Presentations and Talks

The following is a list of talks and presentation that I have done on various topics.

They are sorted by the most recent first.

• Microcontrollers and the Internet of Things, for the KWLUG.
• Islamic Astronomy and its Legacy in Arabic Origin Of Modern Star Names for the Kitchener-Waterloo Royal Astronomical Society of Canada.
• Incremental Backup For Linux for the KWLUG.
• Medieval Islamic Astronomy And Its Influence on Renaissance Europe for the Kitchener-Waterloo Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
• Forgotten History: Al-Sufi's Book Of Fixed Stars for Kitchener-Waterloo Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
• Open Source Software for Astronomy for the KWLUG meeting
• Frugal Astrophotography for the Kitchener-Waterloo Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
• Raspberry Pi Projects at the KWLUG
• Replacing a laptop disk on Linux and making hibernate work
• Flashing Android OmniROM on Acer Iconia A500 Tablet, Jan 5, 2016.
• Sept 2015 How To Replace A Linux Laptop's Hard Disk Preserving All The Data On it, and allowing the laptop to hibernate.
• Libvirt, KVM and VirtualBox, Nov 3, 2014
• Software Freedom Day, Kitchener: Making a Living with Free/Libre Open Source Software, Sept 20, 2014
• What is OpenWRT, how to install it, and how it is useful for bandwidth monitoring.
• Drupal Performance: Tips and Tricks at the Drupal Camp Toronto 2014
• Drupal Performance: What you need to know, for the London, Ontario Drupal Users Group
• Panel: Earning a living from Free/Libre Open Source Softare (FLOSS)
• HUGE? How to deal with 381 modules, 174GB database and 200 million row tables at Drupal Camp Toronto 2012
• Web Site Performance Optimization and Scalability at Drupal Camp Toronto 2011
• Drupal Camp Toronto 2010 3.4 million page views per day, 92 million per month, one server, and Drupal!
• On June 3, 2010: London (Ontario) Drupal Users Group: Overview of Views and Panels.
• On May 3, 2010: Overview of the MySQL Database.
• On April 20, 2010: 2.4 million page views/day, 60 million per month, one server at the San Francisco 2010 DrupalCon
• On February 9, 2010: Overview of the LAMP stack for the February GTA LUG meeting.
• On November 2, 2009 at the Kitchener/Waterloo Linux Users Group: Linux Tools for Monitoring and Peformance.
• On October 30, 2009 at Seneca College's Free Software and Open Source Symposium: Open Source for Fun and Profit: Making a career out of FOSS.
• On October 24, 2009 at Ontario Linux Fest: Introduction ot the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP/Python/Perl).
• Drupal For Fun And Profit: Making A Career Out Of Open Source, at DrupalCon Boston 2008, Drupal Camp Toronto 2008, as well as at the KWLUG.
• August 2007 Drupal Performance Tuning And Optimization; And Userpoints at OpenCraft in Cairo, Egypt.
• May 2006 Drupal Camp Toronto Presentation: Building Drupal Community Sites. Here is a one minute video by Roland Tanglao