Oklahoma City Java Users Group

OKCJUG June 2013 Meeting

mitch.blevins — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 17:57:26 +0000

This meeting will be a panel format discussing local tools and processes for member developers. Our panel of experts is composed of volunteers.

Place: NW Library

Time: June 11th 11am

Volunteer and register to attend: https://plus.google.com/events/chirhpm53b5rbji9jc8kejfv1c0

Also, we will be having officer elections: https://plus.google.com/b/105032475714454328144/105032475714454328144/posts/CCib2SgrZbD

If you volunteer to server, you get free pizza!*

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* Everybody gets free pizza

May 2013 OKCJUG Meeting

mitch.blevins — Mon, 13 May 2013 16:19:05 +0000

Come see Jason Lee present on AsciiDoc and Awestruct.

Tuesday, May 14th, 11:30am at the NW Library.

April 9, 2013 Meeting

brian.sheldon — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 15:49:15 +0000

What: Developing Next Generation Apps

Where: Library at NW122 east of MacArthur room B

When: 11:30 am to 12:45 pm

Who: Craig Walls (author of Spring in Action)

Brought to us by No Fluff Just Stuff coming to Dallas on May 17-19

For a long while, we’ve built applications pretty much the same way. Regardless of the frameworks (or even languages and platforms) employed, we’ve packaged up our web application, deployed it to a server somewhere, and asked our users to point their web browser at it.

But now we’re seeing a shift in not only how applications are deployed, but also in how they’re consumed. The cost and hassle of setting up dedicated servers is driving more applications into the cloud. Meanwhile, our users are on-the-go more than ever, consuming applications from their mobile devices more often than a traditional desktop browser. And even the desktop user is expecting a more interactive experience than is offered by simple page-based HTML sites.

With this shift comes new programming models and frameworks. It also involves a shift in how we think about our application design. Standing up a simple HTML-based application is no longer good enough.

In this session, we’ll discuss what the next generation of applications looks like, exploring such things as the mobile web and cloud computing. We’ll also dig into some of the technologies and practices such as REST, OAuth, and JavaScript microframeworks that enable us to move forward.

March 12, 2013 Meeting

brian.sheldon — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 12:10:27 +0000

What: Practical Integration with Mule

Where: Library one NW122 east of MacArthur

When: 11:30 am to 12:45 pm

Who: Ryan Hoegg

Ask a random IT person about the systems in his environment, and chances are that the answer will sound something like this:

“Well, we are almost done with the new release of Whiz Bang, which uses Spring Data, AMQP, and MongoDB with a lot of jQuery for the front end. That’s being held up because of our maintenance release of Beige and Dusty, which most of our customers use. They both send information to FileCabinet 11.8r3, which we bought from a vendor 16 years ago, and we still have our invoicing system in Decrepit 6, which runs on AS400.”

It seems like everyone has a bunch of different systems with a lot of different technologies involved. Integration is what we do to get them all working together.

This talk is about how to do integration with Mule ESB, and includes a walk through of an example project.

Bio:Ryan Hoegg is a software nut, and works as an Integration Architect at Confluex. He lives with his wife and children in Northwest OKC.

February OKCJUG Meeting

mitch.blevins — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:11:45 +0000

Where: NW Libarary

What: Scala (http://www.scala-lang.org/)

Who: Matt Hicks

No January JUG

mitch.blevins — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:36:26 +0000

We’re letting our usual speakers practice their LARPing and other hobbies this month, so there will be no JUG. Please stay at home and don’t cause any trouble.

December 11, 2012 Meeting

brian.sheldon — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 16:45:42 +0000

December 11, 2012 from 11:30 to 12:30ish

Belle Isle Library (NW Expressway and Villa)

Since we don’t have a speaker for this month, we thought we’d have a party instead.We will provide the pizza and pop. Feel free to bring desserts.

If you want, bring a present and we’ll exchange them somehow (by drawing names or playing some game).

Friends, significant others, and children are welcome.

Please go to the g+ event to let us know if you are going:

https://plus.google.com/events/cpiufobv29kohq68j7dacp4gh2o

November 2012 OKCJUG Meeting

brian.sheldon — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 14:57:18 +0000

Monthly Meeting (register here)

When: November 13, 11:30-12:43
Where: Belle Isle Library
Speaker: Jason Lee
Topic: Arquillian – JBoss Testing Platform

Agenda

11:30 am – Welcome Announcements
11:40 am – Main Presentation
12:43 pm – Wrap Up

Presentation Information:

Arquillian is a revolutionary testing platform built on the JVM that substantially reduces the effort required to write and execute Java middleware integration and functional tests. No more mocks. No more container lifecycle and deployment hassles. Just real tests!

Source and slides.

OKCJUG October Meeting

mitch.blevins — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 14:24:09 +0000

The JUG is today!

https://plus.google.com/events/cboo19hj5koa0ps4r51svnd6d6s

Where: Belle Isle Library, downstairs

When: October 9th, 11:30am

Who: Brett Schuchert

Brett has 20+ years of teaching experience and over 17 years of experience with
object technology. He has worked extensively in developing software, training,
mentoring, and consulting using Java, C++ and Smalltalk as well as software
process and requirements analysis both locally and internationally. More info
can be found in his Curriculum Vitae located here:
http://schuchert.wikispaces.com/MyCv

What: Legacy Refactoring

In “Working Effectively with Legacy Code” (Welc hereafter), Michael Feathers
defines legacy code as code without automated tests – I like to add to that
definition “that someone depends upon, e.g., in production”.

Legacy Code is hard to work with? Or is it? Modern mocking tools make creating
what Michael Feathers calls a “link seam” easy, language-driven rather than
build driven, fast, reliable, and, frankly, cool as hell. I like to call this a
“dynamic link seam” instead of a boring old link seam. The former is cool,
fast, automated, and built into the language (or a library), while the latter
requires custom build scripts, custom build targets, and may, depending on the
language, multiple executables.

We’ll take a look at some legacy code and use a modern mocking tool, JMockit to
write some tests to exercise the production code. We will then do some quick
Welc-based refactorings on the code to see:

* How to do it
* Does it improve the code
* Do the tests age well
* What happens if we were to use the modern mocking tool on the “after” code
* Does this suggest anything about having all that power at your fingertips?

September 2012 OKCJUG Meeting

mitch.blevins — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:04:28 +0000

Monthly Meeting (register here)

When: September 11, 11:30-12:43
Where: NW Metro Library
Speaker: William Lieurance
Topic: Jasper Reports – Open Source Reporting in Java

Agenda

11:30 am – Welcome Announcements
11:40 am – Main Presentation
12:43 pm – Wrap Up

Presentation Information:

JasperReports is an open source Java reporting tool that can write to a variety of targets, such as: screen, a printer, into PDF, HTML, Microsoft Excel, RTF, ODT, Comma-separated values or XML files.

The speaker will show how Jasper is used in a busy manufacturing environment to get things done.