[committee] Tech Talks

[Jeremy Cole]

I now expect dancing...

On 14/03/2012, at 11:06 AM, Matt Didcoe wrote:

> [MTL] has a talk on fibre optics prepared I believe and I've been
> pondering a talk on the NBN (more on the infrastructure side).
> 
> We're also pondering an interpretive dance performance* showing how
> the University cabling system works (from AARNET to your computer in
> the lab or at UCC).
> 
> - [MRD]
> 
> * May or may not actually be interpretive dance
> 
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Frames <oxinabox at ucc.asn.au> wrote:
>> 
>> So apparently Tech Talks are something members want to see.
>> So here is a list of things I'm happy to run Tech Talks on.
>> I have * ones that could be presented as a workshop kinda deal where
>> everyone has PC's.
>> I have ** ones that could only be presented in such a format.
>> 
>> Agile Methodology and Practices - What is it? Pair Programming and Card
>> Walls
>> 
>> C# (Option A - For people who don't know programming) - Basics of
>> programming *
>> C# (Option B - For people who can read C++ or Java) - Properties, Delegates
>> (inc Lambda functions), LINQ (to Objects) and Extention methods
>> WPF and XAML (prereq C# opt B or equiv) - Microsoft's "new" GUI framework  *
>> 
>> F# - with the context of using it with the HtmlAgilityPack for webscraping *
>> an XML and XSLT primer **
>> 
>> Learn to Play Dwarf Fortress **
>> 
>> These are the things that come to mind.
>> Frames
>> OCM 2012