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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.

http://wellington.thursdaynightcurry.com

Old Government Buildings Lecture Theatre 2, Victoria University.

NZCCRI Seminar Series 2010: Fractured Science and the Politics of Climate Change
Speaker: Dr. Barry Smit, Professor of Geography, Canada Research Chair in Global Environmental Change, University of Guelph

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.

From Android to Wave, Google Apps for your company to SEO for your website AND everything in between

Ticket price: $0, maximum spaces 150

Sign up to reserve your space: http://groups.google.com/group/nz-google-barcamp/web/attendee-list

http://www.sharepointusergroup.net.nz/wellington/Lists/Wellington%20Even...

Session Topic: Getting Started with SharePoint Development

Interested in technology, startups and entrepreneurship?

The inaugural Hackers and Founders Wellington meetup, which is happening next Thursday 6.30pm at the Southern Cross (http://www.meetup.com/Hackers-and-Founders-Wellington/calendar/12844965/).

Details about the meetup and group can be found at:

http://www.meetup.com/Hackers-and-Founders-Wellington

"Get together, meet and exchange ideas and stories about technology entrepreneurship. If you are in Wellington, and are interested in starting a tech start-up, or already in one, you should join our meetups.

http://wellington.thursdaynightcurry.com

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.

Small Lecture Theatre, Wellington School of Medicine, 23A Mein St, Newtown

http://www.nzcs.org.nz/events/wellington/117-National_Series_A_Harmoniou...

30 March 2010: 5:30pm - 7:00pm

PowerHouse People
L4, Deloitte House
10 Brandon Street, Wellington

(5:30pm for a 6pm start)

NZCS are proud to kick off the new National ICT Series, beginning with well-known IT Skeptic Rob England presenting on what would appear to be regarded as the utopia of service management, RealITSM...

Free for NZCS members, inexpensive for others.
A Harmonious IT Environment through Realitsm

http://wellington.thursdaynightcurry.com

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.