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Monday Downtime || Science HackDay 2013
by kylar 24 Feb '13

24 Feb '13

Hey everyone I hope you've al registered for science hack day! (details below). ==Downtime Monday 25th== ==Science HackDay== ==Downtime== Date: Monday, 25th of February 2013 Time: 10:00pm-10:30pm Just a quick note about tomorrow's downtime. All redbrick services will become unavailable at around 10pm tomorrow evening. The admin team will be applying updates which should take about half an hour. Remember to save anything you are working on at the time and back up any critical files just to be safe. If you have any questions or concerns email them to helpdesk(a)redbrick.dcu.ie == Science HackDay 2013 == Date: Saturday 2nd of March Time: 9:30am Venue: The Hub, DCU Ireland Event Link: http://sciencehackdaydublin.com/ Science Hack Day is an all-day-all-night event that brings scientists, engineers, computer scientists and designers together to find solutions (hacks) to real-life problems and questions during a brief but intense period of collaboration (36 hours). Science Hack Day's have become an international trend successfully bringing science and technology together by providing a platform for different types of creative and inquisitive minds to collaborate in the same physical space on focused tasks. It'll be a two great days of problem solving fun! Make sure to register at their website above in order to ensure yo get a ticket!! That's all for now, Regards, Robert Devereux, Redbrick Secretary 2012/"13

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Intro to Selenium
by kylar 18 Feb '13

18 Feb '13

Hey all, Just a quick update on tomorrow's 'Intro to Selenium Talk'. The talk is being held in LG25 and will start at 6:30, not 6:00 as previously stated. See you there, Robert Devereux, Redbrick Secretary 2012/"13.

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Tech Week || Intro to Selenium || Coding Competition || Moodle Talk
by kylar 18 Feb '13

18 Feb '13

Hey all, this week is Tech Week. A week to celebrate all things technology related. Here's what we've got on this week: == Intro to Selenium IDE with Failho == == OpenNet Programming Competition == == Moodle Founder Talk == == Paul Bunbury's Anniversary Mass == == Intro to Selenium IDE with Failho == Date: Tuesday 19th February Time: 6pm Loccation: TBC Selenium IDE is a development environment for Selenium scripts. It is implemented as a Firefox extension, and allows you to record, edit, and debug tests. It can also be used for converting IDE tests using Selenium Webdriver to allow for fast cross browser testing. Carri will be giving us a brief introduction to the Selenium IDE, it's history and some theory. Then on to the fun stuff; She'll be running through some quick "do it yourself examples" and showing us how to imitate the behaviour of real users of a website/web application using Selenium. == OpenNet Programming Competition == Have skills? Want to make some easy cash dollah? Openet in conjunction with RedBrick are holding a coding competition on 20th February. You will be given a problem and have 90 minutes to code up a solution in either Java or C++. The competition is open to 3rd, 4th and full- time masters students. The prizes are as follows: 1st: €1000 2nd: €500 3rd: €500 And up to €500 in spot prizes up for grabs on the day with free finger food and drink to all entrants provided by the NuBar. Well worth entering! To enter, please register here: http://www.openet.com/landing/code/register.php You will need your student card, laptop and charger on the day. Registration starts at 2:30 in The Venue. == Moodle Founder Talk == Date: Wednesday 20th February Time:6pm Venue: HG23, Nursing Building, DCU. Registration Link: http://bit.ly/Wj8u4M Moodle Founder Martin Dougiamas, will be giving a free talk entitled "The challenges of designing and delivering an open source project" during tech week this year. For anyone thinking of going into software development this will be a great opportunity to hear from an experienced industry professional. To date, Martin has worked on a number of projects including 'Moodle', which is now used in over 200 countries by over 1 million educators. This talk is free of charge however registration at the link above is necessary. We hope to see you there. == Paul Bunbury's Anniversary Mass == Paul's first anniversary mass is being held in St. Aengus' Church on the 13th of March at 10:00am. All are welcome to attend. Regards, Robert Devereux, Redbrick Secretary 2012/"13

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TechWeek Plans || Moodle Founder Talk || Science HackDay and more..
by kylar 10 Feb '13

