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October snuck up on me. Tonight is the monthly Ann Arbor Computer Society (AACS) meeting. I had thought that Bill Heitzeg was going to be talking about Mono, but it turns out that I had some outdated information. John Fohrman is going to be discussing scrum. The meeting, as always, will start at 6:00...

Once again, SRT is hosting lightning talks from 3:30 to 5 on Friday, August 29. Come to listen, or come to talk at this series of 5 minute talks. Everyone is welcome to attend, anyone is welcome to speak. We believe that the entire Ann Arbor community benefits from knowing what others in the area are...

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...

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 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...

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: -------------------------------------------...

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...

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.