[SLUG] Re: Website

[john at johnallsopp.co.uk]

> On Wednesday 23 August 2006 12:15, John wrote:
>
>> Hmm, ok the website is starting to look very out of date now .. our
>> next meeting is in April, the regular faces have all changed, the
>> reviews and tutorials are all from over two years ago.
>
> Websites that are not updated are frustrating.  A few days ago I
> had a look at all 5 scarborough  secondary school websites to find
> the date of half term.  One does not exist.  One only has one page
> with a
> picture and no information.  Two  only gave dates for last year, and
> the
> third, which has a head who can't spell calendar, hadn't updated since
> 2003.
> So I remain ignorant.  There may be a marketing opportunity here.
>
> My suggestion  is that after each meeting someone write a short
> account for
> the website to be known as the SLUG log, or slog.  We could take
> turns. Here
> is my effort for Wednesday.
>
> ***************************************************************************************
>
> At the meeting on Wednesday, at the Valley, the main event was a talk
> by
> Jonathan Worthington  called "Inside Virtual Machines".  It covered
> what they
> are, why they're good, how the various bits of them work (at a fairly
> high
> level) and a bit of what it's like to work on one.  He
> mentioned the .Net CLR, the Java Virtual Machine and Parrot. Java is
> the one
> most people have on their computer, but it's slow.  Parrot is the one
> he
> works on, and he explained ways in which it is being made to run
> faster.  You
> can find the text on Johnathan's website at: (to be added when I find
> it)
>
> Question I should have asked, but didn't.
>
> How well does Parrot work with tools like Qt and Tk which are used
> with many
> computer languages?
>
> Best beers of the evening.
>
> Morgans "Bishop's Revenge", and a beer flavoured with tarberries
> called
> "Roisen", made by the Craigmill brewery who make the well known Fraoch
> (heather) ale.

Looks good to me.

J