September 7th, 2009
The next WYLUG meeting is on Monday the 14th September at Old Broadcasting House. The talk is “LyX, LaTeX and TeX: Producing superior documents” by John R Hudson.
UPDATE: Attached a LyX LaTeX and TeX expanded notes PDF.
The meeting officially starts at 7:00pm, but the room will be open for coffee, tea and chat from 6:30pm. Afterwards, we usually go to The Fenton pub, across the road from OBH, for more geeky chatter.
Location
Old Broadcasting House
148 Woodhouse Lane
Leeds
LS2 9EN
More location details on the OBH contact page or on Open Street Map the road from OBH, for more geeky chatter.
Tags: announce, documents, group, latex, linux, lyx, tex, typesetting, user, WYLUG Stuff
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August 3rd, 2009
August is traditionally the WYLUG social event, so no talks we just meet at the Victoria Hotel pub. We have “Albert’s Room” booked from 6.30pm until closing on Monday the 10th August. Everybody is welcome!
We’re currently looking for sponsorship for food (£7.50 per head for about 15 to 20 people) if anyone would like to volunteer. Otherwise we’ll probably go for a curry at Akhbar’s afterwards. We’ll post an update here if we get sponsorship in time.
Location:
Victoria Hotel
Great George St, Leeds, West Yorkshire LS1 3BB
Tel: 0113 245 1386
Directions:
Tags: beer, bradford, curry, geek, group, leeds, linux, pub, social, user, WYLUG Stuff
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July 7th, 2009
Everything you always wanted to know about virtualisation but were afraid to ask”. It’ll be a brief tour through the systems and networking concepts that a jobbing sysadmin ought to know before thinking about using virtualisation for the first time, and the software options available (though focussing on KVM).
Matthew Bloch is the Managing Director of Bytemark Hosting, a geeky UK hosting company specializing in Linux and virtualisation. His commercial software experience previous to Bytemark was in PC emulation and Java VM implementations, and he continues to work on systems-level code within the company, as well as supervising its day-to-day operations. As yet he has not achieved his ambition of becoming a rock-star games programmer.
The meeting officially starts at 7:00pm, but the room will be open for coffee, tea and chat from 6:30pm. Afterwards, we usually go to The Fenton pub, across the road from OBH, for more geeky chatter.
Location
Old Broadcasting House
148 Woodhouse Lane
Leeds
LS2 9EN
More location details on the OBH contact page or on Open Street Map
Tags: bytemark, kvm, virtualisation
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June 8th, 2009
This month’s talk will be given by Ian Lynch. You may remember that Ian gave us a talk on OpenOffice.org a couple of years ago when he was education lead on the OOo project. Ian is director of new business development at The Learning Machine Ltd (TLM). TLM is an Awarding Body Accredited by Ofqual, DELLS and CCEA, the regulators for qualifications in England Wales and Northern Ireland. TLM is responsible for developing and managing a new and innovative family of qualifications called The INGOTs (International Grades – Open Technologies).
Ian will be talking about the INGOTs qualifications and, no doubt, many of the other things he does to further the goals of free software in the education arena.
The meeting officially starts at 7:00pm, but the room will be open for coffee, tea and chat from 6:00pm. Afterwards, we usually go to the Victoria pub, behind the Town Hall, for more geeky chatter.
Location
Old Broadcasting House
148 Woodhouse Lane
Leeds
LS2 9EN
More location details on the OBH contact page or on Open Street Map
Tags: education, qualification
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April 20th, 2009
Chris Street is unwell today so Smylers has agreed to bring forward his talk from next month to this month.
When MySQL Bites: Quirks to Watch Out For
MySQL is a very popular DBMS. Â Or rather, it’s very widely used, which is not necessarily the same thing. Â It has quite a few quirks, behaviour that many people wouldn’t expect and which if you aren’t aware of can be the cause of much frustration, pain, and data loss.
In the hope that more people being aware of these infelicities will reduce the damage they can do, a collection of them is presented here, along with tips and techniques for dealing with them.
There’s also an examination of why so often the MySQL feature is tantalizingly only available in one version higher than the one you’re running.
For those that dont know, Smylers was a founding member of Wylug, and after a period exiled to London returned to Leeds last year when he persuaded his employer to invent a position for him. Â So he’s now Hosting Analyst for web hosting and domain names provider Webfusion — a job title so vague he
pretty much gets to make it up as he goes along. Â Previously he was Head of Perl Training at GBdirect, where he taught Perl to Yahoo!, Microsoft, Sony, and the Nationwide building society among others, and was the lead developer for top UK IT news website ‘The Register’.
