At Friday's VistA community phone call, Elsie Casugay said that she hadn't received the post about the GT.M Acculturation workshop, so I am reposting this in case it did not go through to everyone. My apologies in advance to anyone for whom this is redundant.
-- Bhaskar On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 11:25, K.S. Bhaskar wrote: > Thanks to the hospitality of Barbara Boykin and Oleen Healthcare, the > GT.M acculturation workshop will be at 9am on Wednesday, October 20 at > the offices of Oleen in Silver Spring, MD > (http://oleen.com/about/directions.html). > > All who are interested are invited to attend. However, please let me > know in advance (offline so that we don't use group bandwidth), so that > Oleen can be prepared for the number of folks who will be there. If you > have already written to me, and I have acknowledged, there is no need to > let me know again, so just show up. > > Please do bring a PC/laptop which is capable of booting off a CD/DVD, > and either a 512MB USB flash drive or a hard drive with a partition of > at least 300-350MB which has a Linux or FAT (but not NTFS) file system, > or whose contents can be overwritten with a Linux or FAT file system. > [If your PC will not boot off a DVD, but can boot off a CD - many laptop > CD writers are unable to read DVD, so please check - please let me know > so that I can make sure that I have a CD for you. Otherwise, I may > bring DVDs.] > > In case you need to reach me in Maryland during the VistA Community > Meeting, my mobile phone number is (610) 620-3355. > > Regards > -- Bhaskar > > On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 11:01, K.S. Bhaskar wrote: > > Although the dialect of M supported by GT.M is as close to the 1995 > > standard as just about any other major implementation of M, M > > programmers using GT.M for the first time often experience culture > > shock, not unlike someone from North America who flies to London for the > > first time ever, rents a car at the airport and hits the streets. This > > is because GT.M is a true compiler, designed to integrate with the > > underlying operating system, and the programming environment is more > > like that of a language like C rather than the programming environment > > of traditional M implementations. Just like driving on the left side of > > the road vs. driving on the right, neither is inherently better, but > > they are different, and a little acculturation can help with the > > transition. > > > > If there is interest and I can find a suitable location, I can plan a > > one day "GT.M for M Programmers" workshop, in conjunction with the VistA > > Community Meeting in suburban Maryland October 21-24 > > (http://worldvista.org/worldvista/calendar/index.html), perhaps on > > Wednesday, October 20. > > > > We would work with VistA on GT.M on Linux (not to worry if you don't > > have Linux on your laptop/PC - just bring a machine that can boot from a > > CD-ROM drive, with either a hard drive with an unused 512MB partition or > > a 512MB USB drive, and we can use the OpenVistA VivA live CD). > > > > Rather than use group bandwidth, please e-mail me directly if you are > > interested (at this time, I am looking for interest, not commitment). > > And before you ask, no, there will not be any charge, > > > > -- Bhaskar *************************************************************************** This electronic mail transmission contains confidential and/or privileged information intended only for the person(s) named. Any use, distribution, copying or disclosure by another person is strictly prohibited. *************************************************************************** NOTE: Ce courriel est destine exclusivement au(x) destinataire(s) mentionne(s) ci-dessus et peut contenir de l'information privilegiee, confidentielle et/ou dispensee de divulgation aux termes des lois applicables. Si vous avez recu ce message par erreur, ou s'il ne vous est pas destine, veuillez le mentionner immediatement a l'expediteur et effacer ce courriel. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
