Hi everyone,

The next Amazon Web Services study group meeting is already coming up in a few
weeks.
On Tuesday April 6 we'll all get together again at the office of FujiSoft in
Akihabara.

The team is finalizing the agenda but seats are already filling up quickly so
please check out the ATND url below if interested.

Please contact us if you would be interested in becoming a lightning talk
speaker.

---
Organized by AWS User Group - Japan
Date: April 6, 19:00
Place: Fujisoft Akiba Hall, 6F seminar room 1
Access: http://www.fsi.co.jp/akibaplaza/cont/info/access.html
Attendees: 150
Participation Fee: free
Agenda:
1) Amazon Web Service update
2) Guest speaker
3) Lightning talks

More details and sign-up form:
http://atnd.org/events/3705
---

Seats are limited so hurry. Looking forward to welcoming you all!


Peter

PS: Don't forget to bring along your Poken (http://poken.jp/en/). Free battery
replacement on site :-)

This is a reminder for tonight's meeting

Looking forward to meeting you all!

Peter

---

After a long period of inactivity we'd like to get back together for a Ninjava
developer meeting.

David 'dc' Collier will present "Social Games in Japan", the talk which he gave
at the Game Developer's conference last week.

Focusing mainly on mobile games, dc will touch upon social patterns, virtual
goods, ... and even use difficult (?) terms such as "ARPU levels" :-)

He'll start with the acquisition of new users, followed by a range of methods to
involve and retain users and finally close with some tips on how to monetize
your user base.

On the technical side he will shed some light on the Japanese text encoding
issues and handset optimization techniques.

Aboud 'dc':
David Collier is the founder of Pikkle (http://pikkle.com/), a social network
entertainment development and publishing house.
Check out his bio here: http://blog.pikkle.com/?page_id=7

---
Place and time:
You can find the Cerego Japan office at the South side of Shibuya station. Map:
http://blog.smart.fm/en/about/location/

Doors open at 19:30, the presentation starts at 20:00. We would greatly
appreciate it if you could let us know in advance if you would like to join us
for a drink and a bite after the talk.
http://tweetvite.com/event/ninjava0324

Best regards,


Peter Van der Weeen

A quick note to announce the 2nd Japan AWS User Group (study  group) meeting
which will be held on June 14.

18:30 doors open
19:00 welcome
19:10 intro presentation by Jeff Bar, senior AWS evangelist
19:30 status update by Hideki Ojima from Amazon Data Services Japan
19:40 lightning talks, focused mainly on databases
20:40 end

The registration form was opened this afternoon but it appears already more than
140 people signed up so you'd better hurry:
http://atnd.org/events/4998

Peter

Hi everyone,

Registrations for the 3rd Japan AWS User Group (study group) meeting went out
this afternoon.
The next event is scheduled for Wednesday July 7.

18:30 doors open
19:00 welcome
19:10 intro presentation by Paul Horvath (Amazon Web Services LLC)
19:30 status update by Hideki Ojima from Amazon Data Services Japan
19:40 lightning talks
20:40 end

You can find the registration form below -  feel free to email me in case you
would have any questions.
http://atnd.org/events/6076

Kind regards,

Peter

Most Ninjava members are probably also on the TLUG mailing list, but as the next
meetings presentations are of general interest to software developers, I'm
forwarding it here.

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Jim Grisanzio <jimgris@...>
> Date: August 3, 2010 1:29:04 AM GMT+09:00
> To: Tokyo Linux Users Group <tlug@...>
> Subject: [tlug] [announcement] 2010-08-14 Technical Meeting
> Reply-To: Tokyo Linux Users Group <tlug@...>
>
> -=-=-=- Announcement: 2010-08-14 TLUG Technical Meeting -=-=-=-=-
>
> Meeting information
>
> Date: Saturday August 14th
>
> Time: 14:00 - 16:30
>        (doors open 13:30)
>
> Place:   Oracle Aoyama Center, 13th floor
>         2-5-8 Kita-Aoyama,
>         Minato-ku, Tokyo Japan
>
> Directions:
> http://tlug.jp/wiki/Template:Meetings:Locations:Aoyama:Oracle
>
> Note: Please come on time. You will need to get a pass at the 2nd floor
> lobby to enter and exit the building.
>
>
> Two Main Presentations:
>
> "M-x Emacs" by Zev Blut
>
> A review of Emacs showing off features like ansi-term, sql-mode, magit
> and editing text. 1 hour
>
>
> "SEO for Software Companies" by Patrick McKenzie
>
> Search engine optimization is a scalable and cost-effective method for
> Internet-based businesses to acquire customers. Software firms can
> leverage their products, websites, and skills to exploit opportunities
> in the current environment. The presentation offers tactical advice for
> engineers and marketers with intermediate to advanced knowledge of SEO
> and includes examples of results from employing techniques that benefit
> small businesses. 45 minutes
>
>
> Both presentations will be in English but both speakers welcome
> questions and discussion in English and Japanese.
>
> If you are involved in a project or have something you would like to
> talk about in this or a future technical meeting, we are always looking
> for presenters.
>
> Other items on the agenda:
>
> 1. Introduction of new members, news about Linux/Open Source from
>   participants, general announcements, Q&A, etc.
>
> 2. Auction.
>
> 3. Discussion of TLUG meeting hosting changes.
>
> All Linux users and supporters of open source code and free software are
> invited to attend this Tokyo Linux Users Group (TLUG) meeting.
> Membership is open to anyone. There are no membership dues or entrance
> fees.
>
> After the meeting, we will continue chatting over a few beers.
>
> About TLUG
> ----------
> TLUG is a non-profit, non-political organization established in June of
> 1994 to exchange information on the use of Linux and Free Software
> Foundation tools. TLUG has an active mailing list, home page, and
> regular physical meetings. Discussions are primarily held in English,
> but non-English speakers are encouraged to come and participate. We
> especially want to encourage Japanese people to attend and will make
> efforts to support a bilingual meeting.
>
> TLUG generally hosts technical meetings every month on the 2nd Saturday,
> and a nomikai (social even at a pub) every month on the 3rd Friday.
>
> The TLUG home page is available at http://www.tlug.jp
>
> For any instructions or info before the meeting:
>
>   Jim Grisanzio ................ 090-6005-3208
>   Edward Middleton is not available this month
>
>
> --
> To unsubscribe from this mailing list,
> please see the instructions at http://lists.tlug.jp/list.html
>
> The TLUG mailing list is hosted by the award-winning Internet provider
> ASAHI Net.
> Visit ASAHI Net's English-language Web page: http://asahi-net.jp/en/

