The October UJUG Meeting is on Thursday, October 16, 2008
5:30 PM - 9:00PM
Please
RSVP
so we can order the right amount of food.
Here is email notice
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You can see a copy of the October 2008 meeting flyer
here.
Meeting Agenda
| Time
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Presenter
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Topic
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5:30 - 6:00
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PIZZA
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| 6:00 -7:00
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Thomas Valletta
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JavaFX
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7:00 - 8:00
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Nathan Dickamore &
Steve Olson
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Adobe Flex
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Plus the following breakouts:
| Small Group/Mentoring/Breakout
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Presenter
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| Java Certification
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Don Bogardus
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| Alternative Languages on the JVM
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Chris Hansen
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JavaFX, more than a toy?
Abstract
JavaFX was unveiled at JavaOne 2007. Undoubtedly premature at the time, it was considered to be a toy. Some predicted a bright future for JavaFX, while skeptics denied that it could compete with more mature and heavily funded competition. Has documentation, tooling, and support for the Flex/Silverlight competitor grown up since its 2007 debut?
About the Speaker
Thomas Valletta is an experienced Software Engineer with 10+ years experience designing and building web applications. Currently a Principle Engineer with the LDS Church.
Flex
About the Speakers
Nathan Dickamore is a Senior Software Engineer with the LDS Church and manages Bytestream LLC, a company that focuses on Rich Internet Applications for small businesses. Nathan has a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science. His professional career has included mechanical engineering experience (patents acquired), network device testing and development, architecture of internet filtering software (currently Blue Coats Web Filter Service), and web based applications for the Military and other large organizations. The majority of his experience has been with developing Java based web applications using JSP, Struts and JSF on the front end. Once he discovered the capabilities of Flex and how well it integrated with Java using Live Cycle Data Services or BlazeDS, his focus changed. Now he enjoys creating Flex applications and promoting it among many different companies.
Steven Olson, author of Ajax On Java (O’Reilly 2007), has been a software developer for twenty years, starting with Fortran, Pascal, Basic, and later, C at a company called Signetics. While at Novell, he began dabbling in Java, and in 1995, he was among the first to join Novell's Java development group. He's since consulted or worked directly for eight other companies, writing primarily in Java. He currently works for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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