Hi, This sometimes feels like hearing the answers to a pub quiz where we couldn't quite get the points at the time...
The other language from Google that started with `A' and came along about the same time as https://www.dartlang.org/ is https://angularjs.org/ There were some fans of the Go language present. https://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/GoUsers shows some of the firms using it; it's not just Google. Andrew Bonello's tweet-curator for your Twitter feed, written in Go, is http://qureet.com. It emails you a daily digest of interesting tweets from your feed and learns from your feedback on what you liked and disliked to improve its choice. Andrew brought along his HP Chromebook 14 which was still running Chrome OS but Crouton had been used to put an XFCE-based userspace in a chroot. Just one Linux kernel, but you can switch between Chrome OS and XFCE with a key combination. http://www.google.com/intl/en_uk/chrome/devices/hp-14-chromebook.html http://amzn.to/1zXHXvj https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chroot Barclays challenges US 'dark pool' fraud case -- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-28465825 gov.uk is moving towards allowing third-party authentication providers, e.g. the Post Office, rather than posting out usernames and passwords itself. Facebook built an autoloader for Blu-ray discs as archive data storage. (I couldn't recall the media at the pub.) http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/facebook-uses-10000-blu-ray-discs-to-create-petabytes-of-cold-storage/ http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/why-facebook-thinks-blu-ray-discs-are-perfect-for-the-data-center/ Google's Dataflow moves on from map/reduce. http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/sneak-peek-google-cloud-dataflow-a-cloud-native-data-processing-service.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MapReduce Python 2 used backticks as an shorthand for repr(). Dropped by Python 3. 2to3 converts lots of Python 2 to valid 3, including that, and also many cases of map() which in 3 returns an iterator rather than 2's list. Here's its fix_map.py. http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Lib/lib2to3/fixes/fix_map.py?revision=76062&view=markup#l1 These sources of online courses were mentioned. https://www.coursera.org/ https://www.udacity.com/ Some crazy fools are only trying to write a specification for that most warty of languages, PHP. I'm still trying to get it corrected WRT $a = ""; $a[] = "y"; giving array(0 => "y"); https://github.com/php/php-langspec/blob/master/spec/00-specification-for-php.md https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=67750 http://3v4l.org/ is a handy site to see how a bit of PHP runs in the many versions that exist. Think there were fifteen(!) of us? In roughly the order around the room: Terry, Andrew, Victor, Tim, Natalie, Peter, Christopher, Ralph, John, Mark, Jimmy, Paul, Charles, Clive, Clive's grandson. Did I miss anyone? Quite a few of us are on Twitter. I've knocked up a list. Again, let me know if someone's missing. https://twitter.com/RalphCorderoy/dorset-lug/members Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-09-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:[email protected] How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
