Meeting #15 slides: Programming in Scala
Thanks to all who attended, and to Gary for the informative talk about Scala.
Here are Gary’s slides: programming_in_scala.pdf [605KB]
We also have a video recording of the talk, currently in post-processing. I will add a new post when it is available.
Meeting #15 announcement: Programming in Scala
Topic: Programming in Scala
Speaker: Gary Pampara
Date: 2 August 2010
Time: 18:30 for 19:00
Venue: University of Pretoria, lecture hall 2-24 in the IT building.
Gary Pampara will be talking about his new favorite language, Scala, which supports both object-oriented and functional programming, and compiles to Java byte code. This promises to be an interesting topic, hope to see you all there!
For directions (including an aerial photograph) please see the meetings page.
Software Freedom Day Pretoria 2010
Software Freedom Day (SFD) is an event held all over the world to celebrate and raise awareness of free and open source software.
SFD in Pretoria will be held at the Department of Science and Technology, Pretoria (CSIR campus) on 18 September 2010 (8:00 – 15:00). Entrance is free of charge.
For more info see:
- http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2010/Africa/SouthAfrica/Pretoria
- http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=144325005584641
Meeting #14 announcement: OpenLaszlo
Topic: OpenLaszlo
Speaker: Edwin Peer
Date: 5 July 2010
Time: 18:30 for 19:00
Venue: University of Pretoria, lecture hall 2-24 in the IT building.
Edwin Peer will be presenting a talk about OpenLaszlo.
For directions (including an aerial photograph) please see the meetings page.
Meeting #13 announcement: Haxe, an open source flash work flow
Topic: Haxe, an open source flash work flow
Speaker: Dirk Uys
Date: 7 June 2010
Time: 18:30 for 19:00
Venue: University of Pretoria, lecture hall 2-24 in the IT building.
Dirk Uys will be presenting a talk about programming with Haxe.
For directions (including an aerial photograph) please see the meetings page.
Meeting #12 announcement: FLOSS Video Encoding
Topic: FLOSS Video Encoding
Speaker: Derick Swanepoel
Date: 3 May 2010
Time: 18:30 for 19:00
Venue: University of Pretoria, lecture hall 2-24 in the IT building.
Derick will be presenting a talk about video formats and standards, video encoding with FLOSS tools and a look at the use of various video formats in online and mobile content.
For directions (including an aerial photograph) please see the meetings page.
Meeting #11 announcement: South African FOSS Landscape
Topic: South African FOSS Landscape
Speaker: Karl Fischer
Date: 12 April 2010
Time: 18:30 for 19:00
Venue: University of Pretoria, lecture hall 2-24 in the IT building.
PLUG and Software Freedom Day veteran Karl Fischer (also of fandroid.org fame) will be giving a talk about Free and Open Source Software in South Africa. This promises to be interesting and locally relevant. Hope to see you all there!
For directions (including an aerial photograph) please see the meetings page.
Meeting #10 announcement: Fiber optic networks
Topic: Fiber optic networks
Speaker: Simeon Miteff
Date: 1 March 2010
Time: 18:30 for 19:00
Venue: University of Pretoria, lecture hall 2-24 in the IT building.
Simeon (hi, it’s me…) will be presenting a talk about fiber optics in computer networks, covering the basics like fiber types and transmission technologies, then discussing advancements (40/100Gbps, etc), and wrapping up with some commentary on fiber network roll outs in South Africa.
See you there!
For directions (including an aerial photograph) please see the meetings page.
Meeting #9 feedback: Attacks and Defences
Topic: Attacks and Defences
Speaker: Marco Slaviero
Date: 1 February 2010
Time: 18:30 for 19:00
Venue: University of Pretoria, lecture hall 2-24 in the IT building.
Slides:
- attacks_and.pdf (1.2 MB) [Sorry for the manky quality of this PDF export -Simeon]
- attacks_and.ppt (4.0 MB)
- attacks_and.ppt.sig (72 B)
Although this talk was entitled Attacks and Defenses, it focused mostly on hacks, and pretty cool ones at that. Marco walked us through some recent attacks against Win32 and FreeBSD on a kernel level, as well as some application layer stuff (x509, web apps, cloud attacks). Delivered with insight and humor this was an excellent talk. Thanks Marco and everyone who attended (thanks also for support from SensePost staff).
New dates and venues for 2010
Here is a list of new dates and venues for TLUG meetings in 2010. I’ve also updated the Google calendar. We’ll announce each talk with speaker and topic as we go along.
| Date | Venue |
|---|---|
| 2010-02-01 | IT Building 2-24 |
| 2010-03-01 | IT Building 2-24 |
| 2010-04-12 | IT Building 2-24 |
| 2010-05-03 | IT Building 2-24 |
| 2010-06-07 | IT Building 2-24 |
| 2010-07-05 | IT Building 2-24 |
| 2010-08-02 | IT Building 2-24 |
| 2010-09-06 | IT Building 2-24 |
| 2010-10-04 | IT Building 2-24 |
| 2010-11-01 | IT Building 4-3 |
| 2010-12-06 | IT Building 2-24 |