Tech Talks
Short Talks on Useful Tools and Techniques
An important part of this course is students helping other students build their skill sets. We will be doing this by means of short (roughly half hour) talks on tools or techniques. These can be simple, such as using grep to search source code, or how to understand a config file, or complex. Remember that part of your grade is based on participation, and Participation Points can be earned by giving tech talks.
Use the space below to sign up for a talk, giving your name and your topic.
Tech Talk Ideas
The following list are some possible topics for tech talks. These are prettry general topics and probably need to be narrowed down, but hopefully they help.
Ajax -- how to code in Ajax, what it is useful for
Eclipse -- how to do things in eclipse that were hard the first time,or confusing
Python -- What python is, why it is useful, how to use it
Skype -- Talk about how to use this, and what it does
Talks on date
Thursday, Jan 18
How to use Screen (goes in hand with irc) - Jose Cedeno - Notes: screen_commands
How to use IRC - Jose Cedeno - Notes: irssi_commands
The Open Source Triple Play - Michael Clay
How to search Sourceforge.net - Eric Searcy
An example patch submission - Eric Searcy
Interacting with Open Source communities - Michael Marineau
Tuesday, Jan 23
Building a website using Drupal - Edward Buchanan
Handling Mass Email, and Proper Netiquette on Mailing Lists - Justin Gallardo
Semi-Advanced Vim Usage - Michael Goodman
Tuesday, Jan 30
Patchwork Quilt: How to Manage Patches- Brandon Philips
Filtering class mailing list emails - Edward Lim
Creating a fast and easy Subversion Repository - Adam Young
Single document creation using PDFCreator - Jordan Jones
Thursday, Feb 8
Using Ajax - Heather Lonsdale
Using Wine to fill the Windows Gap (Games as well) - Bradley Morgan
Using Radmind to maintain a software build - Garrett Vogenbeck
OSS Development Environment for Windows - Brandon Philips
Thursday, Feb 22
Presentation Pointers - Anju Prakash
Using open source groupware (examples: open-xchange, zimbra,Funambol) - Samuel Rivera
Introduction to choosing a Linux distribution for your Desktop needs.- Abdullah Hamed
Introduction to Lynx, a text-based browser for the visually impaired.- Adulfo Soto
Tuesday, March 6th
Ruby and Rails and setting up a Dev environment - Dan Di Spaltro
Eclipse/Eclipse Addon usage on Linux William Hughes
Tuesday, March 13th
Chartdirector Component - Gregorio Diaz-Guzman
Google Summer of Code - Matt Altemus
Thursday, March 15th
Conferences: sponsorship, travel, bar tabs - Alexander Polvi
Introduction to cscope - James Simshaw
What you might not know about Spyware - Matt Altemus