November 2015 - Announce-RedBrick - lists.redbrick.dcu.ie

Week 11: Intro to Competitive Programming, Webmaster: Advanced JavaScript & EGM
by cian butler 30 Nov '15

30 Nov '15

Sorry for the delayed announce, cac is currently dead (meaning we have no idea where he is), we hope he turns up soon! +Introduction to Competitive Programming - Thuesday 1/12 - 5pm - LG25 +Webmaster: Advanced Javascript - Wednesday 2/12 - 2pm - LG25 +EGM - Thursday 3/12 - 5pm - CG05 ============================================================= Introduction to Competitive Programming +Date: Tuesday 1/12 +Time: 5pm - 6pm +Location: LG25 +More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/194492020892876/ ============================================================= Join us on Tuesday as Gary Conway, the organiser of the All-Ireland Programming Olympiad and a DCU computing department sysadmin, gives us an introduction to competitive programming. He'll cover what's involved, how to get started, and will have loads of time for a good old-fashioned Q&A. If you want to learn how to bolster our CV with competitive programming feats, or jet off to exotic places to compete in exciting contests, then come to this talk to figure out what's what! ============================================================= Webmaster: Advanced JavaScript +Date: Wednesday 2/12 +Time: 2pm - 4pm +Location: LG25 +More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1522888658021968/ ============================================================= Not completely scared off JavaScript after last week? Fair play to you! Well then let's try this again, this week come on down to LG25 again for Advanced JavaScript (with maybe a few of the basics that we missed last week) with one of our helpful elves (also known as admins) voy! He'll be taking us on a magical journey through the mysterious void that is object orientated programming. Topics include objects, prototyping and (more) async! ============================================================= Redbrick EGM +Date: Thursday 3/12 +Time: 5pm - 6pm +Location: CG05 +More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/512468695591467/ ============================================================= With a heavy heart and an uncontrollable fit of giggles I'm sorry to say that our beloved Gillian (socks) has resigned from her position as treasurer. That means we get to have the fun of holding an EGM this Thursday to vote in a new treasurer! If you are interested in running for the position, please email the committee. The treasurer is expected to be well organised, and to have a deep passion for filling in forms weekly. Don't forget to steal a sordid glance at our calendar and social media pages: - Twitter: @RedbrickDCU - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dcuredbrick - Snapchat: RedbrickDCU - Calendar: http://tinyurl.com/redbrickCalendar Best regards from myself and the rest of the Committee, Cian Butler Helpdesk 2014/16

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EGM next week!
by Noah Donnelly (cac) 26 Nov '15

26 Nov '15

Hey all, With a heavy heart and an uncontrollable fit of giggles I'm sorry to say that our beloved Gillian (socks) has resigned from her position as treasurer. That means we get to have the fun of holding an EGM next Thursday (2/12/15) to vote in a new treasurer! Time will be confirmed in the next few days. If you are interested in running for the position, please email the committee. The treasurer is expected to be well organised, and to have a deep passion for filling in forms weekly. Look forward to seeing you there on Thursday! Best regards from myself and the rest of committee, Noah Donnelly (cac) 1st Year Computational Problem Solving & Software Development Redbrick Secretary 2015/16

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Week 10: Webmaster: Basic Javascript | Redbrick Webgroup
by cac＠redbrick.dcu.ie 23 Nov '15

23 Nov '15

Hey everyone! Another icky sticky Redbricky week lies ahead; but first a big shout out to everyone who was at the Intersocs session on Thursday! It was great to meet the many Netsocs out there, and it was also super to hang with some of our own brickies, old and young. You fit into both the old and young categories kittykat o/ Anyway, here's the rundown of what's happening this week: +Webmaster: Basic Javascript - Wednesday 25/11 - 2pm - LG25 +Redbrick Webgroup - Thursday 26/11 - 5pm - CG05 ============================================================= Webmaster: Basic Javascript +Date: Wednesday 25/11 +Time: 2pm - 4pm +Location: LG25 +More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1009245122452510/ ============================================================= Nobody in the world loves Javascript like our infamous webmaster Seán (~space), so come around to LG25 on Wednesday and prepare to be converted. If you're confused by the cool kids on the corner talking about their JSONs and their Ajax, then this talk is for you. It might also get you in the right mindset for the Redbrick Webgroup, which is conveniently on the next day... ============================================================= Redbrick Webgroup +Date: Thursday 26/11 +Time: 5pm - 6pm +Location: CG05 +More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/623634431110135/ ============================================================= Exciting news! Redbrick is on the cusp of open-sourcing the development of its glamorous website! Are you interested in helping create the face of DCU's Networking Society? Are you looking for some sweet sweet Github delta? of course you are, so look no further than the Redbrick Webgroup, where we'll be organising the making and breaking of Redbrick's online presence. This Thursday we'll be going through everything involved in the project, and taking sign-ups of whoever is interested in helping out. We swear that we're not just open-sourcing the site because we have a lazy webmaster. It'll be fun! Really! I hope. Don't forget to steal a sordid glance at our calendar and social media pages: - Twitter: @RedbrickDCU - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dcuredbrick - Snapchat: RedbrickDCU - Calendar: http://tinyurl.com/redbrickCalendar Best regards from myself and the rest of the Committee, Noah Donnelly (cac) 1st Year Computational Problem Solving & Software Development Redbrick Secretary 2015/16

