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THERMO!

This month we will be combining our meetup with the other Flash/Flex meetups in town for a special treat: a sneak peak at Adobe's upcoming Thermo!

Don't know what Thermo is? The best way to show you is, of course, video. Here's a link with Adobe's MAX presentation movies embedded, you are guaranteed to drool: http://aralbalkan.com...

Thermo is all about revolutionizing your Flash/Flex workflow, providing tighter integration between the beautiful graphics your art team creates and the thousands-plus lines of code your engineers crank out. It makes other Adobe files first-class citizens of your Flex application.

Imagine importing a Photoshop- or Illustrator-native file, but the layers actually have meaning and you can turn a graphical element into a working control (a text field, button, etc) in a simple click. This new workflow means that the artist alone can come much closer to making an application sing, and the coders get to start with most boilerplate code already written so they can focus on the "special sauce" for your particular application domain.

The venue will be packed, as 4 (maybe more?) separate meetup groups will be combining for this very special event. Our members should show up ready to learn and do some serious networking as this meetup will represent virtually all of the organized Flash and Flex professionals in the Atlanta area.

Flex is flash that doesn't suck.

Atlanta Flex & Actionscript Coders Dec 2008 Meetup: Thermo! - Atlanta Flex & Actionscript Coders Meetup (Atlanta, GA) - Meetup.com

The initiators of the Iraq Body Count, which has produced the lowest figures, were no advocates of the invasion. John Sloboda, an Oxford-based psychologist who co-founded the group, was provoked to do so precisely because he saw no official institution willing to count the human cost of the war. His organisation decided to use "passive surveillance", a statistically conservative method that only deals with facts on the ground. The IBC lists all cases where at least two media sources report an incident causing one or several deaths, keeping a careful tab of the victims' age, gender, occupation, manner and place of death, where information is available. In addition to providing a running total (which now numbers just under 90,000), its figures have allowed the IBC to produce some of the best data and analysis on how the Iraq war has changed over five years. They reveal that the Americans killed four times more civilians in the first two years of the war (thereby provoking armed resistance to the occupation) than al-Qaida-linked insurgents did, in spite of the media's emphasis on car bombs and suicide attacks. They also show the explosion of criminal violence since 2003, one byproduct of the removal of Saddam Hussein's draconian security methods - or what Bush would call Iraq's new "freedom".

What is the real death toll in Iraq? Jonathan Steele and Suzanne Goldenberg report | World news | The Guardian

Whether it is the car tuning crowd, the overclockers or the Perl hackers, they share the same thing in common: being devoted to something.

This devotion drives a great number of innovations, and this is where Software really stands out. Particularly amongst the Open Source crowd, where Software is bound with something even more polarizing: Personality

The merging of software and personality is both a blessing and a curse. People are seldom more motivated than when working with something that feels alive; but to attack or criticize is, by definition, personal.

The people who are the most knowledgeable to defend, market, recommend (or even attack) are the ones already entrenched. They are part of the personality mesh, and as such it is exceedingly difficult to try to promote and defend a software product without going into the years of positive experiences one has shared with the product.

This article is no different. I love Catalyst and have used it for years. I will, however, attempt to back up my passion with articles of reason and rational points rather than espouse virtues that are little more than anecdotal.

To get started down this path, I think it is important to properly frame Catalyst in scope. On its own, it doesn't do much. It certainly doesn't do much well, but Catalyst by itself is really little more than a web server; it is a request handler and dispatcher and sends the response to the client.

By itself, it fails to talk to a database or handle sessions. It won't even authenticate a user. It has no template system, and no caching. So why does Catalyst have a fanatical fanbase and successful sites with it?

Quite simply, it's the CPAN.

The Catalyst philosophy is populist, not dictatorial. A belief that tools should be built to do a specific feature or function, but not require usage of any given tool; granting flexibility to a developer to solve problems the Catalyst community has not thought of how to solve.

Catalyst doesn't require you to use Template Toolkit or Mason. It doesn't push DBIx::Class as The One True ORM. It lets you pick. It trusts that you are a software developer and you are solving a problem. Catalyst just makes it easy to make your decision, and integrate that solution and start working.

A case for Catalyst - Perlbuzz

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The Pioneer anomaly or Pioneer effect is the observed deviation from expectations of the trajectories of various unmanned spacecraft visiting the outer solar system, notably Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11. Both spacecraft are escaping from the solar system, and are slowing down under the influence of the Sun's gravity. Upon very close examination, however, they are slowing down slightly more than expected. The effect can be modeled as a slight additional acceleration towards the Sun.

At present, there is no universally accepted explanation for this phenomenon; while it is possible that the explanation will be mundane—such as thrust from gas leakage—the possibility of unknown physics is also being considered.

Pioneer anomaly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The First ATL Show and Tell - Monday, Nov 24th - Woo!
November 6th, 2008

Ladies and Gentlemen, I am pleased to announce the inaugural ATL Show and Tell!

For those who haven’t heard, ATL Show and Tell going to be a monthly event for Atlanta area technology entreprenuers (and habitual technology builders) to get together and show off the projects they’ve been working on. The events themselves are a celebration of technology as much as a support group for tech geeks trying to make a buck.

That said, there will be food and beer.

The Basics for the event

Date/Time: Monday, Nov 24th. 7:00pm
Location: The East Atlanta Icehouse
Cost: Donations (which go to renting out the venue)
I’m still in the process of confirming the lineup. Expect more details in a couple of days.

The East Atlanta Icehouse has a full bar and kitchen (with great food, I’ve eaten there), so come ready to eat drink and celebrate our technological prowess. http://www.eastatlantaicehouse.com

For the specifics, Please register to attend here: http://atlshowandtell.eventbrite.com

If you are a service provider, we kindly ask that you not attend; this event is for us, not you.

ATL Show and Tell

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