From matches at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Tue May 1 20:56:44 2012 From: matches at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Sam Moore) Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 20:56:44 +0800 (WST) Subject: [ucc-announce] Quiz Night on Thursday Message-ID: Just another reminder: The Quiz Night is on Thursday, 3rd May, 7:30pm to 11:00pm, in the Guild Tavern. Tickets are running out; UniSFA is sold out, UCC still has some, and Unigames still has some. First in, first seated. If you haven't got tickets, get them fast! Refer to previous email for more details. Thanks, Sam Moore [SZM] UCC Secretary 2012 From oxinabox at ucc.asn.au Sat May 5 09:13:29 2012 From: oxinabox at ucc.asn.au (oxinabox at ucc.asn.au) Date: Sat, 05 May 2012 09:13:29 +0800 Subject: [ucc-announce] TechTalk: Learn You A XML Technologies for Great Good - Reschedualled In-Reply-To: <4F9E1521.9020408@ucc.asn.au> References: <4F9E1521.9020408@ucc.asn.au> Message-ID: Hi all, due to quiz night and 5:00pm being a busy time foreveryone (at least I hope it was due to that, otherwise it's just that nonone loves me...) very few people made it to the TechTalk on Thursday, So we've decided to reschedual for 6:00PM this Thursday (10th May). I hope to see more than 2 people this time. Frames UCC OCM, Tech Talk Guy On 30.04.2012 04:29, Frames wrote: > Hi all, > A reminder letting you know that UCC is running a Tech Talk this > Thursday at 5:00pm. > (before the quiz night) > The talk is on XML and XSLT. > XML is actually everywhere. > Most software developers, see it everyday. > Whether or not XML is a good thing (we will talk about this at the > end), > you will have to deal with it. > So come down, and learn now. > Last I checked the university didn't have a unit covering this. > (they may have one now with the new courses). > > The talk will go for somewhere around an hour, maybe a bit more, or > less, > and is being presented by myself. > > WHAT TO BRING: your text editor of choice, and a XML and XSLT > processor. > All club machines have these, if you want to bring your own, I > suggest libxml for Linux and Visual Studio for windows. In a pinch > you > can use a simple text editor (eg notepad) and a web-browser (eg > firefox) > WHEN: Thursday 5:00pm - 6:00pm > WHO: anyone who ever plans develop software, or webpages, or vector > images or ... > > My slides and examples are online, > http://oxinabox.ucc.asn.au/TechTalks/Xml/ [2] > These are just a draft, but feel free to glance over them. > We will be going though them fairly quickly. > > This is also letting you know that all clubroom machines will be > booted into Linux, > and people attending the talk will have priority on use. > > Frames > UCC OCM > Tech Talk Organiser > > > > Links: > ------ > [1] http://oxinabox.ucc.asn.au/TechTalks/Xml/ From tpg at ucc.asn.au Mon May 14 20:59:36 2012 From: tpg at ucc.asn.au (John Hodge) Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 20:59:36 +0800 Subject: [ucc-announce] Notice of Special General Meeting - 1PM Tuesday, May 29 Message-ID: <4FB101B8.2010608@ucc.asn.au> Dear Members, Since our secretary has resigned from his position, the University Computer Club Inc. will be holding a Special General Meeting on Tuesday the 29th of May at 1PM to elect a new Secretary. The venue is yet to be confirmed, so unless otherwise noted please come to the clubroom. -- John Hodge [TPG] UCC President 2012 From danielax at gmail.com Wed May 16 19:50:10 2012 From: danielax at gmail.com (Daniel Axtens) Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 19:50:10 +0800 Subject: [ucc-announce] Murphy's Lore Writers Night: Tomorrow (Thursday) Message-ID: Hi all, The long awaited writers night for Murphy's Lore is tomorrow (Thursday). It is at UCC, from 6:45PM-ish. Committee is shouting pizza for people who are actually doing writing and not just gaming. Just as a reminder, the following people and some others have been volunteered to write stuff: >> [TPG]: President's welcome >> [SZM]: Writing your own programming language >> [TPG]: CPU design >> [DJA]: The iiNet decision (or something similar) >> [BOB]: Doing electronics at UCC (He's already agreed, kinda!) >> [MRD]: How not to run a hypothetical university network/something UWA >> related. (He's already agreed!) >> [SLX]: OpenGL/GLUT/DirectX/whatever, and why it does/does not suck OR >> something about porting Cmdr Keen or Multiwinia or something >> [ASH]: ??? Something interesting. [Lecture Links?] >> [DAA]: eHealth? IPv6? >> [TRS]: TRS-80's List of Entertaining Sites. >> wheel: doing X at UCC, where X is whatever service we offer that you feel is >> insufficiently well known. (e.g. OpenID, mtn hosting) Yours, [DJA] From oxinabox at ucc.asn.au Thu May 17 11:37:44 2012 From: oxinabox at ucc.asn.au (oxinabox at ucc.asn.au) Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 11:37:44 +0800 Subject: [ucc-announce] Tech Talk: "Python Is Great; and if you don't think so you must be stupid" Message-ID: Hi All, Get excited about the next tech talk, this coming Thursday (May 24th), at 5:45pm. (It would be helpful if you let me know if your going to be late) It's about Python, and how it is (potentially) as great as David Adam thinks it is. Learning python is a pretty good idea. It's a high level language, (unlike C), and it isn't terrible at being a high level language(unlike Java). It draws heavily from many paradigms, allowing you to bring the correct tools to bare on any problem. It is also weakly typed, and so it terrible. in all seriousness, I can not encourage people to come to this enough. Especially first years, and even more so, people who have managed to get beyond there first year without being exposed to Python. This is also informing all members that the Techtalk takes priority on clubroom resources, and you may be kicked off machines, have sound turned off, etc. Frames UCC OCM -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Python tech talk Date: 16.05.2012 14:58 From: David Adam To: Lyndon White Hi Frames My talk is titled "Python Is Great; and if you don't think so you must be stupid" Abstract: A brief overview of the philosophy of the Python programming language, and how you can use Python to stop "programming" and start solving common problems with useful tools. If you have never used Python or are just getting to grips with it, you will learn something. If you are an experience Pythonista, come along and help me answer questions. Basic programming experience will be assumed, although honestly you don't need any to understand Python. (Just make sure you laugh when everyone else does and you'll be fine.) David Adam UCC Wheel Member zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au