wellington.geek.nz

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After the Xmas break, we're all set to go for another year of exciting Flash Platform stuff from Adobe. 2010 will be the year of the release of Flex 4, AIR 2.0 and CS5 and there are quite a few interesting things to look into.

We're going to start this process with two 30 min introductory sessions:

- Introduction in Stratus (Ross Phillips)

Stratus: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/stratus/

- The basics of skinning and styling in Flex 4 (Kai Koenig)

Flex 4: http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Download+Flex+4

http://webstock.org.nz

Queens Wharf "Under the Sails

WHERE: Hashigo Zake

Come meet people in relaxed beer-friendly surroundings before the conference proper begins, and/or solidify friendships & contacts you've made during the workshops. Non-Webstock-attendees are welcome, but may feel quite sad that they're missing out.

Thanks to the lovely Dominic at Hashigo Zake there will be great beer specials available on the night, and as always, the all-important free wifi, and perhaps some other treats as well.

I should probably also make it perfectly clear that we're friends & fans of Webstock but not officially affiliated.

http://webstock.org.nz

Equinox House, 5th floor, 111 The Terrace or 222 Lambton Quay

Decision Tables – A useful testing tool and more…

Decision Tables can be used as a technique for software testing. It is a tool to structure any kind of logic and can therefore be used in many different application areas, not just testing, but also for structuring the logic of your code and during other phases of the development life cycle.

http://wellington.thursdaynightcurry.com

http://webstock.org.nz

New Zealand chapter meetings are unique and utilise the video or audio conferencing facilities available between Auckland & Wellington provided by one of our co-sponsors. As a result meetings take place in two cities at the same time.

Due to out of hours security restrictions, you may have to be escorted inside the buildings where the meetings are held. If there is no one at the door on your arrival, please be patient or call one of the appropriate onsite contact numbers below.

When
4th March 2010

Locations

Wellington:
Level 3, Lumley House - Hunter Street

The Wellington Testers is a group that gets together each Saturday mid-morning at a cafe (currently Southern Cross) to drink coffee and test-drive the latest version of the software for the XO.

We keep notes of the things we try, of the things that work well, and of the bugs we find. We post the notes to the development list, including all the things that did work (this makes programmers happy, after all, most of them are volunteers). For the bugs, we try our best to find steps to reproduce, and diagnose them.

Hello Wellington Hackers!

It would be a great shame if the many half-started pet projects of
this city failed to get the love they deserved because of real
priorities. To that end, I think a new Super Happy Dev House is in
order! We'll meet at the usual spot, Southern Cross, on Sunday 7 March
at around noon. Bring along your own ideas, or just come to see what
others have started.

Hope to see you all there!

Cheers,
Evan

Meet other people who work with products from the Adobe Creative Suite, have some drinks and nibbles and watch Brian Tosko-Bello showing us some tips and tricks around Colour & Cross Platforming with Adobe InDesign (and a little bit of Adobe Bridge).

NZPUG Meeting - Thursday 11 March 2010

When: Thursday 11 March 2010, 18.00 - 20:00 approx.

Where: Level 3, Catalyst House, 150 Willis St, Wellington - (map)

Important note about the venue:
The front door is locked after 6pm, but we'll have someone on hand to let folks in after that. If you're running late, send a TXT to Jonathan 021 2952390 when you arrive and we'll fetch you.
Beer and minor snacks will be provided courtesy Catalyst IT, beer and minor snacks department.

Speakers

Art Protin: "Python DB API: Lessons from an instance"

The Wellington Testers is a group that gets together each Saturday mid-morning at a cafe (currently Southern Cross) to drink coffee and test-drive the latest version of the software for the XO.

We keep notes of the things we try, of the things that work well, and of the bugs we find. We post the notes to the development list, including all the things that did work (this makes programmers happy, after all, most of them are volunteers). For the bugs, we try our best to find steps to reproduce, and diagnose them.

http://www.eventfinder.co.nz/2010/mar/wellington/town-hall-talk-neil-gai...

When:Sat 13 Mar, 5:30pm

Where:
Wellington Town Hall, 111 Wakefield St, Wellington Show map
Restrictions:
All Ages
Ticket Information:
General Admission: $25.00
Concession Pass: $22.00
Friend: $22.00
Children 15 and Under: $15.00
Ticketek – 0800 TICKETEK
Booking fees may apply
Website:
www.nzfestival.nzpost.co.nz

VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE

Tuesday 16th March 2010 at 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Cotton 118, VUW
[While not actually required, if you are outside of the University and wish to attend, it would be appreciated if you could rsvp to stuart@ecs.vuw.ac.nz. This will help us judge if our allocated room is big enough. Thanks.]

Software Architecture Knowledge Management
Philippe Kruchten

The Wellington Usability Lunch is on again this week - 12 - 1pm on
Wednesday 17th March.

Usual location, up at Provoke's offices, on level 22 of the State
Tower (1 Willis St).

We had a great suggestion for a topic at the last lunch, which I have
sadly completely forgotten. :-( So if anyone can remember what the
suggested topic is, the lunch will be on that, and if not, we'll have
a chat about comparitive usability testing methods.

As per usual, bring along your lunch, your ideas, your questions and
your experiences!

http://jug.wellington.net.nz/

This talk will briefly summarise experience with the Hardware Transactional Memory (HTM) feature of Sun's multicore processor code named Rock. This experience has demonstrated significant potential in making it easier to construct concurrent data structures that are scalable, efficient, and correct, but also a number of limitations that prevent us from exploiting the full power of HTM. The second half of the talk will focus on the potential of HTM by considering how it can be used to simplify various concurrent algorithms. The goal of this work has been to explore the assumptions needed about an HTM feature in order to exploit it in various contexts. We hope these observations will help guide designers of future HTM features.

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