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Looking for Tech Week talks!
by cac＠redbrick.dcu.ie 16 Nov '15

16 Nov '15

Hello all, Redbrick's beloved Tech Week is on the horizon, and we're looking for speakers to share their knowledge with us, give presentations, workshops, and join in in the fun! If you're free at any stage over the week, between the 15th and the 19th of February, please feel free to get in touch. We are looking for lightning talks, between 15 and 20 minutes long, as well as hour-long talks. If you're interested in coming in to us, Tech Week events are being organised for 12pm, 1pm, 3pm, 4pm, and 5pm. Each slot will be one hour consisting of some lightning presentations or one presentation/workshop. Just tell us what times and days suit you, send us a description of what you want to talk about, and we'll take it from there. Let us know before three weeks from today. Also, if you're interested in giving a presentation at any other time of year, we'd be delighted! We're always open to speakers for any evening of the week (assuming it's during semester!). We look forward to hearing from you! All the best, Noah Donnelly (cac) First Year - Computational Problem Solving and Software Development Redbrick Secretary 2015/2016

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Week 9: Software Developer Q&A | How I learned to stop worrying and love Assembly Language | Intersocs Social | Redbrick Gets the Ghost Bus
by cac＠redbrick.dcu.ie 15 Nov '15

15 Nov '15

Hello everyone, I have good news and bad news. First, I'll give you the bad news; the common room will be closed all this week for maintenance. Now, onto the good news! Apart from the offer of a free Juniper bootcamp in January, valued at $1400, this week's announce also brings news of some of the coolest Redbrick events so far: +Software Developer Q&A - Tuesday 17/11 - 5.30pm - QG21 +How I learned to stop worrying and love Assembly Language - Wednesday 18/11 - 2pm - LG25 +Intersocs Social - Thursday 19/11 - 6.30pm - The Brew Dock +Redbrick Gets the Ghost Bus - Friday 20/11 - 8.30pm - Dublin Bus Tours, O'Connell Street ============================================================= Juniper Networks Bootcamp for Students and Staff +Date: 25th - 27th January 2016 +More info: http://dcu.ie/iss/news/2015/jul/dcu-apps-news-google-hangouts.shtml ============================================================= This training event is designed for networking, engineering, and computer science students and staff with beginner/intermediate knowledge of networking. The three days of instructor-led training covers Networking Fundamentals, an Introduction to the Junos Operating System (IJOS), and Juniper Routing Essentials (JRE). The best part? Although it's valued at $1400, we're getting it absolutely free! Make sure to click the big green button on the page linked above to register your interest, and augment your CV like nobody's business. ============================================================= Software Developer Q&A +Date: Tuesday 17/11 +Time: 5.30pm - 7.30pm +Location: QG21 +More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/325036291000237/ ============================================================= Come one, come all to our SWdev Q&A! Have you any burning questions about what it's like to work as a software developer? Well then this is the talk for you! We have a great line up for you folks of 6 live software developers ready for you to poke and prod with questions! We've people from Google, Metric Fire, Couchbase, parkbytext, Intercom and HEAnet! See the link above for more information about each speaker. ============================================================= How I learned to stop worrying and love Assembly Language +Date: Wednesday 18/11 +Time: 2pm - 5pm +Location: LG25 +More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1705464089685790/ ============================================================= Reverse engineering is the process of working out what a program does without access to the original source code. It is a vital part of malware analysis/exploitation investigation and an interesting hobby. This first workshop, hosted by your favourite Symantec dynamic duo Alan Neville (anev@rb) and Cathal "Sexy Frodo" Mullaney (nemo@rb), will focus on binary analysis of Windows based x86 executables, the tools necessary to reverse engineer these files and some insights and tips for reverse engineering files successfully. If you pay attention, the talk will also teach you how to get rich quick and meet Russian women in your area, so make sure to check it out! ============================================================= Intersocs Social +Date: Thursday 19/11 +Time: 6.30pm - 10pm +Location: The Brew Dock +More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/514370732059792/ ============================================================= Thursday the 19th is Intersocs Drinks night! Also known as "Interpints", "The Networking of NetSocs" or "The Endless Argument", where all the networking societies meet up with their counterparts from some of the other fine educational establishments around. Get your drinking cap on and get ready to meet some really cool people! We're heading out to The Brew Dock so we can eat and drink and network! Tag along if you want to drink nice food, meet nice drinks and eat nice people! ============================================================= Redbrick Gets the Ghost Bus +Date: Friday 20/11 +Time: 8.30pm - 10pm +Location: Dublin Bus Tours, 59 O'Connell Street Upper +More info: http://www.dublinsightseeing.ie/GhostBus/index.aspx ============================================================= In the spirit of late Halloween celebrations, #RedbrickDayout is going on the Ghost Bus this Friday! Be prepared for a night of fear and terror to match what you get when the admin realises you stole his label-maker. Message the master of spooks ~butlerx if you're interested in going! Make sure to have a nosey at our calendar and social media pages: - Twitter: @RedbrickDCU - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dcuredbrick - Snapchat: RedbrickDCU - Calendar: http://tinyurl.com/redbrickCalendar All the best from myself and the rest, Noah Donnelly (cac) 1st Year Computational Problem Solving & Software Development Redbrick Secretary 2015/16

