July 7th will be the second meeting for the DFW2GUG.  June was our
inaugural meeting, where we covered the mission of the group,
logistics for our meetings, and then Morgan Nelson took the group
(close to 20 attendees) through a high-level walk-through of some of
the basics of Groovy.  The original annoucnement is at the bottom of
this email.

MEETING INFO:
Social / pizza: 6:30 - 7:00 pm
Meeting time: 7:00 - 8:30 pm

MEETING LOCATION:
Improving Enterprises
15950 Dallas Parkway
Suite 500
Dallas, TX 75248
http://improvingenterprises.com/contact/

July DFW2GUG Meeting - Groovy - Day to Day

BIO:
Paul Woods (https://twitter.com/mr_paul_woods) is a Software Engineer
for Texas Instruments. He started programming in 1984 on a Commodore
64, but became a electronic technician in the 1990s. Paul graduated
from UTD in 2006 with a degree in software engineering. Paul has
experience with C++, C# and Java. Paul started programming with Groovy
about a year ago.

ABSTRACT:
Groovy - Day to Day. Paul plans to talk about his use of Groovy on a
day-to-day basis. The talk will cover using lists, maps, closures,
files, and databases in Groovy. Also, if time permits, Paul may talk
about the meta-object protocal (MOP).

TWITTER:
https://twitter.com/dfw2gug

GOOGLE GROUP:
http://groups.google.com/group/dfw2gug

WEBSITE:
http://www.dfw2gug.org/

June Meeting announcement - follows:
Announcing the Inaugural DFW Groovy Grails Users Group

The DFW Groovy Grails Users Group (DFW2gug) will be a place for
technology professionals, hackers, and those looking to get their
start in software development an opportunity to learn and further
refine their Groovy and Grails skills.

Our monthly meetings will be a mix of lecture presentation and group
programming activities.  The goal will be to cover a topic well enough
that members will have the knowledge to go home and use a new skill.

We will meet on the first Wednesday of every month.  Our first meeting
will be Wednesday, 6/2/2010.  The meetings will run from 6:30 -
8:30pm, with the first 30 minutes being social time over pizza or a
sandwich provided by our host and sponsor, Improving Enterprises.

The leaders of the DFW2GUG are Derek Lane, Morgan Nelson and Erik
Weibust.  For more information about our group please follow us on
twitter via @dfw2gug (https://twitter.com/dfw2gug) or be an active or
passive member of our Google Group (http://groups.google.com/group/
dfw2gug).

Our first presentation will be by Morgan Nelson, "Get to Know Groovy,
a *Gentle* Introduction."  The presentation will be a survey on the
basics of Groovy, how it compares to Java, and other things to
ponder...

Morgan Nelson got his first taste of programming in TI-Basic on the
TI-99/4a many years ago.  Despite this, he stuck with it and is
currently a senior engineer at Quickoffice, Inc.  He has been
developing software professionally for 7 years, and has over 10
additional years in network administration, becoming intimately
familiar with TCP/IP networking and Linux based servers.  When he
isn’t absorbing information about programming, he enjoys spending time
with his wife and two children.

*** First Meeting is Wednesday, 6/2/10 ***
*** 6:30 - 8:30pm @ Improving Enterprises ***

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