[GLLUG] GLLUG Member Reporting Live from BorCon 2004

[hamptone]

Hey GLLUGGERs,

It's been a while since I posted on this mailling list.  I just wanted 
to let everyone know what I've been up to.  Right now I'm in San Jose 
for Borcon 2004.  BorCon has been a huge experience for me. I cut my 
teeth writing Pascal using Borland's Turbo Pascal. 
<http://bdn.borland.com/article/0,1410,20803,00.html> Now, you can get 
that compiler and a few others that Borland has donated to the community 
via their software museum. I encourage you to check it out. In the 
interim, if anyone wants JBuilder, Delphi, Optimizeit, StarTeam, 
Together, InterBase, etc. contact me ASAP. I can purchase the software 
for you at discount.   This is a first come first serve offer, since I 
only get 4 products at these outrageous prices!

I have just passed the StarTeam 6 <http://www.borland.com/starteam/> 
certification exam and have learned a considerable amount about the 
StarTeam SDK. For those of you who don't know what StarTeam is, it is a 
version control system on steroids with integrated change control 
management, tasks, topics, and considerable scalability.  StarTeam 
server runs on Solaris and windows (of course) but they've got a cross 
platform client that works on linux and informally, the people in 
product development tell me that they are considering dropping Solaris 
and going to Linux.  I pushed for Suse since Redhat left a bad taste in 
my mouth since RedHat dropped support for v8.0 and v9.0 and went 
enterprise on us.

I have passed the first half of the Linux Profession Institute Level 1 
<https://www.lpi.org/en/why_lpi.html> exam. By the end of October, I 
will be taking the other half to complete my linux certification. Right 
now, co-workers are describing me as "certifiable." What else is new?

Finally, I'd like to do some plugging for my own web site.  I know a few 
of you have visited, but I would like to point out that I've added over 
80 new links <http://www.hamptonandassociates.net/nuke/html/links.php> 
and I am certain that if you take the time to browse through them you 
will find something of interest.  I plan to add more daily.  

I keep planning to go to a meeting, but unfortunately something always 
comes up.  :-(  Sounds like a lot of other members have a similar 
habit.  :-(  The list seems to also be pretty quiet.  Does anyone have a 
feel for the total GLLUG membersship?




Rodney Hampton
http://www.hamptonandassociates.net