Happiness is an Engineering Driven Culture

UNIX/Mac programmer, author, and google employee, Mark Dalrymple, came down from Pittsburgh last week to speak at our general meeting. His talk was phenomenal -- covered topics from the fabled Google 20% time to things he wished he would have payed attention to early on. Most importantly, to put all of our code in version control if it grows larger than 100 lines!!

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 by abutcher

LOUD Platform LOUD Fest drew in a few guests but not really that many. If anyone is interested in checking out the development portal, please see the link below:

LOUD Platform Project

The development portal tells you anything you need to know to get LOUD running at home and also has guides for setting up LCSEE Repositories as well as for making your first Debian package. Highly recommended.

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 by abutcher

WVU ACM Listserv We have a listserv! The club had one back in 2007, I think, but it has since been closed, so I opened one up with the college.

Details and what you need to know:
- Firstly, the address is wvu_acm@listserv.wvu.edu (case insensitive)
- Before you sign up, please realize that the list is completely open (in the free way) to ALL members of the list. This means that anyone on the list can post to the list, but don't fret! There are multiple ways to get mail from the listserv; you can sign up for a daily digest if you you'd rather not be spammed with tons of emails. But, that's not the vision I have for the list and I hope everyone keeps it clean. I don't want to have to moderate it like a big dictator. I will primarily be using the list for meeting announcements and followup material.
- Also, the list is archived online if you'd rather not get the emails at all and just check it there...
- The subscriber list is hidden, so you're completely safe. Go ahead, sigh it out.
- Dr. Menzies and I have ultimate control of the list. So, if we don't like the configuration it's simple to change.
So, I encourage you to sign up and please be responsible.

To sign up, go to this link: http://listserv.wvu.edu & simply create an account, find the list (hint: at the bottom), and then subscribe (note: you have to confirm the subscription).

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 by abutcher

GIT Lecture Followup Thanks to everyone who came out to the ACM/FSG Meeting & big thanks to Ricky for presenting! In followup I wanted to provide everyone with a set of boss links to get them going with git:

Lecture Slides, courtesy of Ricky: slides

Where to get git: git scm

Github (free git hosting): github

Pro git (amazing free book, creative commons): progit

Dropbox (share files on different machines): dropbox

Print git branch in bash prompt (be like Ricky): #!/bin/bash

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 by abutcher

Next Meeting Planned for 9/24 The next ACM/FSG meeting will be held on Thursday, Sept. 24th @ 6:30pm in 801ESB. There will be pizza in adequate quantity.

We'll be covering some club business mentioned last time [T-Shirt's & FSG Nominations] and then passing the buck to Ricky Hussmann.

Lecture: Source Control w/ GIT by Ricky Hussmann
GIT is used by many popular organizations to maintain their code base. Several good examples are: The Linux Kernel, Fedora, Digg, GNOME, Ruby on Rails, Samba, Wine... and tons of others. I hope you saw atleast one that you recognize or use; Goes to show how big GIT is becoming and I hope that sparks some interest.

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 by abutcher

First Meeting of the Semester Our first meeting will be held on Thursday, September 10th, 2009 @ 7:00pm in 801 Engineering Sciences Building, on the Evansdale campus.. We'll have the familar pizza and absolutely everyone/anyone is invited.

The lecture is being presented by Jared Crawford and is on "Apple iPhone Development." If you didn't know, Jared made the iWVU iPhone app (officially supported by WVU). It's free in the app store if you want to check it out.

He'll be covering topics such as his background with the iPhone, what you need to get started, the language used (Objective-C), dealing with Apple (App Store, NDA's, Apple Legal) and how to make money as an iPhone dev.

Jared's website: http://jaredcrawford.org

Wed, 9 Sep 2009 by abutcher

ACM @ Freshman Engineerfest We'll be tabling at Freshman Engineerfest this coming Wednesday, September 2nd. This event starts at 6:30pm (ends at 8:30pm) and is located in the NRCCE Buidling on the Evansdale Campus. Come check us out! We'll be announcing our first meeting as well as attempting to gain interest from new Freshman.

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 by abutcher