A reminder. Please join us for what is bound to be an engaging and refreshing talk by popular speaker Nathaniel Schutta about how to better use the best tool that all of us are born with - our brain.

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Hacking Your Brain for Fun and Profit

Speaker:

Date: Tuesday, August, 18, 2009

Time: 6:00 - 8:00 PM Introduction and Presentation

Food: 8:00 - 10:00 PMPizza and drinks at Davanni's

Location: University of Saint Thomas, St. Paul Campus

Room: Brady Educational Center – BEC 114

Price: Free, no RSVP needed!

Abstract - The single most important tool in any developers toolbox isn't a fancy IDE or some spiffy new language - it's our brain. Despite ever faster processors with multiple cores and expanding amounts of RAM, we haven't yet created a computer to rival the ultra lightweight one we carry around in our skulls - in this session we'll learn how to make the most of it. We'll talk about why multitasking is a myth, the difference between the left and the right side of your brain, the importance of flow and why exercise is good for more than just your waist line.

Speaker Bio - Nathaniel T. Schutta is a senior software engineer in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota with extensive experience developing Java Enterprise Edition based Web applications. He graduated from St. John’s University (MN) with a degree in Computer Science and has a master's of science degree in software engineering from the University of Minnesota. For the last several years, he has focused on user interface design. Nathaniel has contributed to corporate interface guidelines and consulted on a variety of Web-based applications. A long-time member of the Association for Computing Machinery's Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group and a Sun-certified Web component developer, Nathaniel believes that if the user can't figure out your application, then you've done something wrong. Along with his user interface work, Nathaniel is the cocreator of the open-source Taconite framework, has contributed to two corporate Java frameworks, has developed training material, and has led several study groups. During the brief moments of warm weather found in his home state of Minnesota, he spends as much time on the golf course as his wife will tolerate. He's currently exploring Ruby, Rails, and (after recently making the switch) Mac OS X. Nathaniel is the coauthor of the bestselling book, Foundations of Ajax.

Directions - Driving direction to the campus are available from the UST web site

Acknowledgements - Special thanks to our host, Graduate Programs in Software, which provides our meeting venue every month, and to our pizza sponsors: DevJam, Refactr, and Advanced Technologies Integration, Inc.

After the Meeting - Join other members of the twin cities tech community for food and drink at Davanni's