Perth Linux Users' Group

March 2005 Seminars

This month we had two seminars in our usual Tuesday meeting, due to the lack of seminar venue for the previous two months. First up was —

Title: The Clubber's Guide to Rapid Application Development with GNOME and Python
When: Tuesday, 15 March 2005, 7:00pm - 7:45pm
Where: Highgate Primary School
Presenter: Davyd Madeley

Davyd Madeley, GNOME Hacker, Perthite and Gentleman Spy Extraordinare introduces people to the steamy underground world of rapid application development with Python and the PyGTK toolkit. This talk aims to be very accessible to everyone, including those who don't even know or like Python. A must-see for everyone vaguely interested in programming with the best GUI toolkit available today!

Slides and examples: tar.bz2 file [650 kb] containing example code as well as slides in Openoffice.org and PDF formats.

Following Davyd's presentation, we had the talk originally scheduled for January —

Title: Software Archery: hitting the bull's-eye with GNU Arch revision control
When: Tuesday, 15 March 2005, 8:00pm - 8:45pm
Where: Highgate Primary School
Presenter: Cameron Patrick

This talk will briefly describe the problem of revision control, and explain some of the trade-offs in designing a trivial revision control system and how just a few simple ideas can be combined to produce something remarkably close to GNU Arch. After this, I'll describe some of the concerns in using Arch in practice. A final section of the talk will mention other contenders in the revision control world and the situations in which you might want to use them instead.

Slides: Openoffice.org format [11 kb] or PDF format [110 kb]

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