Melbourne Ruby meetup Thursday night

A reminder that the Melbourne Ruby User Group is meeting on Thursday night (July 26), 6:00 PM, at the usual venue:

ThoughtWorks
Level 11, 155 Queen St
(SMS Mark on 0414 740 489 if you have trouble getting in)

Pizza will be provided, and we’ll head down the road for drinks afterwards. Newcomers always welcome!

Talks for the evening will be:

Pat Allan - Tweaking Rails Code For Performance
Ryan Allen - The Daemons Gem

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Melbourne Adobe User Group Meeting

When? Evening of Thursday
19th July 2007, 6PM to 9PM.

Dual presentation by Brian Chau: Adobe Fireworks CS3 for Flex/Fireworks photo gallery feature.

Use Fireworks as a prototyping tool, not just for html pages but also for Flex applications. Also find out about the useful photo gallery feature of Fireworks.

Brian Chau, System Engineer of Adobe. Dreameaver and Flash certified developer.

Actionscript 3 Basics (Part one of a video tutorial)

Details http://www.cartoonsmart.com/actionscript3_basics.html (Scroll Down). Cartoon Smart is a great resource to have a look at, mostly based around Flash, animation, and Web Design.

Where? Melbourne City

New Horizons Learning Centres Australia. NOTE: This venue has restricted entry requirement after 6.00 PM, please read the meeting venue details for all you need to know.

Go here for more information.

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SAGE-AU Victorian Chapter Meeting - Tuesday 10th July 2007

DATE: Tuesday 10th July 2007

TIME: 7:00 PM till 8:00 PM

VENUE: Ground Floor Tutorial Room, Baillieu Library The University of Melbourne - Parkville

AGENDA: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Security-Enhanced Linux

Luie Matthee from Red Hat will be presenting on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux). Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, released in March 2007, contains more than 1200 components with development spanning over a two year period, so there are a huge number of new features covering a broad range of functionality. This release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux has many features and enhancements related to SELinux which will be covered by Luie.

PRESENTER: Luie Matthee, Red Hat

WEB: See http://www.sage-au.org.au/display/SAGEAU/Victoria for more info.

WHO: SAGE-AU Members, prospective members, and other people involved with system administration.

MENU: A carefully selected range of traditional SysAdmin fare (ie. pizza) is provided free of charge to attendees. Members with special dietary requirements should contact the executive prior to the meeting.

DIRECTIONS: To get to the venue by public transport, catch a University, No
8 (Moreland) or No 1 (East Coburg) tram up Swanston St or the number 19 tram (North Coburg) up Elizabeth St. The tutorial room is at the south end of the ground floor of the Baillieu Library.

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SAGE-AU is pleased to announce the fifteenth annual Australian System Administrators’ conference (SAGE-AU’2007) will be held at the Sebel Parramatta Hotel, Sydney from 23rd to 27th July, 2007.

You can view the technical program by visiting http://www.sage-au.org.au/display/conf/Technical+Program for more information.

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Date: Thursday 12th July 2007
Time: 7.00pm

Address

Hitwise Melbourne
Level 6, 580 St Kilda Rd
Melbourne

Expression Studio Round Up - Dave Glover - 7:15 - 8:00pm

Coinciding with the official release of Silverlight, Microsoft have recently launched a bunch of brand new tools for web development work called Expression Studio, with the express purpose of enabling collaboration between developers and designers in creating standards based websites. Featured in this suite of applications is Expression Web, a web authoring tool with comprehensive support for css and… PHP!

Dave Glover will be coming along to give us the low-down.

Doing Silverlight with PHP - Ben Cornwell - 8:15 - 9:00pm

Silverlight is Microsoft’s offering in world rich-client platforms like Flex and Open Laszlo. Based on XAML, Silverlight provides a framework for creating user interfaces for the web that are standards compliant, great looking and encompass complex animation, audio and video.

Ben’s presentation will provide an introduction to Silverlight and a live demonstration of how to create Silverlight interfaces with PHP and AJAX.

Socialising & Networking - 9:00pm onward

After the meeting we’ll be moving downstairs to the Cartel Bar, for an informal chat over a few cold ones.

Pizza, softdrink, tea, coffee and comfy swivel chairs will be provided with compliments of our major sponsor, Hitwise.

For more information, visit
http://phpmelb.org.

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