The February UJUG Meeting is on Thursday, February 19, 2009
5:30 PM - 9:00PM
Please
RSVP
so we can order the right amount of food.
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Slides from the meeting:
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FamilySearch Developers Conference announcement.
You can see a copy of the February 2009 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 - 8:00
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NetDeposit, The LDS Church,
GenVault Corp. and Overstock.com
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Build Environment, Stack Presenation
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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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| java.community.events
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Chris Hansen
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| Java Kata, more here
|
Jarrod Ribble
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Build Environment, Stack Presentation
Abstract
The following questions will be addressed by each presentation
- Challenges (3 minutes)
- What were the problems that drove you to consider your build tool?
- Technology (4 minutes)
- What specific technologies are you using for your build and CI environment and why?
- Architecture (3 minutes)
- A brief overview of your continuous build environment.
- Lessons Learned (5 minutes)
- Report card - grade the success of the solution thus far.
- What things worked, didn't work, or should have been tried?
- What's next?
NetDeposit
Bob Peressini has have been involved in the
computer industry before there were PCs. Bob is a EE/Computer Design
grad from Montana State University. He started his career working
for oil and gas companies in Huston. Being a Rocky Mountain native
he realized he didn't want to die in Texas so he relocated to Park
City, where he and his wife (a regional actor and river guide) have
lived happily since 95. For the last 3 years Bob has been doing
Release Engineering for NetDeposit. Bob said, "I have been
having a ball developing build systems, creating installers and
automating our deployment processes." When he is not working you
are likely to find him on a golf course, a ski hill or a trout
stream.
Here are the slides for NetDeposit
The LDS Church
Howard Olson graduated from BYU with a
Bachelors of Science from the business school. He worked at Novell
from 1986 until 2007. During his last four or five years at Novell Howard
managed a team of build engineers. His team developed a workflow build
automation solution that supported simultaneous builds on 5
different platforms. Today, Howard manages the software configuration
management team at the LDS Church. His team is responsible for
the church's Source Code Controll systems, Subversion and MS Team
Foundation Server (TFS). They are also responsible of the
continuous integration environments which consist of Cruisecontrol
and MS Team Build. They are also responsible for Jira, and TFS for
bug and user story tracking. Howard lives in Utah County with his
wife and three children, the oldest of which is attending BYU.
Howard is also a BYU fan.
Here are the slides for The LDS Church
GenVault Corp.
Doug Redd is currently the head of the Software
Engineering department at GenVault Corp. He remotely leads a 5 person
team of developers that build software solutions for Biosample
management. He has over 15 years experience in the BioTechnology
Software industry, including positions with MedCell Biologics, Aurora
Biosciences, CuraGen, The Ohio State University, and the University of
Utah. He holds a B.S. degree in Biology with minors in Computer
Science and Chemistry from the University of Utah, and an M.S. degree
in Molecular Genetics from The Ohio State University.
Here are the slides for GenVault Corp.
Overstock.com
Chris Maki is a Principal Engineer at
Overstock.com and is currently leading the Tools and Automation
team. The TA team is responsible for Overstock.com's build systems,
automated deployment tools, and continuous integrations systems.
Here are the slides for Overstock.com
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