Topic: Lightweight Development Environments with Vagrant
On software development teams, a lot of time, effort, and
wasted work can come from the manual and unnecessarily complex way team
members set up their development environments. Brett will explain the
ideas behind lightweight, reproducible, and portable development
environments, and demonstrate ...
Topic: Real Time Data Processing with Apache Storm
Apache Storm "makes it easy to reliably
process unbounded streams of data, doing for realtime
processing what Hadoop did for batch processing." Mark Smith will
introduce the concepts behind Apache Storm, and demonstrate how to use
it through a live demo using Twitter data.
Speaker Bio
Mark ...
Topic: 'Transforming to Java 8' and 'Core Software Design Principles'
Please note the change in time and location this month
We have a double header this month:
4:00pm: Transforming to Java 8
The new facilities in Java 8 is about the change the way we write code.
Our code will become more expressive and concise. But, exactly how? In
this presentat...
Building web apps in Java has changed significantly over the past few
years. Many of those changes revolve around keeping your application fast,
maintainable, and flexible in the face of ever-changing deployment environments (aka
"the cloud") and rapidly changing standards. Dropwizard looks to f...
Reactive programming is a way of building asynchronous, event based
software. I’ll introduce the ideas, and get into some code using
RxJava.
Speaker Bio
Ryan Hoegg
Pizza, Chairs, etc.
We thank Techlahoma for generously providing the materials for the
meeting, including the proje...
Topic: Christmas Party and 'Informal Lightning talks and Tech Demos'
If you have a quick lightning talk or tech demo (with or without slides)
then please come prepared to share. Ryan Hoegg is bringing robots. Cool,
ROBOTS!!! This is the annual Christmas party so please bring at least
one Dirty Santa gift (~$5) wrapped however you would like.
Bring your
lunch as...
Thank to you all who attended our November Meeting at its alternate date and time. Again,
this was a one time occurrence and we will be meeting the 2nd Tuesday of December as usual."
Thank you to Brett Shuchert for his presentation on Java 8 Lambdas.
Brett has put all of the code from his pres...
Speaker Bio
Brett Schuchert
We are moving the day of the meeting to Friday, November 14,
since Brett is only in town on Fridays. Also, once again
there will be NO FOOD or GIVE-A-WAY this month.*
GREAT NEWS: Amanda Harlin has contacted the JUG and will be providing Pizza, Pop and a
G...
For many REST developers, API design and implementation is an iterative
process taking place mostly in code: a rough idea of the API is mentally
sketched out, and some code is written; API tweaks are made, and the
code is changed; repeat ad nauseam. While this can and does work,
it’s not a...
Meeting is back at ProtoTek and will be from now on.
Jesse will be presenting on Angular.js, a popular framework for building user interfaces that
run completely in the browser, and work with your server via APIs. One lucky attendee will
receive a $25 Amazon gift card.
Speaker B...
Uses a dictionary of over 200 Latin words, combined
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