A Spring Talk

7^th February, 2008: Renewtek are sponsoring a Melbourne Spring User Group Meeting. Space is limited, so register early at: http://tinyurl.com/2gqgup

Amazon Web Services Talk

6:00PM - 7:30PM 25 ^th February 2008. Mike Culver , a Web Services Evangelist from Amazon U.S.A is visiting Australia to spread the word about Amazon Web Services. If you are interested in attending please mail Andrew Stuart

Enterprise Java

26^th February, 2008: Obstacles to a successful Business Rules project. There is a $30-70 charge for this event. For more details see: http://www.enterprisejava.org.au/index.php?title=Current_events

Sun Tech Days Australia

4-6 March 2008. For more see http://au.sun.com/sunnews/events/2008/techdays/index.jsp

Speaker

IntelliJ Giveaway

Thursday 28^th February, 6:15-6:30pm Start Time.

Topic: Web Development with Helma

There has been a recent surge of interest in more light weight approaches for rapid web application development, highlighted by the rise in popularity of RubyOnRails, especially amongst the Java/J2EE developer community.

But using a framework like RoR means Java developers need to learn not only a new language, but a new class library and completely different ways of working, giving up their very valuable experience and knowledge of the Java and J2EE.

Helma (http://dev.helma.org), a server-side Javascript web development framework offers a compelling alternative. Built on the Java platform and using technologies (Servlets, JDBC, etc) familiar to Java web application developers, it provides much of the same functionality as RoR while still letting Java developers have easy access to any Java libraries they need. Likewise, using Javascript as the scripting language means that Java developers have a more familiar language to work with and one they may already be familiar with if they are building AJAXy, Web 2.0 style applications.

This talk will give a brief introduction to Helma; a mature, open source web development framework providing a rich set of features for web application development and deployment.

It will cover what Helma is and where it came from, how to quickly get up and running, and then demonstrate some of Helma's simple yet powerful features by building a fully functional web application in minutes. It will also touch on Helma's numerous extension points, advanced features, where future development is heading and provide pointers to where to find more information.

Speaker

Maksim Lin is a long time Java developer. He has worked on both small and large J2EE applications as well as Enterprise Integration projects in the telecoms industry. He also dabbles from time to time in J2ME and has even been known to compile a C app or two.

For the past 2 years he has been doing something completely different: working as the Web Applications developer and administrator at The National Gallery of Victoria, building web applications for the public website as well as in-house applications used within the Gallery. For the last year, he has been a Javascript convert, learning the intricacies of the language, the power of the Helma framework and the pain of browser incompatibility.

Venue

Sun,
McKillop/Dunlop Room, Level 7,
476 St. Kilda Road

The Victorian JUG thanks our hosts!

IntelliJ Giveaway

Don't forget that those wonderful folk at JetBrains will be giving a lucky attendee an IntelliJ IDEA 7.0 license. 

On Thursday 27^th March, 6:15-6:30pm start time.

Eclipse: a view from the inside

1. The platform
2. The projects
3. The community (and the fellowship)
4. The open source philosophy
5. Open Healthcare Framework: What's Eclipse thinking, doing healthcare?

Note: this is not an IDE review - this is about community and open source.

Speaker: Grahame Grieve

After working in pathology and medical research for 10 years, Grahame joined Kestral Computing, an Australian healthcare systems vendor, acting as development lead and now CTO. Grahame is heavily involved in international healthcare IT standardisation, particularly HL7, acting as editor for the ISO healthcare datatypes standard.

In addition, Grahame is project lead for Eclipse Open Healthcare Framework, and has had the privilege to work with Eclipse community leaders in creating and fostering both the OHF project and the associated community.

Venue

Sun,
McKillop/Dunlop Room, Level 7,
476 St. Kilda Road

IntelliJ Giveaway

Don't forget that JetBrains will be giving a lucky attendee an IntelliJ IDEA 7.0 license.

Time and Location:

Thursday 27^th March, 6:15-6:30pm start time.

