ACGNJ Java Users Group - 2018 Year in Review

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The ACGNJ Java Users Group had an excellent year in 2018 surpassing our 2017 accomplishments. We held our usual 11 meetings (summer break in August) and hosted seven (7) well-known Java industry leaders:
  • January 9 - Jason Young presented "Introduction to Java 9."
  • March 19 - Venkat Subramaniam presented "Twelve Ways to Make Your Code Suck Less."
  • April 10 - Ben Evans presented "Gambling with Leopards."
  • May 8 - Chandra Guntur presented "Garbage Collection - The Journey Until Java 11"
  • October 9 - Jeanne Boyarsky presented "Java 11 - Keeping the Java Release Train on the Right Track."
  • November 13 - Reza Rahman presented "What is CQRS+Event Sourcing and Why Java Developers Should Care."
  • December 17 - Chandra Guntur, Donald Raab, Barry and I participated in a Java open-source panel where we shared our own contributions to open-source projects. We also had a remote presentation by Scott Stoll and Nash Ramdial on Flutter, an open-source mobile application development SDK created by Google.
The rest of the year featured presentations by our regular members:
  • February 13 - "Building Java 9 Modules" presented by myself.
  • June 12 - "Demystifying Microservices for Java EE Developers" presented by myself.
  • July 10 - "Yearly Review & Planning Meeting" facilitated by myself.
  • September 11 - "Kotlin 101" presented by Barry Burd.
Other 2018 accomplishments included:
  • membership in the Java EE Guardians.
  • moving the meetings to Drew University.
  • anointing Barry Burd as co-facilitator.
  • purchasing a SSL certificate for the website.
This was indeed an excellent year and I look forward to 2019 as we have the following well-known Java industry leaders confirmed so far.

  • Don Raab
  • Chandra Guntur
  • Gladwin Burboz
  • Matt Raible
  • Heather VanCura

Don will present "Invest in Your Java Kataloque" on January 8, 2019.  I hope to see you there!

Happy New Year and Best Regards,

Mike.


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