Chicago Java Users Group

Just an FYI: We currently have speakers lined up for April 19 and May 17. More details to follow soon.

Thanks to everyone who showed up at our meeting last night, and to CME for hosting.

I mentioned a few websites at the meeting. Here are the links:

Programming Android at O’Reilly

Lars Vogella’s tutorials

Windy City Go Mobile Conference

Fourish Open Source Conference

We hope to see a big turnout next month.

Our next meeting will be on March 15, 6 PM, at CME in conference room ULL-A.

Eric MacAdie, CJUG President, will give an introductory talk on Android.

Time: 6:00
Place: CME
20 South Wacker Drive
ULL-A Auditorium
Chicago IL, 60606
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To RSVP, click here.

CME Employees, please contact Joshua Bennett to RSVP.

Our next meeting will be on Feb 15.

Ray Ploski of Red Hat will talk about Drools: Introducing Drools To Your Java-based Systems. Drools is a suite of tools including a rules engine and rules management system.

Time: 6:00
Place: CME
20 South Wacker Drive
ULL-A Auditorium
Chicago IL, 60606
map

You can RSVP at Chicago-based gathers.us
CME Employees: Please RSVP by contacting Joshua Bennett

You can find the slides for Ray’s talk here.

Java EE6 – What’s New, What’s Cool…What Matters?

I would like to keep this session highly interactive – starting with a fundamental question: ‘Do EE standards matter to us that much any more or are we more interested in what makes our jobs easier?’

From there we will look at what is new in EE6 and how it helps us as developers write not only better applications, but also more maintainable code as well as (hopefully) increase developer productivity. In particular we will consider the following topics:

• Servlet 3.0
• JPA 2.0
• JSF2
• Validators
• EJB3.1 (yes, I know we are still scarred from EJB2 – trust me this is substantially better)
• CDI
• RESTful services

We will cover all of the above topics with at least an overview, and vote in the group which ones to dive deeper into with code, etc.

Presenter Background

Joel Tosi is a Senior Solutions Architect with JBoss. His previous experiences span roles across development and architecture as well as a stint (brief) in management. Joel has also served roles as an Agile Coach and trainer (including XP). His interests span across multiple development languages on the pure technology side to learning how to create great products from a purely delivery aspect.

Outside of JBoss, Joel is currently working to bring the Simple Design and Testing Conference to Chicago in 2011.

Time: 6:00
Place: CME
20 South Wacker Drive
ULL-A Auditorium
Chicago IL, 60606
map

You can RSVP at Chicago-based gathers.us
CME Employees: Please RSVP by contacting Joshua Bennett

His presentation can be found here.

We are already planning some presentations for 2011. Our plan is to have the presentations on the third Tuesday of each month. Here is the list of the dates over the next year that we plan on having meetings:

• January 18
• February 15
• March 15
• April 19
• May 17
• June 21
• July 19
• August 16
• September 20
• October 18
• November 15
• December 20 (We may not have a December meeting since it is so many people may not be working or in Chicago.)

If any of these dates are wrong, let us know.

It will be in Las Vegas March 16-18, 2011. You can get $200 off the registration fee with the discount code JUG. This offer expires on December 31.

TheServerSide Java Symposium (TSSJS) is hosted each year by TheServerSide.com to explore new technologies driving enterprise Java today. Keynote speakers for 2011 include Rod Johnson, Creator of the Spring Framework, Steve Harris, Oracle’s Senior VP of Application Server Development, and Adam Messinger, Oracle’s VP of Development in the Fusion Middleware Group.

Other speakers already confirmed to present include Bear Bibeault, Cameron McKenzie, Jeanne Boyarsky, Mark Spritzler, Jim White, Cliff Click, Jim Knutson, Emiliano Conde, and more key Java experts.

New for 2011 is a track on Agile development and modern methodologies, in addition to Core Java, Architecture, Cloud, Language, and Tools & Techniques tracks. The Agile development track consists of sessions to help organize your agile teams and guide those teams to improved productivity.

The organizers are expecting 350 developers, architects and project managers us in Las Vegas this year, and many of their speakers and attendees participate in user groups.

TheServerSide.com

www.JavaSymposium.com

@JavaSymposium

Thanks to everyone who was at last night’s meeting, Michael Segel for a great presentation and to CME for hosting.

There will not be a meeting in December because the third Tuesday is the 21st, and it is a busy time of year for everyone.

If you have any topics you would like to do a presentation on, or that you would like to see a presentation on, let us know.

I posted some info about our next meeting and a link to the RSVP page. But I forgot to mention that the meeting starts at 6PM.

The schedule will be:
6:00-6:30 Food/networking
6:30~8:00 Presentation
8:00-???? Q&A, food, code, etc etc

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Our next meeting will be on November 16, 2010.

Michael Segel will give an introductory talk on Hadoop.

Michael is an independent consultant who has been bouncing around Chicago for 20+ years. Michael has been working w Hadoop and HBase for the past year at Navteq and is the Founder of the Chicago area Hadoop User Group (CHUG).

Michael will be presenting a high level introduction of Hadoop covering what Hadoop is, and why companies are considering it.

It will take place at CME.

Where: CME
20 South Wacker Drive
ULL-A Auditorium
Chicago IL, 60606
map

RSVP link here

I forwarded to the CJUG mailing list an invite from Josh Bennett of CME Group to a one-day technology conference about Java, JVM languages and agile methodology. I went, and I saw a few CJUG members there. Thanks to Josh and CME for a great conference, and to the presenters for great presentations. I saw Daniel Spiewak and Aaron Bedra.