http://www.ojug.org Meeting place of Java professionals Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:54:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.ojug.org/2010/07/18/meeting-tue-jul-20th-open-discussion/ 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 ... http://www.ojug.org/2010/06/13/meeting-tue-jun-13th-jquery/ 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 ... http://www.ojug.org/2010/05/15/meeting-tue-may-18th-polygotclojure/ 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 ... http://www.ojug.org/2010/04/19/meeting-tue-apr-20th-swing-testing/ 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 ... http://www.ojug.org/2010/03/15/meeting-tue-mar-16th/ 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 ... http://www.ojug.org/2010/02/11/meeting-tue-feb-16th-androiduigames/ 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 ... http://www.ojug.org/2010/01/17/meeting-tue-jan-19th-gitgit-svn/ 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 ... http://www.ojug.org/2009/12/14/ojug-meeting-tue-dec-14th-guice/ 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 ... http://www.ojug.org/2009/11/09/ojug-meeting-tue-nov-17th-grails/ 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 ... http://www.ojug.org/2009/10/15/ojug-meeting-tue-oct-20th-grails-andor-netty/