From cjr at grundrisse.org Mon Jan 3 11:21:25 2011 From: cjr at grundrisse.org (Claude Rubinson) Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 13:21:25 -0600 Subject: [buug] Best practices for stderr messages? In-Reply-To: References: <20101213035213.GJ24899@wagner> Message-ID: <20110103192125.GE30667@wagner> On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 07:07:02AM -0800, Karen Hogoboom wrote: > I think it's better to use more words if it's going to save the user time in > fixing their problem. I.e., they could spend more time reading the error > message and then know what to do, or they could read a few ambiguous words > and spend the rest of the day Googling. That's a good point. Unix has a long heritage of concise output, which I've naturally adopted with regard to my stderr output. But clarity might be preferred over brevity. Claude From Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu Mon Jan 17 17:19:53 2011 From: Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu (Michael Paoli) Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 17:19:53 -0800 Subject: [buug] BALUG TOMRROW! Tu 2011-01-18 BALUG meeting Message-ID: <20110117171953.20372p583d96zqgw@webmail.rawbw.com> BALUG TOMRROW! Tu 2011-01-18 BALUG meeting Bay Area Linux User Group (BALUG) meeting Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2011-01-18 Please RSVP if you're planning to come (see further below). For our 2011-01-18 BALUG meeting, at least presently we don't have a specific speaker/presentation lined up for this meeting, but that doesn't prevent us from having interesting and exciting meetings. Sometimes we also manage to secure/confirm a speaker too late for us to announce or fully publicise the speaker (that's happened at least twice in the past five or so years). Got questions, answers, and/or opinions? We typically have some expert(s) and/or relative expert(s) present to cover LINUX and related topic areas. Want to hear some interesting discussions on LINUX and other topics? Show up at the meeting, and feel free to bring an agenda if you wish. Want to help ensure BALUG has speakers/presentations lined up for future meetings? Help refer speakers to us and/or volunteer to be one of the speaker coordinators. Good food, good people, and interesting conversations to be had. So, if you'd like to join us please RSVP to: rsvp at balug.org **Why RSVP??** Well, don't worry we won't turn you away, but the RSVPs really help BALUG and the Four Seas Restaurant plan the meal and meeting, and with sufficient attendance, they also help ensure that we'll be able to eat upstairs in the private banquet room. Meeting Details... 6:30pm Tuesday, January 18th, 2011 2011-01-18 Four Seas Restaurant http://www.fourseasr.com/ 731 Grant Ave. San Francisco, CA 94108 Easy PARKING: Portsmouth Square Garage at 733 Kearny: http://www.sfpsg.com/ Cost: The meetings are always free, but for dinner, for your gift of $13 cash, we give you a gift of dinner - joining us for a yummy family-style Chinese dinner - tax and tip included (your gift also helps in our patronizing the restaurant venue and helping to defray BALUG costs such treating our speakers to dinner). Feedback on our publicity/announcements (e.g. contacts or lists where we should get our information out that we're not presently reaching, or things we should do differently): publicity-feedback at balug.org http://www.balug.org/ From julius.o at drexel.edu Tue Jan 18 17:06:32 2011 From: julius.o at drexel.edu (Julius O) Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:06:32 -0800 Subject: [buug] Dinner RSVP Message-ID: Hello! I'm new to the area and group, and wish to RSVP for dinner tonight at the Four Seas. I will be wearing a blue hoodie and jeans for ID purposes. My background has been in Systems Administration, Networking, and currently in a Business Analyst role working with databases. I'd like to get a small server up and running for dev purposes, and to run pfsense as a perimeter firewall. BSD is my first choice, but have no problems with Linux either. I'd like to focus on one OS and get proficient with it. Thanks, and look forward to meeting everyone tonight! 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Tu 2011-01-18 BALUG meeting > > Bay Area Linux User Group (BALUG) meeting > Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2011-01-18 > > Please RSVP if you're planning to come (see further below). > > For our 2011-01-18 BALUG meeting, at least presently we don't have a > specific speaker/presentation lined up for this meeting, but that > doesn't prevent us from having interesting and exciting meetings. > Sometimes we also manage to secure/confirm a speaker too late for us to > announce or fully publicise the speaker (that's happened at least twice > in the past five or so years). ?Got questions, answers, and/or > opinions? ?We typically have some expert(s) and/or relative expert(s) > present to cover LINUX and related topic areas. ?Want to hear some > interesting discussions on LINUX and other topics? ?Show up at the > meeting, and feel free to bring an agenda if you wish. ?Want to help > ensure BALUG has speakers/presentations lined up for future meetings? > Help refer speakers to us and/or volunteer to be one of the speaker > coordinators. ?Good food, good people, and interesting conversations to > be had. > > So, if you'd like to join us please RSVP to: > > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?rsvp at balug.org > > **Why RSVP??