The Ann Arbor Java User Group is meeting tonight, at Washtenaw Community College, BE 270. The topic is Java FX, and speaker is Jim Weaver. The meeting starts around 6:30, with some informal networking.
I was really hoping to attend. Looks like a great talk! Unfortunately, I have a conflict tonight. I'm hoping someone blogs the talk!
Yes, it's the first week of the month again. The Ann Arbor Computer Society meeting is tomorrow night, April 2, at 6 pm. Jay Wren will be speaking on the Boo Programming Language and DSLs (Domain Specific Languages). Boo is a statically typed language that runs on the CLR. It has Python-inspired syntax.
AACS meetings are free and open to the public. Pizza will be provided. Meeting will be held at SRT Solutions' offices, at 206 S. Fifth Ave, Suite 200. That's at the corner of Fifth Ave and Liberty, just above the Linux Box. Take the elevator to 2R or come up the stairs and wind around to the right side of the elevator.
On Thursday April 3 at 7:00 pm, the Michigan Python User Group will meet to discuss EasyExtend, which allows you to extend Python syntax. New documentation tools may be discussed as well. Like AACS, the MichiPUG meetings are free and open to the public, and held at SRT Solutions. Pizza will NOT be served, but people often go out after the meeting.
Next week, on Monday, April 7, there is a Flex Camp in Cleveland, Ohio. Go to http://flexcampcleveland.com/ for registration and more information. Looks like a fun and interesting event.
On Wednesday, April 9, the Ann Arbor Dot Net Developer Group will meet, at SRT Solutions. Bill Wagner will be talking about how to make good use of the new releases in Visual Studio 2008. Meeting is free, starts at 6, is at SRT, and yes, there will be pizza.
I was planning to talk about Scala at the Ann Arbor Java User Group meeting this week, but I'm going to have to cancel. I came down with the flu, and then pneumonia and I'm still coughing too much to be able to do a talk. I'm sure that we will reschedule it for a later date.
I will be doing an introduction to Scala at the Ann Arbor Java User Group meeting on Tuesday, March 26. The AAJUG wordpress site is broken, but hopefully people will know about the talk and attend anyhow.
Here's my abstract:
Scala is a multi paradigm language, offering both object-oriented and functional programming that runs on the Java Virtual Machine. The proliferation of multi-core machines is driving interest in functional languages, as they offer a simplified approach toward concurrency. This talk discusses why you should care about Scala as an emerging language, describes unique features of the language, and uses programming examples to demonstrate its use.
AAJUG meetings are held at Washtenaw Community College, Room BE 260, starting at 6:30 pm.
If you're in the Ann Arbor area tonight, join locals for an open gathering of Beer and Code. I'm sorry to say that I'm down with the flu and won't be attending, but it looks like fun. Here's the announcement that Winston Tsang sent out:
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We're going to have our 1st of what will hopefully become a series of
monthly open gatherings tonight.
So whether you know Java, .NET, Ruby, or just have a sense of
curiosity with all things tech, come and join us at:
Corner Brewery
Tonight – Tuesday
6:30PM-whenever.
Location:
720 Norris Street
Ypsilanti, MI 48198
We're on the corner of Forest and Norris between River and Huron 2
blocks north of Cross Street.
http://neotech.net/ABC/index.php?site=cornerbrewery
Arbor Brewing Company, the sister company to the Corner Brewery, does
not have wi-fi. Neither does Leopold Brothers from what I've seen.
Leopolds is also going away soon (due to rental rate increases).
The Corner Brewery is a great spot. A nice and cozzy open
environment.
A few of us are going to be there to talk, code, etc, including our
remote member from NYC, Dan DeMaggio.
I plan on finishing up the first of my SmgMug apps and catching up
with Dan on all things tech.
Hope to see you there!
-Winston Tsang
Last year, at the Java Posse Roundup in Crested Butte, a few of us got together the day before the conference for a pre-event. We talked about Django and TurboGears. It was quite interesting, and people filtered in throughout the evening, as they arrived in town. So I figured we needed something similar this year and had been sort of thinking about what might be a good topic, but hadn't really given it much thought until TODAY, when one of the attendees (waving at Mike Levin in the Swamp) mentioned that he and Robert Cooper had been talking about Android quite a bit and were looking forward to seeing what they could do with it. No sense them having all of the fun, all by themselves.
So, for this year's Roundup (March 4-7), a few of us are going to get together the day before the conference starts to see what we can do with Android. Should be fun. I already have all of the development tools on my laptop, from CodeMash. I'm looking forward to it, and several of the attendees have already emailed me saying that they are as well! Fun!
The Richard Hale Shaw will present a 1-day MiniCamp on LINQ and C# 3.0 for experienced .NET developers on March 14 from 9 am – 5 pm. This class will be held at SRT Solutions' offices, at 206 S. Fifth Ave, Suite 200, Ann Arbor, MI.
To attend this course, you should have a minimum of 2 years experience programming C# and the .NET Framework and 1 year programming C# 2.0, or you should have attended the .NET Bootcamp.
Cost of the course:
$350 by February 18 (NOTE: That's Monday!)
$500 by March 7
$600 by March 14, if space is still available
Detailed course information and registration is at http://srtsolutions.com/static/register.php
If you're in town, feel free to show up for lightning talks. Pizza is still expected.
I hope that we're able to rescheule Joe O'Brien for sometime soon. I was really looking forward to his talk.
Joe O'Brien is braving the weather, en route from Columbus up to Ann Arbor for tonight's Ann Arbor Computer Society meeting. Ann Arbor is getting some ice, but evidently the rest of the area seems to be getting snow.
If you're already in Ann Arbor, definitely stop by. I'm, sadly, not going to be able to make it since we got hit pretty hard with snow and ice at my house and I'm pretty much iced in. Having heard Joe speak several times, I'm very disappointed to be missing his talk, and I hope that someone will blog about it!
The meeting is at 6 pm, at 206 S. Fifth, Suite 200, Ann Arbor. AACS provides pizza, free of charge, to all attendees. Meetings are free and open to the public, but only members ($20/year) qualify for door prizes.
The Michigan Python User Group will do some live coding of one or more of the the Code Kata's
from Dave Thomas:
http://codekata.pragprog.com/
The meeting will be held at 206 S. Fifth Ave, Suite 200, Ann Arbor, MI. It will start around 7 pm.
MichiPUG meetings are free and open to the public.