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In addition to a user group meeting this week, there are some weekend conferences/camps going on. Ann Arbor .NET developer group ( Wednesday August 13 at 6 pm) features Jeff McWherter who will be speaking on applying automated testing to an existing application. AADND meets at SRT Solutions (206 S. Fifth...

Ann Arbor Area User Groups SRT Solutions strongly supports the local user groups. We believe that enabling developers to connect with one another and be exposed to different technologies provides a navigable path through a field where technology changes very quickly. This is good for our employees as...

I'm really looking forward to CodeMash 2008. There is an amazing list of speakers. Here's a subset of the talks that interest me (not in any particular order) Testing with Guice, by Dick Wall Dick is a cohost of the Java Posse podcast, which is invaluable for keeping up to date on Java. He's...

CodeMash is a conference that I'm involved with, as an organizer. Next year's event will be held Jan 9-11 (panel discussion the evening of the 9th, with full days on the 10th and 11th), at the same location as the 2007 event: the Kalahari Resort and Indoor Water Park in Sandusky, OH. CodeMash...

It's the first full week of the month, so lots o' user group meetings going on. There's a Ruby User Group meeting in Ann Arbor tonight, Monday August 6 . It's from 7:00-8:30 pm on the University of Michigan campus, 1670 CSE. Details at their website: http://rubymi.org Tomorrow (Tuesday...

Meeting review/notes from May 2, 2007 On Wednesday, May 2, Joe O'Brien made the trip from Columbus to present a talk on Ruby for the Enterprise, for the Ann Arbor Computer Society . We first made Joe's acquaintance in the time leading up to CodeMash 2007, when he saw that we were looking for...

The conference officially begins! The Java Posse Roundup officially started today. About 25-30 people have gathered here in Crested Butte, Colorado. Bruce Eckel and the Java Posse together organized this open spaces event, and I’m really enjoying myself so far. I won’t try to transcribe the...

CodeMash, a developer conference organized by volunteer developers, is to be held January 18-19 in Sandusky, OH. Drawing from national talent as well as regional experts, this conference provides a unique opportunity for a diverse set of people to get to CodeMash deadline is TODAY! Today is the last...

Ohio … where you need to be January 18-19 What? January in Ohio?! That’s always the first reaction. But … once I tell them what’s going on (and that it’s at an indoor water park), the tune changes to, “Really? Cool!”. I’ve been involved with the planning...