[NCLUG] Tuesday, October 10, 2017 NCLUG Meeting at FCCH

Bob Proulx bob at proulx.com
Tue Oct 10 19:24:59 MDT 2017


James DeWitt wrote:
> What: Tuesday October 10, 2017 NCLUG Meeting
> When: Tuesday October 10, 2017, 6pm
> Where: Fort Collins Creator Hub,
>   1304 Duff Dr Unit 15, Fort Collins, CO; map:
>   https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=1304+Duff+Dr+Unit+15%2C+Fort+Collins%2C+CO%2C+us
> Topic:  Short Topics
> 
> Please come and tell us about a project, tech topic, or problem that
> interests you in around 10 minutes. Quick demos are a plus!
> 
> If you have a Linux related topic, short or long, that you would like to
> present in a future meeting, please let us know.

James opened the meeting with a giveaway of some excess equipment
donated by Sean.  Thanks Sean!

Bob Proulx talked about the 'sshuttle' self described as "where
transparent proxy meets VPN meets ssh".  This is a combined arms
tactic strategy to proxy TCP connections such as http or other through
an ssh tunnel very efficiently.  It does not require root on the
remote server that is used to proxy through.  Just ssh shell access.

  http://sshuttle.readthedocs.io/en/stable/manpage.html
  https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle

Bill Tucker talked about Robot Framework self described as "a generic
test automation framework for acceptance testing and acceptance
test-driven development (ATDD).  It has easy-to-use tabular test data
syntax and it utilizes the keyword-driven testing approach. Its
testing capabilities can be extended by test libraries implemented
either with Python or Java, and users can create new higher-level
keywords from existing ones using the same syntax that is used for
creating test cases."

  http://robotframework.org/

That discussion pulled us over to talking about reStructuredText.  It
is self described as, "reStructuredText is an easy-to-read,
what-you-see-is-what-you-get plain text markup syntax and parser
system. It is useful for in-line program documentation (such as Python
docstrings), for quickly creating simple web pages, and for standalone
documents."

  http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html

Then Bill talked about ditaa which is self described as, "ditaa is a
small command-line utility written in Java, that can convert diagrams
drawn using ascii art ('drawings' that contain characters that
resemble lines like | / - ), into proper bitmap graphics."  A very
cool ascii markup language to produce *both* text diagrams as well as
nice bitmapped graphics for documentation.

  http://ditaa.sourceforge.net/

A lively Free-For-All discussion of various wide ranging topics too
quick to capture effectively ended the meeting followed by voting for
dinner which ended up at Coopersmiths.


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