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June 2009

September 10th, 2009
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Lunch Meeting (register here )

  • When: June 9, 11:30-12:40
  • Where: Oklahoma City Coworking Collaborative  (see Meeting location )
    • Topic:  Code Kata
  • Speaker: Chad Gorshing

Agenda

  • 11:30 am – Welcome Announcements
  • 11:40 am – Main Presentation
  • 12:40 pm – Wrap Up

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Sharpening our skills is becoming ever important. Where do you start? Code Katas are one way in which you can take your craft to another level. Chad will define code kata, discuss the different view points of code katas, and will perform code katas as examples.

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May 2009

September 10th, 2009
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Lunch Meeting (register here )

  • When: May 12, 11:30-12:40
  • Where: Oklahoma City Coworking Collaborative  (see Meeting location )
    • Topic:  Beginning JavaScript for Java Developers
  • Speaker: Jason Lee

Agenda

  • 11:30 am – Welcome Announcements
  • 11:40 am – Main Presentation
  • 12:40 pm – Wrap Up

Presentation Information

These days, writing Java-based web apps require more than just Java.  With user interactions becoming richer and more dynamic, one language that every web developer should know is JavaScript.  In this session, we'll take a look some of the basic concepts of JavaScript — including variable scopes,classes, closures, and testing — that will be helpful for a Java developer who is starting to learn this powerful and popular language.

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April 2009

September 10th, 2009
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Lunch Meeting (register here )

  • When: April 14, 11:30-12:40
  • Where: Oklahoma City Coworking Collaborative  (see Meeting location )
    • Topic:  Griffon: Crash Course
  • Speaker: Les Martin

Agenda

  • 11:30 am – Welcome Announcements
  • 11:40 am – Main Presentation
  • 12:40 pm – Wrap Up

Presentation Information

With so much development on web-based applications the desktop hasn't gotten much love in the last decade.  Frameworks based on the popular Ruby on Rails framework have sprouted up all over the web to help make developing web applications a zip.  Out of the growing popularity of the Groovy dynamic programming language for the Java platform a new framework has spawned.  A framework that has taken the concept of "convention over configuration" and made it at home in the Java desktop world.  Introducing Griffon. This ain't yer momma's Swing framework. 

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March 2009

September 10th, 2009
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Lunch Meeting (register here )

  • When: March 10, 11:30-12:40
  • Where: University of Phoenix room 308  (see Meeting location or here )
    • Topic:  Introduction to Scala for the Java Programmer
  • Speaker: Mitch Blevins

Agenda

  • 11:30 am – Welcome Announcements
  • 11:40 am – Main Presentation
  • 12:40 pm – Wrap Up

Presentation Information

Scala is a programming language that integrates both functional and object-oriented patterns in a concise and type-safe way.  Scala runs on the JVM and smoothly integrates with Java.  The presentation will assume familiarity with Java and will focus on the differences in Scala that allow interesting programming approaches.

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February 2009

September 10th, 2009
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Lunch Meeting (register here )

  • When: February 10, 11:30-12:40
  • Where: University of Phoenix room 308  (see Meeting location or here )
    • Topic:  Dissecting an Android Application
  • Speaker: Greg Bugaj
  • Sponsor: TBD

Agenda

  • 11:30 am – Welcome Announcements
  • 11:40 am – Main Presentation
  • 12:40 pm – Wrap Up

Presentation Information

In this session, Greg will walk the group through the structure of an Android application, giving an introduction to the APIs and tools needed to develop an application for Google's mobile phone platform.

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