Call for Topics for June and July

[Mykel Alvis]

Hi JUG,

We've had a pretty empty year so far, but I'd like for that to change. 
Pursuant to that, this email is a call for topics.  Specifically, I'd like a couple of types of responses. 

First, what do you want to see? 
What topics would you like to see covered?

Second, what are you willing to present on? 
Is there something you're up to that others might find interesting, or maybe that only you find interesting?

Post ideas to the list and we'll talk about them.

Mykel

[Jim.J...@sungard.com]

 

1.       Hudson

2.       Java 7 features

3.       Servlet 3.0

4.       Hudson

5.       Various open source tools we use or should use (Apache Camel, Apache Commons Lang, Apache Commons IO, Apache Velocity, etc)

6.       JSF2

7.       Hudson

8.       JMX

9.       Spring 3 features

10.   Nexus

11.   An overview of the popular Linux distros and the main differences  (Mykel, you could do this in your sleep)

 

Instead of a 1-2 hour presentation with demos, some of us might be more agreeable to a 30 min overview of a topic and maybe 2-3 of us present in a given meeting.

Such shorter presentations would be a lot easier to prepare with our busy schedules.

 

Did I mention Hudson ?

 

Jim

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[Vincent Batts]

s/[hH]udson/jenkins/g
:)

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[Mykel Alvis]

This is a good starting list. 

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 07:42, <Jim.J...@sungard.com> wrote:

 

1.       Hudson

2.       Java 7 features

3.       Servlet 3.0

4.       Hudson

5.       Various open source tools we use or should use (Apache Camel, Apache Commons Lang, Apache Commons IO, Apache Velocity, etc)

6.       JSF2

7.       Hudson

8.       JMX

9.       Spring 3 features

10.   Nexus

11.   An overview of the popular Linux distros and the main differences  (Mykel, you could do this in your sleep)

 

Instead of a 1-2 hour presentation with demos, some of us might be more agreeable to a 30 min overview of a topic and maybe 2-3 of us present in a given meeting.

Such shorter presentations would be a lot easier to prepare with our busy schedules.

 

Did I mention Hudson ?

I *strongly* support the idea of more and shorter (15- 30 minute) presentations.

I'll add the talk that I'm currently working on to it:

12: OSGi

and stuff I might want to see covered:

13. Appserver comparisons
14. Esper
15. Scala
16. Clojure

[Mike Wells]

If you are going to add Scala and Clojure on there... may as well put python/jython on too and Lua. Lua has been getting alot of buzz out here and on the left coast for some reason... not sure why.

17. Python/Jython
18. Lua

Here's an interesting find as far as languages go (http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html)

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[Greg Machamer]

Jquery was done already.  What about jquery mobile?

[Dave]

I'd like to see:

-Android Development Topics
-OSGi
-JRuby Intro
-Scala deep-dive topics: Generics, sbt, Akka

I'd be willing to talk about:

-Anything Play! Web Framework related; perhaps Play w/Scala module
-Anything Javascript related: Front-end development libraries and
methodologies, AJAX best practices, JQuery/JQuery Mobile, YUI, EXTjs,
Sencha Touch, Node.js
-Short Discussion on some of my favorite Java libs: JodaTime, Guava,
Mockito, Hamcrest
-DSLs in Groovy
-Jersey and RESTful Architectures
-Hudson/Jenkins (on an open source project to create an OSX Jenkins
client; wouldn't want to do the topic in the near future)

I am only willing to speak if someone else is too :) (c'mon guys!)

On May 18, 3:47 pm, Greg Machamer <gmacha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jquery was done already.  What about jquery mobile?

> On May 18, 2011 3:45 PM, "Mike Wells" <digitalog...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > If you are going to add Scala and Clojure on there... may as well put
> > python/jython on too and Lua. Lua has been getting alot of buzz out here
> and
> > on the left coast for some reason... not sure why.
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> > 17. Python/Jython
> > 18. Lua
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> > Here's an interesting find as far as languages go (
> >http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html)
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> > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Mykel Alvis <mykel.al...@gmail.com>

> wrote:
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> >> This is a good starting list.

[Henry McBride]

I could probably do one on hudson but I don't know when I will have the time to get it together. I will try to get something together and let you know when I think I can do it.

Henry

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[M.C. Wilson]

Greetings-

If I may, I'd like to inquire about the areas of Java on which this group would prefer to focus. I myself am a Java EE developer, and do not use some fundamental parts of Java, such as Swing.

Thank you very much,

-M.

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[Mykel Alvis]

I don't think we have any preferences or prejudices.  If it runs on the JVM or pertains to Java somehow, it's a fair topic.  Many, but not all, of the members are Java EE developers but there hasn't been much traffic within the group so I'd be reluctant to paint us into or out of a Java EE corner.  We've been very generalist so far and are likely to stay that way.  If you have suggestions or topics to present, fire away!

Mykel