Re: Which Topic Would You Prefer for Our March Meeting?

(1) Maven
(2) REST
(3) Applied AOP

Thanks,

On 1/18/07, Harold Meder <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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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