Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 22:49:16 -0500 From: Owen Hartnett Subject: MacTechGrp Meeting - February 7, 2001 MacTechGrp Meeting February 7, 2001 7-9PM Room 395 Bldg E51 MIT Sloan School Web Objects Andrew Pontious A Mac developer who made a year-long odyssey into the WebObject world, Mr. Pontious will cover Web Objects both from the inside and the outside. How did it start? What's so special about it compared to other Internet Application Servers on the market? What kind of people use it, and why do they often feel Apple betrayed them? This presentation will include technical details for which it is helpful to know the programming languages Java or C, but should also be suitable for anyone interested in Apple and NeXT and their technology, which is at the heart of Apple's upcoming next-generation operating system, Mac OS X. The usual suspects will be rounded up for exciting Macintosh jabbering, and we hope you'll participate. Your presence is requested ("We couldn't get any presents, the stores were all closed." -Shemp) along with any Macintosh news, questions, or rumors, at MIT building E51 Wednesday night, And if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce it tastes much more like prunes than rhubarb does. ***Note from the new mail list administrator*** In the future, the MacTechGrp announcement will originate from this address, and likewise changes and additions should be directed to owen@ids.net. Also, I'd like to thank John Shockey on behalf of the MacTechGrp for the outstanding job he's done in the past handling this mailing list. *** Note: The room number is 395, but we often move to a room with a better projector, so 395 is often just a pointer to our real address. I always write the real room number on the blackboard in 395, so just dereference that. You can get a map showing building E51 at http://whereis.mit.edu/bin/map?oldstate=2&off.x=4620&off.y=1640&hi=bldg_e51&zoom.x=89&zoom.y=38 You can catch a cold standing out in weather like this. The MacTechGrp always meets the first Wednesday of the month. You can get more information on the MacTechGrp (and sometimes out of date meeting information) at http://www.codewell.com/mactechgrp To contact the unindicted co-conspirators irresponsible for this group, email owen@ids.net or sgs@codewell.com. *** Do you aspire to someday speak before the august MacTechGrp? Whether you're a new programmer or an old pro, you probably have something interesting you could tell the rest of the group. Fear not, your lucky day could be at hand, but slots are filling fast. Send an email to eric@slosser.net with your proposed topic.***