Omaha Java Users Group

We are just a week away from the next OJUG meeting. This month our speaker will be Scott Hickey with a talk entitled:

Groovy is Java
Most presentations about Groovy highlight many of the similarities between Groovy and other dynamic languages such as Ruby and Smalltalk. However, Groovy’s design goal was not to replace Java or be a JVM implementation of an existing language. Its target audience is the Java developer and its goal is to augment the toolbox of Java developer. In this talk, Scott will talk about the various ways that Groovy *is* Java.

===> PLEASE RSVP to Matt Secoske (reply to this email or send an email to secoskem <@> gmail <.> com)

Date:
Tuesday, May 20th
- Food / Open forum starting at 5:30PM
- Presentation to start at 6:30PM

Location:
Gallup Riverfront Campus
1001 Gallup Dr, Omaha, NE
(402) 951-2003 [ map]

Hope to see everyone there!

Right on the heels of an amazing NoFluffJustStuff conference, we have another fubtastic OJUG meeting quickly approaching!

This meeting will feature lightning talks from a couple great speakers!

Scott Hickey, fresh off of his NFJS talk, will be presenting two talks: one on Jasper Reports, and another on building a “common utilities” plugin for Eclipse.
John Christopher will enlighten us on how we can use JUnit to work with a JavaScript behavior/specification testing framework.

Please RSVP to Matt Secoske (secoskem @ gmail.com)

Call for presentations:

If you are interested in talking at this meeting (or another), please feel free to contact Matt about that as well!

Hello everyone,

It is time once again for a fantastic Omaha Java Users Group meeting!

This month our speaker is Corey Spitzer, who will impart his knowledge of the iBatis ORM framework upon us!

Also, we have a special prize to give away:  One full pass to the upcoming No Fluff Just Stuff conference here in Omaha!  This is a great prize, worth $975!!

===> PLEASE RSVP to Matt Secoske (reply to this email or send an email to secoskem@gmail.com )

Date:
Tuesday, March 18th
- Food / Open forum starting at 5:30PM
- Presentation to start at 6:30PM

Location:
Gallup Riverfront Campus
1001 Gallup Dr, Omaha, NE
(402) 951-2003 [ map]

Hope to see everyone there!

As previously announced, we are having a special guest speaker tonight: Brian Sletten from NoFluffJustStuff!

Also, we will be giving away a Free Pass to the upcoming NoFluffJustStuff conference here in Omaha!

Date:
 Tuesday, February 19th
 - Food / Open forum starting at 5:30PM
 - Presentation to start at 6:30PM

Location:
Gallup Riverfront Campus
1001 Gallup Dr, Omaha, NE
(402) 951-2003 [ map]

Hope to see everyone there!

This February 19th we will have a special speaker: Brian Sletten, NFJS speaker extraordinaire, will talk to us about
REST.  Brian’s talk is sponsored by NoFluffJustStuff and their upcoming conference in Omaha, the Greater Nebraska Software Symposium.  The conference is April 4th-6th…. be sure to talk to your manager about this great (and inexpensive!) opportunity to learn!

Link: http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/omaha/2008/04/index.html

Location will be Gallup as usual, times to be announced.

Here is a little more info on Brian:
Brian Sletten is a liberal arts-educated software engineer with a focus on forward-leaning technologies. He has a background as a system architect, a developer, a mentor and a trainer. His experience has spanned defense, finance and commercial domains with security consulting, network matrix switch controls, 3D simulation/visualization, Grid Computing, P2P and Semantic Web-based systems. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary and currently lives in Fairfax, VA. He is a partner in Zepheira, LLC, a new services company focused on using semantic-oriented technologies to solve architectural and data integration problems not handled by conventional tools and techniques.

Hope to you see you there!

Due to the upcoming holidays, we are once again this year moving up the
OJUG meetings by a week for both November and December.

So, it is time again for a fabutastic Omaha Java Users Group meeting!

Our speaker this month is none other than Groovy Eclipse Plugin Lead, Scott Hickey!
Scott will be giving us an updated look into the Groovy Eclipse Plugin.

Please Note: this month we are moving the presentation up to 6:00pm.

===> PLEASE RSVP to Matt Secoske
(send an email to secoskem@gmail.com)

Date:
Tuesday, October 16th
- Food / Open forum starting at 5:30PM
- Presentations to start at 6:00PM

Location:
Gallup Riverfront Campus
1001 Gallup Dr, Omaha, NE
(402) 951-2003 [ map]

The Greater Nebraska Software Symposium returns to Omaha on March23-25th.  GNSS 2007 will offer four concurrent sessions for you tochoose from.  The hot topics covered at GNSS 2007 include:
* Groovy/Grails
* OSGI
* Domain Driven Design
* Annotations
* Java 6.0
* REST
* JRuby
* Drools
* Ajax
* JPA and many more!
We will be giving away a pass at the February 20th OJUG meeting, so be there for your chance to win!

Also, there is an early bird special going on through March 5th, and seating is limited, so get your ticket soon!

Should OJUG meet at 1Staff or Gallup going forward?