Dear SVJUG Members:
Please scroll below to news section for special discount offer to
Silicon Valley Software Symposym.

Thanks,

Venki
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Meeting....: Silicon Valley Java Users Group (SVJUG)

Time.......: February 11th, 2003 (second Wednesday of each month)

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

Topic......: Serious Client-side Programming is Back:
Rich Internet Applications, Web UI, and LZX

Speaker....: Eric Bloch, Director of Engineering, and
David Temkin, VP of Engineering and CTO,
Laszlo Systems, Inc. (http://www.laszlosystems.com)

Description:

Because of the nature of HTML, the UI of Web applications
has suffered. There are now technologies and products
available for building so-called "Rich Internet"
applications that enable Java developers to provide Web
UIs that are on par with or go beyond tradition desktop UIs.
We will demo a few Rich Internet Applications and then go
on to discuss LZX, Laszlo's XML-based language, that
enables development of Rich Internet Applications using
industry standards, including XML, JavaScript, and XPath.

Speaker Bio:

Eric Bloch manages the development of Laszlo's core
product and the San Francisco-based development team.
He holds an A.M. in Sociology and an M.S. in Computer Science
from Stanford University, as well as a Sc.B.
in Computer Science and Mathematics from Brown University.

David Temkin is vice president of engineering and chief
technical officer of Laszlo Systems, Inc. Under his
direction, Laszlo has developed its patent-pending
product suite and has extended operations
to both coasts of the United States. Temkin graduated from
Brown University in 1989 with a double major in Computer
Science and History. He is named on four software patents.


Agenda.....:
18:30-19:00 Arrive & mingle with Food
Pizza & Soda courtesy of --

19:00-20:30 Presentation by Eric Boch & Team

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!

********************** Silicon Valley Software Symposym
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Silicon Valley Software Symposium
March 5-7, 2004
A “No Fluff, Just Stuff” Conference
www.nofluffjuststuff.com
The No Fluff Just Stuff Java Symposium Tour cordially invites you to
register for the Silicon Valley Software Symposium. This three day Java
conference will be offered in Santa Clara, CA on March 5-7, 2004. SVSS
2004 is designed for Java developers, Java Architects, and technical
managers who are looking for further insights on the J2EE, XML, Web
Services, Best Practices and Open Source.

The Silicon Valley Software Symposium will feature over forty high quality
technical presentations and three expert panel discussions. In addition,
some of the speakers are:
·Ted Neward, author of the soon to be released “Effective Enterprise Java”

·Jason Hunter, author of “Java Servlet Programming”

·Bruce Tate, author of “Bitter Java” and co-author of “Bitter EJB”

·Dave Thomas, author of “The Pragmatic Programmer”

·David Geary, author of “Core JSF” and “Core JSTL”

·Mike Clark, co-author of “Bitter EJB”
The Top 5 Reasons to attend the Silicon Valley Software Symposium:
1). SVSS 2004 has a limited attendance of 200 people. We do this
to insure a great deal of interaction between speakers and attendees.

2). SVSS 2004 presentations are content rich. You will come away
with new insights/knowledge that you can immediately apply in your
development environment.

3). High quality speakers who have tremendous technical depth,
practical experience and the requisite knowledge transfer skills to be an
excellent speaker.

4). The best value in terms of dollars/time ratio of any Java based
conference currently offered.

5). The format of SVSS 2004 allows companies to send entire
software development teams because of price, location and timing (held
over a long weekend).



Registration/Pricing Information:

The early bird registration (good thru 2/9/04) is $625/attendee. There is
a special discount of $50 available to all JUG members valid thru
2/9/04(Final Price is $575/person). Please use the discount code
“svssjug575”. After 2/9/04, the registration fee will be $725/person.



The registration fee for the Silicon Valley Software Symposium includes:
· Admission to the symposium
· Symposium CD with all presentation content
· Handouts for each session attended
· All meals/snacks.
There are excellent discounts available for software development teams:
5-9 Attendees: $550/person
10-14 Attendees: $525/person
15-24 Attendees: $495/person
25-over Attendees: $450/person

Want to Know More? Questions?
Silicon Valley Software Symposium:
www.nofluffjuststuff.com/2004-03-santaclara/index.jsp
Contact: Jay Zimmerman, jzimmerman@..., (303)469-0486