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Marc Barto is an organiser of the popular Spring of Code Meetup, which is targeted at giving open source and social change projects a stage and a development team. Having attended two Meet a Project events he recently wrote a post which included the following advice to projects at upcoming events to maximise the effectiveness of the event:
- Printing:
At events, printing hand-outs about your project including all the useful details will be a very helpful follow-up to your short presentation.
- Mentors:
Obviously I don’t have to convince anyone here on the interest of getting a mentor attached to a project. We encourage all our project owners to look for at least one mentor. They don’t have to be based in London as they can support your project by Skype.
- Documentation:
Having a basic site, a wiki or at least at decent github page with the project specs will really help convincing people your project is serious. Whatever the stage of the project is, we encourage project owners to answer the “7 evil questions”, inspired from the Knight news challenge.
- Follow up
It is key to build on the momentum created during a matchmaking event. That’s why we always schedule a Tech meetup hosted by the project owners no later than a week after the social event.
They can then meet developers again for a more hands-on event, which can sometimes be a mini-Hackathon. Try to limit the attendance to a minimum to avoid distraction/crowd management. We usually advise project owners to pair up together to organise the event and divide the brainstorming/hacking time in half for each project.
You can see all the news from Spring of Code at their site: http://springofcode.org
The London Java Community’s next free event is – The London Developer Sessions on Tuesday 19th February at 18:30.
Please see link for details and to sign up - http://www.meetup.com/Londonjavacommunity/events/100216612/
This is our monthly social gathering, which incorporates members of The London Java Community and Graduate Developer Communities. This is an informal social evening most of the evening will be spent having ad-hoc informal discussions in small groups.
We are back to The Slug and Lettuce this month: 19/20 Hanover Street, London http://www.slugandlettuce.co.uk/hanover_street/. We have had some fantastic feedback from those who have attended the event at this venue before and will be holding this month’s event in the same great location. The venue has a nicely sized function room with its own private bar, there are some great offers on beer, there is free wi-fi and it’s easy to move around and chat to lots of people. Most importantly it is a friendly and relaxed environment where developers can get together to chat and network.
The event will kick off at 6:30 PM and usually goes on until around 11:30 with members coming and going at all times throughout the evening. We usually attract 50 – 70 members so it is a lively event in which members, both junior and senior, can connect in a relaxed atmosphere and set the development world to rights.
Barry or another RecWorks team member will be onsite so if anyone is looking for free recruitment advice it’s a great chance to come along for a chat.
Please see link for details and to sign up - http://www.meetup.com/Londonjavacommunity/events/100216612/
Organised by RecWorks:
The London Java Community’s next free event is: Bring your Performance Problems Panel on Thursday 7th February at 18:30.
Bring your Performance Problems Panel
This event brings together some of London’s top performance experts and gives you the opportunity to ask them questions about topics of your choice. The questions could be about a variety of topics:
* Performance problems you’ve encountered when developing software.
* What methodologies should you use when diagnosing a problem?
* How to fit performance testing and tuning into your normal development methodology.
* Tools and software: anything from NoSQL databases and concurrent messaging frameworks to sun.misc.Unsafe.
In order to submit a question, just comment on this event or tweet a question with the hashtag #ljcperfpanel. The discussion should be suitable for any member to attend. The panel members are:
Peter Lawrey
Millenium Capital Partners
Innovative developer of high performance Java Systems for competitive advantage. Developer of the Java Chronicle library. 19 years experience designing, developing and supporting leading edge high performance systems. Peter’s blog has had over one million hits in the last 18 months and is a Dzone Most Valued Blogger.
Martijn Verburg
jClarity
Martijn is the CTO of jClarity – a Java/JVM performance tooling company for cloud and enterprise deployments. He focuses on demystifying performance jargon and likes to get people to firstly think about the methodology of approaching a problem. ”Measure, don’t Guess”
Most of you will know him as the co-leader of the LJC where he leads the global effort for the Java User Group “Adopt a JSR” and “Adopt OpenJDK” programmes.
Martijn’s book “The Well-Grounded Java Developer” (with Ben Evans) was published by Manning in 2012.
