From: stan reichardt <stanr(a)sluug.org> Date: October 3, 2011 4:13:52 PM CDT To: Gary Meyer <gary(a)sluug.org> Subject: Events For This Week - 3 October 2011 ***************************************************************************** DISCLAIMER: Check Web Sites for Cancellations, Changes, Fees and Updates ***************************************************************************** See STL Computer Events Calendar http://www.sluug.org/resources/calendar/ ***************************************************************************** Editor's Picks Tue: MOSLUG A casual chat / eat / play with hardware softwr. Wed: Steering Committee Help plan meetings for all us techies Thu: SLACC The oldest computer club in St.L. Bring your hardware and try new sftwr / hrdwr / fx problems Fri 2600 The international hackers group. Always a good discussion. NEXT WEEK SLUUG's General Meeting VIM: Wrangling Registers & Mangling Macros by Bill Odom and also "AlienVault" security by Jerry Stutte And the details... &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& MONDAY, October 3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7:00pm stlGD - StL Game Developers Mon, October 3, 7pm - 9pm 218-C Millwell Drive Maryland Heights, MO 63043 VENUE: Simutronics Corp. 218-C Millwell Drive Maryland Heights, MO 63043 See http://www.meetup.com/St-Louis-Game-Developers/ Who's going: 12 Developers Monthly gathering to network with other game developers and find out what everyone's been up to. Daniel Eichling will also be giving a talk on game design. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& TUESDAY, October 4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6:00pm GJUG - Gateway Java Users Grp Tue, October 4, 6:00pm - 7:15pm 660 Mason Ridge Center, St. Louis, MO 63141 Oct 4 JUG Meeting: Change Anything with Cucumber and ATDD Cucumber Alright, so you've heard the TDD claim to fame. Your code (Your functionality) is closely protected by an ever vigilant suite of tests ready to stop bugs before they are even introduced. This sounds good, eh? While TDD and unit testing provide numerous advantages in addition to protecting existing functionality, one shortcoming you may discover is that the scope of the unit test is too small. Yeah, it tests how that individual class works, but will it test the application as a whole? Furthermore, will my unit test even be useful after a big change to the class structure? Not likely. Enter Acceptance Test Driven Development using Cucumber. Test the whole application, nothing but the application, and only the application. Allow yourself to be free to change big things and still have absolute confidence that your application still performs. Furthermore, doing ATDD with Cucumber allows your tests to be in English (or Swedish if you like). Whoa. Tests in English!? That sounds like a bad idea. You have to see it to believe it. It's DRY and it's awesome. See you October 4th. Speaker: Mike Menne Venue: Lutheran Hour Ministries building http://www.gatewayjug.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6:30pm MOSLUG - MO Open Source Linux Users Group Tue, October 4, 6:30pm - 9:00pm 215 S. Kirkwood Rd, Kirkwood, MO 63122 VENUE: Imo's Pizza Note the new meeting place! See https://sites.google.com/site/moslugmo/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7:00pm ASEMO - Astronomical Society of Eastern Missouri Tue, October 4, 7:00pm - 9:30pm See http://asemonline.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7:30pm GGUG - Gateway Groovy Users Group Tue, October 4, 7:30pm - 8:30pm 660 Mason Ridge Center, St. Louis, MO 63141 Venue: Lutheran Hour Ministries building See http://www.gatewayjug.org &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& WEDNESDAY, October 5 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6:30pm SteerCom - St. Louis Unix Users' Grp - Steering Committee Wed, October 5, 6:30pm - 8:30pm 10550 Old Olive Street Rd Saint Louis, MO 63141 See http://www.sluug.org/ for current agenda. The St. Louis Unix Users' Group (SLUUG) Steering Committee meets at the St. Louis Bread Company with free WiFI access. This meeting is for monthly officer reports and general event planning.. Open to all members and anyone interested. Come help learn and decide what SLUUG does! