The Charleston Java Users Group

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Past events

• Villagecrawl, a GWT game in Java

  20-21 Feb 2013 in Charleston, United States

  The different parts of building a 2d game in GWT. Loading images, writing to the canvas, adding in small visual cues, and other general issues with building a game in Java.Presented by: Terra Caines

• JDK 7 and Basic Java Performance Tricks

  17-18 Oct 2012 in Charleston, United States

  Presentation of the features of JDK 7 along with discussions of basic JVM tuning and performance programming techniques for low-latency environments.----Free pizza and drinks will be provided. Take the stairs to the third floor and follow the signs to BiblioLabs.

• Play! Framework

  18-19 Jul 2012 in Charleston, United States

  Play! is a web framework that combines the best of Java EE with a more Rails-like approach that creates a simpler development experience.The Play! frameworks comes comes with a very rich API (for both Java & Scala), follows RESTful principles, and has all the typical tools and abilities of modern Java web frameworks.Presented by: Glenn Nelson

• Grails

  13-14 Jun 2012 in Charleston, United States

  Grails is a Spring powered, high productivity, convention over configuration based web framework often used for used for rapid application development. Although I've only recently been introduced to the framework, I'll try to give a solid overview of what it has to offer, including a presentation showing how a few friends and I developed a Grails based chat client hosted on ec2 for a class in a very short time.

• MongoDB

  16-17 May 2012 in Charleston, United States

  A recent adopter of MongoDB, David Castro will share what he has learned from a few weeks of using this free, open-source, leading NoSQL solution. He will give an overview of the concepts, pros and cons, and use cases for MongoDB. After that brief high-level overview, he will go into his specific use case, in which he is using MongoDB to perform what otherwise would have been done using the Entity-Attribute-Value (EAV) anti-pattern.

• MIT App Inventor (Android Application Development)

  25-26 Apr 2012 in Charleston, United States

  This meetup will:- Introduce attendees to the App Inventor development environment-Showcase the differences between development using Java vs AppInventor?s visual programming framework- Discuss prototyping and ?live testing? App Inventor allows- Show has easy it is to create a market ready applicationPresented by: Michael Feliciano

• Apache SOLR

  Thu, 23 Feb 2012, 00:00 - 02:00 in Charleston, United States

  The presentation will walk through the basics of creating a SOLR search application.=================Solr is the popular, blazing fast open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project. Its major features include powerful full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, dynamic clustering, database integration, rich document (e.g., Word, PDF) handling, and geospatial search.

• Configuration Management

  Thu, 19 Jan 2012, 00:00 - 02:00 in Charleston, United States

  This meetup will focus on configuration management and the tools required to support the development ecosystem. Topics will include: version control, continuous integration / build systems, automated regression testing, test coverage tools, static code analysis, documentation and issue tracking systems. The presentation will include a walk through of live systems using these tools to support a unified development process. Presented by Jason Youmans

• jQuery

  Thu, 15 Dec 2011, 00:00 - 02:00 in Charleston, United States

  A survey of the jQuery library including: the jQuery object, DOM manipulation, traversal, events, AJAX, and the jQuery plugin system.Speaker: Glenn Nelson

• The Semantic Web: Building and Using Smart Data

  Thu, 17 Nov 2011, 00:00 - 02:00 in Charleston, United States

  An Introduction to the semantic web including definitions, modeling, data structures, application architectures, and queries. Presented by Dr. Jim Bowring

• Two Presentations: Gradle and SmartClient Toolkit

  21-22 Sep 2011 in Charleston, United States

  "Enterprises that think of Ajax as just "UI widgets" get into trouble quickly. SmartClient extends far beyond mere UI widgets, providing a comprehensive data binding architecture, a powerful cross-browser toolset, metadata management that radically reduces duplication and complexity, and an optional Java-based server for accelerated integration with popular Java frameworks.

• Grails: The Search is Over

  17-18 May 2011 in Charleston, United States

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• Amazon AWS Libraries - Jets3t and typica libraries

  12-13 Apr 2011 in Charleston, United States

  Topics that will be covered are Java libraries used to programmatically interact with the AWS services.  The JetS3t libraries will be covered for S3 interaction.  Additionally, use of the typica libraries to manage EC2 will be discussed.

• Apache Wicket

  14-15 Mar 2011 in Charleston, United States

  Apache WicketWhile there are literally scores of Java Web Frameworks, we at BiblioLabs settled on Apache Wicket about 9 months ago when looking for a Java based web solution. Although we admittedly didn't look through all the 60+ different java frameworks before we made our decision, we chose Apache Wicket for its reusable component based design, separation of HTML from java code, and easy integration with SPRING.

• Java Users Group - Meeting 2 - Clojure

  Wed, 16 Feb 2011, 00:00 - 02:00 in Charleston, United States

  The presentation for the second meeting will be on Clojure and will be given by Mark Gunnels.Clojure is a dialect of Lisp that targets the JVM and is predominantly a functional programming language. This talk will review: *basic syntax *code-as-data philosophy *state management *Java interoperabilityIn short, Clojure is awesome and I hope to demonstrate that awesomeness. :-)Please RSVP so that we can order sufficient food and beverages.

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