins may have been harmed in the writing of this bio. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Wed Oct 5 09:37:28 2011 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 09:37:28 -0400 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Tonight Message-ID: <4E8C5D98.6040206@ceetonetechnology.com> EuroBSDCon starts tomorrow. Next month's meeting will be James Lowden on Free Database Systems, but tonight: October 05, 2011 ADAM David Alan Martin on Clang on FreeBSD 6:45 PM, Suspenders Restaurant backroom 111 Broadway in Manhattan http://www.suspendersbar.com/ Clang: What is it? Where to get it? How to build FreeBSD with it Why use it/advantages? Fun bits in clang Remaining GNU toolchain bits, and what`s being done about them Demo of Clang on FreeBSD, and some of its neat features Speaker Bio ADAM has been using Unix systems since early childhood (truth be told he can hardly remember using anything but). He messed with Rogue and Larn and even a C program or two on old SunOS 4 and 4.4BSD based systems at his dad`s office in the early 1990s. Shortly after the Y2K problem, the Linux User Group at Case Western Reserve University (where nobody actually seemed to run Linux!) first exposed him to FreeBSD. He now tinkers with a lot of different bits of FreeBSD, but he vacillates between being too lazy and too obstreperous in his insistence on C++ to get a commit bit. He still jests that he`s really a Computer Physicist, despite abandoning Physics for Computer Science in 2003. He`s always been easy to spot at conferences -- find the guy with the unique hat. (It`s different every few years.) He worked in Erez Zadok`s FileSystem and Storage Laboratory at SUNY Stony Brook, mostly writing code for linux, but he did take on a Google Summer of Code project for FreeBSD with the Lab. Currently he works for FalconStor Software, Inc. writing Deduplication engines for Linux platforms. Somehow he always seems to wind up writing more code for Linux than FreeBSD systems. His specialties are Computer Science, and Applied Mathematics & Statistics. Some penguins may have been harmed in the writing of this bio. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Sun Oct 30 23:29:41 2011 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 23:29:41 -0400 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Announcements Message-ID: <4EAE1625.5000102@ceetonetechnology.com> * This Wednesday's meeting * December 7 Holiday Meeting * January meeting on AWK * * * * November 02, 2011 James Lowden on Free Database Systems: What They Should Be, And Why You Should Care 6:45 PM, Suspenders Restaurant backroom 111 Broadway in Manhattan http://www.suspendersbar.com/ Open source databases depressingly mimic proprietary ones. They compete on "features". They don`t share code or ideas. They don`t formulate a standard a la the IETF and then strive for interoperability. And they are not working toward creating a true RDBMS. RDMBSs are important and technically challenging. It`s time to bring database management systems -- MySQL, Firebird, Postgres, Ingres, Rel, MonetDB, SQLite, sapdb, et al. -- into the Internet age. Let`s use the tools that made the Internet possible to get out of the database doldrums. Goals for free DMBSs: 0. Community 1. Standard wire protocol 2. Standard API 3. New query language 4. Shared language parser and query optimization library 5. Adopt lessons from Unix about namespaces and interfaces 6. Be the thinking man`s choice Biography James K. Lowden works in quantitative research systems at AllianceBernstein. He began working with C, C++, and SQL around 1985, and NetBSD since 1.5. In his copious spare time he has for many years been the maintainer of the FreeTDS project (www.freetds.org).