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Week 8: Webmaster: HTML & CSS | Account Renewals
by cac＠redbrick.dcu.ie 09 Nov '15

09 Nov '15

Hello all, Hope you enjoyed not having a reading week last week as much as I did. It's quite a quiet one this week, to let you catch up on sleep after celebrating our wonderful admin tbolt's birthday on Wednesday. But while I have you here, get hyped! Next Thursday (the 19th) is Intersocs Drinks night, where we meet up with our networking counterparts in some of the other fine educational establishments around. Get your drinking cap on and get ready to meet some really cool people! Also, for any Redbrick veterans out there, renew your Redbrick account this week! If you don't renew your old account, it'll be fired off into the voids of space and you won't be able to log in anymore. We'd miss your wit in #lobby. Deactivations start on the 13th November; accounts can be renewed after then but you won't be able to log in in the interim. In any case, here's what's on this week: +Webmaster: HTML & CSS - Wednesday 11/11 - 2pm - LG26 ============================================================= Webmaster: HTML & CSS +Date: Wednesday 11/11/15 +Time: 2pm - 4pm +Location: LG26 +More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/720975278045959/ ============================================================= Join our dazzling webmaster Seán (space) as he guides you through the world of HTML and CSS. If you're looking for a refresher on your web design lectures or are interesting in learning to build your own websites, this talk is for you. Even if you're not, you would definitely regret missing the Seán Healy experience. Make sure to take a gander at our calendar and our social media pages: - Twitter: @RedbrickDCU - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dcuredbrick - Snapchat: RedbrickDCU - Calendar: http://tinyurl.com/redbrickCalendar Hugs and kisses from myself & the rest of the Redbrick Committee, Noah Donnelly (cac) 1st Year Computational Problem Solving & Software Development Redbrick Secretary 2015/16

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VM Access - 06/11/15
by Redbrick Admins 06 Nov '15

06 Nov '15

Evening All, Just a heads up we suffered a minor hardware failure earlier this evening. The hardware failure has impacted access to VMs; we'll be working on restoring access. We are taking the opportunity that this hardware failure has afforded us to decommission some older hardware, this won't affect primary services. Regards, Richard Walsh (koffee) Redbrick Admin

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Announce Week 7 - IRC Bots and Git
by cac＠redbrick.dcu.ie 02 Nov '15

02 Nov '15

Howdy brickies! This week there's no shortage of interesting events to keep you busy and off the streets: +creadak: Building an IRC Bot - Wednesday 4/11 - 2pm - LG25 +Helpdesk & Admins: Intro to Git - Thursday 5/11 - 5pm - LG26 Apparently Engineering and Computing students don't read; to make up for the lack of Reading Week the faculty have decided to do something nice for us: https://www.facebook.com/events/155423348144725/ ============================================================= creadak: Building an IRC Bot +Date: Wednesday 04/11/15 +Time: 2pm - 4pm +Location: LG25 +Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/477389375774235/ ============================================================= Redbrick's bot games master creadak will be talking about the basics of building and maintaining an IRC bot in python. Come along and build your own! There'll be an IRC channel dedicated for this tutorial, so don't even try bringing it into lobby lest you invoke the wrath of the admins. ============================================================= Helpdesk & Admins: Intro to Git * +Date: Thursday 05/11/15 +Time: 5pm-6pm +Location: LG26 +Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1507372262914126/ ============================================================= This week the helpdesk team and admins talk about the wonderful tool that is: git. Projects big or small can benefit from using git version control. As part of this talk we'll also talk about the hosted git repo GitHub. Having a portfolio of projects on GitHub is a great asset when job hunting; why not get the ball rolling by signing up for this awesome deal: https://education.github.com/pack *don't confuse this git with space@redbrick; he's also a git we'll gladly introduce you to, but pushing him isn't remotely helpful. And that my friends is that for another week; Make sure to check out our social media pages and lovely little GCalendar: - Twitter: @RedbrickDCU - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dcuredbrick - Snapchat: RedbrickDCU - Calendar: http://tinyurl.com/redbrickCalendar Lots of love from myself & the rest of the committee (except koffee, he just grunted), Noah Donnelly (cac) 1st Year Computational Problem Solving & Software Development Redbrick Secretary 2015/16

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