Oklahoma City Java User Group

Here we are in late August, and our slow start turns out to be not a slow start, but just a slow year. :P But that hardly matters, because we have at long last another session that should excite and invigorate, and I’m not just saying that because I’m the speaker!

We’re changing things up a bit this month, and we’ll be meeting in Norman. We have a number of JUG members who drive up from the south to meet, so we’re going to drive down their way this month. We’ll be meeting at 7pm at the Merrick Computer Center of the University of Oklahoma (see map on the right). Park south of the building.

Please RSVP over at Meetup! I look forward to seeing to you there!

It’s 2025 and while we’re getting a slow start, we’ve scheduled our first meeting of the year. You’ll have to listen to me, but we’re going to return to a topic we haven’t discussed in several years: Android development. There are lots of ways to build a mobile app, but only a few for writing cross-platform applications. In this session, I’ll demo an approach that works for me.

As always, please RSVP to help with the food order. :)

Great news! We have scheduled our November meeting. This month, local developer and entrepreneur Matt Hicks will be discussing LightDB, a "computationally focused database using pluggable store + indexer", which leverages Scala as a core part of its architecture. This is a great chance to take another look at both a new technology and a JVM language that silently powers a number of high-scale workloads.

We will be meeting back at Starspace this month, and our meeting will be at 6:30pm so that those on the outer edges of the metro will have time to attend.

We’re looking forward to hosting Matt and seeing everyone again.

As always, please RSVP to help with the food order. :)

For our March meeting, we have a special guest coming in to share with us. Gerrit Grunwald is a Java Champion, a JUG leader, and a Principal Engineer with Azul Systems. He’ll be discussing and demoing a JDK addition that Azul has developed to boost Java application start up times.

Since he’s flying in, we’ll have to adjust our normal schedule a bit. We’ll be meeting at 6:30PM, and we’ll be meeting at a new location, the Office of Management and Enterprise Services (OMES) Data Center at 3115 N Lincoln Blvd, Oklahoma City, OK 73105. A big thank you to Joe and Susan at OMES for providing a space for us to meet.

This should be a great — and immediately useful — presentation. I hope to see to you there!

Please be sure to RSVP over at Meetup so we can make an accurate food order.

Our May meeting has been scheduled, and it should be another great one: Artificial Intelligence! This month, we will be hosting a well-known speaker (and awesome person) from the St. Louis area, Jennifer Reif, who will be discussing generative AI and how it might of use (or not!) to us as Java developers.

Note that this meeting will be in our normal (can we still it that?) lunch hour slot at 11:30am. We will be meeting where we did last time at the Office of Management and Enterprise Services (see the map to the right). Please don’t forget to hit the Meetup and RSVP!

Our first meeting of the year is scheduled! Our speaker will be our very own Ryan Hoegg. Thanks to the generosity of a local business, we’ll be meeting at a new location, The Verge OKC. There’s parking south of the building, so come up Oklahoma Ave and turn west on Wanda Jackson. There’s a sign with the cost for parking, but tell them that your there for Verge, and we’ll take care of it.

Please be sure to RSVP over at Meetup so we can make an accurate food order.

Looking forward to seeing everyone again!

After a too-long absence, the Oklahoma City Java User Group is making a comeback! It’s going to take us a bit to get completely back up to speed, but we’re going to get started then tighten things up as go.

That means, for least this month, we’ll be meeting in a conference room at Starspace (as opposed to the event space used to), at least for now, and no food, so you’ll need to bring your own. We’re working on fixing those logistics, but, as I noted, we’d like to fix things on the move. :)

We don’t currently have a way to RSVP, so just show up. If any of the details change, we’ll update this post and email the list. We hope to see as many of you there as we can.

Good afternoon, Oklahoma City. It’s been a while since the OKC JUG has met, and we’re trying to fix that. The details are still being working out, but that’s where you come in. As has been the case throughout the history of the JUG, your opinion is desired, and we have an opportunity for you to share it.

We, the Steering Committee, will be meeting Wednesday, August 3 at 11:30 at McAlister’s Deli on NW Expressway. We’re going to work through topics like when to meet, where to meet, how often to meet, and hopefully have some initial sessions scoped out. We’re also going to have some great food and catch up on each other’s' lives from the past two years. :)

If you have any interest in helping steer the JUG, or if you just want to come hang out with some fellow geeks, please come join us. While you’re thinking about it, sign up for the SC mailing list as well!

I hope to see as many of you there as possible!