Club Ubuntu

As an intellectual challenge, we plan to select a language and then see how much of the language we can learn in 30 days. Since there are obvious advantages to having everyone target the same language, this poll is set up to determine which language we should target as a group. This is a Borda Count which means you add them to your list in the order of your preference. From most preferred to least preferred. And then click vote.

I felt that this needed to be shared with the community.

So bored in fact that I am downloading all of ubuntu 8.04.3s source code for their cd's..yes I have found it!

I'd like to learn the basics of some programming language but I have no programming experience whatsoever. I looked at Emma's Learning Quest Framework and thought that might be a great idea for a group of people who wanted to learn how to program. I downloaded something called Code Blocks from http://www.codeblocks.org/ , that I thought I might be able to learn C++ on, since it is a language in high demand and you can do lots of things with it.

Just saying hi!

I know this is going to be frowned upon, but just testing the blog.

The Learning Quest Framework

This is a framework for organizing and motivating a self-study group around any particular subject/topic.

(1) Organize a group of people who are interested in learning about the subject/topic.

(2) Agree upon a text which everyone can obtain (the same edition).

(3) Define the scope of the quest with a definite start and a definite ending. This could be "the entire book" or it could be particular chapters, etc.

After some deliberation I have decided to teach myself common lisp. In order to get going with Lisp on ubuntu (and to do it in the traditional way) I had to install emacs along with some other tools like slime (the canonical lisp development environment). Using aptitude for this entire process is possible, but not optimal -- one will end up with an outdated version of slime and Debian will not be packaging lisp tools in the future. The best way to get started with a Lisp system on Ubuntu is to use cbuild.

This pie chart shows the distribution of IRC clients in ##club-ubuntu, interesting!

http://imgur.com/xQr75.jpg

My birthday!

Yes, today is my birthday.

My lovely family bought me this beautifal ubuntu messenger bag - http://shop.canonical.com/product_info.php?products_id=123&osCsid=e039c5...

and some awesome 20 watt bluetooth speakers!

Heh, I also received some ubuntu thinking putty, so it was a bit of an ubuntu themed birthday.