Past meeting
Terracotta and Mercurial
(8 ratings)
Meeting Description
Who
- Anyone interested in distributed clustering, frustrated with their current version control system or wants to see what the fuss about distributed version control is about.
Organized by
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"We are the people up the front."
--James Beamish-White and Richard Vowles
Details
There are two scheduled talks this event!
Terracotta is an open source project that focuses on providing large scale non transactional clustered distributed memory. Kerry Sainsbury (of Fronde) is our presenter for this and he will discuss what it is, how he used it (along with other things) on a recent project and perhaps even give a demo.
Mercurial is one of the two big distributed version control platforms that currently enjoy popularity in big open source projects, most notably Sun Microsystems software (including Open Solaris and NetBeans, both very big projects) and Mozilla. Why have these projects chosen to move away from centralized repositories such as CVS, SVN and Perforce and what are the pros and cons of such a move. We will cover all the core capabilities of Mercurial in talk and demonstration. Presenter is Richard Vowles from Developers Inc Ltd.
If you are interested in giving a lightning talk at the JUG - 5 minutes or so, please feel free let James or Richard know or just turn up and let us know at the presentation.
Facilities are provided by Auckland University of Technology, drinks, eats and atmosphere are kindly provided by BEA Systems.
Talk About This Meeting
Who Attended
It's estimated that 31 people attended.
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Mark Derricutt
"Enjoyed both presentations, learnt some things about Mercurial I didn't already know, and a great introduction to Terracotta." -
Michael Chandran
"For a new comer like me, it was way out of my league, but i expected it. The advise i got later from friendly chaps was more than good. Really appreciated that. Thanks." -
Rob
"Wish I'd been able to stay to get the full presentation on Mercurial :("
Guy K. Kloss
+1 guest
"The meeting with the talks was really pretty good. Something for everybody to take home. It was also good to have contrasting talk topics. I also liked the idea of a quick lightning talk. One suggestion: Starting time of event. It would be highly appreciateable if the starting time could be postponed to 6:30 pm (30 minutes later), as that would greatly decrease the traffic and parking battle outside for the ones coming in from different corners of the city."