The meeting officially starts at 7:00pm, but the room will be open for coffee, tea and chat from 6:00pm. Afterwards, we usually go to the Victoria pub, behind the Town Hall, for more geeky chatter.
Location
Old Broadcasting House
148 Woodhouse Lane
Leeds
LS2 9EN
More location details on the OBH contact page or on Open Street Map
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April 2nd, 2009
The next talk is Mon 6th April, Andy Davidson on “Dynamic Routing with Open Source toolsâ€.
THIS IS NOT THE USUAL SECOND MONDAY OF THE MONTH AND NOT THE USUAL ROOM, ROOM G05 IS OURS FROM 6-8.30
The meeting officially starts at 7:00pm, but the room will be open for coffee, tea and chat from 6:00pm. Afterwards, we usually go to the Victoria pub, behind the Town Hall, for more geeky chatter.
Location
Old Broadcasting House
148 Woodhouse Lane
Leeds
LS2 9EN
More location details on the OBH contact page or on Open Street Map
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March 3rd, 2009
HTML 5 – What’s New, Why It Matters, And What You Can Do With It
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1 New elements and attributes
2 Modified elements and attributes
3 Deprecated elements and attributes
4 Images and multimedia elements
* figure, audio, video and embed
5 Scripting
* Canvas and GUI scripting
* More support for web-apps
* Detailed DOM spec
6 Forms
* New controls
* Scripting support
7 Prescriptive browser behaviour
* Error handling, including invalid content
* Non-XML serialisation
* Rendering consistency
Dave’s last talk was superb and I am glad he has agreed to come back
so soon to do another.
The meeting officially starts at 7:00pm, but the room will be open for coffee, tea and chat from 6:00pm. Afterwards, we usually go to the Victoria pub, behind the Town Hall, for more geeky chatter.
Location
Old Broadcasting House
148 Woodhouse Lane
Leeds
LS2 9EN
More location details on the OBH contact page or on Open Street Map
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February 7th, 2009
The talk is by Rob Goodair and is on pfSense, a very cool freeBSD firewall distro.
The meeting is on Monday 9th Feb and officially starts at 7:00pm, but the room will be open for coffee, tea and chat from 6:00pm. Afterwards, we usually go to the Victoria pub, behind the Town Hall, for more geeky chatter.
Location
Old Broadcasting House
148 Woodhouse Lane
Leeds
LS2 9EN
More location details on the OBH contact page or on Open Street Map
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January 6th, 2009
The first meeting of 2009 is also the first meeting at our new venue, Old Broadcasting House
The meeting is on Monday 12th January and officially starts at 7:00pm, but the room will be open for coffee, tea and chat from 6:00pm. Afterwards, we usually go to the Victoria pub, behind the Town Hall, for more geeky chatter.
The talk is still to be confirmed.
Location
Old Broadcasting House
148 Woodhouse Lane
Leeds
LS2 9EN
More location details on the OBH contact page or on Open Street Map
Tags: announcement, obh, talks
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December 4th, 2008
Spice Quarter:
The next meet will be a purely social one, meet in the Vic on Great
George St from 7 then head over to Spice Quarter for 8.30
http://www.spicequarter.co.uk/leeds/leeds.html
Electric Press Building – Great George Street – Leeds City Centre -
LS2 3AD – 0871 811 5151
New Venue:
We will no longer be using the university from Jan, I want to thank
Mark from all of us for his assistance with the venue for so long.
The new venue is provided by NTI at Old Broadcasting house, they will
kindly be providing refreshments also.
NTI are the “Northern Technology Institute” and are part of Leeds
Metropolitan University’s Innovation North faculty.
From their about page:
“We provide digital and multimedia training courses but we’re more than
just a training centre. We believe in fostering innovation through
training, collaboration and shared ideas. And as part of the university
we also want to build skills in the region and act as a networking hub
for new and established talent.”
You may have been to a few events there (Barcamp Leeds, Opencoffee for
instance) and it is a great venue
http://www.ntileeds.co.uk/about/
http://www.ntileeds.co.uk/old-broadcasting-house/
http://www.ntileeds.co.uk/find-us/
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