Austin Java Users Group

05/27/2015

Ken Kousen talk on "Groovy Vampires: Combining Groovy, REST, NoSQL, and more"

http://www.austinjug.org/index.jsp?p=events-20150526

09/24/2014

Good turn out for Doug Cutting's talk last night!

04/07/2014

We had a great turnout at the Cassandra talk this last month with nearly 100 in attendance!

Thanks to DataStax for sponsoring the meeting room and the plentiful pizza and drinks!

Thanks also to Tyler Hobbs and Yuki Morish*ta for their great overview of Cassandra and the Cassandra Query Language. They kindly provided their slides here:

https://speakerdeck.com/tylerhobbs/intro-to-cassandra

http://m7a.me/s/austinjug2014/
(Use the arrow keys to navigate the slides)

I put my introductory slides here: http://www.austinjug.org/presentations/AustinJUG_03-25-2014.pptx

08/28/2013

Steve Ebersole speaking on JPA 2.1

08/21/2013

Come join us on Tuesday, August 27th to hear Steve Ebersole, lead software engineer of the very popular Hibernate object relational
mapping library, get us up to speed on the Java Persistence API (JPA) 2.1. Please see http://www.austinjug.org/index.jsp?p=events-20130827 for details.

Swing by at 6:30 PM before the meeting for free pizza and talk to the staff from 21CT about interesting job opportunities. Also,
21CT will be raffling off two Think Geek gift cards at the end of the meeting!

The Austin Java User's Group is always looking for sponsors to help keep this organization active by providing meeting locations, guest speakers and financial support. Please see our sponsors link for more info.

07/30/2013

July 30th, 2013 senior Java software engineer and entrepreneur, Prabhat Jha, will give us a nice architectural overview and demo of Apigee's scalable JEE and cloud computing based mobile analytics solution. Please see http://www.austinjug.org/index.jsp?p=events-20130730 for more details

Apigee is also graciously providing free pizza at 6:30 PM before the
meeting!

The Austin Java User's Group is always looking for sponsors to help keep this organization active by providing meeting locations, guest speakers and financial support. Please see our sponsors link for more info.

06/22/2013

Come join us this Tuesday night, June 25th, 2013 to get an update on the current and future status of the Java Platform including the Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition, JavaFX, Mobile and Embedded and Java Card from the host of "Java Spotlight" (http://javaspotlight.org/) and Oracle's Java Developer Advocate, Roger Brinkley.

Also, find out about HP's transformation strategy to E-Commerce from HP's enterprise architect, Paul Hofmann.

Swing by early at 6:00 PM for FREE PIZZA and talk to Schwab and HP about job opportunities.

We will also be raffling off another free pass to the NFJS Lone Star
Software Symposium, which will be next week in Austin from June
28th-30th. Check out the details of the conference here:
http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/austin/2013/06/sessions

Thanks to Schwab and HP for sponsoring this event!

See you next Tuesday night!

http://javaspotlight.org/

03/26/2013

Tonight Everett Toews of Rackspace is going to provide a nice overview of the jclouds Cloud service and walk us through a
live setup and example problem on our laptops. (Make sure you bring your laptop with a wireless network card and a fully charged
battery since there are limited power outlets in the room.)

Rackspace is also providing free pizza and beverages before the meeting starting at 6:30 PM!

You can find more details at the website:
http://www.austinjug.org

02/17/2013

The speakers for the excellent "Big Data" talk, Anand Vallamsetla and Krishna Margam , have kindly provided a copy of their slides here:

Big Data Presentation
http://www.austinjug.org/presentations/Big_Data_Jumpstart_Your_Career_01292013.pdf

Here are the meeting's introduction slides:
http://www.austinjug.org/presentations/AustinJUG_01-29-2013.ppt

Also, thanks again to 10gen for sponsoring our meeting!

01/30/2013

Great turnout for the "Big Data" meeting!

01/28/2013

Happy New Year AustinJUGenites!

We're going to kick off the first meeting by getting familiar with the exciting and challenging world of "Big Data" from two local seasoned senior-level Java architects: Anand Vallamsetla
and Krishna Margam. They will clarify what Big Data is and review the tools and techniques involved with processing it.

You can find the details of the meeting at: http://www.austinjug.org .

Hope to see you tomorrow night!

Rob

08/18/2012

Hi All,

Next Tuesday night JavaOne Rock Star and JavaFX book author and evangelist, Stephen Chin, will giving a talk on JavaFX at the monthly AustinJUG meeting.

Come out and learn about using the power, performance, flexibility and project scalability of type-safe Java and JavaFX for your next rich internet app!

This meeting is graciously sponsored by Apex Systems (http://www.apexsystemsinc.com ) who is providing free pizza starting at 6:30 PM.

More details can be found on the website at: http://www.austinjug.org

Hope to see you next week!

Rob Ratcliff