Ninjava's been pretty quiet but I think there is still plenty of people lurking,
so I thought it would be worth announcing http://www.tokyorubyistmeetup.org/
here.  I want to use this group to connect the foreign Rubyist community in
Tokyo, with the Japanese Rubyists.  If your in Tokyo and like Ruby, please join
us.


--
Paul McMahon <paul@...>
mobalean LLC - Japanese Mobile Development and Consulting
http://www.mobalean.com/

It has been a couple of months again since our last developer meetup but we'd
like to get together to listen to a talk on parallel programming by Patrick
Viry, who will be in Tokyo next week.


Patrick will present Ateji PX (http://www.ateji.com/px), a Java language
extension with a set parallel programming primitives based on pi-calculus.

Unlike libraries or API-based approaches, he has retrofitted parallelism
constructs at the language level. This is a radically different approach that
makes parallel programs simple and intuitive, efficient, compatible with
existing tools and practices, and provably correct.

Ateji PX has proven to be extremely easy to learn and use even by mainstream
Java programmers without special training in parallel programming. It also
provides a way to overcome many of the problems inherent to the use of threads
for high level developers and HPC experts.

Patrick is going to provide a survey of the new parallel programming constructs
based on simple examples. You'll get a general grasp of the language features
and capabilities, and a good understanding of how Ateji PX compares to other
technologies such as Java threads, ParallelArray, OpenMP, Cilk and MPI.

He is also going to cover the parallel programming styles, including data-,
task-, recursive- and speculative parallelism, as well as data-flow, stream
programming, the Actor model and MapReduce.

The presentation itself is about 45 minutes, after which we'll have about 15 to
30 minutes for Q&A and interactive demos.


About Ateji PX :

Ateji PX is now available for multicore PCs and servers, and soon for grid,
cloud and GPU accelerators. It is being adopted to boost computational intensive
Java applications such as risk calculations in finance, protein folding in
bioinformatics, period analysis of satellite signals. Users report significant
improvements in terms of development time, training time, code quality, ease of
maintenance, and overall project development costs.

Ateji PX has been selected for presentation in the Disruptive Technologies
exhibit at the SuperComputing 2010 conference in New Orleans.


Further reading:

- The Ateji PX whitepaper
     http://www.ateji.com/px/whitepapers/Ateji%20PX%20for%20Java%20v1.0.pdf
- 12.5x speedup on a 16-core server with a single '||' keyword
    
http://www.ateji.com/px/whitepapers/Ateji%20PX%20MatMult%20Whitepaper%20v1.2.pdf
- Online demo
     http://www.ateji.com/px/parallel-implementation-of-the-mandelbrot-set.html


About Patrick:

After a PhD in computer science at INRIA, Patrick Viry pursued an academic
carrier as a researcher at Kyoto University. He moved towards industry, first by
managing R&D projects for the japanese department of technology (the former
MITI), then as a software architect at a major french software vendor.

He is an expert in both language engineering and computation models for parallel
programming. He founded Ateji in 2005 with the goal to make innovative language
technologies available to the community.


Blog

"The dress of thought"  http://ateji.blogspot.com/


---
Place and time:
You can find the Cerego Japan office at the South side of Shibuya station. Map:
http://en.cerego.co.jp/contact-us/

Doors open at 19:30, the presentation starts at 20:00. We'll go for a drink at a
nearby izakaya after the talk.