His talks and presentations are in high demand by major conferences (JavaOne, Devoxx, OSCON, FOSDEM, QCon, etc). Often you’ll find him challenging the industry status quo in his alter ego “The Diabolical Developer”, which he’ll probably bring out on the panel 
.
Manik Surtani
Red Hat/JBoss
Manik Surtani is a core R&D engineer at JBoss, Red Hat’s middleware division. He is the founder of the Infinispan project, and Platform Architect of the JBoss Data Grid. He is also the spec lead of JSR 347 (Data Grids for the Java Platform), and represents Red Hat on the Expert Group of JSR 107 (Temporary caching for Java). His interests lie in cloud and distributed computing, big data and NoSQL, autonomous systems and highly available computing.
Jeremy Whiting
Red Hat/JBoss
Jeremy Whiting is a Senior Software Engineer working at Red Hat in the JBoss middleware division. Currently in the Performance team and previously on the JBoss Transactions team. He is a technical representative for Red Hat on the Java committee of the Standardised Performance Evaluation Corporation. Participating in the the development of standardised performance benchmarks and peer review of published results. Performance analysis and tuning of open source operating systems and JEE middleware is a great challenge which he relishes.
The panel will be moderated by Richard Warburton.
Organised by RecWorks
Hey Guys, Sam here,
I can’t believe we are already through the first month of the year. Hope your year has started off as well as mine has. I’m looking forward to seeing some of you at tonight’s LJC event.
Now on with the partner events for the next few weeks…
Tuesday 29th January - LJC and Greenfoot
Presented by Michael Kölling (bio below).
This presentation will show you how to engage young programmers (teenagers from 14 years old upwards, and young adults) with programming in Java. We will show Greenfoot, an engaging, fun-to-use, educational Java environment and give plenty of tips about teaching and motivating kids to code…
RSVP for this London Java Community event: http://www.meetup.com/Londonjavacommunity/events/97859402/
Wednesday 30th January - Heroku & Postgres – ask the experts
From 5pm onwards. Craig Kerstiens of Heroku is over from San Francisco to answer your questions on the Heroku platform and Heroku Postgres database. Drop in to the “Look Mum No Hands” cafe and ask Craig any and all questions you have. Heroku is a great platform for deploying Java, Scala & Clojure apps & services easily and this is a rare chance to pick up tips from the experts face to face.
RSVP for this London Salesforce Developers event: http://www.meetup.com/LondonSalesforceDevelopers/events/98708072/
Wednesday 30th January - Hands On Session – Extreme Start UP
Extreme Startup Our practices are there to help us. They enable us to continue to produce high quality code even when the business requires us to change direction or strategy. We practice these skills on small problems, and away from the pressure of production code. But what happens to our practices when we increase the pressure?…FULL – WAITING LIST AVAILABLE
RSVP for this London Software Craftsman Community event: http://www.meetup.com/london-software-craftsmanship/events/99520732/
Monday 4th February - London Code Dojo 17
We’re a bunch of software developers that love to code, play, learn, improve and eat pizza! Every month we meet up in order to practice code katas, clean code, software craftsmanship, pair programming, Test-Driven Development and learn from each other for an hour or two. Food and drinks are provided.
RSVP for this London Code Dojo event: http://www.meetup.com/London-Code-Dojo/events/94309022/
Monday 4th February - Spring of Code – Hub Westminster
Talk on “10 Sustainability Models Around Free and Open Source Software” by Sander van der Waal from the Open Knowledge Foundation
RSVP for this Spring of Code event: http://www.meetup.com/Spring-of-Code/events/98948432/
Monday 4th February - SOA Suite 11g Performance Tuning Webinar Series: Part 3 – Tuning and Scaling WebLogic
Oracle WebLogic Server Oracle provides a solid foundation for SOA based on the Java Platform Java EE 5. In this webinar our certified WebLogic Specialists consultant will look at WebLogic specific features that enable rapid diagnostics of performance problems.
Register here: https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/207684631
Tuesday 5th February - Code & Coffee
Morning session (7am – 9am) on Tuesdays every fortnight on Starbucks in Oxford Street.
