Myles Braithwaite

D-Bus is a relatively new and very flexible system for IPC being used by many popular applications in the OSS family. It is used by Gnome to listen to HAL for hardware changes, by Pidgen and Skype for connection information and more.
The talk will cover an introduction to D-Bus and will use Perl and it’s Net::DBus to show example usage and code where needed. Examples will be given on building methods for export on the D-Bus message bus, message broadcasting and retrieval, using existing and dedicated message buses and more.

Part 1 – This talk highlights XSLT 2/XPath 2, but will also touch briefly on Xquery, XForms, SVG and the emerging Compound Document Format.
Part 2 – There is a large install base of older but still perfectly good computers that are not Vista capable. Linux could extend the life of these computers. But installing Linux, especially a dual boot configuration can be challenging. How to simplify the process to the point where end users can do it themselves, perhaps with guidance?
Some of the challenges – effectively capturing the hardware configuration information required to plan the install – automatically validating the hardware as much as possible, such as a memory test – hard drive backup prior to partioning
Possible solutions – custom live CD – external HDD for backup
If we have time for it we will have a 30 Minute brainstorming session on this topic, either in the room or at the GSU over beer.

I am going to be presenting Web Frameworks at TLUG.

Bring blankets, BBQables, games, laptops and friends.
Mark it on your calendar and change your summer vacation plans.

Looking up from todays computer screens, Scott Sullivan will provide his take on what’s up ahead for Human Interface and what paradigms to watch your footing on as they shift. He’ll talk about the new types of hardware and ways in which folks are taking advantage of it in new and different ways, with some demo’s.