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Meeting Schedule

BayPIGgies meetings are held on the 4th Thursday of every month. Meetings are from 7:30 PM - 9 PM at

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Meeting Location

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Symantec Corporation

Symantec Vcafe

350 Ellis Street, Mountain View, CA 94043

Special Notes:

More details and transit and parking information to be updated soon.

Please note: Meetings are no longer Google.

Prior to the meeting, some BayPIGgies gather together for dinner at 6pm somewhere nearby. Discussion about this is handled on the mailing list.

Upcoming Meeting

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

Note: This information is preliminary, more info to be added as it becomes available.

7:30 pm: General hubbub, inventory end-of-meeting announcements, any first-minute announcements.

7:35 - 8:40 pm: Technical Program

Topic: Abstractions

Speaker: Alex Martelli

LINKS:
Abstraction is a powerful servant, but a dangerous master. We code,
design, think, debug ... on a tower of abstractions. Spolsky's Law
tells us that "All abstractions leak". This talk explores why they
leak, why that's often a problem, what to do about it; I also cover
why sometimes abstractions SHOULD "leak", and how best to produce and
consume abstraction layers.

8:40 - 9 pm: Mapping/Random Access

Mapping is a rapid-fire audience announcement of topics the announcer is interested in.

Random Access follows immediately to allow follow up individually on topics of interest.

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