Anyone interested in a computer/programming club (Galway area)

The club won't involve you doing anything you don't want to. But everything you do get involved in, your participation will be completely acknowledged. I have a site myself online. We could have the club as an extension to that site or else we could develop a new one from scratch (I recommend that!).

I would like the club to meet @ least once every week, where we can exchange ideas and get the solutions to computing problems we may have.

I myself have plenty of stuff to get people off the ground in to programming for example if they are interested (Compilers, Tutorials). All this stuff will be distributed for educational purposes only.

If anyone would like to mail me, you can get me @ galway_computer_club@hotmail.com. But of course I will constantly be in reply on this BBS.

There is just one thing that I want to point out WRT the club. Since I am trying to attract people from every level of computing, I don't want ego trippers that know it all, and laugh in the face of beginners/newbies. After that anything goes.

phobos :-)

K, for starters if I wanted to startup a club that helped people brush up their DTP skills, do you honestly think I would have posted it on a programming board??
-[I don't think so]-

I am trying to find a way to get bedroom programmers jobs!!. I have seen stuff like this in Dublin, and it helped people get their own little projects up and running faster.

At the moment I am developing server side components which can run on any platform (EJBs), which could interact with a client applet for example or maybe an ActiveX component sitting on a browser. Maybe there is someone else out there doing or has done something similar...
[See what I'm gettin @]

Nobody has anything to lose, if anything I am trying to help people, not take anything away.

;-phobos-)

Well done mate ;-)

But how did you override Java security and give the applet access to the local drive!.
-[sounds interesting]-

But on the otherhand has anyone dabbled in component development (preferably server side). The client software is not really relevant here!.

:-phobos-)

Ah yes!,

But don't you remember I was only a wee Electronic Engineer, but now, for I am an almighty 3rd yr programmer (sweeet).

Also I should have told ye that I had been programming in C a year before I met you guys. Damn first years, they'll never learn (the youth of today!!, or something along those lines).

What's this I hear about a LAN eh?, it's a magical word in my box. Alas 9 cats out of 10 don't know what they're missing, or possibly even know what I'm talking about. Which reminds me, I must stop talking to cats!. I play Quake3, but I am a bit of a UT fan (it's much faster).

Anyway I gotta go, Brian O'Shea is about to give a speech on the JDBC::ODBC bridge. N E way I will probably be back several times today (shows my interest in Java Remote Database Connectivity) ;-)

;-phobos-)