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Greetings : Wishing you all a Happy New Year 2003 !!!
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Meeting....: Silicon Valley Java Users Group (SVJUG)

Time.......: January 8, 2003 (the second Wednesday of each month)

Cost.......: Always FREE to all!

Topic......: Metric-driven Refactoring

Speaker....: Dem Pilafian, TogetherSoft

Description: Explore ways to use automatic code analysis to help
determine which refactorings are most likely to improve
a project's software quality for maintenance, performance,
and reuse. Examine audit types and metric calculations
in the context of making code reviews more effective.

Speaker Bio: Dem Pilafian is a Mentor at TogetherSoft and received his
master's in Computer Science from the University of
Colorado.
He was previously a Strategic Technical Manager at Hipbone
and a Product Manager at Calico Commerce. Dem was a panel
expert at the Epicentric Summit and Technology Crossroads
conferences, and he co-authored the
"MD-11 Aircraft Alerting Function" article for the
Scientific Honeyweller.

Agenda.....: 18:30-19:00 Arrive & mingle

Pizza & Sodas courtesy of TogetherSoft.
(Interested in helping us? shoot an email)

19:00-20:30 Presentation

Location...: Netscape Communications, Inc.
Planet Mo'z Dining Room
468 Ellis Street (Bldg. 22)
Mountain View, CA

Map available at http://svjug.org/

After turning onto Ellis from Middlefield, you will
pass 2 big blue glass buildings on the right. Turn
left into the 3 big brown stone buildings just after
the blue buildings. The 3rd brown building at the
end is Building 22. The Planet M'oz Conference room is
at the south West end of the building.

Sponsors...: Netscape provides our meeting room.
http://www.netscape.com/

Croftsoft provides our domain hosting.
http://www.croftsoft.com/

Our thanks to these great sponsors!