2009 Meeting Schedule

• Jan. 13
  • TR will show how to work at the command line to get the most out of your development sessions
    Tools like: grep, sed, awk, and using pipes

Meeting Notes

• Jan 2006 Meeting Notes
• Feb 2006 Meeting Notes
• Mar 2006 Meeting Notes
• May 2006 Meeting Notes

Upcoming

• Jan 13 2009

• • Things a (Java) Programmer should know

Topic Ideas

• I've got an IntelliJ license. Now what?
  • A one-year IntelliJ license came with the 2008 NFJS registration. Maybe an IntelliJ fan could offer a quick start on IntelliJ for Eclipse users. Or maybe "10 ways IntelliJ beats Eclipse".
    I'll be there: whm, trh, ajb, tam

• Beyond Ant & Maven
  • A Look at other solutions
  • Introducing Gradle (merely Gant+Ivy?)
    I'll be there: trh

• • Introducing Buildr - (What's Buildr?)
  • Using Maven with a DVCS like (Git|Mercurial|Bazaar)
  • Using static analysis in your build process: FindBugs, PMD/CPD, etc
• Unit Testing in Groovy
• Distributed Version Control Systems
  • Is Mercurial really the James Bond of SCM?
  • What caused Canonical to pick Bazaar over Git?
• Database migration with dbDeploy http://dbdeploy.com/
• JRuby
  • Tom Hicks laid out a 10 questions to be answered about JRuby on the Mailing List. It's a great outline for a talk.
    I'll be there: whm, trh, ajb, tam

• Introducing Hadoop http://hadoop.apache.org/core/
• Testing Tools
  • FitNesse, Selenium, DejaClick, etc.
    I'll be there: whm, ajb

• Another Shoot-out? Like the Script Language Shoot-out 2006
  • Rich Internet Application Shoot-out?
    I'll be there: ajb
  • Web Framework Shoot-out?
    I'll be there: ajb
• Tom Hicks volunteered to present in the future on "something interesting"
  • Hey, I'm flattered Bill but this entry has been here for over a year....I HAVE done something
    (interesting or not) since then. Not to say that I wouldn't be willing to do something else but
    it will have to be after the next couple months. --trh
    I'll be there: whm
• Code Camp Discussion - group learning via hands-on coding?
• Favorite small tools - four or five 10-15 minute presentations on small, lean,
  mean developer tools that you would recommend to colleagues.
  I'll be there: trh, ajb, tam, whm