Comments on: Dork Shorts

By: Douglas Knox

Douglas Knox — Thu, 29 May 2008 20:45:32 +0000

Responding to Adam’s thoughtful suggestion in a comment elsewhere, I would be glad to show the little bit that I know about Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) and about Django. I could also dig out a knotty historical GraphViz diagram to complement Ben’s presentation.

By: Adam Solove

Adam Solove — Tue, 27 May 2008 17:01:47 +0000

Alright, so here is the list we have so far. I’ve tried to put them in a sensible order (languages, formats, fun):

Adam on fun programming languages (ruby, python, lisp)
James on perl and prolog
Ben on DocBook and GraphViz
Patrick on rdf
Jeremy on microformats
Jeanne on SQL
Raymond on mashups
Paula on SketchUp

I think five minutes each, show off something fun and links or recommendations to where to learn more. Should be fun.

By: Raymond Yee

Raymond Yee — Mon, 26 May 2008 14:58:23 +0000

I’d be happy to lead a session on Web 2.0 mashups, specifically data mashups.

By: Marjorie McLellan

Marjorie McLellan — Sat, 24 May 2008 17:42:43 +0000

I am interested in learning about SketchUp and 3D modeling in Google Earth.

By: Jeanne Kramer-Smyth

Jeanne Kramer-Smyth — Sat, 24 May 2008 01:49:56 +0000

Sort of old school – but anyone interested in a SQL basics talk?

By: Jeremy Boggs

Jeremy Boggs — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:39:05 +0000

If anyone’s interestd, I’d could give a brief presentation about Microformats.

By: Patrick Gosetti-Murrayjohn

Patrick Gosetti-Murrayjohn — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:06:10 +0000

This has popped up in other comments, but I could talk about RDF and some of the key vocabularies/ontologies (Friend Of A Friend, Dublin Core, Semantically Interlinked Online Communities, etc.), as well as a bit about the PHP frameworks for working with RDF. (I’m also working on an ontology for describing university courses and the various kinds of resources they use (web sites, texts, hardware, etc. and would love to get feedback.)

And I’d love to hear about Python, DocBook (and TEI, anyone?) and GraphViz.

By: James Smith

James Smith — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:56:22 +0000

I could give a quick intro to Perl and/or Prolog (haven’t used Prolog much, but I should be able to come up with enough stuff to do an intro if no one else volunteers). There’s also LPC and mud programming for which I’m drafting a post.

In the Perl world, I could give a quick intro to Moose, the “new” postmodern Perl object system that I’m using as the basis for my work-related programming.

By: Ben Brumfield

Ben Brumfield — Fri, 23 May 2008 12:25:56 +0000

Do we actually have to wear dork shorts while we’re talking?

I’d be happy to give short intros to DocBook or GraphViz and how to use them as intermediate output formats.

By: Adam Solove

Adam Solove — Fri, 23 May 2008 05:51:02 +0000

No, that would be awesome. It’s certainly a topic I’m interested in and would have no idea where to start with.

By: Paula Petrik

Paula Petrik — Fri, 23 May 2008 03:12:20 +0000

If folks are interested, I could do something on SketchUp and 3D modeling in Google Earth. No quite in the same ballpark as a programming language but useful.