Best regards,


Peter Van der Weeen

Hi everyone,

A quick reminder for Wednesday's Ninjava developer meetup.
Date: Oct 27 (Wed)
Time: 20:00 (doors: 19:30)
Place: Cerego Japan Inc., Ninomiya Building 4F, 18-4 Sakuragaoka-cho, Shibuya
(http://en.cerego.co.jp/contact-us/)
---

Our friends at Mobalean are helping us promote the event and have setup an
account on their Doorkeeper event registration system. Please help us plan for
the number of attendees by visiting the following link and leaving your
name/email:
http://ninjava.doorkeeper.jp/events/49

We look forward to welcoming you on Wednesday night!

Kind regards,

Peter


--- In ninjava@yahoogroups.com, "Peter" <pvanderweeen@...> wrote:
>
> It has been a couple of months again since our last developer meetup but we'd
like to get together to listen to a talk on parallel programming by Patrick
Viry, who will be in Tokyo next week.
>
>
> Patrick will present Ateji PX (http://www.ateji.com/px), a Java language
extension with a set parallel programming primitives based on pi-calculus.
>
> Unlike libraries or API-based approaches, he has retrofitted parallelism
constructs at the language level. This is a radically different approach that
makes parallel programs simple and intuitive, efficient, compatible with
existing tools and practices, and provably correct.
>
> Ateji PX has proven to be extremely easy to learn and use even by mainstream
Java programmers without special training in parallel programming. It also
provides a way to overcome many of the problems inherent to the use of threads
for high level developers and HPC experts.
>
> Patrick is going to provide a survey of the new parallel programming
constructs based on simple examples. You'll get a general grasp of the language
features and capabilities, and a good understanding of how Ateji PX compares to
other technologies such as Java threads, ParallelArray, OpenMP, Cilk and MPI.
>
> He is also going to cover the parallel programming styles, including data-,
task-, recursive- and speculative parallelism, as well as data-flow, stream
programming, the Actor model and MapReduce.
>
> The presentation itself is about 45 minutes, after which we'll have about 15
to 30 minutes for Q&A and interactive demos.
>
>
> About Ateji PX :
>
> Ateji PX is now available for multicore PCs and servers, and soon for grid,
cloud and GPU accelerators. It is being adopted to boost computational intensive
Java applications such as risk calculations in finance, protein folding in
bioinformatics, period analysis of satellite signals. Users report significant
improvements in terms of development time, training time, code quality, ease of
maintenance, and overall project development costs.
>
> Ateji PX has been selected for presentation in the Disruptive Technologies
exhibit at the SuperComputing 2010 conference in New Orleans.
>
>
> Further reading:
>
> - The Ateji PX whitepaper
>     http://www.ateji.com/px/whitepapers/Ateji%20PX%20for%20Java%20v1.0.pdf
> - 12.5x speedup on a 16-core server with a single '||' keyword
>    
http://www.ateji.com/px/whitepapers/Ateji%20PX%20MatMult%20Whitepaper%20v1.2.pdf
> - Online demo
>     http://www.ateji.com/px/parallel-implementation-of-the-mandelbrot-set.html
>
>
> About Patrick:
>
> After a PhD in computer science at INRIA, Patrick Viry pursued an academic
carrier as a researcher at Kyoto University. He moved towards industry, first by
managing R&D projects for the japanese department of technology (the former
MITI), then as a software architect at a major french software vendor.
>
> He is an expert in both language engineering and computation models for
parallel programming. He founded Ateji in 2005 with the goal to make innovative
language technologies available to the community.
>
>
> Blog
>
> "The dress of thought"  http://ateji.blogspot.com/
>
>
> ---
> Place and time:
> You can find the Cerego Japan office at the South side of Shibuya station.
Map:
> http://en.cerego.co.jp/contact-us/
>
> Doors open at 19:30, the presentation starts at 20:00. We'll go for a drink at
a nearby izakaya after the talk.
>
> Best regards,
>
>
> Peter Van der Weeen
>

A big thanks to everyone who attended our last Ninjava meetup on "Simple,
intuitive and efficient parallel programming in Java" and of course a special
shout out to Patrick Viry who gave the talk!

Mobalean's Doorkeeper registration system has already proven its value by
helping us predict how many people would show up, so we could prepare chairs,
drinks and some snacks: http://ninjava.doorkeeper.jp/

Cerego Japan, sponsor of the drinks/snacks and host for the events, has a number
of development positions open. If you happen to know someone with a strong Rails
and/or Computational Linguistics background then please forward the following
URL: http://www.cerego.com/en/jobs/

We'll send out the announcement in a separate email but the next Ninjava meetup
is scheduled for December 2 (Thursday) and we'll have Yuichiro Masui talk about
NodeJS.

Please block your agenda also for Friday, December 3. Together with 10+ other
dev communities we are planning the 2010 edition of "Tokyo's Biggest Tech Party
Ever". Details on venue and time will be announced shortly.

Kind regards,


Peter

While most Ninjava talks are given in English, on December 2nd we'll have
Yuichiro Masui give a talk in Japanese about node.js, a server side framework
for writing extremely high performance non-blocking event driven network servers
in JavaScript.