RSVP for this London Software Craftsman Community event: http://www.meetup.com/london-software-craftsmanship/events/89099502/
Thursday 7th February - stORM, ORM mapper and littleye performances
David M Chandler from Google will present his project ‘stORM’ which is an open source ORM for SQLite on Android. Followed by Kumar Rangarajan from Little Eye Labs will present their toolkit which acts as a CT scanner for your android app analyzing battery and memory issues.
RSVP for this London Android Group event: http://www.meetup.com/android/events/100037032/
Saturday 9th February - Hack the Tower – February 2013
A hackathon for technical communities around London to come together and build interesting apps and discover great technology. Following on from the successful hackathon with the London Scala community, we are inviting all those interested in Java, Scala, Clojure, node.js, play framework, MongoDB, Neo4j, Heroku & Force.com and anything else to get together and get creative.
Sign up at the LSD site http://www.meetup.com/LondonSalesforceDevelopers/events/96133122/ or on LSug site http://www.meetup.com/london-scala/events/96136332/ or LJC on http://www.meetup.com/Londonjavacommunity/events/100205572/
Monday 11th February - SOA Suite 11g Performance Tuning Webinar Series: Part 4 – Oracle Service Bus Performance
Oracle Service Bus 11g extends the performance and scalability of Oracle SOA Suite 11g. In this webinar we take a look under the hood of Oracle Service Bus and provide hints and tips for increasing performance of your services.
Register here: https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/957988103
Tuesday 12th February - Meet a Mentor – University College London - Graduate only event
Have you always wondered what you want to do when you graduate?
Are you worried about all the talk of grads finding it hard to find work and what it will mean for you?
Do you want to know the difference between working in a bank, a gaming company or a startup?
What technology should you specialise in? Java, Ruby or any of the other countless programming languages?
Now is the chance to find out. You may well have heard the buzz about the Meet a Mentor events – this is the next in a series of events open to all students. Also please get in touch if you are interested in becoming a mentor: email Anji at ac@recworks.co.uk
RSVP for this Graduate Developer Community event: http://www.meetup.com/grad-dc/events/100215772/
That’s everything for now – I will be back in two weeks to bring you some more partner events.
See you later guys!
Sam
@SHRecWorks
(TL;DR)
- We at RecWorks organised the first Meet a Project event which happened last night
- It was a pilot that will hopefully develop into an ongoing program
- It was chaotic but a lot of fun
- There were six projects in attendance Briar, RHQ, D Development Tools, Adopt a JSR/Adopt OpenJDK, Open Media Network and Continuous Delivery pipeline
- It seemed to be a success, lots of good feedback but only time will tell if it actually worked
- We learned a lot, it went on for too long because we had too many projects
- We want to hear from you – did you enjoy it? do you wish you’d come? do you think it’s a good/bad/ugly idea?
- Would anyone like to sponsor if we do it again?
- Check out Spring of Code for more cool OSS events
Hi all,
Last night we had our first full Meet a Project event. Chaotic, but a lot of fun, I thought I would take the time to write a quick report to the whole group as it was something that many people have shown a casual interest in and asked about, in discussions at other events recently.
At RecWorks we have met so many developers that are truly passionate about what they do that we try to encourage anyone in the Java space to develop their talent (it certainly makes our job easier )… and with so many opportunities in London to do so, we aim to make those connections. We have been organising and hosting events as part of the GDC for graduates to meet mentors in a ‘speed dating’ style for a year now. The format has been very successful so we thought we would try something similar in this space. The general feeling we get from a lot of developers interested in OSS is that they don’t know where to start, unless they find a very strong ‘itch’ to scratch then many end up thinking about it, but never long enough to take the plunge and get involved.
Last night was very much a pilot, our attempt to connect OSS and personal projects with developers looking for other opportunities and students that were new to OSS. The goal was to make the barrier for entry a bit lower and give people a chance to either find a project or ask advice of those that have been through the same thing as them, if nothing else it was a chance to network with a lot of people that are in a similar situation.
What happened?
