Announcements

Sponsor for refreshments at March 18 meeting

Posted by Adam Glass on Friday March 5th, 2010 at 12:19 PM

FLUX is an all-volunteer organization. Our events are always free and open to the public. So we are very happy to announce that Commcare Pharmacies will be sponsoring refreshments when Rasmus Lerdorf speaks on March 18!

Many thanks to FLUX member Nicholas Saraniti of Commcare Pharmacies for this generous donation!

March 18: Rasmus Lerdorf, Creator of PHP!

Posted by Adam Glass on Monday March 1st, 2010 at 1:15 AM

We are very fortunate that Rasmus Lerdorf has volunteered to speak while he is in town!

For those who don't know, here is Rasmus Lerdorf's short bio:

Rasmus Lerdorf is known for having gotten the PHP project off the ground in 1995. He is also a member of the Apache Server core development team and a member of the Apache Foundation board of directors, and has contributed to a number of other open source projects over the years. He has also been an engineer at Yahoo! He was born in Greenland, grew up in Denmark and Canada and has a Systems Design engineering degree from the University of Waterloo. Mr. Lerdorf is a frequent speaker on PHP and Open Source at conferences around the world.

The meeting will be on Thursday March 18 instead of our usual second week of the month. We are planning on the same time, refreshments at 6:30pm and presentation at 7:00pm.

There will be a big crowd for this so we are arranging for a bigger room than our usual one. Those details will be posted when they are finalized.

About the Presentation:
There has been a lot of interest in PHP performance lately spurred by Facebook's HipHop PHP announcement in February. Most people don't know how fast their site is and will make uninformed architecture decisions or spend time optimizing the wrong things based mostly on myths and innuendo. This talk will try to get you started down the path of a systematic approach to benchmarking, profiling and optimizing your entire web site. If there is time and interest, we'll have a look at Web security as well. Most of the concepts covered are not PHP-specific, but I will of course be using PHP to illustrate concepts.

SPREAD THE WORD! As always, FLUX events are free and open to the public. Let your co-workers know, and anybody else who does web development, even on those other operating systems!

MARK YOUR CALENDAR! MARCH 18 AT NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY!

February 11: Free Pascal and Lazarus IDE

Posted by Adam Glass on Tuesday February 2nd, 2010 at 5:16 PM

TOPIC:	Free Pascal and Lazarus IDE
PRESENTER:	Bob Ahola!
DATE:	Thursday February 11, 2010
TIME:	6:30pm Refreshments & Networking
	7:00 Presentation begins
LOCATION:	Nova Southeastern University, in our regular room (directions)

About the Presentation:

Free Pascal is an open-source Pascal compiler with a high degree of Delphi compatibility available on several platforms, including Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Free Pascal supports full object capability and is self-hosted.

Lazarus is an open-source IDE written in Free Pascal. The Lazarus Component Library includes equivalents for many of the familiar VCL controls such as forms, buttons, text boxes and so on that are used to create applications.

Like Delphi, Free Pascal and Lazarus are both general-purpose programming tools, meaning you can develop a wide variety of programs with them, including:

• Console applications
• Dynamic libraries (.so, .dll & .dylib)
• GUI Apps
• Web Apps
• (etc.)

Other notable capabilities include:

• Object-Oriented Development (excluding multiple inheritance)
• Database (InterBase,Firebird,Oracle,MSSQL,MySQL,PostGre,SqlLite,RollYourOwn)
• Extensible Run-time
• XML
• SOAP
• (many others)

Covered in this session:

• Tour of Free Pascal (including the console IDE)
• Tour of Lazarus
• Build/review some console apps: Hello, RSS downloader and Blackjack
• Dissect an object implementation of a console game
• Extending the game to use GUI
• Build, install and demonstrate a GUI component
• Build a (very) simple web site
• Review a more comlicated web site
• Extending the site to include authentication and sessions

(whew!)

About the Presenter:

 Bob :=
        ( isInTheGameFor43Years ) and
        ( hasBuiltTwoPascalCompilers ) and
        ( isDelphiRoadWarriorFor15Years ) and
        ( isLinuxFan ) and
        ( not isMicrosoftFan ) and
        ( isFisherman );

Mark your calendar! See you THURSDAY FEBRUARY 11th at Nova Southeastern University!

January 14: Google Web Toolkit

Posted by Adam Glass on Tuesday January 5th, 2010 at 9:03 PM

TOPIC:	GWT: Google Web Toolkit!
PRESENTER:	Ricardo Richardson!
DATE:	Thursday January 14, 2010
TIME:	6:30pm Refreshments & Networking
	7:00 Presentation begins
LOCATION:	Nova Southeastern University, in our regular room (directions)

About the Presentation:

GWT, the Google Web Toolkit, is a set of tools used for building and optimizing complex browser-based applications. In this presentation we are going to see the fundamental workflow of these tools and a personal consideration of how they should be used today for production.

About the Presenter:

Ricardo Richardson is a System Engineer who acquired his Bachelor's degree at the University of INTEC in the Dominican Republic. His areas of expertise include system administration and software development.

Mark your calendar! See you THURSDAY JANUARY 14th at Nova Southeastern University!

2010 is fast approaching

Posted by Adam Glass on Tuesday December 22nd, 2009 at 10:29 PM

Hi all,

2010 is just around the corner so it's a great time to do a few things:

First, to thank the folks who gave talks last year! In order from January...

• John McLaughlin
• Kwan Lowe
• Raul Salazar
• Kwan Lowe (again!)
• Bill Tabor
• Jeffrey Fortin
• Carl Couric
• Mick Weiss
• Carl Couric (again!)
• Jeffrey Fortin (again!)
• Don Law & family

Second, to thank Nova Southeastern University for providing a free meeting place!

Third, to ask for volunteers to speak at FLUX meetings in 2010! If you're looking for a Gnu Year's resolution* (sorry, couldn't resist), this would be a fantastic one. FLUX is an all volunteer group. If we don't have a speaker, we don't have a meeting. That happened in April 2009. We are very fortunate to have a few members who have done a number of talks over the years, but it's not fair to rely on them again and again. In 2010 let's hear from some of the folks who haven't done a talk yet. You don't have to know everything about a topic before doing a talk. If you are interested in something about Linux or Free/Open Source Software, please consider sharing an overview with the group. We can also put together a meeting with two short talks by different speakers. If you'd like to sign up, e-mail adamglass@gmail.com with your topic and the month you prefer!

Last, to wish everyone a happy whatever-you-celebrate!
See you next year!

 

 

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