Re: Tacoma Narrows bridge (was: MySQL v. PostgreSQL ...)
The twin for the Tacoma Narrows bridge is not that far down the road, in Deer Isle Maine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deer_Isle,_Maine What? How did I grow up in Maine and not know that? My HS Physics instructor is highly negligent in not mentioning that when he showed us Galloping Gertie's Super8 /p/r/0/n/ educational film. http://maps.google.com/maps?t=hq=44.293568,-68.68897spn=0.009231,0.015063z=16 Someone has taken topomap index db and made a nice advertising portal http://www.lat-long.com/ShowDetail-6363-Maine-Deer_Island_Bridge.html to find the lat lon above. Neat. I'll use this for finding public buildings and parks for my mapping site (http://ema.arrl.org/fd/) next year. This is so near Arcadia/Mt.Dessert/Bar Harbor and the lovely new bridge (Stay-cabled like Boston's) at Verona http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8q=44.569406,-68.788276z=17t=h and the fort http://www.lat-long.com/ShowDetail-8821-Maine-Fort_Knox_State_Historic_Site.html http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8q=44.56508,-68.801708z=17t=h that I feel a road trip is in order ... -- Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Tacoma Narrows bridge (was: MySQL v. PostgreSQL ...)
On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 09:52:30 -0400 Bill Ricker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is so near Arcadia/Mt.Dessert/Bar Harbor and the lovely new bridge (Stay-cabled like Boston's) at Verona Went over both in June and have gone by the new one several times while they were building it. The bridge near Fort Knox is stunning. Very beautiful setting and you can go up one of the towers as it has an observation area at the top. The sister to the Tacoma Bridge at Deer Isle was being worked on this summer. It is a bit narrow and has a modest load limit as I recall. -- Ed Lawson Ham Callsign: K1VP PGP Key ID: 1591EAD3 PGP Key Fingerprint: 79A1 CDC3 EF3D 7F93 1D28 2D42 58E4 2287 1591 EAD3 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
[GNHLUG] DLSLUG: Tomorrow - Usable Web Applications with Rails and AJAX
[please RSVP as we have a real live refreshment sponsor this month!] *** Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group http://dlslug.org/ a chapter of GNHLUG - http://gnhlug.org *** The next regular monthly meeting of the DLSLUG will be held: Thursday, August 2nd, 7-9PM at: Dartmouth College, Carson Hall, Room L01 All are welcome, free of charge. Agenda 7:00 Sign-in, networking 7:15 Introductory remarks 7:20 Usable Web Applications with Rails and AJAX presented by William Henderson-Frost Will will present Greenout!, a new web application that's focused on usability and developed on the Ruby on Rails platform using AJAX techniques, the Prototype library, and plenty of custom code. He'll describe the process of developing a web application with Ruby on Rails, the challenges of writing an AJAX application, and some of the tips and techniques he's developed along the way. Will is a Senior at Dartmouth College, majoring in Computer Science, and a Hanover native. He enjoys good programming languages, like Ruby. 8:50 Roundtable Exchange - where the attendees can make announcements or ask a linux question of the group. Please see the website for links to directions. If any area companies are interested in sponsoring refreshments, please let me know. Please RSVP so we can give a theoretical refreshment sponsor a headcount. - MAILING LISTS There are two primary mailman lists set up for DLSLUG, an Announce list and a Discuss list. Please sign up for the Announce list (moderated, low-volume) to stay apprised of the group's activities and the Discuss list (unmoderated) for group discussion. Links to the mailing lists are on the webpage. Please pass this announcement along to anyone else who may be interested. - Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC Home: 603.448.1668 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 603.252.2606 http://www.bfccomputing.com/Page: 603.442.1833 Blog: http://blog.bfccomputing.com/ VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: [GNHLUG] DLSLUG: Tomorrow - Usable Web Applications with Rails and AJAX
On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 16:24 -0400, Bill McGonigle wrote: [please RSVP as we have a real live refreshment sponsor this month!] I'll see you there. -- Lloyd Kvam Venix Corp ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
RE: [GNHLUG] DLSLUG: Tomorrow - Usable Web Applications with Rails andAJAX