We had six project leaders, some coming as far as Germany to be involved in the event. They represented different projects; Briar, RHQ, D Development Tools, Adopt a JSR, Open Media Network and Continuous Delivery pipeline. Further details about the projects can be found in the comments here: http://www.meetup.com/Londonjavacommunity/events/98543702/ The project leads will all be adding links to their projects to the comments section asap. We split the attendees into 6 groups, each project lead had a chance to present the projects and answer any questions the attendees had for 15-20 minutes before moving on to the next group.
Was it a success?
I think so… there was certainly some awesome feedback at the drinks afterwards, but we will only really see over the next few days how many attendees actually join mailing lists and get in touch with the project leads. From the conversations in the pub there was certainly a high amount of intent to do so, we will be extremely interested to see if this happens.
What did we learn as organisers?
There were too many projects, it was just a little too overwhelming for everyone, too much information to receive for the attendees and too many times to say the same thing for the project leads. If we repeat the event we feel that 3-4 would probably be an ideal amount of projects. We had three smallish rooms so there was a slight ‘crowded’ feeling but I think with less projects that wouldn’t be so much of a problem, trying to predict how many people will come is always tricky on Meetup groups we see anything from 50-120% attendance, to make it more tricky people tend to show at any time from 6-7 as coming from different locations/finish work at different times… in an ideal world I think it could work to have tables of varying experience levels, this is certainly something we’ll try in the future.
One thing that I did like about it was the chaotic feel, which was reminiscent of the first unconference that we organised, in which we weren’t sure who would come or quite how it would go until it was actually running.
What do YOU think?
It was a lot of fun, and depending on the feedback I get, I’m keen for us to organise another event and hopefully run this as an ongoing series so we can really make an impact on the amount of developers getting involved in Open Source development. I am keen to hear back from anyone in the LJC about this. Do you think it’s worth while cause? if you came along to the event, did you think it was brilliant… or awful? If you were disappointed you couldn’t get along, but would come again? Any way we could improve it etc. Any thoughts or opinions I’m interested to hear back either personally to bc@recworks.co.uk or reply to the LJC list.
Sponsors
We didn’t have a sponsor last night. If you would be interested in sponsoring these events or others in the future, please let me know.
Spring of Code
As a final mention, if you’re interested in oss as a project lead or potential committer and did or didn’t get along then please check out Spring of Code. They have an event on 4th February: http://springofcode.org/en_GB Marc and Richard were down last night, they’re great guys and run some awesome events in this space. Again any feedback on their events please share it with the group
Thanks guys,
Barry
The London Java Community’s next free event is – LJC and Greenfoot on Tuesday 29th January 2013 at 18:30 at UCL.
Please see link for details and to sign up - http://www.meetup.com/Londonjavacommunity/events/97859402/
Presented by Michael Kölling (bio below).
This presentation will show you how to engage young programmers (teenagers from 14 years old upwards, and young adults) with programming in Java. We will show Greenfoot, an engaging, fun-to-use, educational Java environment and give plenty of tips about teaching and motivating kids to code.
If you have kids yourself, or want to help out in your local school, or set up an after school programming club, or anything else that involves teaching beginners to program, then this presentation should contain plenty of tips, ideas and useful information for you.
We will cover technical aspects of coding with Greenfoot, including an introduction to writing computer games in 20 minutes, and plenty of teaching tips. The talk will consist mostly of live demo, including programming with gadgets, such as the Kinect.
Who should attend:
This talk is for anyone who wants to teach others (kids or adults) about object-oriented programming and Java.
Bio:
Michael Kölling is a Professor at the School of Computing, University of Kent, in Canterbury, UK. He holds a PhD in computer science from Sydney University, and has worked in Australia, Denmark and the UK. Michael’s research interests are in the areas of object-oriented systems, programming languages, software tools, computing education and HCI. He has published numerous papers on object-orientation and computing education topics and is the author and co-author of two Java textbooks. Michael is the lead developer of BlueJ and Greenfoot, two educational programming environments. He is a UK National Teaching Fellow, Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy, Oracle Java Champion, and a Distinguished Educator of the ACM.
Hey Guys, Sam here,
Hope you all had a wonderful festive break and got some time off to relax. We are back with the first partner email for 2013 and looks like there are loads of exciting events to keep you busy in this icy weather. Hopefully we will see you all tonight at the Developer session
Now on with the events for the next few weeks
Wednesday 16th January - Heroku Workshop – Intro to Heroku
A practical session where you will discover just how easy deployment to the cloud should be. Come try deploying your Java and JVM applications using git and your favourite build tool.
