[Sussex] Very interesting talk on "Linux as a developer's environment"

Dominic Humphries linux at oneandoneis2.org
Sat May 28 21:15:07 UTC 2011


Evening all,

I'm glad that people found the talk worth attending, particularly in 
light of how co-operative my laptop was being that night! I'd actually 
like to add my own thanks to the audience for taking an active part in 
the presentation: It's very hard to give a talk to a roomful of silent 
listeners, so I enjoyed giving the talk a lot more because people were 
throwing in questions and comments. So thanks to all present for that.

For those who didn't attend but might have liked to, I've finally 
managed to get a transcription of the talk up on my blog, so if you can 
face reading it you can find it at 
http://geekblog.oneandoneis2.org/index.php/2011/05/27/heart-of-linux - 
there are also a few of the scripts I use for my dual-monitor setup and 
a little more info on setting up things like screen and bash.

As far as emails go, my address is at the top of thise one, obviously :) 
I'm more than happy to answer questions, but I'll throw in a caveat that 
if you think the answer might be useful to others, put the question on 
the list instead of emailing just me - that way you stand a chance of 
getting a better answer than I might give, and other people might learn 
something too. It is a Linux mailing list, after all ;)

I'm delighted to hear that people have been spurred on to use the 
comamnd line (violently or otherwise :) since the event - that was 
exactly what I hoped for, so I count it as a big win that I managed to 
acheive it.

Enjoy the long weekend, all!

Dominic


On 28/05/2011 17:04, frank james wrote:
> Well I am running the minimac which has unix and having a ball with it!
> I only used command prompt until now just to do bits of things like 
> finding address and mac date and one or two other things. NOW at last 
> I can glimpse the power that it gives me!!
> Dominic has opened up the lid of the notebook to me..wow   wow!
> Frank
> --- On *Sat, 28/5/11, frank james /<frank.james4 at btinternet.com>/* wrote:
>
>
>     From: frank james <frank.james4 at btinternet.com>
>     Subject: Re: [Sussex] Very interesting talk on "Linux as a
>     developer's environment"
>     To: "Fay Zee" <sussex at eglug.org.uk>, "Sussex LUG"
>     <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>     Date: Saturday, 28 May, 2011, 13:43
>
>     Hi Fay!
>     Do you by chance have Diminic's e-mail address, and if so would
>     you be able to let me have it please. I have a number of queries
>     and I hope that he won't mind me bothering him. Paul Keith and I
>     very much enjoyed the moot and it has spurred me into violent
>     "command prompt" activity.
>     We have 2 new members one keen on "cloud computing".
>     Frank
>
>     --- On *Fri, 27/5/11, Fay Zee /<sussex at eglug.org.uk>/* wrote:
>
>
>         From: Fay Zee <sussex at eglug.org.uk>
>         Subject: [Sussex] Very interesting talk on "Linux as a
>         developer's environment"
>         To: "Sussex LUG" <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>         Date: Friday, 27 May, 2011, 23:26
>
>         It was very interesting from start to finish. Thank you, Dominic.
>
>         It was nice to see a new face at the moot - welcome to Paul
>         Willis, from Rustington LUG, introduced by Frank James. With
>         Alex that made seven of us.
>
>         I took away lots of little commands, and especially enjoyed
>         the demo of the screen command. I'll be using the caption
>         facility regularly from now on.
>
>         Dominic gave Frank and me a screen command file to make
>         coloured, tabbed captions at the foot of the console, numbered
>         so as to switch easily between them.
>
>         .screenrc:
>         ############################################
>         # An alternative hardstatus to display a bar at the bottom
>         listing the
>         # windownames and highlighting the current windowname in blue.
>         (This is only
>         # enabled if there is no hardstatus setting for your terminal)
>         caption always
>         caption string "%{.gb}%-w%(.rW}%n %t%{-}%+w %=%{..G} %u"
>         hardstatus string "yourname (%n %t)"
>
>         # Turn off the splash screen
>         startup_message off
>         ############################################xx
>
>         This works well on my Eee PC, which had screen installed but
>         didn't have a .screenrc.
>
>         However, on my main machine there is already a lengthy
>         .screenrc, and although I appended the new code and checked
>         for earlier conflicting commands, it puts an extraneous
>         "(.rW)" before the caption. Still works just as well. I've
>         been practising the other screen commands.
>
>         I've yet to implement the other CLI bits and bobs.
>
>         Thanks again for the talk.
>
>
>         Best Regards,
>         Fay
>         East Grinstead Linux User Group
>         www.eglug.org.uk
>
>
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