Archive for the ‘mediaswamp’ Category

NDDNUG – a Look into Garbage Collection – bill Robertson

This talk will cover how memory allocation works and the problems
associated with it. automatic garbage collection is Microsoft’s
solution to memory management. We will cover how generations work and
the problems associated with garbage collection, namely
non-deterministic finalization. The IDisposable pattern and Finalizers
will be presented as some of the solutions in to those problems.

bill Robertson
started working professionally using c++ with Win32 aPI. He studied
mathematics at the University of arlington. Five years ago he
transitioned from the completely unmanaged world to the managed world
through aSP.NET. He believes because
the world runs on software, and to make the world better he wants all
programmers to take on responsibility for their code and make it the
best possible. He currently works at Telligent Systems developing consulting projects.

Click here to get the podcast.

NDDNUG – a Look into Garbage Collection – bill Robertson

This talk will cover how memory allocation works and the problems
associated with it. automatic garbage collection is Microsoft’s
solution to memory management. We will cover how generations work and
the problems associated with garbage collection, namely
non-deterministic finalization. The IDisposable pattern and Finalizers
will be presented as some of the solutions in to those problems.

bill Robertson
started working professionally using c++ with Win32 aPI. He studied
mathematics at the University of arlington. Five years ago he
transitioned from the completely unmanaged world to the managed world
through aSP.NET. He believes because
the world runs on software, and to make the world better he wants all
programmers to take on responsibility for their code and make it the
best possible. He currently works at Telligent Systems developing consulting projects.

Click here to get the podcast.

QuesoTV: Half-baked Entrepreneurial Improv Theatre

Christopher St. John
stole this idea for his bar Camp Dallas 3 session. It was a good
decision. amit Gupta and, indirectly, Dave McClure, James Levine and
Paul Rademacher are excellent people to steal from.

Here's the idea: Get a group of geeks in a room. Have them
yell out thirty or forty random words. Divide everyone up into teams of
five. Each team picks two of the words and adds ".com" to form a
company name. Give each team fifteen minutes to come up with a business
plan, and five minutes to present to a panel of judges. Hilarity
ensues.

For this go-round, the judges were Jim Young of Jambo and Giovanni Gallucci.
The teams were LatexRobot.com (don't ask), g.littr.com (dumpster diving
social network), UpTownish.com (high end dating for Dallas posers) and
Toothbling.com (electronics for the mouth). The unanimous winner was
g.littr.com, the strangely compelling and unsettlingly probably tool
for those who live by the dumpster.

The key to running one of these things seems to be an
absolutely ruthless approach to timing. Keep the pressure up, move
things along, and you can get through four teams in an hour session
with time to spare.

It's a total blast to watch a group of relative strangers gel into a startup team. The energy is addictive.

Click here to get the podcast.

Queso Compuesto: Kevin Marvin of activ8 – setappt.com

Hi!  My name is Kevin, and I blog.  (crowd replies "Hi Kevin!")

Kevin works for activ8,
where they develop web applications that provide workflow to small
companies in industries that do not have unified processes, yet.  Their
applications are designed to make sense out of the work people perform
everyday.  They do this with development tools that make sense, and with
people who understand not only the value, but the power of workflow.

activ8
was founded by Ron Dimant, Mark Cottam, and Kevin Marvin. Their staff
includes some of the brightest minds in application development,
business process, and user interface design. Located in the heart of
Dallas, close to the american airlines Center and some of the finest
restaurants and beer joints the city has to offer, activ8 loves Texas, ya'll.

Kevin blogs on things that interest him, and that is about all.

Kevin is a huge Linux and Mac nut, and has been working in computers since he
was a child, and professionally for about 15 years now. Mr. Marvin has a
fairly defunct website, and it will get some love before long… maybe…  

In this podcast, Kevin speak about Set appointment (setappt.com).

Set
appointment, the latest application from activ8, allows different
business types to schedule time with their customers.  It operates on
services defined by the provider, allowing them to divide each service
into 15 minute blocks and determine if the client is involved in that
process or not.  It allows the service provider to schedule multiple
events with multiple clients that may overlap.  For example, a hair
stylist may have two clients in two different chairs at one time, and
the application allows for that type of web-based scheduling.

Inexpensive,
fast, reliable, and incredibly simple, setappt.com allows businesses to
offer web scheduling to their clients with a minimum of investment in
time or resources.

Click here to see the video.

QuesoTV: Half-baked Entrepreneurial Improv Theatre

Christopher St. John
stole this idea for his bar Camp Dallas 3 session. It was a good
decision. amit Gupta and, indirectly, Dave McClure, James Levine and
Paul Rademacher are excellent people to steal from.

