Trenton Computer Festival 2008
Folks:
The 2008 Trenton Computer Festival (TCF) will be held April 25-27, 2008 at The College of New Jersey in Ewing, NJ.
The TCF IT Professional Conference (now in its 3rd year) will be held on Friday, April 25, 2008 from 9:00am - 5:00pm.
The regular TCF activities (now in its 33rd year) will be held on Saturday and Sunday, April 26-27, 2008. Activities include:
(a) Suite of talks
(b) Indoor vendors
(c) Outdoor flea market
(d) Robotics competition (NEW)
(e) Saturday night banquest (at additional cost)
The festival is always in need of volunteers. The commitment is a minimum of four (4) hours of your time. For your efforts, you will receive:
(a) A TCF hat
(b) Free admission to the weekend show
(c) A discounted on the banquet ticket
Please visit
http://www.tcf-nj.org/ for more details including forms for volunteering.
There's something for everyone at TCF!
Please contact me if you have any questions, and I hope to see y'all at the show!
Emerging Technology for the Enterprise Conference 2008
The 2008 Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise Conference (sponsored by Chariot Solutions) will be held on March 26-27, 2008 at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA.
Registration is still open and seats are going fast. For more detailed information, please visit the following URLs:
http://www.chariotsolutions.com/http://www.phillyemergingtech.com/
My Experience at the 2007 Atlantic Northeast Software Symposium
For those of you that haven't heard of the
No Fluff Just Stuff (NFJS) symposium tour, my first question is, "
Where have you been?!" This tour has been around since 2001, and has been gaining popularity. This is the third year that the tour has made its way through New Jersey, and I recently attended the
Atlantic Northeast Software Symposium that was held in Princeton, New Jersey on August 10-12, 2007.
This was my second consecutive year attending NFJS and I have to tell you that, just like last year, I left the symposium having learned a tremendous amount. When Jay Zimmerman, the founder and director of NFJS, says he strives to stay on the cutting edge of technology, he means it! For example, at the
New York Software Symposium that I attended last year in Newark, New Jersey, I primarily gained a much better understanding of
Spring,
Hibernate, and
Aspect-Oriented Programming. This year, I gained a much better understanding of
Groovy,
Grails, the
Google Web Toolkit, and
OSGi. After both symposia, I was ready to apply what I learned in a relatively short period of time.
For those of you that have heard about NFJS, but haven't attended one of their events, my second question is "
Why?!" This symposium series was intentionally
designed as an alternative to the more traditional software conferences. Each software symposium is held over a long weekend (Friday - Sunday). So those of you who are
serious about honing existing skills or developing new ones, you won't mind giving up your weekend to rub elbows with the experts. Here's the typical schedule of events:
- Friday afternoon - registration, three (3) 90-minute sessions, dinner, and a keynote address.
- Saturday - breakfast and lunch, four (4) 90-minute sessions, and birds-of-a-feather (BoF) sessions.
- Sunday - breakfast and lunch, four (4) 90-minute sessions, and an expert panel discussion.
Jay also raffles off cool stuff such as licenses to
IntelliJ IDEA, books, and electronic gizmos such as
Nintendo Wiis and
Apple iPods. This year, there was a grand prize raffle for a free pass to the
Rich Web Experience that is scheduled to be held September 6-8, 2007 in San Jose, California.
You get all of this for only $850.00 (unless you register early), which is easy on any company's IT budget.
So now that I have hopefully whet your appetite to attend an upcoming NJFS event, my final question is, "
What are you waiting for?!" Go to the
web site, and see when the tour will be coming to a city near you.
2007 Atlantic Northeast Software Symposium
Last Call...Make sure and join us if you can for a great show!
The No Fluff Just Stuff Software Symposium Series 2007, the premier
technically focused Java/Agility Event series is coming to Princeton
with the Atlantic Northeast Software Symposium 2007 on August 10-12th.
Event Name: Atlantic Northeast Software Symposium 2007
Dates: August 10-12, 2007
Location: Princeton - Westin Princeton
URL:
www.nofluffjuststuff.com/sh/2007-08-princetonThe 2007 Atlantic Northeast Software Symposium is coming to Princeton
on August 10-12th. ANSS 2007 will offer five (5) concurrent sessions
for you to choose from. The hot topics covered at ANSS 2007 include:
* Spring 2.0
* Groovy/Grails
* OSGI
* Domain Driven Design
* Annotations
* JavaScript
* DROOLS
* Java 6.0
* REST
* JRuby
*Agility
*Performance & Scalability
We have a great set of speakers lined up for you to enjoy featuring:
Venkat Subramaniam, co-author of "Practices of an Agile Developer"
David Geary, co-author of "Core JSF"
Scott Davis, Editor-in-Chief of AboutGroovy.com
Jared Richardson, co-author of "Ship It"
Ben Hale, Sr. Consultant with Interface 21
Glenn Vanderburg, JavaScript Expert
Neal Ford, Application Architect w/Thoughtworks
Ted Neward, author of "Effective Enterprise Java"
and many more...
