Jozi JUG 2012 Calendar of Events

Hi all

The Jozi Java User Group gets together on the last Monday of every month for food, drink and a technical presentation. Attendance is free and it's a great way to network and find mentors!

Here is the 2012 calendar of events. As more details become available we'll update this post.

Hope to see you there! For those who can't make it in person, we'll be streaming the events live: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/jozi-jug

Mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/jozijug
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/groups/2395347656/
Meetup - http://www.meetup.com/Jozi-JUG/
Website - http://www.jozijug.co.za

2012
30 January - Prolog - Pavel Tcholakov
27 February - Highly available clustered apps on Amazon Web services - Tomek
26 March - JRuby - Christopher Spring
30 April – Android - Toby Kurien
28 May – Java Concurrency (how to find, solve and test deadlocks) - Dr Heinz Kabutz
25 June - Functional Programming - Andreas Pauley

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Business: Space For Africa
Blog: Programming, business etc

Time: 27/02/2012 17:30 for 18:00
Location: Chillroom – Internet Solutions – Le Mans Building – The Campus – Cnr Sloane and Main
Agenda:
17:30 – 18:00 Drinks
18:00 – 19:00 Presentation
19:00 onward Supper and networking

Please RSVP on either:
Facebook or
Meetup

Sponsors for the event are Tetrad IT.

Tomek is going to talk about how he and his company is successfully using AWS to run their applications (such as https://JBison.com/ or https://www.circulardms.com/ ). You will be able to find out what Amazon, next to the most commonly known EC2, has to offer developers to make the coding easier and the hosting cheaper. There will be lots of live coding (in Java of course!), because Tomek has a funny accent, which would be difficult to listen to

Bio:
Tomek is a CEO of the Polish company SoftwareMill which he has founded over 2 years ago with his friends. He used to work for JBoss, so he is very JBoss-brainwashed. Which he says is a good thing, because JBoss is the best… He is an agile freak/evangelizer and believes more in remote working than in office time-wasting. He is in South Africa for a short while invited by a company which SoftwareMill is partnering with, Tersos Consulting, to perform Application Architect duties for a Big Client. But don't ask him who it is, because then he'll have to kill you...

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Business: Space For Africa
Blog: Programming, business etc

January 2012 - Prolog

Our first presentation for 2012 will be Pavel Tcholakov talking to us about Prolog:

Prolog is a general purpose logic programming language associated with artificial intelligence and computational linguistics.

See you there! Please RSVP on Facebook or Meetup

Time: 30/01/2012 17:30 for 18:00
Location: Chillroom – Internet Solutions – Le Mans Building – The Campus – Cnr Sloane and Main
Agenda:
17:30 – 18:00 Drinks
18:00 – 19:00 Presentation
19:00 onward Supper and networking

Sponsors for the evening are Enerweb.

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Business: Space For Africa
Blog: Programming, business etc

Updated post with February 2012 event details.

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Business: Space For Africa
Blog: Programming, business etc

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Hi all

Christopher Spring will be introducing us to JRuby (http://jruby.org/) winner of the InfoWorld Bossie Awards 2010: The best open source application development software.

We’re doing things a bit differently for this event with supper preceding the presentation.

Time: 26/03/2012 17:30 for 18:00
Location: Chillroom – Internet Solutions – Le Mans Building – The Campus – Cnr Sloane and Main
Agenda:
17:30 – 18:30 Drinks and pizza
18:30 – 19:30 Presentation
19:30 onward networking and more drinks…

Sponsors for the event are Enerweb

Please RSVP on:
Facebook or
Meetup.com

Speaker Bio:
Christopher is a lead developer for MadMimi LLC, a New York based email marketing company, where Ruby is the language of choice. His current projects include designing and scaling out Mimi's future architecture to meet the demands of its growth in a sustainable and cost effective manner.

He first started using Ruby to meet the changing requirements of a start-up in the South African Manned Guarding industry in 2006.

He hasn't looked back since.

Cheers
Michael

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Business: Space For Africa
Blog: Programming, business etc

Hi all

Toby Kurien will be presenting on Xtend:
"Xtend is a little language that compiles into idiomatic Java source code. You can use any existing Java library seamlessly from Xtend (and vice-versa). The compiled output is readable and pretty-printed, and tends to run as fast or faster than the equivalent handwritten Java code. It's the CoffeeScript for Java.
Xtend Screencast" - http://www.eclipse.org/xtend/

If you saw Toby present last time you'll definitely want to see this one. If you missed him last time, well now's your chance!

Time: 27/08/2012 17:30 for 18:00
Location: Chillroom – Internet Solutions – Le Mans Building – The Campus – Cnr Sloane and Main
Agenda:
18:00 – 19:00 Drinks and pizza
19:00 – 20:00 Presentation
20:00 onward networking and more drinks…

Please RSVP at:
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/events/514241258593448/
or
Meetup http://www.meetup.com/Jozi-JUG/events/78518492/

We look forward to seeing you there!

Cheers
Michael

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Business: Space For Africa
Blog: Programming, business etc

Hi all

We'll be going to the ThoughtWorks offices for our next meetup. The Monday is a public holiday so we'll be holding it on the Tuesday.

Patrick Turley will be taking us through Vagrant (virtualization for the masses) and Puppet (declarative management of configuration). If you have any interest in DevOps... you should attend!

Please RSVP on Facebook or Meetup.

Agenda:
18:00 – 19:00 Drinks and pizza
19:00 – 20:00 Presentation
20:00 onward networking and more drinks…

Sponsors for the event are ThoughtWorks South Africa:
ThoughtWorks is not your typical company. Talented, driven and principled people who are passionate about software, brought together because they want to do something amazing.

See you there!

Cheers
Michael

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Business: Space For Africa
Blog: Programming, business etc

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