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Baypiggies Meeting August 14th
Topic: Newbie Nugget:Google Apps Speaker: Charles Merriam Topic: Scons Speaker: Steven Knight
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Aug 14, 2008 from 05:30 PM to 09:00 PM |
| Where | Google 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mtn View, 94043 Seville Rm which is in bldg 40 |
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7:30 pm: General hubbub, inventory end-of-meeting announcements, any first-minute announcements.
7:35 - 8:40 pm: Technical Program
Topic: Newbie Nugget:Google Apps
Speaker: Charles Merriam
About the talk:
The Google App Engine: Magic Cars versus Taxis
A look at what the Google App Engine delivers and how it fits into
theecosystem; getting up andd running; the process of writing an
application, GQL code; and some analogies
Topic: Scons
Speaker: Steven Knight
About the talk:
SCons is a next-generation software build tool (that is, a replacement for Make) written in Python, with build configuration written as a Python API. Since the SCons Project was founded in 2001, it's grown into a successful project with about 7000 downloads / month and an especially strong following among software developers and build engineers working on large-scale, enterprise-quality software projects, including production use at VMware, Intel, Oracle, id Software, and Google.
This talk will give a summary of the history and growth of the
SCons project and an overview of SCons configuration. It will also
discuss some of the more interesting aspects of SCons as a Python-based
project, including why (and how) SCons still runs on Python 1.5.2, its
rather distinctive approach to stringent software testing, and some of
its ad-hoc solutions to the problem of trying to ship a stand-alone
application that happens to be written in Python (as opposed to the
distutils-installed-module model of most Python software). The talk
will also include some frank discussion of SCons' limitations and
problem areas, and what you (yes, you!) can do to help.
About the speaker:
Steven Knight has been a software
engineer, executive, and would-be entrepreneur for more than 25 years
at companies such as Cray Research, The MathWorks, and more
networking-related startups than he can unashamedly admit. He founded
the SCons Project in 2001 after its design won the Software Carpentry
build tool competition the previous year. He recently transplanted to
the Bay Area to work on software build issues for Google.
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.