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7:00pm SILUG-ME Southern Illinois Linux Users Group Wed, October 5, 7pm - 9pm Computer Room, 3720 Green Mount Crossing Dr., Shiloh, IL 62269 See http://www.silug.org/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& THURSDAY, October 6 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10:00am WCORCC-BI - Beginners SIG Internet SIG Thu, October 6, 10am - 3pm Daniel Boone Branch Library, 300 Clarkson Rd. (south of Clayton Rd.), Ellisville, MO 63011-2222 WCORCC - West County Older Residents Computer Club http://wcorcc.tripod.com/ Beginners SIG -- 10:00 AM Internet SIG -- 1:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1:00pm STLBIUG St Louis Business User Group Thu, October 6, 1pm - 5pm 3 City Place Dr., St. Louis, MO 63141 VENUE: Microsoft Corp, Suite 1100 Parking: Garage behind / next to the building. Use main door or from 2nd floor of garage. Please RSVP by email to: stlmsbiug(a)ymail.com , so we can plan accordingly for the lunch order. In addition, please feel free to forward this meeting announcement to any other interested parties. Microsoft Lync This meeting will also be broadcasted via Microsoft Lync. The broadcast information is https://join.microsoft.com/meet/shawnn/7Z02SZH1 Join by Phone +18883203585 +14257063500 Find a local number Conference ID: 28928762 Forgot your dial-in PIN? | First online meeting? Agenda Session 1: Fast Track presented by Shawn Nesser, Microsoft Learn about reference architectures and best practices for SQL Server 2008 R2. In this session, we will discuss the genesis of SMP SQL Server data warehouses and how we measure raw SQL performance from processor core to disk. You will learn about scaling a data warehouse from 4 to over 40 Terabytes. Session 2: Parallel Data Warehouse presented by Tom Pizzato, Microsoft Learn about the new massively parallel data warehouse offering from Microsoft. This is an appliance that will allow any size data warehouse workload to be achieved from 30Terabytes well into the Petabyte range. After this session you will be allowed to tour an actual appliance. Session 3: Kimball Dimensional Modeling presented by Clayton Groom, Covenant Some database developers have described learning Kimball as an almost religious experience. We will cover a brief survey of Kimball and why this approach is revolutionary About the Speakers: Shawn Nesser, Technology Specialist, Microsoft Shawn started at Microsoft in 2001 serving as a SQL Server Consultant. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6:00pm SLACC - StL Area Computer Club Thu, October 6, 6pm - 9pm Thornhill Library 12863 Willowyck Dr. St Louis, MO 63146-3771 http://slacc.sluug.org/ St. Louis County Library Thornhill Branch You are invited to attend our meetings. They are usually held on the first Thursday of every month from 6:00 PM until 9:00 PM. Meetings are free and open to the public. A one dollar donation may be made toward the cost of the room; otherwise, we have no membership dues or other charges for the meetings. So, please join us at our next meeting or event for fun, knowledge and networking. All hardware, operating systems and software are explored. This group welcomes new PC user hardware and software configuration problems because it is fun to fix them. Help with Linux, other Operating Systems and hardware problems is usually available. # We hold a Linux Configuration Workshop when nothing else more interesting comes up, or when there is no other event or activity scheduled. Problems with other operating systems and hardware are also frequently fixed. New software tools are often demonstrated. Linux is an Internet capable Networking Operating System that provides many fully functional applications that perform well on both older and new computers. Most Linux distributions are free or low cost and provides an extremely reliable and cost effective alternative to high priced proprietary software. # The workshop is where we usually examine, troubleshoot, fix and repair difficult hardware and software configuration problems for Linux newcomers. # Bring your Linux PC to our hands on workshop to troubleshoot your Linux installation, network connection or X Window GUI configuration problem. We have full connectivity to the Internet on site and know how to use it. # Just remember to bring your PC, monitor, keyboard, mouse, cables, cords, power strips and two diskettes. