Oklahoma City Java Users Group

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We meet at the Oklahoma City Coworking Collaborative (see Meeting location) usually 2 weeks before the regular meeting.

Monthly Meeting (register here)

When: May 10, 11:30-12:40
Where: Oklahoma City Coworking Collaborative (see Meeting location)
Sponsor: No Fluff Just Stuff
Speaker: Ken Sipe
Topic: Enter the Gradle

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

Presentation Information

Enter the Gradle by Ken Sipe

In the Java build space, first there was ANT, which provided a reliable way to build without an IDE. Then there was Maven, which provided standardization in build life cycles and dependency management. Now… Enter the Gradle, which provides convention over configuration approach to the build process and an approach at building that isn’t based XML.

This session assumes no familiarly with Gradle as it introduces this new approach at building projects. It is very helpful to be able to read and understand groovy to get the most from the session. This session will look at multi-language or polyglot projects, as well as integration to ANT and Maven. It will conclude with building custom plugins for the Gradle build process.

Ken Sipe is the CTO of Gradleware, Inc. (gradleware.com). With the co-founders Hans Dockter and Adam Murdoch, Ken helps companies of all sizes adopt agile practices and automate their enterprise systems enabling faster time to market and higher quality.

Ken has been a practitioner and instructor of RUP since the late 1990s, and an extreme programmer and coach since the middle 2000s. Ken has worked with Fortune 500 companies to small startups in the roles of developer, designer, application architect and enterprise architect. Ken’s current focus is on enterprise system automation and continuous delivery systems.

Ken is an international speaker on the subject of software engineering speaking at conferences such as JavaOne, JavaZone, Jax-India, and The Strange Loop. He is a regular speaker with NFJS where he is best known for his architecture and security hacking talks. In 2009, Ken was honored by being awarded the JavaOne Rockstar Award at JavaOne in SF, California and the JavaZone Rockstar Award at JavaZone in Oslo, Norway as the top ranked speaker.

Monthly Meeting (register here)

• When: April 12, 11:30-12:40
• Where: Oklahoma City Coworking Collaborative (see Meeting location)
• Sponsor: MBO Partners
• Speaker: Brett Schuchert
• Topic: JMockit – Things you shouldn’t do when testing…

Agenda

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

Presentation Information

JMockIt is a powerful and easy (perhaps too easy) to use mocking tool that allows you to do things that defy logic. Examples include stubbing static methods, changing final classes and pretty much anything that byte code injection on the fly (per test) allows. We’ll look at some of those things along with more traditional test double creation and then discuss why on the one hand it is nice to have this power, on the other hand you should almost never use it.

Monthly Meeting (register here)

• When: March 8, 11:30-12:40
• Where: Oklahoma City Coworking Collaborative (see Meeting location)
• Sponsor: any ideas?
  
• Lightning Talks!

Agenda

• 11:30 am – Welcome Announcements
• 11:40 am – Lightning Talks begin
• 12:40 pm – Wrap Up

Presentation Information

This month, the OKCJUG is hosting lightning talks.  These are 5 minute presentations on a variety of topics interesting to the group by many different speakers, hopefully including you!  Here are the talks we have so far: