Presentations for 2018

Julian Brown presented the results of his look into the Bedrock project. This project builds a distributed database on top of SQLite.

G. Wade Johnson presented his impressions about being a professional Ruby programmer for the last 2.5 years, contrasted with his experience as a Perl programmer.

This month was a pair of presentations. Mark Gardner described building a robot project for a GEMS conference. JD Lightsey followed up with a dive into security flaws in the AWStats program.

G. Wade Johnson demonstrates a simple web application built in both Ruby on Rails and Dancer2 on Perl.

J. D. Lightsey gave a quick overview of the concept of Threat Modeling and demonstrated approaches for doing threat modeling.

Julian Brown described attempting to add a feature to a tool for synchronizing bookmarks. In the process, he learned about ECMAScript 8. This presentation explores what he learned.

Mark Allen decided to cut back on his Twitter use. Since he now needed a new smartphone activity, he turned to DuoLingo and began studying Russian. This lead to the construction of a Perl module to handle declining Russian pronouns, adjectives, and nouns.

Julian Brown explores the usage of the Arangodb NoSQL database as used a website he's working on.

G. Wade Johnson presents the results of some benchmarking of different approaches to parsing short text strings.

Robert Stone presented a comparison between the monolithic style of architecture and a microservices style. He highlighted the benefits of the microservices style to show the advantages of a change.

Todd Rinaldo described the difficulty with testing file-level checks on a system administration tool. He describes the testing and a new module to solve this problem.