Is this presentation going to be records or released at all? I can't make the trip, but I'm interested. Patrick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill McGonigle Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 4:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [GNHLUG] DLSLUG: Tomorrow - Usable Web Applications with Rails andAJAX [please RSVP as we have a real live refreshment sponsor this month!] *** Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group http://dlslug.org/ a chapter of GNHLUG - http://gnhlug.org *** The next regular monthly meeting of the DLSLUG will be held: Thursday, August 2nd, 7-9PM at: Dartmouth College, Carson Hall, Room L01 All are welcome, free of charge. Agenda 7:00 Sign-in, networking 7:15 Introductory remarks 7:20 Usable Web Applications with Rails and AJAX presented by William Henderson-Frost Will will present Greenout!, a new web application that's focused on usability and developed on the Ruby on Rails platform using AJAX techniques, the Prototype library, and plenty of custom code. He'll describe the process of developing a web application with Ruby on Rails, the challenges of writing an AJAX application, and some of the tips and techniques he's developed along the way. Will is a Senior at Dartmouth College, majoring in Computer Science, and a Hanover native. He enjoys good programming languages, like Ruby. 8:50 Roundtable Exchange - where the attendees can make announcements or ask a linux question of the group. Please see the website for links to directions. If any area companies are interested in sponsoring refreshments, please let me know. Please RSVP so we can give a theoretical refreshment sponsor a headcount. - MAILING LISTS There are two primary mailman lists set up for DLSLUG, an Announce list and a Discuss list. Please sign up for the Announce list (moderated, low-volume) to stay apprised of the group's activities and the Discuss list (unmoderated) for group discussion. Links to the mailing lists are on the webpage. Please pass this announcement along to anyone else who may be interested. - Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC Home: 603.448.1668 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 603.252.2606 http://www.bfccomputing.com/Page: 603.442.1833 Blog: http://blog.bfccomputing.com/ VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: MySQL v. PostgreSQL, continued, was: Microsoft Access - two questions
On Jul 31, 2007, at 13:17, Ben Scott wrote: I'm gonna have to start putting a Please read I think everybody reads at least part of your messages before replying - what do you mean, exactly? -Bill - Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC Home: 603.448.1668 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 603.252.2606 http://www.bfccomputing.com/Page: 603.442.1833 Blog: http://blog.bfccomputing.com/ VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: [GNHLUG] DLSLUG: Tomorrow - Usable Web Applications with Rails andAJAX
On Aug 1, 2007, at 18:00, Flaherty, Patrick wrote: Is this presentation going to be records or released at all? I can't make the trip, but I'm interested. Lots of the talk is about user interface design, and onscreen demos, code walk-throughs, etc., so does it make any sense to record some audio, since the 'podcast' edition won't be given much consideration (as in clarifying what's on the screen, etc.)? A professional presenter might think to do that, but that's not our m.o.. I did a video recording of a meeting once (~2 hours). It took something like 10 hours to edit, balance, normalize, gamma-adjust, figure out compression settings, upload, burn to DVD, etc. and then maybe 4 people took a look at at least part of the video, and the quality was still only mediocre. Statistically, everybody who was interested drove up to the meeting. I'm not saying we shouldn't do it, but that we need to recognize that such things are real work (volunteers are welcome) and that it has to be worth doing. People who know what they're doing are also welcome - maybe there are easier ways to accomplish the same ends, but I doubt we're going to see a professional camera operator with real lighting and RE20 mics at a LUG meeting anytime soon. It would be cool if there was a technology solution, but I'm not aware of any. -Bill - Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC Home: 603.448.1668 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 603.252.2606 http://www.bfccomputing.com/Page: 603.442.1833 Blog: http://blog.bfccomputing.com/ VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
