Madison Java User Group

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The Madison Java Users Group is a free, informal, technical forum for Java enthusiasts, from beginners to experienced professionals. The group enables technology sharing throughout the Madison IT community. There are several purposes for the users group:
  • Provide a forum for exchanging Java information with other developers.
  • Provide technical and vendor presentations on Java technologies.
  • Promote the advantages of Java as a development and deployment environment.
Details
Contact Organizer: 
pheberer@teamsoftinc.com
Membership Type: 
Open Meetings
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April MadLUG Presentation: Lightning Talks!

The April MadLUG presentation was postponed due to it falling on Easter Sunday. It has been rescheduled to Sunday, April 18 and the topic will be MadLUG Lightning Talks. The finalized schedule is listed below.

Time: 1:00 – Sunday, April 18
Place: UW Computer Science Building
1210 West Dayton Street – Room 2310

Join us for a whirlwind series of 10 minute mini talks that span a variety topics. This is an excellent way to get some quick exposure to technical and non-technical issues that you may not have had time to explore yet. A short Q & A will follow each presentation.

Drop in for one, or stay for the entire series.

Times & Topics

1:00 Open Source Community Tools - LaunchPad, BugZilla and IRC (Doug Whitfield)
1:20 Minimal Ubuntu (Sam Gardner)
1:40 Version Control Systems (Doug "SuperDuG" Smith)
2:00 Open Data - Philosophy (Alnisa Allgood)
Date
April 18, 2010 - 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Location
UW Comp Sci building
1210 West Dayton Street – Room 2310
Madison, WI, 53703
See map: Google Maps
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Google Wave Hackathon

Web608 and MadGTUG are co-organizing a Google Wave Hackathon for Madison nonprofit day. If you have been waiting to get a Google Wave account this is your chance. Space is limited so make sure you RSVP now!

You can find out more about Google Wave here.
Date
August 21, 2009 - 3:00pm
Location
Goodman Community Center
149 Waubesa St. Room: Merrill Lynch
Madison, WI, 53704
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CapJug July Meeting

"You have probably been hearing the terms “Sprints”, “Backlog”, “Chickens & Pigs” for the last year or so and wondering what all this has to do with software development. If you are interested in finding out, this session will be of interest to you. We will cover the basics of Scrum. Scrum is an agile development methodology to iteratively and incrementally develop software systems and products (especially when requirements are rapidly changing). We will explore the Scrum process framework focusing on the 3 Roles, 3 Artifacts and 3 Ceremonies of Scrum. We will also touch upon Agile principles on which Scrum and other iterative methodologies are based on."

"Pattabi Doraiswamy will be giving us an introduction to SCRUM!  You can find
more details at the website at: http://capjug.org/capjug/meeting/show/24

We will also have some goodies to give away from our friends at Sun
Microsystems.
Date
July 14, 2009 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
125 S Webster St GEF3
Madison, WI, 53703
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MadJUG June Meeting

New Features in JavaEE 6: presented by Moises Lejter
We will introduce the more interesting features that will be introduced in the next release of the Java Enterprise specification, JavaEE 6. We will discuss some of the principles behind the changes to the specification, in order to introduce specific new features of the different technologies that make up JavaEE 6.

The principles we’ll mention include:
• “rightsizing” the platform
• extensibility
• ease of development

The specific new features in JavaEE6 that we will mention include:
Servlets 3.0:
• Web Fragments
• Asynchronous processing of requests
Web Beans
JSF 2.0:
• View description language
• AJAX for JSF
• new view components
EJB 3.1 and EJB Lite:
• embedding EJBs in web applications
Date
June 30, 2009 - 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Location
TDS Telecom
525 Junction Rd CCW Auditorium
Madison, WI, 53717
See map: Google Maps