Sun,
McKillop/Dunlop Room, Level 7,
476 St. Kilda Road

Eclipse: a view from the inside

1. The platform
2. The projects
3. The community (and the fellowship)
4. The open source philosophy
5. Open Healthcare Framework: What's Eclipse thinking, doing healthcare?

Note: this is not an IDE review - this is about community and open source.

Speaker: Grahame Grieve

After working in pathology and medical research for 10 years, Grahame joined Kestral Computing, an Australian healthcare systems vendor, acting as development lead and now CTO. Grahame is heavily involved in international healthcare IT standardisation, particularly HL7, acting as editor for the ISO healthcare datatypes standard.

In addition, Grahame is project lead for Eclipse Open Healthcare Framework, and has had the privilege to work with Eclipse community leaders in creating and fostering both the OHF project and the associated community.

Topic: The Groovy MOP

Groovy brings the power of metaprogramming to Java through an extensive API.

A metaobject is an object that describes another object; a metaobject protocol (or MOP) sets out the rules for altering this description. The Groovy MOP allows you to effectively modify the class of an object at runtime.

Dynamic languages represent a significant paradigm shift from the statically typed world of Java. Seeing the full potential of metaprogramming may require you to challenge the way you think about typing.

Speaker: Brent Snook

Brent has worked as a Java developer for several years but have recently been delving into more dynamically typed languages like Ruby or Groovy because of their expressiveness and power. He is interested in all things agile.

After this talk those inspired to find out more about Groovy and Grails can find the Melbourne Groovy group at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/groovy-melbourne

Venue

Sun,
McKillop/Dunlop Room, Level 7,
476 St. Kilda Road

The Victorian JUG thanks our hosts!

IntelliJ Giveaway

Don't forget that those wonderful folk at JetBrains will be giving a lucky attendee an IntelliJ IDEA 7.0 license.

Date:   Thursday 24^th April, 6:15-6:30pm Start Time.

Topic: The Groovy MOP

Groovy brings the power of metaprogramming to Java through an extensive API.

A metaobject is an object that describes another object; a metaobject protocol (or MOP) sets out the rules for altering this description. The Groovy MOP allows you to effectively modify the class of an object at runtime.

Dynamic languages represent a significant paradigm shift from the statically typed world of Java. Seeing the full potential of metaprogramming may require you to challenge the way you think about typing.

Speaker: Brent Snook

Brent has worked as a Java developer for several years but have recently been delving into more dynamically typed languages like Ruby or Groovy because of their expressiveness and power. He is interested in all things agile.

After this talk those inspired to find out more about Groovy and Grails can find the Melbourne Groovy group at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/groovy-melbourne

Venue

Sun,
McKillop/Dunlop Room, Level 7,
476 St. Kilda Road

The Victorian JUG thanks our hosts!

IntelliJ Giveaway

Don't forget that those wonderful folk at JetBrains will be giving a lucky attendee an IntelliJ IDEA 7.0 license.

Hi all,

We won't be having a meeting this coming Thursday - we will resume our
normal schedule on the last Thursday of June.

However Sun will be holding an event on Friday 30th, with a presentation
from Simon Phipps, their Chief Open Source Officer, on the future
challenges of open source.

The details are attached - please note that you are required to RSVP to
Sun if you wish to attend.

Cheers, Ben

If anyone missed the attachment for any reason, it is also available
here:

http://burbong.com/Simon_Phipps.pdf

Cheers, Ben


On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 18:55 +1000, Ben Stringer wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We won't be having a meeting this coming Thursday - we will resume our
> normal schedule on the last Thursday of June.
>
> However Sun will be holding an event on Friday 30th, with a
> presentation
> from Simon Phipps, their Chief Open Source Officer, on the future
> challenges of open source.
>
> The details are attached - please note that you are required to RSVP
> to
> Sun if you wish to attend.
>
> Cheers, Ben
>
>
>
>
>

Aniruddha Desai will be talking on "Programming in Java for Performance".