Here’s the idea: Get a group of geeks in a room. Have them
yell out thirty or forty random words. Divide everyone up into teams of
five. Each team picks two of the words and adds ".com" to form a
company name. Give each team fifteen minutes to come up with a business
plan, and five minutes to present to a panel of judges. Hilarity
ensues.

For this go-round, the judges were Jim Young of Jambo and Giovanni Gallucci.
The teams were LatexRobot.com (don’t ask), g.littr.com (dumpster diving
social network), UpTownish.com (high end dating for Dallas posers) and
Toothbling.com (electronics for the mouth). The unanimous winner was
g.littr.com, the strangely compelling and unsettlingly probably tool
for those who live by the dumpster.

The key to running one of these things seems to be an
absolutely ruthless approach to timing. Keep the pressure up, move
things along, and you can get through four teams in an hour session
with time to spare.

It’s a total blast to watch a group of relative strangers gel into a startup team. The energy is addictive.

Click here to get the podcast.

Queso Compuesto: Kevin Marvin of activ8 – setappt.com

Hi!  My name is Kevin, and I blog.  (crowd replies "Hi Kevin!")

Kevin works for activ8,
where they develop web applications that provide workflow to small
companies in industries that do not have unified processes, yet.  Their
applications are designed to make sense out of the work people perform
everyday.  They do this with development tools that make sense, and with
people who understand not only the value, but the power of workflow.

activ8
was founded by Ron Dimant, Mark Cottam, and Kevin Marvin. Their staff
includes some of the brightest minds in application development,
business process, and user interface design. Located in the heart of
Dallas, close to the american airlines Center and some of the finest
restaurants and beer joints the city has to offer, activ8 loves Texas, ya’ll.

Kevin blogs on things that interest him, and that is about all.

Kevin is a huge Linux and Mac nut, and has been working in computers since he
was a child, and professionally for about 15 years now. Mr. Marvin has a
fairly defunct website, and it will get some love before long… maybe…  

In this podcast, Kevin speak about Set appointment (setappt.com).

Set
appointment, the latest application from activ8, allows different
business types to schedule time with their customers.  It operates on
services defined by the provider, allowing them to divide each service
into 15 minute blocks and determine if the client is involved in that
process or not.  It allows the service provider to schedule multiple
events with multiple clients that may overlap.  For example, a hair
stylist may have two clients in two different chairs at one time, and
the application allows for that type of web-based scheduling.

Inexpensive,
fast, reliable, and incredibly simple, setappt.com allows businesses to
offer web scheduling to their clients with a minimum of investment in
time or resources.

Click here to see the video.

Tulsa Techfest 2006: Dru Sellers of China Leads

Dru Sellers is the Developer for China Leads out of Lawrence, KS.

He has been programming professionally for 5 years and spends most of
his time in C#, Castle's MonoRail / Windsor and SQL Server.

IoC/DI

Do you
have dependency problems? Learn about Inversion of Control and
Dependency Injection, and how it can make your life orthogonally
independent.

Inversion of Control, also known as IOC, is an important object-oriented programming principle that can be used to reduce coupling inherent in computer programmes.

IOC is also known as the Dependency Injection (Martin 2002:127). The Dependency injection (Fowler 2004) technique is used in almost every framework and it is a simple example of the IoC principle applied. It has been applied by programmers using object-oriented programming languages such as Smalltalk, C++, Java or any .NET language.

Click here to see Dru's presentation at Tulsa Techfest 2006.

Tulsa Techfest 2006: Dru Sellers of China Leads

Dru Sellers is the Developer for China Leads out of Lawrence, KS.

He has been programming professionally for 5 years and spends most of
his time in C#, Castle’s MonoRail / Windsor and SQL Server.

IoC/DI

Do you
have dependency problems? Learn about Inversion of Control and
Dependency Injection, and how it can make your life orthogonally
independent.

Inversion of Control, also known as IOC, is an important object-oriented programming principle that can be used to reduce coupling inherent in computer programmes.

IOC is also known as the Dependency Injection (Martin 2002:127). The Dependency injection (Fowler 2004) technique is used in almost every framework and it is a simple example of the IoC principle applied. It has been applied by programmers using object-oriented programming languages such as Smalltalk, C++, Java or any .NET language.

Click here to see Dru’s presentation at Tulsa Techfest 2006.

Dave Taylor of askDaveTaylor.com @ The Media Swamp!

We just released a new episode of the affiliate News Review over at the Media Swamp featuring Dave Taylor of askDaveTaylor.com and Lobstergram.com…yum…lobster.

Dave Taylor of askDaveTaylor.com @ The Media Swamp!

We just released a new episode of the affiliate News Review over at the Media Swamp featuring Dave Taylor of askDaveTaylor.com and Lobstergram.com…yum…lobster.