Wednesday, September 15 EDITOR's pick = SuSE sig / SNUG lunch @11:30 (ahh, its a soft/late start) Directory Services OpenLDAP MicroSoft Active Directory Novell eDirectory ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9:00am Thornhill Computer Club When Wed, September 15, 9am . 11am Where 12863 Willowyck Dr, St. Louis MO (map) Description Thornhill Branch Library 314-994-3300 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11:30am LUNCH time SNUG - SuSE Linux Lunch & St. L. Novell Users Group. When Wed, September 15, 11:30am - 12:45pm Where Bandana's Bar-BQ (corner of Rock Hill and Manchester Rds) 9500 Manchester Rd, Rockhill, MO 63119 See http://snug.sluug.org/ For those trying to remember their alphabet soup... (and anyone...please correct/comment on any of these descriptions to better describe/correct...) Novell eDirectory (formerly named as Novell Directory Services but populaly known as Netware Directory Services) is an X.500-compatible directory service software product initially released in 1993 by Novell for centrally managing access to resources on multiple computers within a given network. It also controls permissions on a per userid (and group id and ...?) to objects in the directory. Microsoft has Active Directory. 1st relesased in Windows 2000 Server edition, it claims to include LDAP, Kerberos, and DNS. (Is this one of the sources of "embrace and extend" criticisms that MS has (partially) used these standards but in a way that they do NOT work with non-MS software?) In pre-release it was called NTDS (NT Directory Service) and that nmae can still be seen compiled into some binaries. X.500 is a a series of computer networking standards covering electronic directory services. The X.500 series was developed by ITU-T, formerly known as CCITT, and first approved in 1988. ISO/IEC 9594 is the corresponding ISO identification. It was INCREDIBLY complex and was only run on large servers. LDAP is an implimentation of part of X.500. "Lite weight Directory Access Protocol"...liteweight because it was stripped down to do the more needed stuff on smaller systems and simpler to impliment. It also worked with TCP/IP which X.500 originally did not. Open LDAP is an Open Software version. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2:00pm STLISACA - StL InfoSys Audit & Ctrl Assn When Wed, September 15, 2pm . 4pm Description See http://www.isaca-stlouis.org/ Website seems to have NOT been updated since May. They MAY still be on summer hiatus. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6:00pm GCC - Gateway Computer Club When Wed, September 15, 6pm . 8pm Where 10001 Bunkum Rd. Fairview Heights, IL 62208 (map) Description Venue: Caseyville Township Bldg. See http://gcc.signalhill.net/ Demonstration will be on the topic of Retro Gaming & Computing. We will show off and talk about many different types of vintage gaming and computer systems, with a focus on gaming. Please bring anything older systems you may have which you would like to show the club! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6:30pm STLPM - St. Louis Perl Mongers Group When Wed, September 15, 6:30pm . 8:30pm Where 6665 Delmar Boulevard, Saint Louis, MO 63130-4544 (map) Description Venue is Announce Media, LLC Meetings are on every 3rd Wednesday of the month See http://stlouis.pm.org/ Introducing The Monads Speaker: Aditya "Deech" Siram When: 6:30 PM Wednesday 09/15/10 Where: Announce Media 6665 Delmar Boulevard Saint Louis, MO 63130-4544 This meeting is being sonsored by COMSYS. Abstract: Haskell monads do everything from mundane list processing and IO to complex functionality like fine-grained concurrent state management and parsing grammers. And because they are all monads, they have a consistent syntax making them very simple and elegant to use. This talk will give a tourof these and other noteworthy citizens of this wonderful landscape. There will be plenty of practical code examples and no knowledge of Haskell is required. About Aditya "Deech" Siram: Aditya "Deech" Siram is a Java developer with the Neuroinformatics Research Group at Washington University. He's into functional programming languages, especially Haskell, and looks forward to the day he gets paid to use it. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7:00pm St. Louis ALT.NET When Wed, September 15, 7pm . 9pm Where 161 Long Rd. #107, Chesterfield, MO 63005 (map) Description Venue: International Tap House See http://www.meetup.com/stlaltdotnet/ The ALT.NET community is a loosely coupled, highly cohesive group of like-minded individuals who believe that the best developers do not align themselves with platforms and languages, but with principles and ideas. In 2007, David Laribee created the term "ALT.NET" to explain this "alternative" view of the Microsoft development universe--a view that challenged the "Microsoft-only" approach to software development. He distilled his thoughts into four key developer characteristics which form the basis of the ALT.NET philosophy: 1. You're the type of developer who uses what works while keeping an eye out for a better way. 2. You reach outside the mainstream to adopt the best of any community: Open Source, Agile, Java, Ruby, etc. 3. You're not content with the status quo. Things can always be better expressed, more elegant and simple, more mutable, higher quality, etc. 4. You know tools are great, but they only take you so far. It's the principles and knowledge that really matter. The best tools are those that embed the knowledge and encourage the principles (e.g. Resharper.) The St. Louis ALT.NET meetup group is a place where .NET developers can learn, share, and critique approaches to software development on the .NET stack. We cater to the highest common denominator, not the lowest, and want to help all St. Louis .NET developers achieve a superior level of software craftsmanship.