Jeffrey Fredrick, visiting Melbourne for Citcon , will be talking on "Accelerating Development with Continuous Integration and Testing"

The meeting will be on Thursday 26^th June, with a 6:15pm start time.

The venue will be at Sun, McKillop/Dunlop Room, Level 7, 476 St. Kilda Road.

• A copy of IntelliJ
• A copy of John Smart's book Java Power Tools
• Some t-shirts & CD's from Sun

Aniruddha Desai will be talking on "Programming in Java for Performance".

Jeffrey Fredrick, visiting Melbourne for Citcon , will be talking on "Accelerating Development with Continuous Integration and Testing"

The meeting will be tomorrow, Thursday 26^th June, with a 6:15pm start time.

The venue will be at Sun, McKillop/Dunlop Room, Level 7, 476 St. Kilda Road.

• A copy of IntelliJ
• A copy of John Smart's book Java Power Tools
• Some t-shirts & CD's from Sun

Hi All

A reminder that Ben Hutchison will be speaking on "JVM Memory Layout
and the case for Value Types" tomorrow,  Thursday 7th August,
6:15-6:30pm start time.

Full details can be found on our site at:
https://victorianjug.dev.java.net/2008/July/July.html

Venue: Sun,
McKillop/Dunlop Room, Level 7,
476 St. Kilda Road

Coming up, Chris Dance will be speaking on "Using Apache Derby in the
real world" on Thursday 28th August.

And in September, in Melbourne to present the Java Power Tools
bootcamp, John Smart will be speaking on "Behavior Driven Development
(BDD) in Java with easyb" on Thursday 25th September.

More details can be found on our site at https://victorianjug.dev.java.net

Yours
Martin

PS: The details about the bootcamp can be found at:
http://www.wakaleo.com/training/java-power-tools-bootcamp/melbourne-23-26-septem\
ber
PPS: O'Reilly are offering anyone on this mailing list a 35% discount
if you order books on their website. Use the discount code of "DSUG".
Sadly this doesn't cover mailing costs...


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Martin Paulo, BSc.
Software Developer

Tel : +61-3-9434 2508 (Home)
Tel : 04 205 20339 (Mobile)
Site: http://www.thepaulofamily.net
Web Log: http://radio.weblogs.com/0130781/

"Nobody goes there any more. It's too crowded" - Yogi Berra.

Hi all

We are pleased to announce that for this months talk Chris Dance will
be speaking on "Using Apache Derby in the real world"

The meeting will be on Thursday, 28th August, with a 6:15pm start time.
The venue will be at Sun, McKillop/Dunlop Room, Level 7, 476 St. Kilda Road.

We have the following give-aways:

     * A copy of IntelliJ
     * A copy of John Smart's book Java Power Tools
     * Some t-shirts & CD's from Sun

For more detail on the topic, the speaker and the give-aways please
see our home page at: https://victorianjug.dev.java.net

Yours
Martin

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Martin Paulo, BSc.
Software Developer

Tel : +61-3-9434 2508 (Home)
Tel : 04 205 20339 (Mobile)
Site: http://www.thepaulofamily.net
Web Log: http://radio.weblogs.com/0130781/

"Nobody goes there any more. It's too crowded" - Yogi Berra.

I am an open source project lead for Jaspersoft, the company behind
JasperReports, a widely used open source Java reporting library.

We have a partner in Melbourne who needs JasperReports consulting help.
If you are interested and know what iReport and JasperServer are, please
let me know.


Cheers,


Sherman Wood
Jaspersoft
Sydney and San Francisco
swood@...

Hi all

The slides from John's talk to us on easyb last Thursday can now be
found on his blog, as promised. The url is
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/johnsmart/archive/2008/09/an_introduction.html.

He has also made available a free book introducing Java Server Faces.
The url is
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/johnsmart/archive/2008/09/free_book_pdf_d_1.html

Yours
Martin

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Martin Paulo, BSc.
Software Developer

Tel :         +61-3-9434 2508 (Home)
Tel :          04 205 20339      (Mobile)
Site:          http://www.thepaulofamily.net
Web Log: http://radio.weblogs.com/0130781/

"Nobody goes there any more. It's too crowded" - Yogi Berra.