For people new to node.js, we'd like to refer the following blurb on wikipedia
[1]:
"Node.js is an evented I/O framework for the V8 JavaScript engine. It is
intended for writing scalable network programs such as web servers.
Node.js is similar in purpose to Twisted for Python, Perl Object Environment for
Perl, and EventMachine for Ruby. Unlike most JavaScript, it is not executed in a
web browser, but it is rather related to server-side JavaScript."

About Yuichiro:
Yuichiro loves Ruby and Javascript, besides a wide range of other technologies
like Appcelerator, titanium mobile, nodejs, amongst others.
He's the author of two books on Ajax and PukiWiki. Over the past years he has
developed a number of iPhone applications. His photo sharing service PhotoShare
(http://bcphotoshare.com) is the most well known, boasting over 1 million users.

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/masuidrive
Twitter: http://twitter.com/masuidrive

---

Details:
Date: December 2 (Thu)
Time: Doors open at 19:30, the presentation starts at 20:00
Place: Cerego  Japan, Ninomiya Building 4F, 18-4 Sakuragaoka-cho, Shibuya-ku,
Tokyo, http://www.cerego.com/en/contact-us/
Language: English intro with main presentation in Japanese
Registration: http://ninjava.doorkeeper.jp/

We'll go for a drink at a nearby izakaya after the talk.

Best regards,


Peter

PS: Cerego Japan is hiring Ruby on Rails developers:
http://www.cerego.com/en/jobs/

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nodejs

It's time once again to bring all of the tribes together for our annual TechXmas
event, aka: Tokyo's Biggest Tech Party Ever. We have nailed an Awesome Venue for
the 2010 gig with a larger collection of participating groups and are expecting
an even bigger crowd than the 400+ very cool folks who attended our epic mixer
last year!

So mark your holiday calendar for December 6th – make sure you Register Here:
http://tbtpe.doorkeeper.jp/ – and use Twitter, FaceBook, PlanCast to help share
the good word. See Full Details below.

Charity Benefit:
All net proceeds will go to `Beers for Bytes', an offshoot of the acclaimed
Beers for Books event. The funds will be donated to tech infrastructure for Room
to Read, whose focus is on childhood literacy and gender equality in education
in developing countries.

Sponsorship Opportunities:
We will also be offering the opportunity for sponsors to donate door prizes or
small cash envelopes, so please do drop us a note asap to make arrangements.

Event Details:
Date: Monday December 6th, from 7-10pm
(we originally mentioned December 3 but the event has been pushed back to the
6th)
Location: Modapolitica – http://www.modapolitica.com/
Fee: ₯2,000 with Advance Registration or ₯3,000 At The Door**
Menu: Advance registration comes with a super tasty buffet – while all drinks,
including beer, standard mixed or non-alcohol and wine selection, will be cash
bar at 500jpy each.
**Note: `At The Door' attendees will receive two-drink tickets instead of a food
coupon as we need to confirm an accurate buffet estimate in advance.

Participating Groups:
AppleCert, Asiajin, Digital Eve Japan, GreenITers, Mobile in Japan, Mobile
Monday Tokyo, Ninjava, StartupWeekend Tokyo, Tokyo 2.0, Tokyo Beer and Blog,
Tokyo HackerSpace, Tokyo PC Users Group.

We hope to see you there!

Zev & Peter

I'd like to thank everyone for the enthusiastic response to our invitation for
next week's talk on "Real-time web with JavaScript - An introduction to node.js"
by Yuichiro Masui.

As our meeting room has limited capacity and we already have close to 30
registrations so far we have closed the signup page.
http://ninjava.doorkeeper.jp/

For the people who cannot make it, we are planning on Ustreaming the event via
our brand new Ninjava channel: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ninjava

We very much look forward to the event next Thursday!

Kind regards,


Zev & Peter


--- In ninjava@yahoogroups.com, "Peter" <pvanderweeen@...> wrote:
>
> While most Ninjava talks are given in English, on December 2nd we'll have
Yuichiro Masui give a talk in Japanese about node.js, a server side framework
for writing extremely high performance non-blocking event driven network servers
in JavaScript.
>
> For people new to node.js, we'd like to refer the following blurb on wikipedia
[1]:
> "Node.js is an evented I/O framework for the V8 JavaScript engine. It is
intended for writing scalable network programs such as web servers.
> Node.js is similar in purpose to Twisted for Python, Perl Object Environment
for Perl, and EventMachine for Ruby. Unlike most JavaScript, it is not executed
in a web browser, but it is rather related to server-side JavaScript."
>
> About Yuichiro:
> Yuichiro loves Ruby and Javascript, besides a wide range of other technologies
like Appcelerator, titanium mobile, nodejs, amongst others.
> He's the author of two books on Ajax and PukiWiki. Over the past years he has
developed a number of iPhone applications. His photo sharing service PhotoShare
(http://bcphotoshare.com) is the most well known, boasting over 1 million users.
>
> LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/masuidrive
> Twitter: http://twitter.com/masuidrive
>
> ---
>
> Details:
> Date: December 2 (Thu)
> Time: Doors open at 19:30, the presentation starts at 20:00
> Place: Cerego  Japan, Ninomiya Building 4F, 18-4 Sakuragaoka-cho, Shibuya-ku,
Tokyo, http://www.cerego.com/en/contact-us/
> Language: English intro with main presentation in Japanese
> Registration: http://ninjava.doorkeeper.jp/
>
> We'll go for a drink at a nearby izakaya after the talk.
>
> Best regards,
>
>
> Peter
>
> PS: Cerego Japan is hiring Ruby on Rails developers:
http://www.cerego.com/en/jobs/
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nodejs
>

It's been almost a week since our Ninjava meetup... time really flies :-)

We'd like to thank Yuichiro Masui for his splendid talk on node.js and the large
number of attendees, both at the Cerego office as well as online via Ustream
(http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ninjava).

