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Cinjug meets the fourth Thursday of every month.

Meeting space is graciously provided by MAX Technical Training. We meet at their Mason facility: directions are here.

May 24th, 2012

6:00  Meet n' Eat
 

Food provided by ???

6:30 - 8:00  Big Data - What's the hype? - Joel Tosi
  In this session we will look at the Big Data / No SQL space, starting off by looking at the motivation for no sql stores and how these differ from and evolved from solutions of the past. From there, we will dive into data grids, leveraging Infinispan (reference implementation of JSR-347) as an example.

Check out this session if you want to learn about Big Data and No SQL as well as see some code examples of these platforms being used.
  About Joel Tosi
  Joel Tosi is a senior solutions architect with JBoss / Red Hat where he helps customers remove complexities from their systems and move toward a more open and scalable topology. Joel enjoys using his experiences as a developer, manager, architect, and agile coach to help people work more effectively on products about which they are passionate.

April 26th, 2012

6:00  Meet n' Eat
 

Food provided by SEI

6:30 - 8:00  Clojure Web Development - Creighton Kirkendall @crkirkendall
  How much of your time is spent writing code directly tied to requirements? How much is spent writing code to appease a framework or language? How quick is your feedback loop during development? How many technologies do you need to be an expert in to complete your task? Armed with and editor and browser, we will be be looking at Clojure through the lens of developer productivity and see how Clojure and ClojureScript are changing how developers interact with code and the browser.
  About Creighton Kirkendall
  Creighton Kirkendall has been working in Java technologies since 1997 and has been accused of being a perl hack on more than one occasion. For a brief period of time he drifted to the dark side and played an executive. He even managed to get an MBA to prove it. In the end, it turned out that a techie nerd doesn't make a happy executive. For the last four years Creighton has been consulting for SEI at his current client Luxottica as an architect. When not at work Creighton spends most of his free time coaching his two children in soccer and hacking a bit of Clojure. Creighton was one of the founders of CincyFP (Cincinnati Functional Programmers Group) and recently was a speaker, presenting on ClojureScript, at ClojureWest out in San Jose.

March 22nd, 2012

6:00  Meet n' Eat
 

Food provided by ???

6:30 - 8:00  Grails Plugins - Geoff Lane
  If you're using Grails, and you're not writing your own plugins, you're missing a lot of the potential power of the framework. Not only does Grails offer great ecosystem of existing plugins to extend your applications it also makes it easy to write your own. This talk will demonstrate different types of plugins primarily by building working examples.
  About Geoff Lane
  Geoff Lane of One-Line Fix, LLC is an independent software developer currently using Java, Groovy, and Grails to build applications to manage and process ATM and other financial transactions. He blogs at http://zorched.net and recently relocated to Cincinnati from Milwaukee, WI.
February 23rd, 2012

6:00  Meet n' Eat
 

Food provided by ???

6:30 - 8:00  Spring Roo - Rogelio Flores
  Spring Roo is a rapid application development tool for Java developers. It saves development time by configuring and building CRUD applications using best practices and has an add-on capability to allow it to integrate with different technologies on any layer of an application. This session will go over most features of Roo and its integration with GWT and other frameworks.
  About Rogelio Flores
  Rogelio is a developer at Verifi LLC where he builds JEE and Business Intelligence web applications. He enjoys working in the Java ecosystem, but has also worked with Perl and Python in a previous life.
January 26th, 2012

6:00  Meet n' Eat
 

Food provided by Fusion Alliance

6:30 - 8:00  Running Java, Play! and Scala Apps on the Cloud - James Ward from Heroku
  Heroku is a Polyglot Cloud Application Platform that makes it easy to deploy Java, Play! and Scala apps on the cloud. Deployment is as simple as doing a "git push". This session will teach you how to deploy and scale Java, Play! and Scala apps on Heroku.
  About James Ward
  James Ward is a Principal Developer Evangelist at Heroku where he teaches developers how to deploy Java, Play! and Scala apps to the cloud.
October 27th, 2011

6:00  Meet n' Eat
 

Food provided by Chad Wilson

6:30 - 8:00  CQRS and Event Sourcing; Axon Framework
  CQRS and Event Sourcing are emerging techniques/architectures which have their roots in Domain Driven Design, Service Oriented Architecture and Event Driven Architecture. This session will help guide you through the thought processes behind each, and provide a concise foundation for their real world implementation.

The Axon Framework provides the basic scaffolding for CQRS and Event Sourcing in Java and it will provide us with the basis for our CQRS and Event Sourcing journey.
  About Chad
  Chad Wilson is a technology enthusiast, Agilista, polyglot, security wonk, entrepreneur, and general mad scientist. With SyncStuff project nearing release, he hopes to spend more time working on Agile transformations, writing books, and general consultation through his company Ease of Mind.
September 22nd, 2011

6:00  Meet n' Eat
 

Food provided by SEI

6:30 - 8:00  Java Next - Why clojure matters and how it changes the game.
  Lisp/Functional refresher (15 min)
State & Concurrency
Immutably and persistent data structures. (10 min)
Java Example (10 min)
Clojure Example (10 min)
Web Development
  • The death of MVC (10 min)
  • Spring Webflow Java Example (5 min)
  • Clojure/Clojure Script Example ( 10 min)
Questions (10 min)
  About Creighton
  Creighton Kirkendall has been working in Java technologies since 1997 and has been accused of being a perl hack on more than one occasion. For a brief period of time he drifted to the dark side and played an executive. He even managed to get an MBA to prove it. In the end, it turned out that a techie nerd doesn't make a happy executive. For the last four years Creighton has been consulting for SEI at his current client Luxottica as an architect. When not at work Creighton spends most of his free time coaching his two children in soccer and hacking a bit of Clojure.