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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...

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.

We had a discussion at the office this afternoon that centered around how to attract a younger group of people to the computer user group meetings. We got several suggestions out of this, but are looking for more ideas. First of all, WHY do we want to attract a younger crowd? Well, the average age of...

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...

Don't forget to show up at our office (206 S. Fifth Ave, Suite 200, Ann Arbor) tomorrow! Our series of Lightning Talks start tomorrow, and continue biweekly after that. We'll start around 3 and go til around 5 or whenever people stop talking about cool stuff, whichever comes first (I do have...

It's the first of the month, do you know which user group meetings you're going to yet? Here are some to choose from. I believe that tonight is the Ruby MI user group meeting, but their website doesn't seem to be responding, so I can't check for sure. You may recall that the Java User...

Last night, Google, the Ann Arbor Computer Society and the Michigan Python User Group met at Google Ann Arbor for a Tech Talk. About 60 people showed up for the talk by Russell Whittaker Whitaker (Google Software Engineer) on Test Driven Development, and were also treated to appetizers and beer and wine...

Big exciting changes for us For nearly 8 years, Bill and I (and our consultants) have worked in a "virtual" office. We've worked at client sites and in our home offices, and made extensive use of Skype and IM. We've used space in coffee shops and at the Ann Arbor ITZone to meet one...

Java Posse Roundup: Day 2 Session 1: Java Development Environments I convened a session on Java Development Environments (IDEs, tools, etc.). My question was, “Is it a benefit or a detriment that we have choice in our tools?”. For comparison, when programming on the Microsoft platform, developers...