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Cndnsd Vrsn: 4:00 Thursday January 14 ACS Rm 123 - Hand-Held Computing
Our January meeting will be held on Thursday, January 14, in room 123
of the CU Academic Computing Center at 4:00 P.M.
Continuing the trend towards smaller and smaller general-purpose computers,
several useful handheld computers have now become popular, led by the Palm
III and various Windows CE models. Mark Rochkind will very briefly review
several popular machines, considering hardware and software architecture.
Next, development tools and methods will be described based on the speaker's
intense, but limited, recent experience. Finally, prospects for software
portability among the machines will be discussed, including the current
state of Java support.
Marc Rochkind is VP of Engineering at inFact Technologies Inc. (formerly
Product Knowledge Inc.), where he is responsible for the development of a
problem-resolution system that's deployed in call centers, over the Web, and
on stand-alone computers (like the Palm). He's best known in Unix circles
for the development of the Source Code Control System, which he worked on
about a quarter-century ago at Bell Labs, and the book "Advanced Unix
Programming." He was also the founder and CEO of XVT Software Inc., which
developed and marketed a toolkit for writing portable GUI applications.
This meeting will be in room 123 of the
CU Academic Computing Center building at Arapahoe and Marine Streets in Boulder.
Marine St intersects Arapahoe at 38th St; the Computing Center is on the southwest corner.
Those of you visiting the FRUUG Web site recently will notice
that we've moved to the cozy new location of simply
http://www.fruug.org.
Please update your links to point to
our new simplified URL. The FRUUG Web site is now being hosted
by Steve Gaede and
Lone Eagle Systems Inc.
Our December meeting was on Y2K-- the Inflexible Deadline, presented
by Evi Nemeth of the University of Colorado. Evi's viewgraphs
are on our previous meetings page,
and include quite a few interesting tidbits, including a number
of other dates that could present problems. Be sure to check
out the last two pages which includes a nice history of the calendar
in the form of a response to a VMS trouble report submitted years ago.
In preparation for our January meeting, O'Reilly and Associates
has forwarded us a copy of "Palm Pilot, The Ultimate Guide,"
complete with CD-ROM. Come have a browse through the library
and be the first to check out this new title.
You may check books out using your business card as your library card; you
must be on the membership list to check books out. Books are due at the meeting
following the one in which they are checked out. If you don't
return your library books by the next meeting, you might find
yourself on our overdue book list.
We count on you returning books on time so that other members
may have the chance to use them as well.
Last Updated: 7 January 1999
Problems? Contact
webmaster at fruug.org
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