May meeting writeup
We met at the Phil pub before leaving in a ragged convoy for the "community flat" at Mark's Sefton Park hi-rise. It's a good space (PROs: kettle, board-room, quiet. CONs: no phone-line for internet access, not in the centre), and we're planning to host future meets there.
We discussed:
- Gated communities and the myth of security.
- Michael Moore
- Software piracy
- Kill Bill 2 (dissenting opinions. And what will they call the sequel?)
- Wi-fi networks, and why TelCos should be running scared.
- why ISPs don't just change your dialup settings but insist on taking over your PC to fill it with all kinds of horrible junk.
(Topical example: Suzanne's incredible hanging BT installation CD).
- Carl's OTA suite of tools to support sales of his Smartphone applications (and more... exciting stuff to write about in detail later)
- single sign on with 3rd party cookies
- and for the sucks rules ometer
- Subversion rocks
- XML Schema sucks
- JFreeChart (Open Source Java charting library)
- building an LJUG PC
In related news, Ian Moss contacted us to let us know that he has set up
nJUG, a JUG for the
North of UK. Sadly, as Ian mailed us the day before the meet, no-one could make it from nJUG, but we're looking forward to meeting them in the future
(our next meet Wed 16th June).
Posted by osfameron at May 20, 2024 12:22 PM
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