Hello all,

The beginning of this year was way too busy! Between several urgent
projects at work, the flu and this amazing snow, it has been
difficult to dedicate enough time for the NMITIA group.

But I am please to announce that we have several meetings lined up
for the next months.

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Wednesday March 26th - 11:30 to 1:30 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Daniel Hinojosa, the Java expert, voluntered to give us a GRAILS
overview.

From wikipedia:
Grails is an open source web application framework which leverages
the Groovy programming language (which is in turn based on the Java
platform). Grails is intended to be a high-productivity framework by
following the "coding by convention" paradigm, providing a standalone
development environment and hiding much of the configuration detail
from the developer.

The meeting will take place at:
Parsons Brinckerhoff
6100 Uptown Boulevard, NE
Suite 700
Albuquerque, NM 87110

This will be a 'bring your own lunch' meeting. And a big thank you to
Kimberly Grommes for providing the conference room.

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Week of April 21 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Bruce Eckel will be in Albuquerque. And again thanks to Kimberly
Grommes, we are trying to organize a meeting with him. My hope is to
get a presentation about FLEX, the collection of technologies
released by Adobe Systems for the development and deployment of cross
platform applications.

Again from Wikipedia:
Bruce Eckel is the author of numerous books and
articles about computer programming. He also gives frequent lectures
and seminars for computer programmers. His best known works are
Thinking in Java and Thinking in C++, aimed at programmers wanting to
learn the Java or C++ programming languages, particularly those with
little experience of object-oriented programming. Most reviewers
consider the books to be better written and more pedagogic than most
introductory texts[citation needed]. Mr Eckel was a founding member
of the ANSI/ISO C++ standard committee.

Date and location will be announced later.

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= May =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Unless we have another speaker, I will be reporting an experience
implementing Virtualization for production servers within a small
company. The good, bad and ugly of Virtualization will be discussed.
A Ruby script allowing for full virtual operating system backup will
also be presented.

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Please share the news and help NMITIA finally get started.

See you soon!

Thanks,
Thierry Thelliez