On Saturday 24th June we have another meeting starting at 13:00....
We will be meeting in the New Cavendish Street campus of Westminster University. This is in the shadow of the BT Tower, the nearest tube stations are Great Portland Street, Warren Street and Goodge Street. You will find a map at [
http://www.wmin.ac.uk/cavendish/Map.htm ] or via [
www.streetmap.co.uk ].
Download the directions in PDF format
NOTE: you will need to sign in at the front desk to gain access to the building.
This event is FREE to members and non-members alike, if you want to join GLLUG, sign on to the gllug-announce mailing list, detailed on the
Online page.
SCHEDULE
We have three speakers arranged for this meeting:
Dave Cross
Dave Cross runs
Magnum Solutions Ltd, a London-based Open Source
consultancy. He is the author of "
Data Munging with Perl" and a
co-author of "
Perl Template Toolkit".
His talk is entitled "What's Wrong with ORM?"
MVC frameworks are really cool at the moment. And an important part of
an MVC framework is the model. And that means that Object Relational
Mapping (ORM) is really cool at the moment.
But most current ORM systems leave a lot to be desired. In this talk
we'll take a look at the state of the ORM marketplace - largely in
Perl but we'll touch on other languages too - and make some
suggestions on how they can be improved.
There may well be some incidental ranting on database metadata and the
people who don't use it properly.
George Wright
George Wright is a
KDE developer currently enrolled in the
Google Summer of Code 2006 programme to work on fixing and rewriting the
KDE client and independent client library backend for the NX Terminal Server.
His talk is on the
No Machine NX Server and the kNX client project.
Huw Lynes
Most people will know
Huw Lynes from the years he spent as a System
Administrator at
The Moving Picture Company in Soho. He is currently
working as the Grid Technology Specialist (read sysadmin with a stupid
title) at the Welsh eScience Centre at
Cardiff University.
He will be giving a brief overview of Grid Computing, what it is, what it
isn't and why you should care.
