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San Antonio JUG @ java.net

What you need to know

We meet the first Tuesday of each month from 6:00 to 7:00 at New Horizons Computer Learning Center. Attendance is free, and you're welcome to join us!

Coming Meetings

3 April 2012: Discussion of productivity and efficiency practices

We don't have a speaker for this month, so we're just getting together to chat. We'll guide the discussion toward good and bad practices that affect you from day to day with regard to your productivity and efficiency.

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What's happening

Updated 1 Apr 2012

  • The No Fluff Just Stuff conference tour is coming to San Antonio for the first time in Spring of 2012! The expected dates are 13-14 April, a Friday and Saturday. No Fluff Austin is always a great experience, and now we've got a chance to get a whole new crowd together right here at home! Details will be forthcoming.
  • The group is enrolled in the user group programs of several book publishers, giving us access to discounts on purchases, free review copies, and more.

How to contact us

Ryan Stewart -- rds6235@gmail.com

Hector (Pizza Boy) Munoz -- hectorrmunoz@gmail.com

Through the mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/satjug

How to participate

  • Sign up for our mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/satjug. Due to a profusion of spam, you'll either have to request membership or be invited by another member.
  • Come to a meeting! We meet at 6:00 the first Tuesday of each month at New Horizons, next to Academy (map to the left).

Who can participate

Anybody who wants to learn more about Java and related technologies.

Why to participate

Learn cool stuff, network, and win prizes, including books from leading publishers and a free license for IntelliJ IDEA. Meetings mostly revolve around what our members are currently working on, and you'll learn about people, companies, and technologies being used in the area. We're part of several user group programs, through which we're eligible for lots of discounts and review copies of books. We also have various door prizes at our meetings provided by our sponsors:

Intertech .NET and Java Training Rackspace
O'Reilly Pearson
Wrox Apress
Manning
New Horizons Structure101

Files

Slides from past presentations are available on the Downloads page or linked from the calendar below.

Calendar

Our meeting calendar, to be filled in as we go. Want to speak? Drop us a line; we're always looking for people to put on the calendar!

You can also subscribe to our Google calendar by adding this URL to your own calendar: http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/ffhk29n3btvg3qgu0gvn8cnl0o@group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.

Date Speaker Topic
3 Sep 2009 Bryan Taylor, Rackspace Programming in Scala
1 Oct 2009 Ryan Stewart, Rackspace Intro to DVCS with Git
5 Nov 2009 John Madrid, Rackspace Groovy Goodness
7 Jan 2010 Subramanian Murali (Subbu), HCL Technologies Apache Wicket
4 Mar 2010 David Phillips, USAA GWT
1 Apr 2010 Gary Dusbabek, Rackspace Apache Cassandra
6 May 2010 Subramanian Murali (Subbu), HCL Technologies Coming in JDK7
3 Jun 2010 Jarret Raim, Denim Group OWASP Java Enterprise Security API (ESAPI)
1 Jul 2010 Ryan Stewart, Rackspace Spring Roo
2 Sep 2010 Discussion group Build tools and workflows
5 Oct 2010 Lisa Clark, Rackspace Cucumber
2 Nov 2010 Discussion group Libraries and frameworks
6 Jan 2011 Discussion group Software testing and QA
1 Feb 2011 David Singleton and Chris Cantu, Rackspace Grails
1 Mar 2011 Jesus Gonzalez, Denim Group Secure Android Development
5 Apr 2011 Jon Burgin, Rackspace Efficient Development with IntelliJ and TDD
3 May 2011 Ravi Hasija, Capital Group Unit Testing, Mocking, and Groovy
1 Jun 2011 Ken Sipe, No Fluff Just Stuff tour Enter the Gradle
2 Aug 2011 Discussion group The NFJS conference
6 Sep 2011 Gautam Dev, Clearpoint FAST CODE Eclipse Plugin
4 Oct 2011 Jonathan Dance, Heroku Deploying Java & Play Framework Apps to the Cloud
1 Nov 2011 Craig Walls, SpringSource What's new in Spring 3
6 Dec 2011 Discussion group Whatever
3 Jan 2012 David Kowis and Andrew Hartnett Cucumber for Java
7 Feb 2012 Adrian George Android
13 Mar 2012 Neal Ford, ThoughtWorks Four Practical Uses for Domain Specific Languages
3 Apr 2012 Discussion group Your productivity and efficiency
??? Ravi Hasija, Capital Group Scala

Topic Ideas

If you feel like you could talk for 45 minutes or so about one of these things, let us know, and we'll put you on the schedule:

  • Test patterns/best practices
  • Modular programming with OSGi
  • Clojure
 
 
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