Linuxing In London, February 2017

Name: Linuxing In London, February 2017
Start: 2017-02-16T18:00:00Z
End: 2017-02-16T21:00:00Z
Location: Skills Matter, CodeNode

Hosted By

BrianLinuxing

Details

As we get away from the winter cold our thoughts turn to warmer times and open source software!

The evening we have a real expert talking about Swift coding on Linux, Nic Jackson. Brett Mack takes a look at rootkits and Brian will give a quick talk on Raspberry Pi.

Please sign up at Skills Matter (https://skillsmatter.com/groups/10627-linuxing-in-london) and study our code of conduct. (https://linuxinginlondon.wordpress.com/code-of-conduct/)

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18:00 Doors open

18:15 Welcome by the evening's MC, David Ross and a few words from Snap! (https://goo.gl/F6yqYX)

18:20 A lightening talk: Everything you wanted to know about Raspberry Pi installations but were afraid to ask, in 10 minutes or less by Brian Byrne.

18:30 Q&A

18:35 How "Swift" is AWS Lambda? by Nic Jackson.
19:20 Q&A

19:30 Break

19:40 An introduction to userland rootkits. How they work and what we can learn from them, by Brett Mack of OpenCredo.

Abstract:

"I find there is so much that can be learned from the InfoSec community, seeing how a system or service can be broken is a great way to learn how it works. This talk aims to provide an introduction to userland rootkits, specifically those that leverage the LD_PRELOAD technique. During the talk I will take you through creating a very basic rootkit, and show how they work with a little help from C, the GNU linker, and a tiny bit of assembly (I know neither of these languages well so it will be kept basic)."

20:10 Q&A

20:15 Community slot

20:20 Free raffles and prize draw.

20:25 Retire to Skills Matter's bar.

The final details are being confirmed, but our free raffle should contain at least one Raspberry Pi, thanks to OpenCredo! (https://opencredo.com/)

Also, there should be lovely Pizzas courtesy of OpenCredo, (https://opencredo.com/) many thanks.

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Many thanks to Skills Matter for the venue and hospitality.

Please sign up at Skills Matter as well. (https://skillsmatter.com/groups/10627-linuxing-in-london)

Don't forget to read their code of conduct (https://skillsmatter.com/go/code-of-conduct) and our's. (https://linuxinginlondon.wordpress.com/code-of-conduct/)

Hashtag: #LinuxingInLondon

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Speakers' biographies:

"1. Brian Byrne

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Brian Byrne is a regular on the London technology scene and organiser of Linuxing In London.

In the past he has managed floors of Mainframes, minis, networks and assorted high-end technologies for Banks and Blue chip companies since the 1980s.

Nowadays he concentrates on the Internet of Things (IoT), some coding and Mobile apps. He dabbles with Docker, AWS, Amazon's Alexa and a lot more.

He used to be good at Pub quizzes, once!

Brian is very, very keen on Twitter (https://twitter.com/BrianLinuxing) and Linux.

Nic Jackson

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Nic Jackson is a software engineering evangelist and polyglot programmer working for http://notonthehighstreet.com , with over 20 years experience in software development and leading software development teams.

He is currently writing "Building Microservices in Go" due to be published February 2017. This book examines the best patterns and practices for building microservices with the Go programming language.

In his spare time, Nic organizes Wild West Tech Talks a meetup group in West London, coaches and mentors at http://codebar.io and Coder Dojo, speaks and evangelizes good coding practice, process, and technique and works to raise money for a charity he runs with his wife.

Nic Jackson on Twitter. (https://twitter.com/sheriffjackson)