[ILUG] 15th Irish OpenSolaris User Group Meeting

[Alberto Ruiz]

Hi all,

I'm happy to announce the 15th Irish OpenSolaris User Group meeting:

Topic           Daily DTrace
Date            Thursday October 25th
Time            7:00pm onwards
Location        DIT, Lower Kevin Street, Room KE 3-008

This month, John Rice and Sean McGrath are going to give a demo to show how
DTrace can improve your daily life. I'm going to give a small presentation
at the beginning to introduce the basic concepts of DTrace before they start
to show the magic of DTrace.

DTrace is a dynamic tracing tool that allows you to instrument your whole
operating environment and understand when and where is something happening
within your software stack without modifying it and without any downtime. It
is originally developed for Solaris 10, however it's been currently ported
for other systems like FreeBSD and Mac OS X.

Most people find difficult to understand what can DTrace do for them, what
kind of problems they can solve with it and how to use it to solve them. The
demos are targeted to the broader audience, they're going to show different
DTrace strategies to solve familiar problems for any kind of user: system
administration, networking and software development in both low and high
level languages (C, perl, JavaScript).

This should be a really interesting talk, and I'd definitely encourage you
to come along – please feel free to pass this message around and spread the
word.

As always, we'll also try to give a quick run down of OpenSolaris news over
the past month, and will be recording the talk and adding it to our podcast
feed as well as posting the slides here, in case you can't make it to the
meeting.

Once again, many thanks to the nice folks at DIT for offering to host our
meeting!

A link to this announcement is:
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/ie-osug/meetings/15/

A map to get to DIT from the Trinity College main entrance:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=113670747991678962881.00043c86ec0e91d2f4be8&ll=53.342609,-6.257443&spn=0.014297,0.037594&z=15&om=1

Look forward to seeing you there!

-- 
Cheers,
Alberto Ruiz