[lug] FW: [djug] DJUG, Wednesday: David Geary/Ruby on Rails. Bruce Tate/Beyond Java

Tue Jul 12 14:24:28 MDT 2005

I thought you folks might be interested in the Ruby talk.

Siegfried

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Subject: [djug] DJUG, Wednesday: David Geary/Ruby on Rails. Bruce
Tate/Beyond Java

Wednesday JULY 13th, DENVER JAVA USERS GROUP Meeting

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*** Free Pizza @ 5:30 ***

Our next meeting is on Wednesday, July 13th.

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Featured speaker: David Geary

"Ruby on Rails"

7:15pm -8:30pm

Basic Concepts: Bruce Tate

"Beyond Java"

6pm - 7pm

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Location: Qwest Auditorium at 17th and Arapahoe.

*** FEATURE PRESENTATION ***

"Ruby on Rails"

David Geary

Description:

In 1994, unbeknownst to anyone, a skinny upstart in a lab was poised to
dethrone C++ as the reigning king of computer languages. Of course, it's
only a matter of time before we undergo another paradigm shift and Java gets
its comeuppance, so we would all be wise to keep an eye out for the Next Big
Thing.

At about the same time Java was brewing, another language from the far east
entered the landscape with hardly any notice. Carefully crafted by Japanese
devotees, Ruby, a potent mix of SmallTalk, Python, and Perl, toiled in
relative obscurity as the marketplace moved in droves to Java.

Today we have J2EE, the 800-pound gorilla of enterprise development. That
800 pounds cuts both ways: J2EE is a complicated beast with a long and steep
learning curve that sports a dissying array of peripheral open-source
software. And like any 800-pound gorilla, J2EE has many design compromises
and idiosyncrasies that reflect it's growth and evolution. Some J2EE
developers have begun to wonder if there's a better way...

Come to this exciting preview of one of the leading web application
framework contenders with the potential to be the Next Big Thing: Ruby on
Rails. An innovative framework with an eye-popping array of ultra-cool
features such as active records and native support for Ajax, Rails greatly
simplifies web application development and puts the joy back in software
development. Rails is best summed up as SmallTalk for the web, which means
it's easy, fun, and very productive; in fact, in the throes of Rails-mania,
some converts have claimed that developing with Rails is at least 10 times
as fast as your favorite Java framework. Could that be? Tonight we'll find
out.

Speaker

David Geary is a prominent author, speaker, and consultant in the Java
community. Since 1996, he has written seven Java books spanning both client-
and server-side Java, including the Graphic Java series and Core JavaServer
Faces.

David has helped shape server-side Java by serving on the JSTL and JSF
Expert Groups, contributing to open-source projects, and writing questions
for Sun's Web Developer Certification Exam. He is the inventor of the Struts
Template Library (the progenitor of Tiles), and has contributed to both
Struts and Shale.

David has been with the No Fluff Just Stuff tour since 2003. On the tour,
David's topics include Struts, Tiles, SiteMesh, JavaServer Faces, Shale,
Java Design Patterns, Tapestry, and Ruby on Rails. David is a longtime
instructor and public speaker who rarely has more fun than when he's
speaking about one of his passions.

*** BASIC CONCEPTS ***

"Beyond Java"

Bruce Tate

Description:

The Java programming language has been tremendously successful. Many of the
roots of its success may be surprising to the audience. But every major
programming language has a limited life cycle. While it's true that Java and
.NET seem to be the only games in town, some alternatives are beginning to
emerge. In this session, we'll discuss some of the limitations of the Java
language, and the impact that they might have on the productivity of Java
developers. We'll then look at some of the innovations around other
frameworks and languages, and some of the features of those languages that
boost the productivity of other non-Java developers:

- Typing, and why it matters

- Code blocks and closures

- Regular expressions

- Innovative frameworks

Finally, we'll take a look at where developers may look at using other
languages. Clearly, most of the work that we do will be in Java for the
foreseeable future, but certain project classifications may make it much
easier to embrace alternatives, for good competitive effect.

Speaker

Bruce Tateis co-author of "Better, Faster, Lighter Java". A popular speaker
at No Fluff Just Stuff symposiums, Bruce Tate is still writing. Other best
selling titles include "Bitter EJB" and "Bitter Java".

Bruce Tate is a consultant with 15 years of IT experience. He worked for 13
years at IBM, in roles ranging from a database systems programmer to Java
proof-of-concept team lead where he served on the certification board for
the IT profession. He left IBM to build a solutions development team at a
high-powered TL Ventures startup, and left that post to build his own
consulting business.

His company focuses on Java persistence, development and performance
process, and education. Bruce holds eight patents ranging from database
design to development environment user interfaces. 

*** AGENDA ***

5:30 - 6:00 p.m. Food, and Networking.

6:00 - 7:00 p.m. Basic Concepts

7:00 - 7:15 p.m. Announcements

7:15 - 8:30 p.m.

8:30 p.m. Door prizes

*** DIRECTIONS ***

Qwest Auditorium is located downtown Denver at

1005 17th St,

Denver, CO 80202.

The building entrance faces 17th Sreet. Take elevator

to "A"uditorium level.

For maps, see:

< <http://www.denverjug.org/meetings/location.jsp>
http://www.denverjug.org/meetings/location.jsp>

*** SPONSORS ***

Thanks to our regular Denver JUG sponsors for

supporting the Java

community:

- Qwest for providing facilities

(< <http://www.qwest.com/> http://www.qwest.com>)

- MicroStaff for providing food

(< <http://wwwmicrostaff.com/> http://www.microstaff.com>)

- TEKsystems for providing food

(< <http://www.teksystems.com/> http://www.teksystems.com/>)

- EvolutionHosting for providing web hosting

(< <http://www.evolutionhosting.com/> http://www.evolutionhosting.com>)

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