[Baypiggies] Newbie Nugget?

William Deegan bdbaddog at gmail.com
Mon Jun 8 21:23:08 CEST 2009


Website updated with description of talk.
-Bill

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 12:00 PM, jim <jim at well.com> wrote:

>
>   many thanks, aahz. turns out just this time
> that Alex Martelli's talk on Abstraction will
> take the entire time (and possibly then some
> if there are searching questions).
>   we definitely need newbie nuggets for
> subsequent meetings, so all of you who're
> preparing, we'll need you in july and months
> following.
> jim
> PS: here's alex' description of the talk:
> """
> Abstraction is a powerful servant, but a dangerous master. We code,
> design, think, debug ... on a tower of abstractions. Spolsky's Law
> tells us that "All abstractions leak". This talk explores why they
> leak, why that's often a problem, what to do about it; I also cover
> why sometimes abstractions SHOULD "leak", and how best to produce and
> consume abstraction layers.
> """
>
>
>
> On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 21:08 -0700, Aahz wrote:
> > Anyone want to do a newbie nugget Thurs 6/25?
>
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