Workshops

Our workshops provide hand-on experience during the Flourish Conference.

Erlang
This workshop will be about learning the fundamentals of Erlang. It will go through basic types, functions, higher order functions, through to structures for fault tolerance, concurrency, and distribution. This will cover the nuts and bolts of Erlang language. This workshop is aimed at total beginners and will last 1.5 to 2 hours if there is time.

Getting Started with Processing
This workshop will try out Processing (www.processing.org), from download to startup and writing a first application or two. It will have time to cover the basic feature set to start writing software to produce visual things, and also touch on various libraries that handle OpenGL rendering, PDF export, and loading SVG files. They will also do more Q & A, covering more technical details that won't be discussed in the lecture.

OpenSolaris
OpenSolaris is the open source distribution of the Solaris operating system from Sun Microsystems. If you're already familiar with Linux, you'll feel right at home in OpenSolaris. However, there are some key technology differentiators that make OpenSolaris stand apart. In this workshop you will gain hands on experience with OpenSolaris':

• Role Based Access Control (RBAC) for managing users, roles and profiles,
• Service Management Facility (SMF) for managing system services,
• Dynamic Tracing utility (DTrace) for debugging and performance tuning, and its
• Zetabyte File System (ZFS) for managing your data.

In addition you'll gain some practical advice for making the transition to OpenSolaris an easy one.

Tcl/Tk
Clif Flynt will introduce Tcl/Tk in the context of writing small computer games. Tcl's syntax, data structures and control flow will be described as well as commands for manipulating images and sounds. Students will leave the session knowing enough Tcl/Tk to be dangerous.