RSVP for this London Salesforce Developers event: http://www.meetup.com/LondonSalesforceDevelopers/events/98332772/
Thursday 17th January - Garbage Collection – The Useful Parts
This presentation will give the busy Java/JVM developer an overview of how Garbage Collection in the JVM works and the common collectors that are used. We’ll also cover how to read and interpret the scary log format and most importantly, offer strategies to deal with badly behaving memory (e.g. The dreaded OOME!).
RSVP for this London Java Community event: http://www.meetup.com/Londonjavacommunity/events/95334092/
Thursday 17th January - Scala Coding Dojo
A regular coding dojo session run on every third Thursday of the month. The dojo is now held regularly at the central London offices of TIM Group.
RSVP for this London Scala User Group event: http://www.meetup.com/london-scala/events/88493292/
Thursday 17th January - Jan 2013 – A date with Opscode (Chef) – Infrastructure Automation in 2013
Infrastructure automation is a key component of Continuous Delivery. Whether you use Puppet, Chef, CFEngine, or another tool, having an open and scaleable way of managing infrastructure as code is an enabler for reducing time and risk for deployments, allowing engineering teams to focus on more interesting and business-critical features.
To start 2013 in style, we’re pleased to be joined by Andy Hawkins from Opcode Europe (originators of Chef) who will share his 20+ years of experience with infrastructure management and automation..
RSVP for this London Continuous Delivery event: http://www.meetup.com/London-Continuous-Delivery/events/94851972/
Monday 21st January - London Groovy & Grails User Group Meetup
We will be doing some Groovy coding practice and looking at ways to solve different programming problems. This is a great way to learn new techniques, library methods, and tools.
RSVP for this London Groovy & Grails User Group event: http://www.meetup.com/london-ggug/events/95058542/
Monday 21st January - Oracle SOA Suite 11g Performance Tuning Webinar Series – Part 1: Principles of Performance Tuning
Delivered by a performance tuning specialist the first part of our webinar series will introduce you to the principles of performance tuning large scale SOA infrastructures.
RSVP for this event: https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/744316839
Monday 21st January - London Arduino January event
Join us for an evening of presentations and informal discussions around Arduino. Even if you are a total beginner, bring your projects, boards, and questions!
RSVP for this London Arduino Meetup event: http://www.meetup.com/LondonArduino/events/97318702/
Tuesday 22nd January - Meet A Mentor – Queen Mary, University of London - Graduate only event
Have you always wondered what you want to do when you graduate?
Are you worried about all the talk of grads finding it hard to find work and what it will mean for you?
Do you want to know the difference between working in a bank, a gaming company or a startup?
What technology should you specialise in? Java, Ruby or any of the other countless programming languages?
Now is the chance to find out. You may well have heard the buzz about the Meet a Mentor events – this is the next in a series of events open to all students. Also please get in touch if you are interested in becoming a mentor: email Anji at ac@recworks.co.uk
RSVP for this Graduate Developer Community event: http://www.meetup.com/grad-dc/events/95334282/
Tuesday 22nd January - Code & Coffee
Morning session (7am – 9am) on Tuesdays every fortnight on Starbucks in Oxford Street.
RSVP for this London Software Craftsman Community event: http://www.meetup.com/london-software-craftsmanship/events/98532202/
Wednesday 23rd January - London Salesforce Developer meetup
Come and meet a diverse group of developers involved in developing applications on the forcedotcom or heroku platforms and discover what its like to develop on the cloud. Its a great mixture of socialising, networking, mini-tech talks and lots of pizza and drinks.
RSVP for this London Salesforce Developers event: http://www.meetup.com/LondonSalesforceDevelopers/events/96132892/
Wednesday 23rd January - Wille Faler: Scaling the Use of Scala
Adopting Scala on a larger project with a bigger team is a different experience from using Scala on smaller projects with small teams. The expressiveness of Scala, the ability to achieve the same result in many different ways is one of the languages strengths, but it also poses a unique set of challenges for bigger teams with varying levels of Scala experience. This talk will approach some of the challenges and pitfalls based on the experience of a long term real life project/programme. The talk will hopefully give the audience a feel for how to get Java developers cross-skilled into Scala, common Scala project challenges as a team grows and how to solve them, stylistic choices, patterns- and anti-patterns that may be useful to be aware of.