You can find Yuichiro's slides here: http://bit.ly/i3ml2F

We have not set a date yet but would like to shoot for the end of January for
our next event, most probably in collaboration with the Tokyo on Rails
community.

We would like to thank you all for your support over the past year and look
forward to welcoming you again in the new year.

Kind regards,


Zev & Peter

It has been a few months again since we got together ... Time for another
meetup!

Darren Willis will be taking a broad but shallow look at security, covering
brief general guidelines for secure implementation/design for desktop and the
web, and the common attacks code might be subjected to, as well as
implementation countermeasures for these attacks. He will also discuss the goals
and economics of hacking and malware in general, and a brief foray into keeping
your computer/servers relatively safe. Darren says he will try to avoid
subjecting anyone to any x86 assembly :-)

About our speaker:
Darren is a security researcher currently engaged in trying to break anything
with an IP stack. Enjoys Ruby, C, and writing Ruby programs that write C
programs. He's particularly interested in future developments in mobile
security.

Place and time:
---
Date: March 24 (Thu)
Time: Doors open at 19:30, the presentation starts at 20:00
Place: Cerego Japan, Ninomiya Building 4F, 18-4 Sakuragaoka-cho, Shibuya-ku,
Tokyo, http://www.cerego.com/en/contact-us/
Language: English
Registration: http://ninjava.doorkeeper.jp/

We'll go for a drink at a nearby izakaya after the talk.
Looking forward to welcoming you all.

Best regards,


Zev & Peter

Hi all,

We'd like to share some info about the upcoming JAX Conference taking place June
20-23 in San Jose, California.

JAX is one of the world's most comprehensive conferences on web and enterprise
development. It provides the ideal forum for software developers, project
managers and architects to learn about all the latest Technology, Architecture
and Agile Methodologies. JAX has become internationally renowned for its unique
blend of topics, since its conception in 2001.

More details on the official website:
http://jaxconf.com/

Schedule overview:
http://jaxconf.com/2011/confoverview.html

Highly recommended!

Zev & Peter

Hi everyone,

First of all let us express our sympathy with the people who have been hit badly
but the earthquake and following tsunami up north, as well as the people who
lost friends or family members in these tragic events.

In the wake of the quake a number of people have temporarily left Tokyo so we
have decided to push back Darren's talk - which was originally scheduled for
this week Thursday - to April 21 (Thu).
Apologies for the last minute change but we hope to see you all next month!

Zev & Peter


--- In ninjava@yahoogroups.com, "Peter" <pvanderweeen@...> wrote:
>
> It has been a few months again since we got together ... Time for another
meetup!
>
> Darren Willis will be taking a broad but shallow look at security, covering
brief general guidelines for secure implementation/design for desktop and the
web, and the common attacks code might be subjected to, as well as
implementation countermeasures for these attacks. He will also discuss the goals
and economics of hacking and malware in general, and a brief foray into keeping
your computer/servers relatively safe. Darren says he will try to avoid
subjecting anyone to any x86 assembly :-)
>
> About our speaker:
> Darren is a security researcher currently engaged in trying to break anything
with an IP stack. Enjoys Ruby, C, and writing Ruby programs that write C
programs. He's particularly interested in future developments in mobile
security.
>
> Place and time:
> ---
> Date: March 24 (Thu)
> Time: Doors open at 19:30, the presentation starts at 20:00
> Place: Cerego Japan, Ninomiya Building 4F, 18-4 Sakuragaoka-cho, Shibuya-ku,
> Tokyo, http://www.cerego.com/en/contact-us/
> Language: English
> Registration: http://ninjava.doorkeeper.jp/
>
> We'll go for a drink at a nearby izakaya after the talk.
> Looking forward to welcoming you all.
>
> Best regards,
>
>
> Zev & Peter
>

Hi everyone,

It has been a little over a month since the March 11 quake and tsunami and we
really hope that everyone - including family and frieds - is doing okay.

The regular stream of meetups and other events is slowly getting back on track
so here's a quick reminder for this week's Ninjava meetup on Common security
attacks by Darren Willis. The doors will open at 19:30 and the presentation
starts at 20:00.
Details below.

So far we have 12 people who signed up through the Doorkeeper registration
system. it would be great if you could add your name to the list if you are
planning on attending so please check it out: http://ninjava.doorkeeper.jp/

Looking forward to welcoming you all!