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6:00pm stlLL -StL Lambda Lounge Thu, October 6, 6:00pm - 8:30pm 1099 Milwaukee Kirkwood MO 63122 * ClojureScript - Nate Young * CoffeeScript - Mark Volkmann VENUE: Lambda Lounge is hosted at the Revelytix offices in Kirkwood: Boiler Room (lower flower) http://lambdalounge.org/ ** *Functional and dynamic languages* ** -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6:00pm FLEX - STL Adobe Users Grp, Flex and Fuse the Arch Tue, October 4, 6pm - 8pm 4501 Lindell Blvd Suite 1a St. Louis, MO Venue: Skeleton Key Consulting and Time October 6, 2011 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM RSVP Please login to RSVP. Address 4501 Lindell Blvd Suite 1a St. Louis, MO Agenda 'Uncle' Bob Martin, a 25+ year veteran developer, has made a series of videos called Clean Code. We're going to put one of them on the big screen and get some pizza. Please RSVP! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7:00pm hiatus?? MTM - Midwest Tech Meetup -iPhone vs Android Thu, October 6, 7pm - 9pm 1909 S Brentwood Blvd Brentwood, MO See http://www.meetup.com/MTechM/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& FRIDAY, October 7 1:00pm NCORCC North County Older Residents Computer Club Fri, October 7, 1pm - 3pm 915 Utz Lane, Hazelwood, MO VENUE: Prairie Commons Branch Library See http://www.corcc-stl.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5:00pm STL 2600 Meeting Fri, October 7, 5pm - 10pm 2400 South Jefferson Ave. St Louis, MO 63104 Venue: Arch Reactor See http://archreactor.org/index.php?page=3D2600-meetings &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& SATURDAY, October 8 All day Yom Kippur 8:30am Hiatus - T3 Techies Teaching Techies 12:00pm DBUG - Data Bytes Users Group Sat, October 8, 12pm - 3pm 12863 Willowyk Drive, St. Louis, MO See http://dbug-stl.tripod.com/Home.htm Thornhill Branch Library, 12863 Willowyk Drive (off Fee Fee Road), St. Louis, MO -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2:00pm MC-Clinic - Networking with Windows 7 Sat, October 8, 2pm - 3pm 87 Brentwood Promenade Ct., Brentwood, MO 63144 Venue: Micro Center In Store Clinic FREE in-store computer technology clinic, See http://www.microcenter.com/instore_clinic/sign_up.html to sign up. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6:00pm ASEMO - Astronomical Society of Eastern Missouri Sat, October 8, 6pm - 10pm See http://asemonline.org/ for current information. * Regular General Meeting* &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& SUNDAY, October 9 2:00pm MC-Clinic - Networking with Windows 7 Sun, October 9, 2pm - 3pm 87 Brentwood Promenade Ct., Brentwood, MO 63144 Venue: Micro Center In Store Clinic FREE in-store computer technology clinic, See http://www.microcenter.com/instore_clinic/sign_up.html to sign up. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& And an overview of what's coming NEXT week... Monday, October 10 All day Columbus Day 1:00pm SCORCC-GM - General Meeting 6:00pm BDPA - Black Data Processing Associates 6:30pm stlRUBY - STL Ruby Users' Grp 7:00pm MWG - MidWest Geeks Tuesday, October 11 All day Patch Tuesday 11:30am hiatus- stlLTug - StL Lotus Technologies Users Grp 1:00pm hiatus- stlSSUG -StL SQL Server User Grp 5:30pm GAMUG - Gateway Area MacIntosh Users Group 6:00pm CCSL - Computer Consultants of St. Louis 7:00pm LUCI-NB - Linux Users Central Illinois (Newbie Mtg) 7:30pm ARCH - Arch Reactor Wednesday, October 12 8:00am StL ACT! Users Group 6:00pm JCMS - Joomla CMS 6:30pm SLUUG St. Louis Unix Users Group Thursday, October 13 9:30am SLOUG - St. Louis Oracle Users Group 10:00am WCORCC-WE - MS Word SIG Excel SIG 12:00pm Gateway/400 Grp -PHP: An Intro for RPGers 1:00pm SCORCC-G Geneology SIG 6:30pm stlJUG - StL Java Users Grp Friday, October 14 10:00am SCORCC-DTP Desktop Publishing 11:00am SCORCC-PI PhotoInmpact SIG Saturday, October 15 10:00am ROBOMO - StL Area Robotics Grp 10:00am Physics -Planck's constant "h" -- the constant that quantized the world 2:00pm MC-Clinic - Securing Our eCity 4:00pm SILUG-ME - Southern Illinois Linux Users Group Sunday, October 16 2:00pm MC-Clinic - Securing Our eCity = = = ======================================================================== = = = ======================================================================== Always check for last minute changes & updates by checking the calendar at http://www.sluug.org/resources/calendar and the individual website. 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