** > > Well, don't worry we won't turn you away, but the RSVPs really help > BALUG and the Four Seas Restaurant plan the meal and meeting, and with > sufficient attendance, they also help ensure that we'll be able to eat > upstairs in the private banquet room. > > Meeting Details... > > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?6:30pm > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Tuesday, January 18th, 2011 2011-01-18 > > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Four Seas Restaurant http://www.fourseasr.com/ > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?731 Grant Ave. > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?San Francisco, CA 94108 > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Easy PARKING: > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Portsmouth Square Garage at 733 Kearny: > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?http://www.sfpsg.com/ > > Cost: The meetings are always free, but for dinner, for your gift of $13 > ? ? ? ? ? ?cash, we give you a gift of dinner - joining us for a yummy > ? ? ? ? ? ?family-style Chinese dinner - tax and tip included (your gift > ? ? ? ? ? ?also helps in our patronizing the restaurant venue and helping > ? ? ? ? ? ?to defray BALUG costs such treating our speakers to dinner). > > Feedback on our publicity/announcements (e.g. contacts or lists where we > should get our information out that we're not presently reaching, or > things we should do differently): publicity-feedback at balug.org > > http://www.balug.org/ > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Buug mailing list > Buug at weak.org > http://www.weak.org/mailman/listinfo/buug > > > End of Buug Digest, Vol 17, Issue 2 > *********************************** > -- Julius O julius.o at drexel.edu From jim at well.com Thu Jan 27 11:16:53 2011 From: jim at well.com (jim) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:16:53 -0800 Subject: [buug] BayPIGgies meeting Tonight, Thursday, January 27, 2011: Introduction to CouchDB Message-ID: <1296155813.1882.45.camel@jim-laptop> BayPIGgies meeting Tonight, Thursday, January 27, 2011: Introduction to CouchDB This meeting's talk is Introduction to CouchDB by Luke Gostlings This talk introduces one 'NoSQL' solution, CouchDB, and how to get it to play well with Python. Topics covered: * Introduction to CouchDB * A python ORM for CouchDB * Parsing CouchDB documents within python * Writing view functions in python * Map/reduce on CouchDB from python * Lessons learned from managing and distributing a live deployment at scale under high load Speaker Bio: Luke Gostlings Luke is a lead engineer at about.me (recently acquired by AOL). His prior positions were in: network security research, online payments, and small company stock offering markets. He has done contract work in the social and on-demand media spaces. He likes to dabble in NoSQL technologies, computer security, and financial markets. He has previously presented at CCCamp, San Francisco Startup Weekend, and RSAConference. http://about.me/luke ......................................... Meetings usually start with a Newbie Nugget, a short discussion of an essential Python feature, especially for those new to Python. Tonight's Newbie Nugget: Using zip() with Django, presented by Vicky Tuite LOCATION Symantec Corporation Symantec Vcafe 350 Ellis Street Mountain View, CA 94043 http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&fb=1&split=1&gl=us&ei=w6i_Sfr6MZmQsQOzlv0v&hl=en&t=h&msa=0&msid=116202735295394761637.00046550c09ff3d96bff1&ll=37.397693,-122.053707&spn=0.002902,0.004828&z=18 BayPIGgies meeting information is available at http://www.baypiggies.net/ ------------------------ Agenda ------------------------ ..... 7:30 PM ........................... General hubbub, inventory end-of-meeting announcements, any first-minute announcements. ..... 7:35 PM to 7:45 PM ................ Tonight's Newbie Nugget: Using zip() with Django, presented by Vicky Tuite ..... 7:45 PM to 8:25 PM (or so) ................ The talk: Introduction to CouchDB ..... 8:25 PM to 8:55 PM (or so) ................ Questions and Answers ..... 8:55 PM to 9:30 PM (or so) ................ 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