RSVP for this London Scala User Group event: http://www.meetup.com/london-scala/events/98531062/
Thursday 24th January - Ouya Game Devs vs Fans
A chance to meet developers making games for the Ouya and try out one of the prototype dev kit Ouya’s for yourself! Hang out with other Ouya devs and fans and learn how you can help make Ouya the most awesome-est console ever!
RSVP for this London Android Group event: http://www.meetup.com/android/events/96025502/
Thursday 24th January - London Java Community: Meet a Project
· Are you looking to join an existing open source project, but don’t know where to start?
· Are you interested in finding out more about open source software in general?
· Are you looking to start a personal project but don’t know what to base it on?
· Are you interested in trying out some new technologies and wondering how to use them in a personal project?
If the answer is yes, this event could be for you. This is part of the MaP series of events designed to connect open source software projects and potential contributors….
RSVP for this London Java Community event: http://www.meetup.com/Londonjavacommunity/events/98543702/
Friday 25th January – Saturday 26th January - GDG London: Design in Action
A jam that mashes up designers and developers to create apps that combine innovative designs and cutting-edge technology.
RSVP for this event: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/5177381688 (Small registration charge)
Saturday 9th February - Hack the Tower (all day hackathon)
A hackathon for technical communities around London to come together and build interesting apps and discover great technology. Following on from the successful hackathon with the London Scala community, we are inviting all those interested in Java, Scala, Clojure, node.js, play framework, MongoDB, Neo4j, Heroku & Force.com and anything else to get together and get creative.
Sign up at the LSD site http://www.meetup.com/LondonSalesforceDevelopers/events/96133122/ or on LSug site http://www.meetup.com/london-scala/events/96136332/
Hope you all have a wonderful day and looking forward to catching up with you all in the weeks to come.
Sam
@SHRecWorks
It’s New Years Eve, and your JCP Committee is spending a few hours cleaning up a few threads from this year.
We realised that we never blogged to tell you about some new members of the JCP Committee. First of all, we’re very pleased to welcome back Simon Maple. In addition, both Graham Allen and Kim Ross volunteered to help out – so thank you to all of them.
For full details of your committee, please visit: http://java.net/projects/ljc-london-jug/pages/TheLJCJCPCommittee
We’ve also brought up to date our voting record on JSRs to cover all of 2012. You can check it out here: http://java.net/projects/ljc-london-jug/pages/OurVotingRecord
As ever, we’re always happy to talk about our work with the JCP – please come and find us at events if you’re interested – we always want to hear your views and to make sure that we’re representing the LJC to the best of our ability.
Happy New Year and we’re looking forward to more excellent work in 2013.
The London Java Community’s next free event is – The London Developer Sessions on Tuesday 15th January at 18:30.
Please see link for details and to sign up –http://www.meetup.com/Londonjavacommunity/events/93477792/
This is our monthly social gathering, which incorporates members of The London Java Community and Graduate Developer Communities. This is an informal social evening most of the evening will be spent having ad-hoc informal discussions in small groups.
We are back to The Slug and Lettuce this month: 19/20 Hanover Street, London http://www.slugandlettuce.co.uk/hanover_street/. We have had some fantastic feedback from those who have attended the event at this venue before and will be holding this month’s event in the same great location. The venue has a nicely sized function room with its own private bar, there are some great offers on beer, there is free wi-fi and it’s easy to move around and chat to lots of people. Most importantly it is a friendly and relaxed environment where developers can get together to chat and network.
The event will kick off at 6:30 PM and usually goes on until around 11:30 with members coming and going at all times throughout the evening. We usually attract 50 – 70 members so it is a lively event in which members, both junior and senior, can connect in a relaxed atmosphere and set the development world to rights.
Barry or another RecWorks team member will be onsite so if anyone is looking for free recruitment advice it’s a great chance to come along for a chat.
