We just confirmed one more event that’s coming up. For this talk Paola Saibene, the CIO of the Hawaii Libraries will give a talk on some of the benefits of the public library system that you may not already know about. The talk will be on Tuesday June 12th 7pm at HI Capacity (inside The Box Jelly).

HSPLS (Hawaii State Public Library System) is the only library system in the world to offer free world-wide access to certification-path IT courses from Microsoft. From Office Suite to Architectural Design of Datacenters, a patron conceivably could develop an IT career through the library system. With an unprecedented approach to educating our state and communities, HSPLS understands that libraries will need to step up to the challenge of filling in an educational gap in order to better equip our citizens for workforce development. “HI Tech Academy” is the umbrella program that hopes to include a myriad of educational paths, remaining as vendor inclusive as possible that will enrich the technological knowledge of our patrons “from keiki to kupuna”. HSPLS is open to ideas, assistance, and civic involvement in the course of elevating the technical expertise of our communities.

The talk will be held at The Box Jelly (Inside Fishcake furniture store) at 307c Kamani Street, Honolulu, HI 96813 on May 22nd, starting at 7:00pm. Parking is available at Sports Authority (owned by the same land owner). There is also street parking around the neighborhood.

Please RSVP at Eventbrite: http://hicap-library.eventbrite.com/

I’m excited to announce the third HI Capacity security night! See below for the description.

Come see a circus act of exploit development! No PowerPoints, prepare for nonstop action packed demos!!

Here are some of the things we will cover:

• Fuzzing for bugs
• Buffer overflow development
• IDS & antivirus avoidance
• Password hash cracking
• Client side document exploit
• Cross site scripting
• Local & remote file inclusions
• Sql injection
• Windows fails aka features

Bring your evil thinking caps and ask lots of questions. The only way to write safer code is to understand how it could be exploited.

The talk will be held at The Box Jelly (Inside Fishcake furniture store) at 307c Kamani Street, Honolulu, HI 96813 on May 22nd, starting at 7:00pm. Parking is available at Sports Authority (owned by the same land owner). There is also street parking around the neighborhood. The speaker is HI Capacity member Tony Dow.

Google maps link with picture of front door: http://g.co/maps/qdx2k

Please RSVP on eventbrite: http://hicap-exploitdev.eventbrite.com/

It’s that time again, the Organization for the Understanding Dynamic* Languages is meeting:

*And sometimes less dynamic languages that are cool.

Talk #2: Haskell - An introduction Thursday - May 24, 2012 - 7pm by Tim Newsham

The Haskell programming language is unique, challenging and inspiring. Haskell is notable for its strong, static type system, its “lazy” evaluation and its adherence to strict functional purity. Programming in Haskell is very different from programming in C- and Lisp-like languages most programmers are familiar with. Simply learning Haskell can be a mind-expanding experience.

In this talk we will get a glimpse of Haskell, discuss what makes it unique and compare its features with those in other languages.

Some manner of pastry will be served. I am giddy with excitement to finally learn Haskell. So come prepared with questions, or just come prepared to have your mind melted (either way - both can be fun). Please sign up on our meetup page to get involved: http://www.meetup.com/dynamic

Located at the Box Jelly 307c Kamani Street, inside Fishcake

Further planned talks:

• Functional Python - By Shu Zong Chen
• Clojure - An intro, setup w/ Emacs, Slime, Leiningen - by Kyle

Please forward to anyone you think might be interested.

In General: This series of talks aims to bring discussion and learning of interesting programming topics to Honolulu, not by importing speakers or exporting programmers (to/from the mainland), but by harnessing and growing our own talents locally. Think of it a first-rate programming conference, happening in slow motion, spread out across several months.

All participants are encouraged to present some material. Topics will be covered in talks and workshops by the members of this group. Subjects will come from a cohesive set of dynamic language concepts.