Yes, we are, Jeff. I'll be announcing it today. Mike Shoemaker is going to regale us with his tails of using Ruby on Rails in an agile way. I, for one, cannot...
Oops, possible correction. I have two speakers lined up, and I may have gotten them confused. I'll post the real announcement later today. Sorry for the...
I'm setting up a Java development environment for some high schools students and was just wondering what would be a good environment for them in which to learn...
Eclipse. No question. Netbeans may be a better choice if you are doing J2ME development because of its integration with the J2ME Wireless Toolkit. Other than...
NetBeans seems to have the advantage, at the moment, for Java 1.5 / J2SE 5.0 support. But that advantage won't last: Eclipse 3.1 will address this issue. ...
The February meeting of the St. Louis Extreme Programming Users' Group will be held on Monday, February 21st, from 7-9PM at our usual location on Jungermann ...
FYI: And if you miss this talk, Curt Hibbs of OCI will be doing a Ruby on Rails talk at the Saint Louis Java User Group on June 9th. This XPSTL talk looks...
... I agree. Personally, I think a simpler language, like some lisp-variant, would be ideal, but that's another thread. The reason I'm looking at Java and...
I tried to interest them in Trails -- the Java equivalent of Rails. But I had some trouble coordinating it with the speaker I had in mind, and they had a...
... Trails doesn't have much of a following. My guess is that it won't get one, moslty because of cultural differences between the Java and Ruby worlds. ... ...
... Not when you take into account that the STLJUG is a wholly owned subsidiary of OCI. My gut tells me that the primary consideration was who Curt Hibbs...
... Curt Hibbs is a Boeing employee. KevinH -- Kevin Heifner heifner @ ociweb.com http://heifner.blogspot.com Object Computing, Inc. (OCI) www.ociweb.com...
Maybe that's just where all the smart programmers in St. Louis work or have worked or at least have considered working there. If you've lived anywhere else...
Tim Burns
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... Maybe more employers should encourage their employees to perform acts of public speaking, as one component in an overall career plan. -- Jeff Grigg, CTM...
Mark V. asked me to forward this to the XPSTL group. I'll reply separately to the curiousity of Ruby at the Java group. Mark's comments below are mostly...
... think ... they ... I actually think it's *great* to have the Java gang interested in other languages. That's mostly because I think the future is in more...
From: "Grigg, Jeff" <jgrigg@...> ... public speaking, as one component in an overall career plan. ... By the way, Oasis Digital does this... but Oasis...
I watched the Trails "build a web app in 12 minutes" video last night. Interesting. My reaction was, "That looks like a good implementation of Naked...
... I agree, but as I explain below, the attendees voted to have it. I do think there are interesting things in Rails for Java developers to learn even if...
R. Mark Volkmann wrote .. ... So why hasn't the JUG/SIG managed to get its own domain since May 1997? Nobody I know thinks OCI nor the steering committee is...
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