On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Ravi Jaya <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >Could somebody summarize the minutes of a meeting of this month's lugc > meet. > > Here is my summary, First of all i was astonished to see a good crowd in this meet, When i went in there Mr. Chandrashekar Babu was introducing ruby programming language to the attendees. He compared the features of perl,shell scripts, python with ruby. He very much emphasised the readability of the ruby language.Then he spoke about the garbage collection techniques used by the ruby interpretor (reference count garbage collection) . I request him to share the examples with the list members. Some examples include threading, sockets, number crunching , string processing, freezing an object etc. Then Mr.Suki Venkat of TNQ Publications spoke about MuLTiFlow, a XUL based the text editor for scientific and technical writing. Multiflow supports SVG and math symbols. The editor is packaged as a xpi file (firefox add-on ). You can also run MuLTiFlow as a standalone application by extracting the xpi file and running the following command 'xulrunner application.ini'. The whole editor is a javascript hack by Mr.Suki and his team. Then we discussed about SFD, the number of stalls, volunteers etc. Mr. M.Sivakumar wanted to spread the news about SFD to the common public, so he and couple of folks have agreed to volunteer for the media and social media promotion. It was almost dark when the meet got over. -- Arun S.A.G _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
