Omaha Java Users Group

meeting tue jul 20th - open discussion

stephen — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:54:20 +0000

This month’s meeting is just open discussion. Last time we did this it was a lot of fun, so even though there isn’t a specific topic being presented on, please come on out and chat about whatever topics/questions/hacks you’ve been interested in lately.

Meeting details:

Tuesday, July 20th
Food at 5:30pm courtesy of TEKsystems
Open discussion at 6:00pm
Gallup Riverfront Campus, 1001 Gallup Drive

Hope to see you there!

meeting tue jun 13th - jquery

stephen — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 04:32:54 +0000

This month, at the great suggestion of Dave Kerber, we’ve invited Andrew Wirick to come give a talk on JQuery. Given most Java projects involve some amount of browser client-side development these days, it seemed like a great topic to branch out to.

Andrew is heavily involved in the local JQuery users group and has given several presentations there. He has 3-4 different presentations he can give, ranging from beginner to advanced, depending on our group’s interests/existing familiarity with JQuery.

Meeting details:

Tuesday, June 15th
Food at 5:30pm courtesy of TEKsystems
Presentation at 6:00pm
Gallup Riverfront Campus, 1001 Gallup Drive

Hope to see you there!

meeting tue may 18th - polygot/clojure

stephen — Sat, 15 May 2010 22:56:54 +0000

The next meeting is this Tuesday on the 18th. Scott Hickey has said he’ll talk/foster discussion around polygot programming (using multiple programming languages on the same project) and/or Clojure (a Lisp language for the JVM).

People have being saying great things about Clojure, and how it built concurrency/immutability/etc. directly into the language. Should be a great time.

Meeting details: Tuesday, May 18th
Food at 5:30pm courtesy of TEKsystems
Presentation at 6:00pm
Gallup Riverfront Campus, 1001 Gallup Drive, Omaha, NE

meeting tue apr 20th - swing testing

stephen — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:31:16 +0000

This month David Kerber is giving a presentation on testing Swing user interfaces with the fest API. He’ll talk about his experience of adding several hundred automated tests to an existing Swing app.

Automated testing is a very interesting topic and something enterprise projects should definitely be doing in some form these days, so I look forward to hearing about David’s experiences.

Meeting details:

Tuesday, April 20th
Food at 5:30pm courtesy of TEKsystems
Presentation at 6:00pm
Gallup Riverfront Campus, 1001 Gallup Drive, Omaha, NE

Hope to see you there!

meeting tue mar 16th

stephen — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:21:02 +0000

This month’s meeting is just open discussion–we’ll kibitz about whatever people are finding interesting, challenging, etc., these days.

Also, thanks to TekSystems who, besides sponsoring pizza as usual, will also be doing a door prize raffle.

It should be fun. Hope to see you there.

Meeting details:

Tuesday, March 16th
Food at 5:30pm
Open discussion at 6:00pm
Gallup Riverfront Campus, 1001 Gallup Drive, Omaha, NE

meeting tue feb 16th — android/ui/games

stephen — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:57:30 +0000

For the meeting this month, Jon DeJong is visiting from Minneapolis and going to talk about his experience building Java 2D UI apps for both desktop business apps and Android game apps.

Jon said he can tailor his talk towards either business apps or games, so speak up on the mailing list if you have a preference.

Meeting details:

Tuesday, February 16th
Food/discussion at 5:30pm
Presentation at 6:00pm
Gallup Riverfront Campus, 1001 Gallup Drive, Omaha, NE

meeting tue jan 19th — git/git-svn

stephen — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:03:20 +0000

This week is OJUG. This month I’ll be talking about git/git-svn.

Besides the usual stuff of how git is a distributed source code management tool, staging, committing, merging, etc, I’ll also cover how you can use git as a client for checking out/committing to Subversion repositories (e.g. if your day job uses svn but you just would rather not).

Meeting details:

Tuesday, January 19th
Food/discussion at 5:30pm
Presentation at 6:00pm
Gallup Riverfront Campus, 1001 Gallup Drive, Omaha, NE

ojug meeting tue dec 15th — guice

stephen — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:11:59 +0000

Tomorrow is the 3rd Tuesday, and Ramzi is scheduled to talk about Guice, a annotation-based Dependency Injection framework. Should be pretty cool.

Meeting details:

Tuesday, December 15th
Pizza at 5:30pm sponsored by TEKsystems
Guice presentation at 6:00pm
Gallup Riverfront Campus, 1001 Gallup Dr, Omaha, NE

Hope to see everyone there. Hopefully the weather will cooperate.

Also, please join the mailing list if you have any topics you’d enjoy hearing about or presenting on.

ojug meeting tue nov 17th — grails

stephen — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:33:56 +0000

OJUG normally moves its November meeting to the 2nd Tuesday to avoid the holidays, but we’re staying with the 3rd Tuesday this year and meeting on 11/17 as it is still a week before Thanksgiving.

Besides the regular time and place, another upshot is that Scott Hickey will be available to talk about Grails.

Meeting details:

Tuesday, November 17th
Food/discussion at 5:30pm
Presentation at 6:00pm
Gallup Riverfront Campus, 1001 Gallup Dr, Omaha, NE

ojug meeting tue oct 20th — grails and/or netty

stephen — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:18:50 +0000

The 3rd Tuesday is coming up. Scott Hickey has tentatively agreed to give a talk about Groovy/Grails, with the caveat that he just started a new remote gig as a Grails tech lead and so may have to be out, depending on how his ramp-up time is going.

If Scott can’t make it, I’ve been hacking on a non-blocking HTTP proxy server built on top of JBoss’s Netty asynchronous I/O framework. It’s a pretty small project and I think a good intro to how asynchronous I/O, the current darling of systems that scale to thousands of concurrent connections, works.

Netty has been getting some press as a potential successor to Apache’s Mina asynchronous I/O framework for building low-level custom protocols. E.g. previously I’ve used Mina to talk binary to a card processing system.

Meeting details:

Tuesday, October 20th
Food/discussion at 5:30pm
Presentation at 6:00pm
Gallup Riverfront Campus, 1001 Gallup Dr, Omaha, NE
Please RSVP to stephen at exigencecorp.com

Hope to see you there.