http://www.tedroche.com/blog Mission: Interoperable. Competition breeds Innovation. Monopolies breed stagnation. Working Well with Others is Good. Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:03:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Twelve attendees made it to the monthly meeting of the Monadnock Region Linux User Group, MonadLUG, at the SAU #1 offices in Peterborough. Our host, Ken, did a great job of finding us an alternate conference room within the building when another group bumped us from our usual spot. Charlie Farinella ... http://www.tedroche.com/blog/2008/10/13/monadlug-9-oct-2008-galbraith-mysql/ Eight people attended our October meeting of the Central New Hampshire Linux User Group, held as usual on the first Monday of the month, at the New Hampshire Technical Institute's Library, Room 146, at 7 PM. We had the usual round of announcements. I had a 'hot off the presses' set ... http://www.tedroche.com/blog/2008/10/09/centralug-6-oct-2008/ Charlie Farinella posts the announcement that Patrick Galbraith will speak on MySQL replication at the MonadLUG meeting on Thursday night. This is a must-see meeting for anyone interested in working with MySQL in production applications where replication is essential for backup, standby or failover situations. http://www.tedroche.com/blog/2008/10/07/thursday-night-patrick-galbraith-on-mysql-replication-9-oct-2008/ We had a triple-header at the September meeting of the New Hampshire Ruby and Rails group, held as usual on the third Tuesday of the month at RMC Research in Portsmouth. Brian Turnbull... spoke on the HTTP protocol, reprising a well-received presentation he did at the SeaCoast Linux User Group last ... http://www.tedroche.com/blog/2008/10/06/notes-from-nhrubyrails-16-sept-2008/ Fourteen people attended the September meeting of the Python Special Interest Group of the Greater New Hampshire Linux User Group, held as usual on the fourth Thursday of the month at the Amoskeag Business Incubator in Manchester, NH, 7 PM - 9 PM. Our presenter of the evening had to postpone, ... http://www.tedroche.com/blog/2008/10/02/notes-from-pysig-25-sept-2008/ [caption id="attachment_2940" align="alignleft" width="125" caption="Join Me at the Professional Ruby Voices That Matter Conference "][/caption]Join Me at the Professional Ruby Voices That Matter Conference in Boston November 17 - 20! Fellow NHRuby SIG members (and reknowned book authors and gurus) Nick Plante and David Berube will be among the many ... http://www.tedroche.com/blog/2008/09/19/ruby-conference-boston/ Well, like you can really tell. I hear some of the current software vendors throw chairs around in tantrums. But I've been struggling to get VMWare 1.07 to work with my Fedora 8 installation on my main development laptop. A kernel update, sorely need to address some outstanding security issues, required ... http://www.tedroche.com/blog/2008/09/18/do-you-really-want-to-install-software-from-a-psycho/ Scott Garman posts a reminder message that tonight's Ruby/Rails SIG meeting will be a special meeting: three presenters on three topics, and some awesome door prizes: Brian Turnbull on HTTP, Scott Garman on VPS, and Nick Plante on git. There will also be discounts for Linode, a raffle for free ... http://www.tedroche.com/blog/2008/09/16/rubyrails-sig-tonight-tripleheader/ Thom Holwardy points out three blog postings with some great tips on Using the Bourne Again Shell Effectively using the vi or emacs-style editing. [a late, lost post from Friday the 13th - ooo!] http://www.tedroche.com/blog/2008/09/12/bas-effectively/ I was listening the FLOSS weekly podcast of Perl monger extrodinaire Randal Schwartz interviewing Jan Lehnardt about CouchDB, a free-form, non-relational database. CouchDB is built by Damien Katz, one of the originators of Notes and a developer currently employed by IBM. The CouchDB project is hosted by the Apache Foundation. ... http://www.tedroche.com/blog/2008/09/11/ebm-better-than-abm/