Peter


Darren Willis will be taking a broad but shallow look at security, covering
brief general guidelines for secure implementation/design for desktop and the
web, and the common attacks code might be subjected to, as well as
implementation countermeasures for these attacks. He will also discuss the goals
and economics of hacking and malware in general, and a brief foray into keeping
your computer/servers relatively safe. Darren says he will try to avoid
subjecting anyone to any x86 assembly :-)

About our speaker:
Darren is a security researcher currently engaged in trying to break anything
with an IP stack. Enjoys Ruby, C, and writing Ruby programs that write C
programs. He's particularly interested in future developments in mobile
security.

Place and time:
---
Date: April 21 (Thu)
Time: Doors open at 19:30, the presentation starts at 20:00
Place: Cerego Japan, Ninomiya Building 4F, 18-4 Sakuragaoka-cho, Shibuya-ku,
Tokyo, http://www.cerego.com/en/contact-us/
Language: English
Registration: http://ninjava.doorkeeper.jp/

We'll go for a drink at a nearby izakaya after the talk.
Looking forward to welcoming you all.

Best regards,

Zev & Peter

Hi everyone,

For this meetup, we are bringing together people who integrated with
PayPal’s APIs to share with us their experience and insights. With this
meetup we also want to start the Tokyo PayPal Developers Group, an
independently organized group with the goal to share experience and best
practices when integrating with PayPal.

Speakers:

Takeshi Amano, Integration Manager at PayPal Japan. He will give a short
introduction to PayPal (Japanese) and be available for questions
(Japanese/English).

Nov Matake (@nov), author of paypal-express
(https://github.com/nov/paypal-express), a Ruby Gem for the PayPal
Express Checkout API which he implemented on the learning website
iknow.jp. (Japanese)

Please contact us if you would be interested in giving a short
(lightning talk style) presentation (Japanese or English) on your
experience with integrating the PayPal system in your application. You
can find our contact details below.

Place and time:

Cerego Japan is lending us their meeting room and projector. You can
find their office at the South side of Shibuya station, a 2-min walk
from Cerulean Tower.
Map: http://www.cerego.com/en/contact-us/

Doors open at 19:30, the presentations start around 20:00. We'll
probably end up going for a drink at a nearby bar afterwards.

Please register here: http://ninjava.doorkeeper.jp/

Looking forward to welcoming you all.

Michael Reinsch (@mreinsch)
Zev Blut (@keitaiz)
Masaki Komagata (@komagata)
Peter Van der Weeen (@bodegem)ο»Ώ

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    Michael Reinsch <mr@...>                      http://mr.uue.org/
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The deadline for nominations for the JAX Innovation Awards is today (May 16th,
2011, midnight PST.) We have already received plenty of nominations across the
three categories, but if there's any technology, individual, organisation or
company you feel deserve recognition, then now is your last chance to get them
listed!

Currently listed for the title of Most Innovative Java Company, are:
• Atlassian
• bestXperts
• Headway Software
• LMAX
• OpenGamma
• Red Hat Inc.
• Tasktop Technologies

Up for Top Java Ambassador are:
• Ed Merks
• Kai Tφdter
• Lars Vogel
• Martin Odersky
• Peter Kriens
• The London Java Community
• Werner Keil

And nominated for Most Innovative Java Technology, are:
• Activiti
• Akka
• Apache Tapestry
• AppDynamics Pro
• Arquillian
• Asterisk java integration library
• CDMI Java Reference Implementation
• CDO Model Repository
• Clojure
• Eclipse Jubula
• ElasticSearch
• Fabasoft app.test
• GPars
• Grails
• Groovy++ Programming Language
• Infinispan
• JABACO 1.5.2 (Basic for Java VM)
• JGit
• JINSPIRED's OpenCore Metering & Metrics Runtime
• Jolie
• JVx - Enterprise Application Framework
• KFramework
• LMAX Trading Platform (including Disruptor pattern)
• Neo4j Graph Database
• Obeo Designer
• OpenChrom
• OpenXava
• OrientDB NoSQL document-graph
• OSGi
• Play Framework
• Querydsl
• Spock Testing Framework
• Tasktop
• Vaadin
• Web 2.0 Search

Help us celebrate the culture of innovation that epitomises the Java Ecosystem,
and nominate your favourites now! Winners will receive a total of $10, 000, in
addition to being acknowledged for their outstanding contribution to the world's
number one programming language! The winners will be announced at JAXconf, San
Josι in June 2011.

We would like to thank everyone who attended last week's meetup. The room was a
bit tight but, honestly, we had not expected that more than 35 people would show
up that day :-)

We would like to also take this opportunity to thank the speakers: Takeshi
Amano, Nov Matake, Michael Reinsch and Paul McMahon, as well as Masaki Komagata,
the moderator of the discussion panel.

You can find the presentations and other related info online:
http://www.slideshare.net/matake/paypalexpress-ruby-gem
http://prezi.com/-wxnb_pblg1v/subscription_fu/
http://bit.ly/lYhSri
http://gihyo.jp/dev/serial/01/paypal_api

Last but not least, both Paypal and Cerego are hiring. You can find more info on
their website:
http://www.paypal.jp
http://www.cerego.com/en/jobs/


We also would like to invite everyone in the Ninjava community to the special
Mobile Monday Tokyo Event on June 13th:
http://momoto.doorkeeper.jp/events/127-disaster-relief-effort-for-the-japan-eart\
hquake

We hope to see you there!

