The September UJUG Meeting is on Thursday, September 18, 2008

5:30 PM - 9:00PM

Please RSVP so we can order the right amount of food.

Here is email notice one , two , and three.

Update : we had 125 people in attendance, great night and great presentation by all.  Thanks for coming out!

Plus the following breakouts:

Web Services Technology Stack

Like our earlier technology stack presentation, the month's meeting will feature four companies from around the valley talking about why and how they are using web services in their respective organizations.

To give you a better idea of what will be covered during the technology stack overview, each presenter will talk about:

What were the problems that drove you to consider web services and why?

What technologies are you using and why?

A brief overview the their web services architecture (or SOA if it is one).

Report card - grade the success of the project thus far.
What things worked, didn't work, or should have been tried?
What's next?

Presenter Bios

Sean Landis - Overstock.com

Sean Landis is a Director of Software Development at Overstock.com. In his previous role as Architect, he was responsible for the SOA strategy at Overstock.com. He has eight years experience with Java and his interests include RESTful services, distributed systems, Jini, software fault tolerance, mobile agents, mobile computing, and web technologies. He is a member of the Sun Developer Advisory Council and is on the Board of Directors of the Utah Java User's Group. He received a Master's in Computer Science from Cornell University and a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Utah.

Overstock Presentation

Bryce Cottam - Resmark

Bryce Cottam graduated from the University of Utah in 2005.  While in school he worked as an independent contractor on projects that included tracking membership records for local night clubs, inventory anagement for local restaurants and worked in Basel Switzerland and ortsmouth New Hampshire on large scale global electronic procurement ystems for fortune 500 companies.  After graduating Bryce worked ocally in Salt Lake with TrueNorthLogic writing tools use by K-12 dministrators throughout the country.  Currently Bryce is the lead eveloper at Resmark, currently writing desktop and online tools that ower reservation management for several outdoor adventure companies.

Resmark Presentation (StarOffice format)

Curtis Smith - LDS Church

Curtis Smith has twenty years experience in the software industry. He has worked in the Real Estate, Retail, Publishing, Higher Education,High Performance Computing, Insider Threat Protection, and Document Tracking industries. Primary areas of interest are scalable high-performance application frameworks, distributed component models, and inter-process communications. He has received a patent for a portable “Agent-based Multithreading Application Programming Interface”; published and presented a paper entitled “High-Performance Linux Cluster Monitoring Using Java” at the 3rd LCI International Conference on Linux Clusters; and developed a high-performance OS image versioning and multicast-based provisioning system that provisions 4000 node Linux clusters from bare metal in less than 10 minutes. He is currently working for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

LDS Church Presentation

Todd Tomkinson - STG

Todd Tomkinson is a Software Engineer/Consultant with Software Technology Group.  He has worked in the IT industry for 9 years, including 7 years as a developer and architect.  After a brief stint n program management Todd is back doing what he loves to do: building ast, scalable, efficient systems that enable organizations to meet heir goals and their stakeholders' needs.  His experience ranges from uilding web storefronts for small ma-and-pop shops to leading rchitecture teams on $400+ million projects.  Primary interests nclude agile development processes, enabling system operations, ystem integration via messaging, and web technologies.

STG Presentation