Please see this post for an explanation and discussion.

Just wanted to drop a quick note that we’ve got a new blog. Cory was very helpful in providing an XML dump from the old blog (this one) that I was able to import, so we shouldn’t have any lost data. Having said that, please let me know if you notice any issues.

I’ll keep an eye on this blog for a while, but all new content will be published on the new one. Time to update your feeds!

~Chris

The HackGuelph User Survey is now available! Please take a few minutes to fill it out. The results collected in the survey will help to shape HackGuelph in the coming year. All questions are optional and the survey is anonymous.

You’ll have to forgive me for being so late on this. I had hoped to get the user survey out before Christmas, but I’ve clearly missed that by more than a week. Because of this, and because the results of the survey may lead to scheduling changes anyway, I’m not planning on scheduling any new HackGuelph meetings until February.

In the meantime there are a number of other great events coming up:

• The Guelph PHP Users Group is meeting on January 18. Their guest speaker this month will be Chris Hartjes.
• The second Guelph K-W Game Jam will be on January 21. Try your luck at making a complete game in 8 hours!
• DemoCampGuelph 19 is coming up on January 25. Get in touch with @ChrisUnfiltered or @Brydon if you want to demo. If you’d prefer to watch (and not demo) you can register on the website.
• The Guelph Web Maker Meetup will be starting up again soon, but no dates have been announced yet. Keep an eye on their Meetup page.

December is a crazy month for many of us, so we’ll only be having one meeting (on December 1). The regularly scheduled third-Thursday meeting is canceled.

Instead of a regular meeting on December 1 I’d like to celebrate what we’ve accomplished this year. I’m suggesting a potluck at 349. Please use the comments on this post to discuss what you are planning to bring.

I would also like to try a tech book exchange. Most of us probably have some books on our shelves that we no longer use but that still contain good information. Bring a book that you no longer want and trade it for something else! (Please don’t buy a book to exchange—the whole point is to recycle something that’s already on your bookshelf. I’ll bring an extra or two in case we need them.)

~Chris

This Thursday Jeremy will be doing an introduction to Zend, a comprehensive PHP framework, from the perspective of a new user. Jeremy has been very vocal about his satisfaction with the Zend libraries. Come on out and see if this is the framework that you’ve been searching for!

As usual we’ll get started around 6:30 and head over to the Wooly when we’re done talking tech.

~Chris

At next week’s meeting Chris will show off the ConTeXt code that he uses to build his resume. ConTeXt is a typesetting language similar to LaTeX.

Why would anybody build their resume using TeX, you ask? Come on to the meeting to find out!

~Chris

I haven’t had time to pull anything together for tonight’s meeting, so unfortunately I’m going to have to cancel it.

Please remember that you can suggest meeting topics here, on the mailing list, or on Twitter. It would be really nice to have somebody suggest something for our next meeting on November 3.

Have a good evening, and I’ll see you in two weeks!

~Chris

Next week Sean will be talking about code size as a metric for code quality. Come on out; it should be a great time!

As always we’ll get started at ThreeFortyNine around 6:30 and head over to the Wooly afterwards.

Since September has five Thursdays we’re off for two weeks, but we’ll be back on October 6. Anybody who is interested in demoing should either contact me directly or get in touch via the mailing list.

~Chris

Hey folks!

This week we will be looking at Perl 6, a language that has been in development for over ten years. I’d welcome input on other in-development or recently released languages or version updates like C++0x or Python 3.

As usual, we’ll be at ThreeFortyNine from 6:00 to 9:00 and head to the Wooly afterwards.

Please remember: If you want to present something, or if there is something that you’d like to see, send it to our mailing list!