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The San Francisco Java User Group

Events coming up

• Dec 16

  Learn how to go Agile with Scrum

  San Francisco, United States

  Our December 15th meetup is going to be a bit different! We are co-organizing an event with a number of local user groups (SF-PHP, SF-Agile, and SF-.NET) on something that truly crosses the technology boundaries: agile software development! We are going to start off the evening with Marko Gargenta (yes, he is my brother) who will give a brief overview of Scrum, an iterative incremental framework for managing complex work (such as new product development), commonly used with Agile - just so that

Past events

• Learn about Google Wave API: Now and Beyond

  Wed, 11 Nov 2009, 02:30 - 04:30 in San Francisco, United States

  Now that we know what GWT is, it only makes sense that we also see how well it scales in real life - enter Google Wave :-) That's right! In the midst of their preview roll-out, we are extremely fortunate to have Marcel Prasetya from Google talk about this amazing piece of technology. In addition to giving a short overview of Wave, Marcel will go over the current set of APIs provided by Google Wave, that allows third-party developers to extend and enhance Google Wave.

• Learn how Google Web Toolkit (GWT) can help you create amazing web apps

  Wed, 14 Oct 2009, 01:30 - 03:30 in San Francisco, United States

  For our October meetup, we are extremely fortunate to welcome Fred Sauer, a Google Developer Advocate, who offered to do a presentation on Google Web Toolkit (GWT, pronounced /ˈɡwɪt/), an open-source web-development framework that helps Java developers build and maintain sophisticated JavaScript-based web apps (all in Java). For those that don't know, GWT is also the technology that powers Google Wave.

• Learn about Java Persistence with MongoDB and JavaDB directly from the source!

  Wed, 9 Sep 2009, 01:30 - 03:30 in San Francisco, United States

  We have another two-for-one special: two great speakers, two great topics, one short evening to cover it all!In the first presentation, Kristina Chodorow will introduce us to non-relationaldata persistence in Java using MongoDB, a high-performance, open source, schema-free document-orienteddatabase. Forget about JDBC on this one :-)In the last couple years, dozens of non-relational databases have appeared to solve problems that relational databases aren't good at.

• Learn how to solve your data visualization needs with open-source reporting

  Wed, 12 Aug 2009, 01:30 - 03:30 in San Francisco, United States

  We've been quite fortunate as Abhisek Sinha from Actuate Corporation, offered to do a presentation on solving data visualization problems with BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools), an open-source reporting framework for Java. The following is Abhisek's abstract of this presentation:"[i]This session introduces you to BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools), the powerful open source report development and deployment technology, and explores what its capabilities are.

• Learn about Android/UI directly from the source!

  Wed, 15 Jul 2009, 01:30 - 03:30 in San Francisco, United States

  For our July 14th meetup, we are extremely fortunate that Romain Guy from Google's Android UI team offered to do a presentation on Android and its slick UI. For those that don't know, Romain is also the brains behind Android's home screen.We'll start off the evening with an introduction to Android, to make sure everyone is on board with this exciting new mobile platform.

• Two-for-one special: Learn about Hazelcast and Spring-EJB3 Integration Solutions

  Wed, 10 Jun 2009, 01:30 - 03:30 in San Francisco, United States

  For our June 9th event we are taking advantage of the fact that many Java experts will be in town attending CommunityOne and JavaOne conferences. Two such gurus generously offered to present at our meetup and share their wisdom. In the first presentation Talip Ozturk will demonstrate that distributed programming in Java can be both super-easy and lots of fun when using Hazelcast, an opensource transactional, distributed/partitioned implementation of queue, map, set, list, lock, and executor se