July 12th, 2005 Open Discussion. During last month's meeting there was discussion about creating a series of topics for the next six months or so. I am going...
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Hi Everyone, I wanted to invite you to next Wednesday's free seminar, "Executive Briefing on Agile Software Development." This free talk will be presented by...
Hi, I wanted to let everyone know about our upcoming free seminar on 8/15, "Use Case Driven Agile Development", as well as our August Streamzine and next...
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When I attended Agile 2005 in Denver last month I had the idea to start an agile software development user group here in Sacramento. Anyone interested? ...
What type of topics would you cover? ... From: sacjug@yahoogroups.com [mailto:sacjug@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of comeara Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 4:40...
I would be somewhat interested. As Amran asked, what would be the sort of topics to be discussed? I am not as familiar with the agile process. Thank You, Tom...
Doing some initial "what is agile?" work would probably be a good place to start as my intuition tells me there isn't a lot of experience in our area yet. ...
Does anybody know how to delete a directory using Ant with wild cards? I need to remove JBoss' work folders. The folders that I need to delete: dir /a:d /b /S...
Not sure if this is what you are looking for or if this works for you: <target name="delmyappdirs" description="deletes directories that have the word myapp in...
Thanks. I will test it tomorrow. I missed the includeemptydirs attribute... Chris. ... From: sacjug@yahoogroups.com [mailto:sacjug@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of...
Hello all! I've been in the programming/IT field for 7 years, programming mostly in VB, C/C++, HTML, JavaScript, and ASP, as well as lot's of SQL Server and...
Jeff, Welcome to the SacJUG! This question is discussed quite often during the meeting. And most responses are unique in their own way. IMHO it usually comes...
..as for the rest of the story please read Chris' latest hot off the press book: "How to write winning Java resumes and get your dream Java job" -- By Scheuble...
I'm sure this question gets asked a lot. I've seen lot's of different answers at other message boards. But here goes (I'm sorry if this is the one millionth...
Hi Chris, Thanks for that highly detailed and informative post. The things you've said reflect a lot of what I've heard from a friend of mine who's been a...
Hi, Just my thought... There are thousands of people hiring and each person has their own beliefs about what is important. So I am not so sure you can answer...
Jeff: Please consider my two cents worth, having been in a situation similar to yours. As a programmer, you can seek highly technical work that does not...
"Good luck. (By the way, if you have more VB experience than Java, why don't you consider training yourself in .NET instead of Java/J2EE?)" THere are a number...
You are absolutely right about the demand for technical skills and soft skills. Many a good programmers lose out because of *really bad* soft skills especially...
"Anyway, you are absolutely right about Mono and MonoDevelop. I have been recently playing with them a little bit on my FC4 box and its amazing thus far. I ...
You are right about the ease of development in MS languages and from what I have experienced so far I think the .NET its quite a technology to reckon with. My...
Tonight's starter session will be an introduction about using JavaScript RCP over HTTP in a web application. The advanced session will be a sample JavaScript...