PSIG 75: Thursday, June 3rd, 2004

When:

Thursday, June 3rd, 2004 @ 7pm

Where:

The NorthWest of Us' office

Schedule:

Show & Tell
We'll start out the meeting by going around the table and talking about what we're currently working on or learning about. Handouts are welcome, or bring along your PowerBook and we'll hook it up to the projector.

Book Reports
Bring along the book you're currently reading, or one of your old favorites. Hopefully the book would have some relevance to programming, but we're fairly open-minded. Just give us an overview the book's topic, and what you liked (or disliked) about it.

Topics
After holding out for many years, Michael Brian Bentley is leaving our little city and heading out to the great Pacific Northwest. Fortunately, he has enough time for one last PSIG, where he'll talk about his current project, VNOS:

As a senior software developer, Mike has been developing VNOS, the Visual Network Operating System, since January 2001. VNOS is an extensible application, written in C that uses messages, intercepts, aspects, and objects to provide a pluggable, scriptable, graphic expression system.

He is pleased to report that 1) the company name changed from Lonewolf Technologies to Singlestep Technologies, 2) the company still exists, which isn't bad considering the marvelous business climate of the last few years, 3) has customers, 4) has made incremental progress regarding the stability and utility of the engine.

VNOS currently is not actively sold as a development tool, but it is used inhouse at Singlestep to provide the essential code and character of another product.

VNOS is used as the core of a product called Unity, which is used in Network Operating Center (NOC) facilities to provide staff with a summary of the state of affairs of large intranets and server farms.

Dinner
If you want pizza, bring along three dollars and we'll all chip in.

Looking for Presenters:

I'm always on the look-out for folks to want to give a talk for a meeting. The talk doesn't need to be long (10 minutes is fine if your topic is small or you just want to tease the group) and you don't need to be an expert (just tell us why you think your topic is cool or your experiences). Toss me an email and I'll assign you a chunk of time.

Tuesday, June 01, 2004
10:06 AM