Meetings
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
Meeting #9 announcement: State of the security world
Topic: State of the security worldAttacks 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.
Update:
PLEASE NOTE THE VENUE HAS CHANGED A SECOND TIME
For directions (including an aerial photograph) please see the meetings page.