10 Feb '13

Hey everyone we've got some exciting events coming your way very soon, == TechWeek == == OpenNet Programming Competition == == Moodle Founder Talk == == Science HackDay == == Notes Hosted On Webspace == == TechWeek == Exciting stuff, Tech Week this year is being held during week 3 from the 18th to the 22nd of February this year. We will have a full calendar of events for the week available for you soon. Some of the highlights you can expect include a talk from the founder of Moodle and a programming competition we are running in conjunction with OpenNet. == OpenNet Programming Competition == Have skills? Want to make some easy cash dollah? Openet in conjunction with RedBrick are holding a coding competition on 20th February. You will be given a problem and have 90 minutes to code up a solution in either Java or C++. The competition is open to 3rd, 4th and full- time masters students. The prizes are as follows: 1st: €1000 2nd: €500 3rd: €500 And up to €500 in spot prizes up for grabs on the day with free finger food and drink to all entrants provided by the NuBar. Well worth entering! To enter, please register here: http://www.openet.com/landing/code/register.php You will need your student card, laptop and charger on the day. Registration starts at 2:30 in The Venue. == Moodle Founder Talk == Date: Wednesday 20th February Time:6pm Venue: HG23, Nursing Building, DCU. Registration Link: http://bit.ly/Wj8u4M Moodle Founder Martin Dougiamas, will be giving a free talk entitled "The challenges of designing and delivering an open source project" during tech week this year. For anyone thinking of going into software development this will be a great opportunity to hear from an experienced industry professional. To date, Martin has worked on a number of projects including 'Moodle', which is now used in over 200 countries by over 1 million educators. This talk is free of charge however registration at the link above is necessary. We hope to see you there. == Science HackDay == Date: Saturday 2nd of March Time: 9:30am Venue: The Hub, DCU Ireland Event Link: http://sciencehackdaydublin.com/ Science Hack Day is an all-day-all-night event that brings scientists, engineers, computer scientists and designers together to find solutions (hacks) to real-life problems and questions during a brief but intense period of collaboration (36 hours). Science Hack Day's have become an international trend successfully bringing science and technology together by providing a platform for different types of creative and inquisitive minds to collaborate in the same physical space on focused tasks. It'll be a two great days of problem solving fun! Make sure to register at their website above in order to ensure yo get a ticket!! == Notes Hosted On Webspace == Link: https://wiki.redbrick.dcu.ie/mw/PubCookie_on_Redbrick We have recently been contacted by some lecturers about redbrick members hosting notes on their personal web space. We see no real problem with this however it can become an issue if students are using notes from past modules as a substitute for notes on modules which they are currently taking. We would ask all our members who are hosting module notes on their web space to place them behind a simple htaccess file, (see instructions at the link above) or simply take them down. If you have any questions on how to set this up, contact helpdesk(a)redbrick.dcu.ie Thats all for now, Robert Devereux, Redbrick Secretary 2012/"13.

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End of Exam Pints
by kylar 24 Jan '13

24 Jan '13

Hey everyone, ==End of Exam Pints== Date: 25/01/2013 Venue: NuBar Time: 5pm Just a quick notification, we'll be getting together tomorrow evening in the NuBar around 5pm for some post-exam pints. It'll be a good chance to relax after a stressful two weeks of cramming so pop down to drink away your sorrows or celebrate your success! Either way it should be fun! Regards, Robert Devereux Redbrick Secretary 2012/"13

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Downtime Tonight 18/01/2013
by kylar 18 Jan '13

18 Jan '13

Hey all, Sorry about the late notice. The admin team will be taking down our servers at around 6pm tonight to apply some updates. The downtime should last about a half hour or so. We advise that you back up any work you are currently running to avoid any accidental loss of data. If you have any questions you can contact us at committee(a)redbrick.dcu,ie . Regards, Robert Devereux Redbrick Secretary 2012/2013.

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Week 12 Programming Tutorials || Admin Training || Intro to Ruby
by kylar 10 Dec '12

10 Dec '12

Hey everyone, here's what's going on for the last week of the semester! ==Programming Tutorials/Programming Competition Training== ==An Intro to Ruby== ==Admin Training== ==Programming Tutorials/Programming Competition Training== Date: Monday 10th of December Time: 5pm-6pm Venue: LG26 This week's programming tutorial session is being held at the regular time in LG26. In addition to helping with programming tutorials we will be using these sessions to practice for upcoming programming competitions. Don't worry if you have no experience in programming competitions, we'll be starting from the basics and working our way up. ==An Intro to Ruby== Date: Tuesday 11th of December Time: 5pm Venue: TBC Website:http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/about One of our own members Tsov will be giving us an introductory talk to programming in Ruby this Tuesday. Ruby is a dynamic, general purpose, object oriented programming language similar in ways to Perl and Python. Some of its features include automatic memory management, built in support for rational/complex numbers and literal notation for arrays, hashes and symbols. If you're interested in learning how to program in Ruby or just want to try something new come along to our last talk of the semester! ==Admin Training== Date: Tuesday 11th of December Time: 6pm Venue:LG26 This week in admin training our chairperson (and former admin) fun will be taking us through an introduction to processes. He'll be covering different types of processes, viewing process information, starting and killing processes and more. This will be a good session for those who want to learn more about manipulating the processes that run on your machine on a day to day basis. Also, from all of the Redbrick committee, we hope you have a great Christmas and to those studying for them, we wish you the best of luck in your exams in January. Robert Devereux, Redbrick Secretary 2012/"13

