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December 2011 Meetup - OSGi and Java EE : An Introduction to Modularity in the Enterprise

Submitted by amanica on Mon, 2012-01-30 02:01

 It's been quite a while since we have documented our meetings, sorry for that. We'd like to get this going a gain, so here is a quick mention of our previous meeting.

We came together again at Internet Solutions where Kainda Daka and Richard Kolb talked to us about OSGI.

January 2011 Meetup - Patents, Copyright, Android And The Kitchen Sink

Submitted by Michael on Wed, 2011-02-02 16:45

Monday’s session saw a freewheeling discussion about copyright, patents, GPL vs Apache licensing and the Oracle vs Google saga. An attorney, Paul Jacobson of Jacobson Attorneys, was on hand to give expert comment.

November 2010 Meetup - Vaadin

Submitted by Michael on Tue, 2010-12-07 21:22

A last minute change to the speaker and topic left us with an evening of Vaadin. What an evening it was! A massive thanks to Richard Kolb for stepping up and delivering a fantastic presentation. I was impressed not only by Vaadin, but also Richards delivery.

Vaadin is a Java framework built on GWT. It offers a whole host of UI components, and offers a simpler development model. As the Vaadin website puts it:

Introduction to Clojure - September 2010 Report Back

Submitted by Michael on Sun, 2010-10-10 18:46

For those that weren't there, you missed a great session! Len Weincier from GuruHut took us though the basics of Clojure and what makes it such an interesting language.

Maltego and KITT - JUG Meetup Aug-2010 Report Back

Submitted by Mark on Sat, 2010-08-28 12:46

We had  a phenomenal meetup on the 25th August 2010 where we had Geertjan from Sun/Oralce address us on the NetBeans Platform and then two presentation from companies using the platform in their products.

 

Hermein Pellissier talking about KITT at the Ferndale JUG

2nd JUG Meeting

Submitted by Mark on Mon, 2010-08-02 18:56

We had our 2nd JUG meeting on the 26th July at Bright Water Commons. A presentation on Tomcat performance tuning was given. The presentation is attached below.  Next one is on the 25th August 2010. It will be given by Geertjan Wielenga on the Netbeans Platform.

Tomcat Performance Tuning Presentation

JUG Meeting Pic

My First JUG

Submitted by Michael on Mon, 2010-07-05 11:48

One of the things I was looking for from participating in the FJUG, was to meet a bunch of people with different backgrounds willing to share their experience and views. I got that and more at the first FJUG meeting and I'd like to tell you why I think that is.

There are two important elements to getting the most out of a geek meet. The first is to be exposed to people who are not like you. The second is to meet face to face.

JUG Meeting Report Back

Submitted by Mark on Sun, 2010-07-04 17:24

So we held our fist JUG meeting on the 30th June 2010, taking advantage of the respite in the longest party I have ever known, that is the soccer world cup!  We had five people attend the meeting and we took some decisions on how to build the JUG going forward.

Why the Ferndale Java User Group

Submitted by Mark on Thu, 2010-06-17 00:00

One of the things I miss most about, my long gone, tertiary education days is being with a bunch of diverse people, with different opinions and insights, that are eager to learn from each other and share. Another thing I miss about those halcyon days, is not having a care in the world. There is nothing I can do about that; however I can do something about helping foster a community of eager minds.

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