{"id":190,"date":"2012-01-29T19:00:07","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T23:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ale.org\/?p=190"},"modified":"2012-01-29T19:00:07","modified_gmt":"2012-01-29T23:00:07","slug":"ale-nwspsu-mtg-for-thurs-feb-9th-730pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ale.org\/?p=190","title":{"rendered":"ALE-NW@SPSU MTG. for Thurs., Feb. 9th, 7:30pm"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe next ALE-NW@SPSU meeting is being held
\nThursday, Feb. 9th, 2012 at 7:30pm in room J131
\nof the Atrium (J) building on the SPSU campus.
\n<\/strong>
\nThe feature presentation will be
\nSeat Belts and Airbags for Bash<\/font>
\nwith Michael Potter<\/strong><\/p>\n

Abstract:
\n– bash (and scripting languages in general) act as the glue that hold other
\nsystem components together. This presentation will focus on the underutilized
\nfeatures of bash that are critical to building production quality scripts, Demos
\nwill show you how to turn on options that expose the hidden timebombs in
\nthe code.
\n– Turning these features on should be considered a requirement much like
\nturning on strict and warnings are considered a requirement for Perl.
\n– Much of the bash syntax is redundant; I will also explain which syntax to
\nuse and which syntax to avoid.
\n– Knowledge of any of the common UNIX scripting languages will be sufficient
\nto attend this meeting. Scripters at all proficiency levels will get value from
\nattending this presentation. Although I do not address differences between
\nKorn shell and bash, much of what I talk about also applies to Korn shell.
\n– I developed this presentation after getting frustrated with bash’s default
\nbehavior of continuing to process after an error occurred. I was determined
\nto find a way to make bash a more reliable language.
\n———<\/p>\n

Bio:
\n– Michael has been working in IT since 1989 when he switched from
\nprogramming automotive embedded systems. Since that time he has
\nbeen involved in projects related to moving mainframe applications to
\nUNIX and Linux using open-source technologies.
\n– Recently Michael incorporated Tapp Solutions, LLC. A company
\ndedicated to serving the insurance industry with mobile, desktop and
\nweb applications. Including handheld quote calculators and scanned
\ndocument handling.
\n– You can reach Michael at michael@potter.name<\/p>\n

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\nFor a campus map and a link to directions please see
\nhttp :\/\/www.spsu.edu\/visitspsu\/campusmaps\/index.htm<\/a>
\nParking in non reserved spaces in the P60 deck is best.
\nbuilding J, the Atrium building, is a short distance east
\nof the parking deck.
\n======
\nALE-NW@SPSU meetings are open events and we hope
\nyou will join us! Also remember that topic suggestions
\nand presentation offers the meetings can be emailed to
\n[ jdp (at) algoloma ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The next ALE-NW@SPSU meeting is being held Thursday, Feb. 9th, 2012 at 7:30pm in room J131 of the Atrium (J) building on the SPSU campus. The feature presentation will be Seat Belts and Airbags for Bash with Michael Potter Abstract: – bash (and scripting languages in general) act as the glue that hold other system […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ale-northwest","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}