Michael Reinsch (@mreinsch)
Zev Blut (@keitaiz)
Masaki Komagata (@komagata)
Peter Van der Weeen (@bodegem)

Hi,

Sorry for the short/late notice: We'll have a Tokyo Paypal Developers
Group meetup on Thursday, June 30th.

This time we'll have a very casual get together at a very nice Izakaya.
If you're interested in Paypal and want to exchange experience and
network with other people working with Paypal, please register here:

http://topaymeetup.doorkeeper.jp/events/135-june-nomikai

Hope to see you on Thursday,
Michael

--
    Michael Reinsch <mr@...>                      http://mr.uue.org/
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Hi everyone,

The next Ninjava meetup will be entirely focused on JavaScript performance
issues.
Goran Topic will be the speaker and here is his description of the talk:

JavaScript has a reputation of being a clunky and slow language.
However, both labels are quickly becoming less and less true, in the wake of
breakthroughs by Prototype library, followed by jQuery, and Google's V8 engine.
Indeed, it has become one of the most important programming languages, due to
its monopoly in the DHTML world.
However, that does not mean we can forget about efficiency. After working on a
JavaScript-intensive project, I became painfully interested in JavaScript
optimisation, which led me to the excellent book High-Performance JavaScript by
Nicholas S. Zakas. During this hour, I will try to share my understanding of
this topic.


About the speaker:
Goran likes to learn various languages, and has enjoyed working with many of
them. So far he has most fun with Ruby and JavaScript, as long as no-one
mentions Internet Explorer. In his spare time he also dabbles in formal
linguistics, trying to eke out a master's degree out of it.

Place and time:
---
Date: July 28 (Thu)
Time: Doors open at 19:30, the presentation starts at 20:00
Place: Cerego Japan, Ninomiya Building 4F, 18-4 Sakuragaoka-cho, Shibuya-ku,
Tokyo, http://www.cerego.com/en/contact-us/
Language: English
Registration: http://ninjava.doorkeeper.jp/

We'll go for a drink at a nearby izakaya after the talk.
Looking forward to welcoming you all!

Best regards,

Zev & Peter

We would like to thank Goran Topic for the excellent talk at our Ninjava meetup
last week.
Goran was so kind to share his slides - which include the performance tests -
with us. You can access them through the Dropbox link below:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/426383/slides/hpjs/index.html

Please email us if you would have suggestions for a topic or be willing to give
a talk at our next event around the end of September.

Have a great weekend!

Zev & Peter

Hi everyone,

The next Ninjava meetup will focus on iOS developers, and more specifically
people interested in automating their tests. Ross Sharrott will teach us how to
get started:

Unit & other automated testing has long been a key tool in software development
but is not as widely practiced in iOS development. This talk will discuss unit
testing in iOS: why it hasn't been as used, the tools available to developers,
and why it's a good idea to use them.

About the speaker:
Ross (@rsharrott) is a co-founder and director at Long Weekend, a location
independent development organization dedicated to crafting unique & memorable
mobile software. (http://longweekendmobile.com). He first learned the value of
unit testing during a large data migration and now applies it to all
development.


Place and time:
---
Date: October 20 (Thu)
Time: Doors open at 19:30, the presentation starts at 20:00
Place: Cerego Japan, Ninomiya Building 4F, 18-4 Sakuragaoka-cho, Shibuya-ku,
Tokyo, http://www.cerego.com/en/contact-us/
Language: English
Registration: http://ninjava.doorkeeper.jp/

We'll go for a drink at a nearby izakaya after the talk.
Looking forward to welcoming you all!

Best regards,

Zev & Peter

Everyone,

For our next Ninjava meetup we have asked Christophe Le Bouil to
talk about his experience with multi-platform (game) development.


Objective C and Java are the starting point of any application for
iOS and Android. Those languages have nice features and both
platforms allow simple and efficient access to relatively powerful
API to use proprietary UI, graphic, sound, video, etc, so that
development can be easy and fast.

Unfortunately, those languages and API are not compatible at all.
As a developer you have to completely re-create your application
when you want to port it to another device.
Using the capability of calling C++ native code that both systems
allow, it is possible to make an application mainly in C++, using
a multi platform library.
One big advantage of this direction is the ability to develop 90%
of the application on a PC, with the power, very fast compile/run
time and extra debugging feature of an IDE like Microsoft Visual
Studio.

Christophe will present a working sample on PC and iPhone, share
some other platform experiences (PS3, PSP Vita, GameCube, etc )
and present the different steps to make a successful multi
platform engine and applications.


About the speaker:
Christophe Le Bouil is a veteran game programmer who worked on
many games on many common and specific platforms like PS3, PSP,
GameCube, DS, and so on.
With 19 years of programming experience, 28 shipped titles, and
17 platforms played with, he has a broad vision of what
development is.
While migrating to smartphone development, he re-used some
technical tricks and libraries to make development easy.

