[Haifux] Me Volunteering to Give a Presentation

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi Tal!

On Sunday 06 September 2009 12:55:03 Tal Abir wrote:
> Hi,
> I would love to hear about jquery.

OK, that's one vote for jQuery. :-)

> Have you used their GUI platform as well? (http://jqueryui.com/)
> 

I've used some stuff from there (or its plugins) in CPANHQ:

http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/projects/CPANHQ/screenshots/

It worked very well, but we have yet to make it look native to the page. 
Shouldn't be hard with a little CSS, but I am a lazy leech.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

> Thanks,
> Tal.
> 
> On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Shlomi Fish <shlomif at iglu.org.il> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > due to the lack of recent volunteer presenters in the open-source clubs,
> > I decided to step forward and volunteer to give a presentation. The usual
> > caveat
> > is that I tend to give pretty bad presentations: I don't have good
> > diction, tend to create bad slides (though I'll try to spice them with
> > some images, and
> > good presentation advice -
> > http://perl.net.au/wiki/Resources_for_Presenters -
> > etc.)
> >
> > In any case I can give a talk about:
> >
> > 1. CMake - http://www.cmake.org/ - the opossum alternative to the GNU
> > Autotools (a.k.a GNU Autohell). I gave a presentation about GNU Autotools
> > before, which I knew were very bad, but has since then reached nirvana
> > with CMake.
> >
> > 2. jQuery - portable and concise JavaScript - http://jquery.com/ - jQuery
> > is
> > the "write less - do more" JavaScript library, which abstracts most
> > common JavaScript tasks in a succinct interface, which greatly speeds up
> > and facilitates the coding. My approach to this will be to give several
> > jQuery examples, and explain how and why they work.
> >
> > 3. "Bottom-up Subversion" - an introduction to
> > http://subversion.tigris.org/
> > in a bottom-up fashion, as a complementary to the svnbook -
> > http://svnbook.red-bean.com/ .
> >
> > 4. Anything from here - http://www.shlomifish.org/lecture/ . I may need
> > to update some of these presentations.
> >
> > 5. I can also adapt a lot of stuff from here -
> > http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/ (should have been /essays/ or
> > /articles/
> > or something - yet another historical URL on my site) to presentations.
> >
> > 6. I've been working on the fifth installment of my Perl-for-Newbies
> > presentation:
> >
> > http://www.shlomifish.org/lecture/Perl/Newbies/lecture5/
> >
> > My Perl-for-Newbies presentations did not prove very popular when I gave
> > them
> > one after the other to Telux, but I can give this separately.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >        Shlomi Fish
> >
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