Hi all,

Just a reminder that tomorrow night Rajesh Vasa, from Swinburne
University, will be addressing the question "How does Java software
evolve?"

Date & Time: Thursday 30th October, 6:15pm.

Venue: Sun, McKillop/Dunlop Room, Level 7, 476 St. Kilda Road

Full details of the talk and give away's can be found on our web site
at: https://victorianjug.dev.java.net/2008/October/October.html

Also:
In November, Richard Davies will be giving us an introduction to Scala.
In December, Aconex will be discussing performance monitoring of a
distributed Java application using Performance Co-Pilot (PCP).

Yours
Martin

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==================================================================

Martin Paulo, BSc.
Software Developer

Tel :         +61-3-9434 2508 (Home)
Tel :          04 205 20339      (Mobile)
Site:          http://www.thepaulofamily.net
Web Log: http://radio.weblogs.com/0130781/

"Nobody goes there any more. It's too crowded" - Yogi Berra.

Hi,

Thanks for posting that.  I really wanted to attend this talk.  From the
slides its not always possible to get the full story, so would any like
to provide a quick list of the "contentious" topics were.

Pete

Martin Paulo wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> A few people have asked me for a copy of the slides from last weeks
> very interesting (and contentious?) talk on the evolution of
> successful Java software.
>
> Rajesh has kindly made them available. They can be found at:
> https://victorianjug.dev.java.net/2008/October/VJUG-Oct08-JavaEvolution.pdf
> <https://victorianjug.dev.java.net/2008/October/VJUG-Oct08-JavaEvolution.pdf>
>
> A reminder that this month we are going to have a talk on Scala.
> Early in December, a talk on Performance Co-Pilot.
>
> Also, anyone on this list who hails from Africa might be interested to
> know that Johnny Clegg <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Clegg> is
> to play at the Palais this month...
>
<http://www.ticketmaster.com.au/event/1300415D97F04F32?artistid=734182&majorcati\
d=10001&minorcatid=1>
>
> Yours
> Martin
>
> --
> ==================================================================
>
> Martin Paulo, BSc.
> Software Developer
>
> Tel :         +61-3-9434 2508 (Home)
> Tel :          04 205 20339      (Mobile)
> Site:          http://www.thepaulofamily.net
> <http://www.thepaulofamily.net>
> Web Log: http://radio.weblogs.com/0130781/
> <http://radio.weblogs.com/0130781/>
>
> "Nobody goes there any more. It's too crowded" - Yogi Berra.
>
>

A reminder that this months meeting has been pushed back to January.

Tonight the father of Eclipse, Dave Thomas, will be addressing Enterprise Java Victoria on the topic of cloud computing. And then, straight after that he will be addressing the scrum user group on the topic of managing agile development in the large.

We figured that there might be an overlap of interest for some of the regular attendees to our meetings, and thus have moved our meeting to January.

If you would like to see Dave Thomas talk:

• Enterprise Java have opened up their registrations to the AJUG. Unfortunately there is a charge: $25. On the upside, the $25 covers the costs of drinks provided after the talk. The Url for registering is: http://www.gener8.com.au/ej2711.asp
• The scrum user group do not charge for entrance: and are happy for anyone on this mailing list to attend their meeting. The Url for their group is: http://scrum.meetup.com/12/

If you don't know about Enterprise Java Victoria, you can find out more (and subscribe to their mailing list) on their home pages at: http://www.enterprisejava.org.au

So Remember:The talk on Scala by Richard Davies has been moved to January.

Yours

Martin

PS: December Talk

Thursday 4^th December, 6:15-6:30pm Start Time.

Aconex will be discussing Performance Monitoring of a Distributed Java application using Performance Co-Pilot (PCP).

Aconex will also be hosting this talk

Aconex,
696 Bourke St
Directly across from Southern Cross Station, with good trams going down Bourke right outside...