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Week 11, Christmas party || Web Dev talk || Admin Training and more ...
by kylar 03 Dec '12

03 Dec '12

Hey everyone, it may be the second last week of semester one but it's never too late to get involved! ==Intersocs Christmas Party== ==Web Dev Talk== ==Admin Training== ==IRLCpC== ==Programming Tutorials/ Programming Contest Training== ==Intersocs Christmas Party== Date: Thursday 6th of December Venue: Matt Weldons, 'The Slipper' Time: 7pm This year's Intersocs Christmas party is finally upon us!! It's being held this Thursday in Matt Weldons in association with GamesSoc, Anime Manga Soc, EngSoc and Paranormal Soc. it's sure to be a big one. There'll also be a visit from Santa, and we promise there'll be lots of presents as well as plenty of platters and festive drinks deals! Hope to see you all there! ==Web Dev Talk== Date:Tuesday 4th of December Time: 5pm-6pm Venue: C114 Dr. Donal Fitzpatrick will be presenting a web design talk this Tuesday. The talk will centre around web development powered by Drupal. Drupal is an open source content management system (CMS) used to design websites with a focus on modularity, standards, collaboration, ease-of-use, and more. It is a cutting-edge platform that supports the latest technologies that the Web has to offer. This is set to be an insightful talk from one of DCU's own experienced lecturers, so be sure to attend and take note of any development advice or tips he has to offer. ==Admin Training== Date: Tuesday 4th of December Time: 6pm-7pm Venue: LG26 During this weeks session of admin training the admins will be talking you through the basics of securing a linux server. Some of the topics they will cover include, ensuring your operating system is updated and current, configuring firewalls and access policies and physical access. Making sure your server is secure is important for any would-be admin so pop along on Tuesday for a valuable lesson in server security. ==IRLCpC== Date: End of March 2013 Venue: UCC Website:http://acm.ucc.ie/irlcpc This year sees Redbrick members looking to represent the society and University at the annual Irish Collegiate Programming Contest. In 2011 a team of redbrick members took 3rd place. They were one of five teams who attended. In 2012 five teams also attended the contest. Competitors can use Python, C, C++, Java and C# to solve a series of problems a sample of which can be found at http://bit.ly/SEXcUG. Teams consist of 3 members, so grab two of your friends and get coding. If you don't know where to start, pop along to programming tutorials on Mondays where we will be holding training for programming competitions. ==Programming Tutorials***/ Programming Contest Training== Date: Monday 3rd of December. Time: 5pm Venue: LG26 This week's programming tutorial session is being held at the regular time in LG26. In addition to helping with programming tutorials we will be using these sessions to practice for upcoming programming competitions. Don't worry if you have no experience in programming competitions, we'll be starting from the basics and working our way up. We're hoping to get some feedback from those who have attended over the next while to see where we can improve. If all goes well we hope to get people in from industry to give talks and tutorials over the coming weeks. ***The tutors helping out at the tutorials are students and as such may not be able to answer all of your problems. Also it should be noted that they will not be able to give you the answers to any assignments/labs you have that you are being graded on. If you are having trouble with an assignment or lab we will try to help you understand the problem and how you should go about solving it rather than giving you the answer. If you have any questions regarding the tutorials, send an email to helpdesk(a)redbrick.dcu.ie . That's all for this week! Regards, Robert Devereux, Redbrick Secretary 2012/"13

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Movie Night!
by kylar 26 Nov '12

26 Nov '12

Apologies for the second email guys, we just received a last minute update on one of our events for this week. ==Movie Night== Date: Thursday 29th of November Time: 6:30 Venue: C104 Engineering Society have kindly invited us along to their movie night this Thursday. They'll be showing the hilarious film 'Ted'! This should be a fun night, and a great chance to get to know some more of the faces who we share the common room with. Also, there'll be popcorn and goodies, and we'll head over to NuBar afterwards for some pints! Regards, Robert Devereux, Redbrick Secretary 2012/"13