The No Fluff Just Stuff Symposium series is regarded as the premier
Java/Agility event series anywhere serving over 18,000 attendees with
some 115 events since 2002. The popularity of the NFJS symposium series
can be traced to the following:
1). Exceptional Speakers
2). Limited Attendance - capped at 250 people
3). No Vendors, No Sales Pitches, no Marketecture
4). Excellent networking opportunities with speakers and fellow attendees
5). The Best Value in the Java conferencing space period
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Early Bird Registration $850/person
Special $50 discount available to all JUG Group members, use the
discount code, nfjsusergroup50 when registering.
Excellent Group Discounts Available - bring your entire development team
to the show:
5-9 Attendees: $750/person
10-14 Attendees: $725/person
15-24 Attendees: $700/person
25-over Attendees: $675/person
Great Swag in 2007 - all attendees receive a new 2007 NFJS laptop bag &
custom leather binder.
Excellent Giveaways - Sony Playstation 3 and Apple iPods
Join us for a great show! We appreciate your support and patronage!!
Atlantic Northeast Software Symposium 2007:
www.nofluffjuststuff.com/sh/2007-08-princetonVenue: Westin Princeton - rate of $129/night available
See you there!
Jay Zimmerman
NFJS 2007 Symposium Director
jzimmerman@nofluffjuststuff.com
September 12, 2006 ACGNJ Java Users Group Meeting (One (1) Video iPod to be Raffled Off!)
This month, we welcome Aaron Mulder from
Chariot Solutions who will introduces us to the open source
Apache Geronimo application server from the perspective of a J2EE developer.
Do you have experience developing J2EE applications, but no idea how to get started with Geronimo? Or perhaps wonder how to compare Geronimo to JBoss or Tomcat? Aaron will cover the Geronimo server's features, installation and management, deployment plan syntax, included tools, debugging options, and more. He'll also look at the logs, the management console, setting up database pools and JMS resources and security realms, how to hook Geronimo up to your build scripts and IDE for deployment and debugging, and how to take advantage of Geronimo plugins to leverage additional features from scheduling and reporting to J2EE 5.
Aaron Mulder is the Chief Technical Officer of
Chariot Solutions where he helps companies with their Java, J2EE, and Open Source architecture challenges. When not consulting, you can usually find him presenting at conferences and user groups, wrangling with spec committees, working on his latest book, or hacking away at the Apache Geronimo application server. Along the way, he has contributed to many other projects including JBoss, OpenEJB, ActiveMQ, and PostgreSQL.
THERE WILL BE T-SHIRTS AND ONE (1) VIDEO iPOD WILL BE RAFFLED
OFF.
Please contact
me if you have any questions, and I hope to see y'all on September 12.
My First Experience at the No Fluff, Just Stuff Symposium
The 2006
No Fluff, Just Stuff (NFJS) Symposium Tour made it's way through the New York area on August 18-20, 2006 at the Four Points at Sheraton Hotel in Newark, New Jersey.
This symposium series has been touring the country every year since 2002, but I first learned about it when
Barry Burd attended his first symposium in 2005 to interview some of the industry experts while honing his Java skills. His interviews, by the way, can be found on
Java Boutique. Barry, a regular attendee at the
ACGNJ Java Users Group, raved about his experience at the symposium.
When I first learned that this year's tour would come through Newark, I knew that I had to attend. Before I even had a chance to talk to my boss about attending, I happened to win a full registration pass at one of Yakov Fain's
Princeton Java Users Group meetings. Yakov raffled off a total of two (2) such passes at his June and July meetings.
My experience was better than I had expected. Jay Zimmerman does an outstanding job of coordinating and running the symposium. Every attendee received a personalized binder to fill in with 90-minute session handouts, a large badge "packet" that contained daily session schedules that was conveniently referenced, and a gift. This year's gift was a cool 2006 NFJS T-shirt.
The 90-minute sessions were primarily focused on
Spring,
Hibernate, Ajax, and Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP). Other sessions included advanced Java topics, JavaScript, unit testing, and open source tools such as
Grails and
jMatter.
On Friday night,
Neal Ford delivered an interesting, thought-provoking keynote about language-oriented programming (a potentially new programming paradigm) and the role domain specific languages.
Dinner was provided on Friday night, and breakfast and lunch was provided on Saturday and Sunday. I can honestly say that I gained a few extra pounds that weekend especially having just returned from a trip to Houston right before the start of the symposium.
So for those of you around the country that may be interested in attending one of the upcoming symposia, I sure hoped that I whet your appetite. The series schedule ends in mid-November, so check out the
NFJS web site to see if a symposium is coming to a place near you.
Kaffee with Mike
Welcome to Mike's Java Cafe!
Come on in, relax, and have a cup of Java so that we can discuss Java, the programming language.
I've been facilitating the
ACGNJ Java Users Group in Scotch Plains, New Jersey since February 2001. We meet on the second Tuesday of the month at the Scotch Plains Rescue Squad. Meetings are open to the public, so if you happen to live in the greater New York area, and have a chance to visit, please stop by to say, "hello."
I look forward to discussing Java with you, and hope to meet you at a future Java Users Group meeting.
Enjoy!
