PilotLightningTalks

First session:

[11:15] lightning talk 1 BEGINS NOW
[11:15] 5 minutes
[11:16] git was dev'd by linus torvolds out of frustration
[11:16] git is now easier to use than it has ever been
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[11:17] now demo'ing on screen
[11:17] git git git
[11:17] git clone [url] to check out
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[11:20] git will make you hate slower version control systems
[11:20] wow, quite a neat visual interface
[11:20] that's gitk
[11:21] it's only for viewing history, not a gui as such
[11:21] next talk up shortly
[11:21] there is a GUI as well, I think
[11:22] I haven't met it... I think there was a Qt one under development at some poinjtj
[11:22] started
[11:22] Website's back up, let Brenda or Penny know if there are any problems.
[11:23] I get weird double scroll bars on the website, in Konqueror
[11:23] but not FF
[11:23] yeah I got that in konqueror too
[11:24] collecting stats about what people are doing in GIMP
[11:24] there is qgit, but I think there is a new one
[11:25] qwandor: about getting to it, not style.
[11:25] <-- sysadmin.
[11:25] git-gui: http://www.spearce.org/2007/01/git-gui-screenshots.html
[11:25] I have not used it
[11:26] next talk: Erlang
[11:27] for networking in telephony
[11:27] used lots of common programming languages, but none were as good as they hoped
[11:27] Ericsson dev'd it
[11:28] 99.999999999% uptime - OMG
[11:28] heh
[11:28] then they threw it out
[11:28] so they opensourced it
[11:29] 16M processes, on 1 machine with 16GB of ram
[11:29] nice garbage collection
[11:30] automatic recovery systems
[11:30] erlang.org
[11:30] book coming soon
[11:30] and trap-exit.org
[11:30] published under the "pragmatic programmers" brand
[11:31] Pipes
[11:31] talking about security
[11:31] maybe http://www.trapexit.org/
[11:31] ?
[11:31] pipes makes everything short
[11:32] hackers are active
[11:32] there are major compromises taking place in new zealand
[11:32] in yr base costing yr $½M's
[11:32] ajax is about trusting the client
[11:32] so you need to really think about your ajax implementations
[11:33] it's always the same bug, different applications
[11:33] gzip bugs are common
[11:34] be vigilant in validating everything you use
[11:34] just because you use one library doesn't mean it's not vuln

[11:43] hey pipes, good talk -- very good points