Special Free DetroitJUG Event - Jan 31st

[David Mckinnon]

The Detroit Java User Group Presents.....

WHAT: Running Java, Play! and Scala Apps on the Cloud
When: Jan, 31 2012 6:00PM
Where: The Madison 1555 Broadway, Detroit, MI 48226
Parking: Park in the Detroit Opera House Parking Center and get your
ticket validated at the event.
Cost: Free
Register at: http://detroitjugjan2012.eventbrite.com/

The Detroit JUG is proud to present one of the most popular technical
evangelists in the US. James Ward has presented at conferences such
as DevOx, JavaOne, CodeMash and more. James has left Adobe and is
now following his passions Heroku.

Running Java, Play! and Scala Apps on the Cloud

Heroku is a Polyglot Cloud Application Platform that makes it easy to
deploy Java, Play! and Scala apps on the cloud. Deployment is as
simple as doing a "git push". This session will teach you how to
deploy and scale Java, Play! and Scala apps on Heroku.

Play is an open source web framework written in Java. Like Rails,
Play uses a convention over configuration paradigm. Play is written
in Java but has had support for Scala since 1.1. Starting from
2.0, the framework core, build and deploy tools will be completely
rewritten in Scala.

Heroku is a platform as a service cloud offering. Heroku was the
first "polyglot" or multi-language PaaS. Initially Heroku supported
Ruby and Rails but now supports, Ruby, Java, Node.js, Scala, Clojure
and Python. Heroku has been in development since 2007 and reports
over 400,00 web applications running on its service.

James Ward (www.jamesward.com) is a Principal Developer Evangelist at
Heroku. Today he focuses on teaching developers how to deploy Java,
Play! and Scala apps to the cloud. James frequently presents at
conferences around the world such as JavaOne, Devoxx, and many other
Java get-togethers. Along with Bruce Eckel, James co-authored First
Steps in Flex. He has also published numerous screencasts, blogs, and
technical articles. Starting with Pascal and Assembly in the 80′s,
James found his passion for writing code. Beginning in the 90′s he
began doing web development with HTML, Perl/CGI, then Java. After
building a Flex and Java based customer service portal in 2004 for
Pillar Data Systems he became a Technical Evangelist for Flex at
Adobe. You can find him tweeting as @_JamesWard, answering questions
onStackOverflow.com and posting code at github.com/jamesward.


The Madison was one of the oldest theaters in Detroit. Newly
renovated, it is now the home of Detroit Venture Partners, Detroit
Labs and many new start-ups. Dug Song has called the Madison, "the
best startup office I have ever seen..." A Special Thanks to Madison
management for donating the use of the 5th floor auditorium for this
event.
Learn more at http://www.eventsatmadison.com/


Register at: http://detroitjugjan2012.eventbrite.com/
Food and Drink provided by Detroit Labs.
Parking Validations provided by Detroit Labs
(park in the Opera House parking structure)


Hope to see you there.

Cheers!
David McKinnon
Detroit Software Dev Digest
@detroitjava