• It seems that more and more geeks are discovering a fascination with cooking. Whether you’re a geek that lives to cook or just cooks to live, Object Oriented Cooking is for you! Geek chef Joseph Hall will show you how smaller recipes can become objects, ready to be included on a whim in larger recipes. As you begin to understand how code reuse can happen in the kitchen, your meals will become both easier and tastier.

    From programming to cooking school to training to system administration, Joseph Hall has been around the block. His most recent endeavors include monitoring servers, trying to eliminate downtime and fraud. Much of his spare time is spent finding similarities between computers and the kitchen.

     
     
     
  • Maybe you’ve heard of ARP, netmasks or routing tables but aren’t quite sure what they are. Perhaps you know what a firewall does but aren’t sure how to set one up in Linux. Those and many more questions are answered in this entry-level course on networking. When you’re done you’ll be ready to go forth and network the world. Or your apartment, at least.

    Topics we cover:

    * Protocols: IP, ARP, TCP, UDP, ICMP, DNS
    * OSI 7 layer model, IETF we-don’t-need-no-stinkin’-models model
    * IP addresses (IPv4, touching on IPv6)
    * Networking commands in Linux
    * Firewall principles, with examples for Linux
    * Routing. What makes a router a router anyway?

    Corey has been a Network and Systems Engineer at a Wyoming ISP for the last 5 years, and as such gets to use all sorts of fun network and server tools. Outside of the lab he’s interested in hiking, cooking, gardening and photography.