Place and time:
---
Date: December 1 (Thu)
Time: Doors open at 19:30, the presentation starts at 20:00
Place: Cerego Japan (new location!), Shibuya Infoss Annex 9F,
12-10 Sakuragaoka-cho, Shibuya-ku,Tokyo,
http://www.cerego.com/en/contact-us/
Language: English
Registration: http://ninjava.doorkeeper.jp/

We'll go for a drink at a nearby izakaya after the talk.
Looking forward to welcoming you all!

Best regards,

Zev & Peter

The first Ninjava meetup of the year will be held on Thursday January 20 with
Michael O'Connor as our speaker. Here's a brief summary of his talk:

Typically, the instructions to configure your local development environment for
a project are spread across wikis, blog posts, emails, and your colleagues.
There's a more enjoyable way to manage your system, and it's called "Executable
Documentation." The goal of the talk is to demonstrate its power.

About the speaker:
Michael V. O'Brien draws on a background in computer science, software
development, system admistration, and automation. He became enthusiastic about
automation while working on the Puppet project for Reductive Labs (now called
Puppet Labs). In New York City, he worked for WeShop Inc., where he managed web
operations. His technical passion is to make code read like a good novel and
make systems sing in orchestration.

When he's not writing code, he's learning Japanese, photographing the world, and
learning about business.

Place and time:
Date: January 26 (Thu)
Time: Doors open at 19:30, the presentation starts at 20:00
Place: Cerego Japan (new location!),
Shibuya Infoss Annex 9F, 12-10 Sakuragaoka-cho, Shibuya-ku,Tokyo,
http://www.cerego.com/en/contact-us/
Language: English

Please confirm your attendance here:
http://ninjava.doorkeeper.jp/events/589-executable-documentation-by-michael-obri\
en

We'll go for a drink at a nearby izakaya after the talk.Looking forward to
welcoming you all!

Best regards,

Zev & Peter

Apologies for the spam - allow me to make two corrections to the invitation that
was sent out earlier today:
The date is Thursday January 26 (not 20) and our speaker is Michael O'Brien (not
Connor). (Sorry Michael!!!)


Peter

--- In ninjava@yahoogroups.com, "Peter" <pvanderweeen@...> wrote:
>
> The first Ninjava meetup of the year will be held on Thursday January 20 with
Michael O'Connor as our speaker. Here's a brief summary of his talk:
>
> Typically, the instructions to configure your local development environment
for a project are spread across wikis, blog posts, emails, and your colleagues.
There's a more enjoyable way to manage your system, and it's called "Executable
Documentation." The goal of the talk is to demonstrate its power.
>
> About the speaker:
> Michael V. O'Brien draws on a background in computer science, software
development, system admistration, and automation. He became enthusiastic about
automation while working on the Puppet project for Reductive Labs (now called
Puppet Labs). In New York City, he worked for WeShop Inc., where he managed web
operations. His technical passion is to make code read like a good novel and
make systems sing in orchestration.
>
> When he's not writing code, he's learning Japanese, photographing the world,
and learning about business.
>
> Place and time:
> Date: January 26 (Thu)
> Time: Doors open at 19:30, the presentation starts at 20:00
> Place: Cerego Japan (new location!),
> Shibuya Infoss Annex 9F, 12-10 Sakuragaoka-cho, Shibuya-ku,Tokyo,
> http://www.cerego.com/en/contact-us/
> Language: English
>
> Please confirm your attendance here:
>
http://ninjava.doorkeeper.jp/events/589-executable-documentation-by-michael-obri\
en
>
> We'll go for a drink at a nearby izakaya after the talk.Looking forward to
welcoming you all!
>
> Best regards,
>
> Zev & Peter
>

We are gearing up for our next Ninjava meetup, scheduled for the last day of
this month. Ben Kelly will give a talk titled "The Testing Dead".

The testing dead are slaves to process; they're the ones who stop and mill
around aimlessly when there is no documentation to tell them how to act.
Knowledge passes through them unmolested like bacon through a bar mitzvah.
This presentation takes a light hearted look at what is actually a pretty
serious problem in the field of testing – zombie testers, how they affect
programmers and what you can do about them.

About the speaker:
Ben Kelly is a software tester with Cerego Japan. He has done stints in various
industries including Internet statistics, insurance and most recently online
language learning. When he's not agitating lively discussion on other people's
blogs, he writes sporadically at testjutsu.com and is available on twitter
@benjaminkelly

Place and time:
Date: February 29 (Wed)
Time: Doors open at 19:30, the presentation starts at 20:00
Place: Cerego Japan
Shibuya Infoss Annex 9F, 12-10 Sakuragaoka-cho, Shibuya-ku,Tokyo,
http://www.cerego.com/en/contact-us/
Language: English

Please confirm your attendance here:
http://ninjava.doorkeeper.jp/events/730-the-testing-dead-by-ben-kelly

We'll go for a drink at a nearby izakaya after the talk.
Looking forward to welcoming you all!

Best regards,

Zev & Peter