Which Topic Would You Prefer for Our March Meeting?

Brian Sletten, our speaker for the March TriJUG meeting, is offering us a
choice of topics, one of which he will present to us at our March TriJUG
meeting.  Please provide your input by Wednesday, January 24.

Please specify your first three choices.  Yes, you may select the same one
two or three times if that helps you to express your preferences.

   -  *Advanced Thick Clients : Charts, Commands and other Goodies*
   <http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/speaker_topic_view.jsp?topicId=503>
   One of the fun parts of working in GUI development is how visible your
   work is. If you are talented, everyone loves what you do and knows your
   name. If you aren't any good at what you do, well, they still probably know
   your name. Good or bad, the right tools and techniques can make all the
   difference.
   -  *Abusing Maven For Fun and Profit : (Near) Zero-Admin Deployments*
   <http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/speaker_topic_view.jsp?topicId=504>
   Ok, I can't promise you profit, but hopefully you'll have fun. Maven 2
   introduces a number of new features (including that performance feature)
   that make it a swell project management tool for development.
   Come hear about how we can abuse Maven to manage distributed
   deployment scenarios before the Modules JSR is done.
   -  *NetKernel : XML Processing for the 21st Century*
   <http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/speaker_topic_view.jsp?topicId=313>
   A wise man once said, "XML is like lye. It is very useful, but humans
   shouldn't touch it." If you've had to incorporate XML into your project by
   hand, you have probably been burned by getting too close. NetKernel turns
   this wisdom on its head and encourages you to use XML like the liquid data
   stream you want it to be. Imagine the simplicity of REST married to the
   power of Unix pipes. Come see how this open source / commercial product
   built on a compelling modern architecture can be used to create, manipulate
   and transform XML.
   -  *Give it a REST*
   <http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/speaker_topic_view.jsp?topicId=500>
   As developers, we sometimes get to make choices about the technologies
   we use, sometimes not. We base these decisions on personal experiences,
   recommendations from others and a general sense of where the industry is
   going.
   Web Services have been all the rage for several years now. We have
   been told time and again that we should be building systems around them; as
   an industry, we've never been more confused. Perhaps it is time to Give it a
   REST.
   -  *Git 'R Done : Scheduling Work With Quartz*
   <http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/speaker_topic_view.jsp?topicId=501>
   Software engineers are usually familiar with the notion of scheduled
   tasks and cron jobs at the OS level. Quartz is a relatively new open source
   Java API for scheduling jobs in your applications or Enterprise.
   -  *Applied AOP*
   <http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/speaker_topic_view.jsp?topicId=26>
   Most people new to Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) are fed up with
   separation of concerns zealots explaining how great their techniques are at
   dealing with... logging. Ok, you get it. Logging is a cross-cutting concern
   that can be appropriately modularized. What else does AOP have to offer? A
   lot, it turns out. This talk will give an introduction to the motivations of
   AOP as well as a series of concrete examples drawn from enterprise and
   client side Java. Come learn how AspectJ-flavored AOP can begin to benefit
   you immediately either in development or production environments. Learn how
   to enforce architectural policies, find Swing threading issues, reduce the
   invasiveness of the Observer design pattern or even improve the reusability
   of your domain models.
   -  *Introducing the Semantic Web*
   <http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/speaker_topic_view.jsp?topicId=223>
   Just as the world is feeling comfortable with the Web, Tim Berners-Lee
   et al inform us that what we have seen so far is just the beginning. His
   original plans at CERN were larger and grander. The Semantic Web is the new
   vision of machine-processable documents and metadata to improve search,
   knowledge discovery and data integration and management. While there are
   many naysayers chiding such grand visions, there are also pragmatic and
   useful technologies emerging that can be applied today.
   -  *Applied Object-Oriented Metrics*
   <http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/speaker_topic_view.jsp?topicId=28>
   Object-oriented code metrics are a little like Artificial
   Intelligence: those who did it twenty years ago roll their eyes at the
   thought and prophesy the same ultimate failure at applicability now. Those
   who grew up with Java are approaching the topic with new eyes and are
   finding useful ways of incorporating metrics into their projects. Come hear
   about tools and ways to measure properties of software, how they might be
   beneficial and where you are likely to go astray with this approach.
   -  *Data Integration : Beyond Cutesy Mashups*
   <http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/speaker_topic_view.jsp?topicId=502>
   It seems like you can't sit through any kind of presentation these
   days without hearing about how cool web mashups are. Google Maps is the Bomb
   and being able to map Starbucks stores is something to build a company out
   of.


Brian Sletten Brian Sletten is a liberal arts-educated software engineer
with a focus on forward-leaning technologies. He has a background as a
system architect, a developer, a mentor and a trainer. His experience has
spanned defense, finance and commercial domains with security consulting,
network matrix switch controls, 3D simulation/visualization, Grid Computing,
P2P and a Semantic Web-based system. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from
the College of William and Mary and currently lives in Fairfax, VA where he
and his wife run Bosatsu Consulting, Inc.

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