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The Detroit JUG is currently seeking sponsors for 2009.  If you, your company or organization would like to sponsor us please,  contact mckinnon.davd[@] ymail dot com.


The Detroit Java User Group brings together members of the Metro Detroit software development community to share ideas, discuss industry advances and explore the use of Java, JVM based
technologies, development methodologies and practices. 

 
Our members are a community of like minded individuals seeking first hand, practical exposure to code, best practices, tools and cutting-edge solutions.  We meet regularly in the Metro Detroit area to network, attend quality technical presentations and to support the education of Software Engineering in general, and the use of Java and related technologies in particular. Meetings are free and open to the public.  


The only thing you have to do to be a member is to join our YahooGroups mailing list.

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FLEX with James Ward - August 19, 2009
 

James Ward is Adobe's Technical Evangelist for Flex.  He is also Adobe's JCP representative to JSR 286, 299, and 301.  
He is co-author of First Steps in Flex and recently co-authored the Flex And Spring Integration RefCard for DZone. 

James will visit the Detroit JUG on August 19, 2009.  

Food and beverages sponsored by The Epitec Group.
www.epitecgroup.com



 

 

Another Sponsor Joins the Detroit JUG


The Epitec Group is the newest sponsor of the Detroit Java User Group.  Epitec will sponsor the Food and Beverages for the August and July meetings.


Epitec helps their customers by focusing on reducing costs, increasing efficiency, adding resources and by simplifying management.  Epitec provides contract, contract to hire and direct hire options of top IT talent like the members of the Detroit JUG.

 
Sevan Kulwicki of Epitec has attended past meetings and championed the Detroit Java User Group to her company.  Thanks to her,  Epitec has made a generous donation to the group's Pizza fund.


Epitec joins RIIS, ePrize and various JUG members as sponsors of the Detroit JUG.
 

 


RESTful Experiences - July 15, 2009

Tim Taylor, ePrize


Tim Taylor is a software developer and agile enthusiast working at ePrize. He is a prodigal son to Java programming, returning home after a few years in the Perl wilderness. While away Tim joined the "Strong Testing" camp of this debate[1]. Tim's mutant super power is the ability to suppress listeners' capability to detect sarcasm.

In his role on ePrize's Product Engineering team Tim and team have been working to expose ePrize promotion technology as RESTful web services[2]. This has involved existing and newly built subsystems written in both Perl and Java. He'll be sharing his experience on designing and implementing RESTful web services for heterogeneous systems, using Groovy[3] and Restlet[4], and functional testing RESTful services with FitNesse[5].

Food and beverages sponsored by The Epitec Group.
 
Door Prize provided by O'Reilly Media
 RESTful Web Services
Web services for the real world
By Leonard Richardson, Sam Ruby
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 

The Lost Art of Simplicity
Josh Holmes - September 16, 2009

Josh Holmes is a User Experience Architect Evangelist for Microsoft.     Yes, Microsoft.  

He recently did a keynote at the Central Ohio Day of .NET and a session at Kalamazoo X called "The Lost Art of Simplicity".    
 
This talk transcends technology  and presents ideas that all software developers and architects should be thinking about.   
 
"As a solution ramps up in complexity and “cleverness” it quickly becomes more fragile because there are more moving parts and more possible points of failure. Just because something is using the latest or coolest technology, doesn’t mean that it’s the best idea."
 
 Josh will give this talk to the Detroit JUG this September. 
Food and beverages sponsored by RIIS.
www.riis.com


Pizza Anyone?

How can you give back to the Detroit Java User Group?  Why not donate $1, 5$ or even $20 to the meeting pizza fund.