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Week 10, New Events Officer || Hoodie Order || Web Dev Talk and more ...
by kylar 25 Nov '12

25 Nov '12

Hey Everyone, here's your news and events update for the next few weeks. We hope everyone's looking forward to the end of term and a great holiday season. ==New Events Officer== ==Hoodie Order== ==Google STEP Internship== ==Christmas Party== ==Web Development Talk== ==Programming Tutorials== ==Admin Training== ==New Events Officer== We'd like to welcome our new Events Officer, Áine Duffy (Pedro) to the committee. She has some great plans for the coming year, and has hit the ground running starting to organise the upcoming Christmas Party. We on the committee are really looking forward to working with Áine over the coming year. ==Hoodie Order== We will be placing this years hoodie order on Friday Nov 30th.The hoodies will cost be 25 euro each. If you would like a redbrick hoodie, you can add your order to the list at this link: http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~vadimck/hoodies/ Adding your order to the list merely records your interest and order details for reference. Your hoodie selection will only be placed in the final order if you have paid the 25 euro to the committee on or before the 28th of November. We will be accepting payments on the following dates: Monday the 26th, Tuesday the 27th and Wednesday the 28th of November. Note that payments will not be accepted after the 28th of November. If you wish to pay for your order but will not be able to pay on these dates contact us at committee(a)redbrick.dcu.ie ==Google STEP Internship== Closing Date: 28th December Website: http://bit.ly/Rlo1wJ This is Google's 2nd year of offering STEP internships in Europe. STEP is a unique programme in so far as it is focused on 1st and 2nd year Computer Science and related subjects students - so graduating in 2015 and later. This 12 week program 1st July 2013 and 20th September 2013 is open to all qualified university students enrolled in a B.A. or B.Sc. focused on: Computer Science Computer Engineering Informatics or in a closely related technical field. Applicants should have some programming experience in either Java, Python, C, or C++. Google are also looking to promote internships and Google products and services throughout the year, we'll keep you posted on them as they arise ==Christmas Party== Date: Thursday 6th of December Venue: Matt Weldons, 'The Slipper' Time: 7pm This year's Intersocs Christmas party is being held on the Thursday of week 11, mark the dates on your G-Calendars as it's sure to be a big one. There'll also be a visit from Santa, as well as plenty of platters and festive drinks deals! Hope to see you all there! More details to follow!! ==Web Development Talk== Date:Tuesday 4th of December Time: 5pm-6pm Venue: LG26 Dr. Donal Fitzpatrick will be presenting a web design talk in week 11. The talk will centre around web development powered by Drupal. Drupal is an open source content management system (CMS) used to design websites with a focus on modularity, standards, collaboration, ease-of-use, and more. It is a cutting-edge platform that supports the latest technologies that the Web has to offer. This is set to be an insightful talk from one of DCU's own experienced lecturers, so be sure to attend and take note of any development advice or tips he has to offer. ==Programming Tutorials== Date: Monday 26th November. Time: 5pm Venue: LG26 Due to an increasing demand from our members, we are planning to run weekly programming tutorials. During these tutorial sessions you will be able to bring along any problems you are having with your code/coding concepts and we'll do our best to help you out. Whether you're getting a compiler error that you don't recognise, you're having trouble with some coding concepts or a logic error in your code is driving you crazy sometimes a fresh set of eyes is all you need. These tutors helping out at the tutorials are students and as such may not be able to answer all of your problems. Also it should be noted that they will not be able to give you the answers to any assignments/labs you have that you are being graded on. If you are having trouble with an assignment or lab we will try to help you understand the problem and how you should go about solving it rather than giving you the answer. The tutorials were quite well received last week, hopefully those who came along got the help they required. We're hoping to get some feedback from those who have attended over the next while to see where we can improve. If all goes well we hope to get people in from industry to give talks and tutorials over the coming weeks. If you have any questions regarding the tutorials, send an email to helpdesk(a)redbrick.dcu.ie . ==Admin Training== Date: Tuesday 27th of November Time: 6pm-7pm Venue: LG26 This week in Admin Training the admin team will be talking you through some basic shell scripting. Scripting is a useful tool for performing the same task multiple times, or on large sets of data. Some typical uses for shell scripts include file manipulation, program execution, and printing text. Needless to say scripting is an invaluable skill for any system administrator so join us on Tuesday for some training and some craic. That's all for this week, as always if you have any questions, feel free to contact us at committee(a)redbrick.dcu.ie. Robert Devereux, Redbrick Secretary 2012/"13

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