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On Tuesday April 22, Joe O'Brien, famed Ruby developer and Columbus area business owner, will be speaking at the Ann Arbor Java User Group. He will be discussing JRuby, Ruby that runs on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Sun is putting a lot of resources toward dynamic languages on the JVM. First,...

Yes, it's the first week of the month again. The Ann Arbor Computer Society meeting is tomorrow night, April 2, at 6 pm. Jay Wren will be speaking on the Boo Programming Language and DSLs (Domain Specific Languages). Boo is a statically typed language that runs on the CLR. It has Python-inspired...

I decided to break out my summaries from sessions that I attended at the Java Posse Roundup into technical and non-technical sessions. Last year, I don't recall going to many non-technical sessions. This year, however, I actually attended several, including: Ten Mistakes Not to Make in a Startup...

An Ann Arbor area Flex meeting is being held tonight, at SPARK. It's free, and open to all. Topic: Flex: Rich Internet Application (RIA) Demos and Case Studies Join users of Flex, and others interested in Flex to view demos of Flex applications and talk about how companies are using Flex. Nick Kwiatkowski...

I was planning to talk about Scala at the Ann Arbor Java User Group meeting this week, but I'm going to have to cancel. I came down with the flu, and then pneumonia and I'm still coughing too much to be able to do a talk. I'm sure that we will reschedule it for a later date.

If you're in the Ann Arbor area tonight, join locals for an open gathering of Beer and Code. I'm sorry to say that I'm down with the flu and won't be attending, but it looks like fun. Here's the announcement that Winston Tsang sent out: -------------------------------------------...

The Richard Hale Shaw will present a 1-day MiniCamp on LINQ and C# 3.0 for experienced .NET developers on March 14 from 9 am - 5 pm. This class will be held at SRT Solutions' offices, at 206 S. Fifth Ave, Suite 200, Ann Arbor, MI. To attend this course, you should have a minimum of 2 years experience...

If you're in town, feel free to show up for lightning talks. Pizza is still expected. I hope that we're able to rescheule Joe O'Brien for sometime soon. I was really looking forward to his talk.

Joe O'Brien is braving the weather, en route from Columbus up to Ann Arbor for tonight's Ann Arbor Computer Society meeting. Ann Arbor is getting some ice, but evidently the rest of the area seems to be getting snow. If you're already in Ann Arbor, definitely stop by. I'm, sadly, not...

The Michigan Python User Group will do some live coding of one or more of the the Code Kata's from Dave Thomas: http://codekata.pragprog.com/ The meeting will be held at 206 S. Fifth Ave, Suite 200, Ann Arbor, MI. It will start around 7 pm. MichiPUG meetings are free and open to the public.