This evening we had, left to right, Chris Boas, Charlie Boas, Raymond Schmalzl, Roger Clark, John Herron. George Wyche is taking the photo (for which he apologizes).
George showed off flist-ahi.exe which spoke in a robot-ish like, almost intelligible voice, to greet the CTACS membership. The say command is back.
George used AmigaAmp to play excerpts from the most recent AmigaRoundTable which is a weekly spoken report of all things Amiga. It is nice to hear voices other than our own talk about the Amiga scene.
George had to renege on the SQL show off because he was lazy and was having trouble with the new Python 2.5.1 which came with latest OS4 update from Hyperion.
George talked about this collaboration with Joerg van de Loo as a Alpha tester for his UniLibDev project. That is a Code Point core library and a support library for UTF-8 encoded texts.
In the same vein George is an active open-source programmer for the Amiga Tcl project with the lead being Alexandre Balaban of France. It is fun and frustrating. George got to get Subversion from OS4, thanks to Olaf Barthel, going so as to use the client to create a repository, import tcl8.5a5 from the upstream Tcl developers, and update with Alex's and his changes.
Then we turned the Amiga over to Chris to show us how to play Tower Toppler and BOFH, two games recently ported to OS4. Chris quickly topped George's high for Tower Toppler.
The finale was a recitation by George of a 16 point "Privacy" taxonomy prompted by "I've Got Nothing To Hide", from SSRN-id998565.pdf by Daniel J. Solove.
