PLUG Meeting for June 13th
This month we
have 2 presentations lined up
For more info, Meeting time and location see:
Bill Lindley: Control The World (or
whatever you want) With Linux and a Raspberry Pi
Description:
We will see how a $35 Raspberry Pi (or even the $9 version), a
breadboard and a bit of circuitry connected to the SPI and I2C buses
can control pretty much anything: a thermostat; a "self driving"
model car; or a clock-radio that also displays software build
progress and your corporate network uptime status.
Biography:
Mr. Lindley has been in the computer industry since he sold his
first program (a printer driver for Heathkit HDOS) in 1980. He has
used system from the earliest 8-bit microprocessors, through the
PDP-11 and VAX, up to IBM mainframes, and has managed to write
programs that did not crash on most of them. Mr. Lindley has been a
GNU/Linux user since 1992 and has been free of proprietary software
since 2001. Most recently he has been pleased to be an adjunct
professor at Mesa Community College.
Rajendran Rathinasabapathy: In the crossroads of Agility,
Microservices and Cloud computing
Description:
Being a project manager for a while evolving along with the
evolution in the IT landscape of agility, microservices and cloud
computer, I see a pattern in the painful ordeal teams go through,
especially when collaboration is needed more than ever to build
systems. The topic is very relevant when highly individualistic
opensource programmers work together. In this presentation, as the
subject is vast, I layout a list of critical blind spots and
pitfalls the teams can avoid while designing and developing larger
applications.
Biography:
Working in IT for the past 20 years from being a developer to a
portfolio manager. Currently involved in strategizing CI/CD for a
sub-domain in info security. with varied tech stacks. I am a
proponent of microservices and also a scrum master. In my free time,
I learn to make digital an analogue circuits. I teach programming
and robotics to kids and I am learning Jiu-Jitsu :-)
The meeting will start at 7pm at The Desert Breeze Substation.
People start arriving as early as 6pm, so if you would like to help
setup and/or chat for a while, arrive a little early.
We will go for food (usually to BJs at the Chandler Fashion
Center Mall) after the meeting so we can chat with each other
comfortably. Please feel free to join us. Please come even if you
aren't hungry, the food is not mandatory.
See you there,
Brian Cluff