Re: A New Focus for AKLUG

Quoting Fielder George Dowding <fgdowding@iceworm-enterprises.org>:

> One of the areas that my education is lacking and AKLUG has not been
> helpful, is in the area of software development. I have made a couple of
> abortive attempts to participate in the development or maintenance of
> Debian packages, and I started a project on sourceforge which quickly
> bogged down as my day to day focus was forced to concentrate on draining
> the swamp despite the presence of alligators, water moccasins, and other
> entangling flora and fauna.

Fielder, its awesome to see you say this because this is one of the
things that I'd hoped AKLUG would start focusing on.

You may have been busy fighting your alligators when I did a
presentation on Ruby and Rails.

You also must have been entangled with local flora and fauna as we
talked about compiling the lamp stack from scratch. Although this
isn't directly software development focused, it is important do know
how to do these things to get the job done.

If one of the people I have asked to do a presentation for October
doesn't step up by this weekend, I'd be happy to go into Ruby as a
programming language.

One of the things I like about Ruby (Perl and Python too) is that it
works across the Big Three (Linux, OSX and Windows).

Its great for AKLUG to have this sort of interest and I hope others
will join us.

Thanks for sharing your enthusiam with us. I hope others will do the same.

Mike B.

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Received on Thu Sep 27 15:16:02 2007