Our next meeting has been scheduled for Thursday, February 8. We’ll be meeting up at Panera Bread for 7:00 pm. We hope to see you there!

A couple of interesting bits of software were mentioned at the last meeting. I have tracked a couple of them down.

• RapidWeaver - This is Macintosh package for creating websites. It’s pretty nice looking and has a lot of themes. Kind of like iWeb, but less crap.
• Mutt - It’s a very popular console-based mail reader. There are a lot of patches and plug-ins to get it to work in almost any enviroment, and it has nice IMAP support. It’s in Cygwin for Windows users and it’s also in MacPorts for easy set it up on your Mac.

There were many others, but these were the two that stuck with me.

We have another meeting coming up this week on the 22nd. We’ll be meeting at our usual place, Panera Bread in Hadley at 7:00 pm. Stop by for some coffee or a sandwich and some IT chatter.

I mentioned that there are some super high resolution satelite maps in Google Maps. Here’s the one I was looking at, you can actually see people and cows. It looks like a plane did a fly-over and snapped the photos.

High Resolution Google Map of Africa

They use a simple hack on Google Maps to get the zoom to go past the normal maximum.

Super Mega Zoom Hack for Google Maps

Paul was talking about a website where people compete to implement an algorithm in the most compact code possible. They have a leader board and track your stats, it looks pretty neat.

Code Golf

He also brought up Distributed Version Control Systems, something I’ve been meaning to spend a little more time checking out. Similar to ther VCS systems, but there’s no checking in or out; everyone has their own working copy and they merge into the main repository. It’s an interesting idea: not only can you work online, but you have access to all of the version control repository features all of the time.

Paul was trying out Darcs

Sun is using Mercurial

Linus wrote his own for the Kernel, Git

Paul put some more notes up on his blog with more links to check out.

We have another meeting coming up on Thursday, April 5th. We’ll be gathering at Panera Bread in Hadley for 7:00. Please feel free to join us for some coffee and tech chatter.

Our next meeting is scheduled for April 19th, we’ll be meeting up at Panera Bread at 7:00pm.

Paul suggested to the list that we have the meeting following that at Packard’s in Northampton, that would be the May 3rd meeting. I think it’s a great idea, it’ll be fun to meet somewere else for a change and I like beer. This wouldn’t be a permanent thing, it would just be the May 3rd meeting.

What do you think? Vote on it!

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Update: Our May 3rd meeting will be at Packard’s! Paul has booked us the library room, we’re all set.

Our next meeting is coming up! We’ll be converging on Packard’s in Northampton at 7:00pm on Thursday May 3rd. We will be at the library room, it’s behind the dining area down that hallway towards the bathroom.

Our next meeting is coming up, we’ll be meeting up at our usual spot: Panera Bread in Hadley. We’ll be meeting up toward the back of Panera at 7:00pm.

See you there!

Our next meeting is going to be on Thursday, May 31st. We’ll be meeting up at Panera Bread in Hadley at 7:00pm. We’ll be gathering towards the back of Panera, there tend to be more tables back there.

See you there!

Our next meeting has been scheduled: Thursday June 28th, 7:00pm at Panera Bread in Hadley. Yay!