Speaker: Roger House
Location: O'Reilly Media

Description:

This is a short talk describing an algorithmic error made by the speaker when writing code to draw some geometric objects on paper. Most of the objects displayed just fine, but some were shifted to wrong places on the page. Finding the cause of the problem was a bit of a mystery until an "Ah ha" event occurred. No sophisticated experience with graphics programming is required of the audience. The main ingredients are scaling and translation, rather basic operations which are explained in the talk.

Speaker: Kyle Rankin
Location: O'Reilly Media

Description:

In this talk Kyle will talk about DNS, the boogeyman in the network troubleshooting world, and explain not only how to tell when DNS isn't the cause of your problems, but also dive into DNS troubleshooting so you'll know for sure when it's to blame. Kyle will cover troubleshooting techniques aimed at the entire DevOps organization. DevOps-style collaboration is great for rapidly developing and deploying software, and when you apply those techniques to troubleshooting, problem solving gets the same benefits.

Location: O'Reilly Media

NBLUG's yearly elections will be held on 2012-11-13. For more information on the positions open, see the Elected Officers section of http://nblug.org/bylaws.

After the election is concluded we will have time allotted for lightning talks followed by the announcements of the election result. The remainder of the night will be a hackfest with rumors of a possible code sprint happening.