November 2010

October 12th, 2010 Comments off

Monthly Meeting (register here)

  • When: November 9, 11:30-12:40
  • Where: Oklahoma City Coworking Collaborative (see Meeting location)
  • Speaker: Jason Lee
  • Topic: Build REST Services in Java with JAX-RS and Jersey

Agenda

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

Presentation Information

In the web services world, REST seems very quickly to be becoming the preferred way to expose services. In this session, we will take a look at how to build RESTful web services in Java using the JAX-RS specification. We’ll cover the basics of JAX-RS, content negotiation, custom serialization, and integration with the wider Java EE platform. We’ll also take a quick look at the Jersey Client, and how that can help writing more cleaner clients, including unit tests.

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October 2010

October 8th, 2010 Comments off

Monthly Meeting (register here)

  • When: October 12, 11:30-12:40
  • Where: Oklahoma City Coworking Collaborative (see Meeting location)
  • Speaker: Brett Schuchert
  • Topic: FitNesse and SliM: rapid intro

Agenda

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

Presentation Information

This one hour talk will show the basics of getting started writing automated acceptance tests in FitNesse. The presentation will demonstrate adding acceptance tests to existing production code. Here’s the outline:
- Quick problem overview
- Description in examples
- Turing the examples into FitNesse tests
- Writing fixtures, the “glue code” that makes the tests runn
- Getting tests to pass

We will look at a few different kinds of tables, as many as time permits.

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Slides from August Presentation on Android Development

September 17th, 2010 Comments off

Josh Pavlovich sent me the presentation slides from our August meeting. Enjoy.

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September 2010

August 11th, 2010 Comments off

Monthly Meeting (register here)

  • When: September 14, 11:30-12:40
  • Where: Oklahoma City Coworking Collaborative (see Meeting location)
  • Speaker: Corey Swain
  • Topic: The Evolution of a Data Warehouse

Agenda

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

Presentation Information

In this presentation, the audience will be guided through the timeline of an actual data warehouse project. The presenter will highlight the major risks, opportunities, and decision points that were experienced. The presentation will facilitate the audience’s understanding of the maturation process experienced during the Data Warehouse’s existence.
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August 2010

July 13th, 2010 Comments off

Monthly Meeting (register here)

  • When: August 10, 11:30-12:40
  • Where: Oklahoma City Coworking Collaborative (see Meeting location)
  • Speaker: Ryan Hoegg
  • Topic: Distributed Computing with Apache Hadoop

Agenda

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

Presentation Information

Some of today’s internet software serves millions of users and uses petabytes of data. NoSQL databases and MapReduce algorithms help us make use of large numbers of servers in different locations to manage this data and serve these users. Apache Hadoop provides “open source software for reliable, scalable, distributed computing”. Some companies using it are Amazon, EBay, Facebook, Hulu, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Yahoo.

I will give an overview of the Hadoop suite, review a sample java application using some of the technology, and entertain questions and discussion.

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