[LRUG] Who wants to be an April-meeting-aire?

[Anthony Green]

I'd be interested to here such a talk




On 16 Mar 2010, at 00:27, Sean O'Halpin wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Murray Steele <murray.steele at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> The April meeting will be on Wednesday 14th April.  (Note that this might be
>> the last one on a Wednesday, if you have an opinion please
>> vote: http://doodle.com/74qut4zmp5fsfth2)
>> We'll need a couple of speakers, so this is the usual "Hey, who wants to
>> talk" shout-out.
> 
> I've been putting some notes together on time similar in spirit (if
> not in detail) to "What every computer programmer should know about
> floating-point arithmetic"
> (http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html) ranging from
> localtime vs UTC, hardware clocks and NTP, how to do accurate timers
> in Javascript, calendars, date arithmetic, comparisons and gotchas, to
> Lampert/vector clocks (the new black in the 'eventually consistent'
> world of nosql).
> 
> I could always throw in some gratuitous Dr Who references if that
> helps (it usually does).
> 
> Regards,
> Sean
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