[SLUG] Re: Website

[David Webster]

Bob Garrood wrote:
> 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 Hmm, ok the website is starting to look very out of date now ..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.
>
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> 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.
>
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This sounds like it's crying out for a blog.  Assuming that the slug box 
supports php and mysql, then Wordpress (http://wordpress.com/ | 
http://mu.wordpress.org/) supports multiple users.  Once this is setup, 
then it would be fairly easy for all of us to contribute without much 
effort.