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After a long while of on-again/off-again meetings, I was pleased to hear the news that the Detroit Java User Group has reformed! This is great news for the east-siders who find Ann Arbor a bit too far to go for an evening meeting about Java. The Detroit group has a new home: ePrize headquarters in Pleasant...

The Ann Arbor Java User Group is meeting tonight, at Washtenaw Community College, BE 270. The topic is Java FX, and speaker is Jim Weaver. The meeting starts around 6:30, with some informal networking. I was really hoping to attend. Looks like a great talk! Unfortunately, I have a conflict tonight. I'm...

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.

I will be doing an introduction to Scala at the Ann Arbor Java User Group meeting on Tuesday, March 26. The AAJUG wordpress site is broken, but hopefully people will know about the talk and attend anyhow. Here's my abstract: Scala is a multi paradigm language, offering both object-oriented and functional...

Last year, at the Java Posse Roundup in Crested Butte, a few of us got together the day before the conference for a pre-event. We talked about Django and TurboGears. It was quite interesting, and people filtered in throughout the evening, as they arrived in town. So I figured we needed something similar...

We have several free events coming up at SRT. On Thursday, January 3, at 7 pm is the monthly Michigan Python User Group meeting. Discussions will likely center around a project called Python Underground and I've heard rumors of a discussion of the Rails is a Ghetto blog post by Zed Shaw. This Friday...

The Ann Arbor Java Users Group will be meeting on Tuesday, November 27, with David Ward of JBoss speaking on "JBoss Seam and the Red Hat Developer Studio". Food and networking at 6:30, meeting will start at 7:15. Zattoo is sponsoring (food and location), so they are asking for RSVPs to jsyang...

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...

Just got the word that I totally missed that there is an AAJUG meeting tonight. Kirsten Henderson from iDashboards is speaking on: “ JSR 223: Scripting for the Java Platform ” Date: Tuesday, November 6th, 2007 Time: 7:00PM - 9:00PM EDT Open Networking starts at 7 PM. We will have giveaways such as T...

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...