[SGVLUG] SGVLUG meeting Jun 9th - Robert L - planning to attend

[mrflash818 at geophile.net]

Greets

Am planning to attend.


Thanks
--
Robert Leyva


> Hi all,
>
> We are meeting this Thursday, June 9th, at OpenX Technologies (888 E.
> Walnut St, Pasadena, CA).   This means, of course, that I need to compile
> a list of attendees for building security.  Either RSVP on Meetup, or drop
> me a note.  I need a first and last name or initial.
>
>
> http://www.meetup.com/SGVTech/events/229463158/
> NOTE: Dealing with the logistics of the June meeting has already been
> pretty stressful on me.  I would appreciate other people stepping up to
> actually run the meeting, from emceeing to manning the registration desk.
>
>
>
> Our original speaker fell through.  Instead, my new hero, Dustin Laurence,
> will be giving a talk on the C programming language.  Dustin is a
> long-time member of LUG and spoke at LUG and SCALE last year on
> "Action-Movie Crypto."
>
> Survival at C: swallowing the Red Pill
> Thu, June 9th, 7-9pm at OpenX (888 E. Walnut St, Pasadena, CA)
>
> "Many good, experienced high-level language programmers do not learn C or
> C++ well until they suddenly need to write an FFI extension, make an
> emergency patch to an existing C or C++ codebase, re-implement the
> bottleneck component in the application stack in a fast language, take an
> attractive job with a low-level programming component, or otherwise move
> from their comfortable language of choice and swallow the Red Pill of
> coding closer to the machine.  If you are already a programmer, you don't
> need to be taught how to program, and your google-fu is strong for looking
> up detailed syntax.  Instead, this will be a crash course in leveraging
> skills you learned in a high-level environment and transferring them to
> these low-level tools, acquiring some new skills you simply never needed
> before, and a building a mental picture of where the road to expert,
> idiomatic mastery lies.  We will focus on plain C because C++ is too
> complex to cover well in a single talk, but much of the material will
> apply directly to C++.  Perhaps surprisingly, some of  it will even make
> you a better programmer in your favorite comfortable,  higher-level
> language."
>
>
> We congregate at 7pm.  There will be pizza.  We usually start with
> announcements and Linux in the News around 7:45pm.  Usually, we try to
> leave OpenX by 9:30pm and usually end up back at Du-Pars for dessert and
> more talking.
>
> Lan
>
>