May ijug - Special Meeting

We are having an extra meeting in May. This will be a lunch time meeting at 12:00pm on Monday 12th May in our regular room - 3.224. Lunch will be served from 12pm and the talk will start at 12:30pm.

Associate Professor Neil Gray will be presenting a talk on the Java Persistence Architecture.

We will be catering with pizza and drinks as usual, so please RSVP to Andrew Zahra by Friday 9th May.

We will also be giving away a copy of “Java in a Nutshell” thanks to our sponsor O’Reilly.

Read on for an outline of the talk.

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iJug graduation

The JUG coordinator just found out this week that we have fulfilled all JUG requirements to be graduated (finally!!! :). We are no longer in incubator project. yipee… https://ajug-illawarra.dev.java.net/

In total, there are 391 JUGs around the world  and we are one of 104 graduated JUG. See you all in April meeting..

April iJug Meeting - Agile Methods

The next meeting will be Friday April 18th at 6pm. Please see here for location details.

Our speaker will be Chris Mountford from Atlassian and his topic will be “Agile Software Development Methods”.

There is no cost for the meeting, but please RSVP to Andrew Zahra by Wednesday 16th of April for catering purposes as Pizza will be provided.

This month we will be giving away the book “Filthy Rich Clients” as well as an IntelliJ Idea personal licence and other goodies too!

Read on for an abstract of Chris’ talk.

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New Google Group Created!

Come and join us at our shiny new Google Group:

http://groups.google.com/group/ijug

Sun Tech Day Promo

Sun has a brief promo for Sun Tech days on YouTube.

Successful First iJug Meeting

A good time was had by all at the inaugural iJug meeting. Phil McKerrow gave a very interesting talk about the challenges of embedded systems and the benefits of the SunSpot architecture.The next meeting is planned for April.Some photos from the evening follow.

The slides from the talk on Sunspot Programming can be found here.

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Free Sun Tech Days

A great opportunity for free Java training from world renowned international Java experts, including the “Father of Java” James Gosling. Be sure to sign up!

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Inaugural iJug Meeting

The Inaugural iJug Meeting will be held on Friday the 15th of February 2008. Our first speaker will be Dr Phil McKerrow. His topic will be Embedded Java Programming with SunSpots.

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Location:
School of Computer Science Tea Room 3.224,

Level 2 Builidng 3, University of Wollongong

Refer to to University Campus Map

RSVP

Please RSVP to Andrew Zahra for catering purposes.

Agenda

6-6.30pm Pizza and drinks served

6.30-7.30pm Presentation and time for questions

There will also be some give aways at the end of the evening.

So far we have a free IntelliJ license to give away. Other goodies are on the way from our sponsors.

Please subscribe to our email list so we can keep you informed.

We intend to run these meetings every two months. If you are interested in presenting a talk at a future meeting, please email Andrew Zahra.