Please see link for details and to sign up –http://www.meetup.com/Londonjavacommunity/events/93477792/
Organised by RecWorks:
Hey Guys, Sam here
Hope you all had a wonderful weekend and keeping warm in this icy weather. The partner event email is going to be a little different this time round due to the festive break coming up. Instead of two weeks worth, this email is going to contain a months worth of events.
That means the partner email won’t be back till around early January when things will start picking up again.
Here are the events for the next few weeks
Tuesday 11th December 2012 - Code & Coffee
Morning session (7am – 9am) on Tuesdays every fortnight on Starbucks in Oxford Street.
RSVP for this London Software Craftsman Community event: http://www.meetup.com/london-software-craftsmanship/events/64208722/
Tuesday 11th December 2012 - Software Craftsmanship Round Table
A group discussion at TIMGroup every second Tuesday. FULL – WAITING LIST AVAILABLE
RSVP for this London Software Craftsman Community event: http://www.meetup.com/london-software-craftsmanship/events/93943872/
Tuesday 11th December 2012 - London Erlang User Group Meetup
This Meetup will be all about Testing, with two speakers sharing their experience on the matter:
Thomas Arts – Professor and co-founder of QuviQ AB
Title: Your tests as a simulator 6.30- 7.00
Steven Gravell - http://mokele.co.uk/
Title: Writing bindings between Erlang property testing and Javascript because I had one bugfix to make 7.15- 8.00
RSVP for this London Erlang User Group event: http://www.meetup.com/erlangusergroup/events/90363522/
Wednesday 12th December 2012 - Philipp Haller: Correctly and Efficiently Combining Concurrency Abstractions
Correctly and Efficiently Combining Concurrency Abstractions: Actors have become a commonly used abstraction for concurrent and parallel programming in Scala. However, many real-world systems and applications combine actors with other concurrency abstractions, such as futures, or threads and shared-memory synchronization constructs. This talk explores pitfalls of typical combinations and provides some advice on ensuring their correctness and efficiency. Philipp Haller has been a member of the Scala team since 2006. His research at EPFL on concurrent programming with race-free actors in Scala has been published in leading conferences, winning a best paper award. He is the creator of Scala’s first act. We will, as always, also be heading to the Slaughtered Lamb pub afterwards.
RSVP for this London Scala User Group event: http://www.meetup.com/london-scala/events/92618752/
Wednesday 12th December 2012 - jBPM5 – The Evolution of BPM Systems
jBPM5 provides a fresh and new approach to the BPM Arena, for that reason Mauricio Salatino and Esteban Aliverti wrote the jBPM5 Developer Guide.
During the first 30 minutes a quick introduction about the framework presenting the book and the concepts covered in the first 5 chapter will take place.
During the second half we will spend some time analyzing how the Drools and jBPM5 provides an unique Platform to run not only Business Processes.
The second half of the book will be covered, showing advanced use cases that take full advantage of the Business Rule and the Business Process Engines.
RSVP for this JBoss User Group event: http://www.meetup.com/JBoss-User-Group/events/85267232/
Thursday 13th December 2012 - Webinar: Simplifying Persistence for Java and MongoDB – Dec 13th 6pm
A webinar covering the design and major features of Morphia, an Object Document Mapper (ODM) for Java and MongoDB.
RSVP for this London MongoDB User Group event: http://www.10gen.com/events/webinar/morphia-persistence-for-java-mongodb
Thursday 13th December – Friday 14th December 2012 - Groovy & Grails Exchange 2012
Groovy is proving more and more popular as a complementary language to Java and you can discover how it and the rest of its ecosystem can help with development on the JVM at the Groovy & Grails Exchange 2012.
RSVP for this event: http://skillsmatter.com/event/groovy-grails/groovy-grails-exchange-2012
Thursday 20th December 2012 - Scala Coding Dojo
A regular coding dojo session run on every third Thursday of the month. The dojo is now held regularly at the central London offices of TIM Group.
RSVP for this London Scala User Group event: http://www.meetup.com/london-scala/events/87342812/
Hope you all have a wonderful festive season and looking forward to catching up with you all in the New Year.
Sam
@SHRecWorks
