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NFJS One is the training, consulting, and mentoring arm of No Fluff Just Stuff. NFJS One provides the opportunity to extend the 90 minute NFJS tour experience to a 1-5 day on site engagement with one of our top flight consultants.

We offer both public and private training sessions designed to help you master a specific skill set. Our trainers are project leaders, authors, consultants, and recognized industry experts. In many cases, you will be learning from the guy who wrote the book!

Check out our training schedule. If you don't see the training your team needs, let us know. We can bring onsite training to your company.


NFJS Experience events bring developers together with project leaders, core comitters, consultants, and recognized experts. This is the opportunity to go beyond the fundamentals and learn the latest developments and techniques in an area of focus.


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We all know technology changes fast! Staying up-to-date can be overwhelming. We help developers: improve skills, solve problems, and be productive. NFJS speakers are authors, project leaders, experienced trainers, and subject matter experts. Some of the current topics covered include: Enterprise Java, Agility, Hibernate, Spring, Groovy / Grails, Ajax, JSF, and many other subjects.

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Many of our speakers are the same people you will see speaking at JavaOne and other national events. Come to NFJS and make your training dollars go further. We bring a high-quality technical conference to your city... no travel required.

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Don't go to a conference and simply buy into vendors products or architecture. NFJS events are focused on the real needs of developers! Our speakers provide advice based on their unbiased experience. We'll help you avoid over engineering.


Spring Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, Second Edition Spring Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, Second Edition by Gary Mak, Daniel Rubio, and Josh Long
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JavaFX 1.2 Application Development Cookbook JavaFX 1.2 Application Development Cookbook by Vladimir Vivien
$39.99    $34.15
AdvancED Flex 4 AdvancED Flex 4 by Shashank Tiwari, Elad Elrom, and Charlie Schulze
$54.99    $40.14
Professional F# 1.0 Professional F# 1.0 by Ted Neward, Aaron Erickson, Talbott Crowell, and Rick Minerich
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Magazine

NFJS, the Magazine - August Issue Now Available

  • Google Your Persistent Domain Model
    by John Griffin
  • Get Cooking in the Cloud with Chef, Part 2
    by Michael Nygard
  • Making Java Bearable with Guava
    by Daniel Hinojosa
  • HTML 5 Update
    by Brian Sletten

 

Git 101: Free Screencast

Git 101 - View Free Screencast

Today, developers everywhere are migrating in droves to this exciting platform. Users reference its blistering performance, usage flexibility, offline capabilities, and collaboration features as their motivation for switching. Let’s get started with Git. You’ll be using it like a master in no time at all.

Also check out Matthew's Git Refcard at Dzone.


 

Blogs

Andrew Glover

MongoDB and CouchDB: vastly different queries

Posted By: Andrew Glover on Sep. 1, 2010

Both MongoDB and CouchDB are document-oriented datastores. They both work with JSON documents. They both are usually thrown into the NoSQL



Johanna Rothman

The Value of a Demo

Posted By: Johanna Rothman on Aug. 31, 2010

Some teams don’t do demos at the end of their iterations. Many of the teams who don’t do demos also have trouble finishing all the stories they committed to at the beginning of the iteration. They continue, iteration to iteration, not always



Stuart Halloway

Come to Relevance and Be Excellent

Posted By: Stuart Halloway on Aug. 30, 2010

Earlier, we posted that we were seeking some new PMs for the Relevance team. At that time, I mentioned that we were always looking for great technical folk as well. I think that deserves its own



Dave Klein

GroovyMag Plugin Corner: JavaScript Validation Plugin

Posted By: Dave Klein on Aug. 30, 2010

The following post is a reprint of the Plugin Corner article for the April 2009 issue of GroovyMag. You can find this and other past issues at http://groovymag.c



Stuart Halloway

The Relevant Bits - 08/30/2010 Edition

Posted By: Stuart Halloway on Aug. 29, 2010

New point releases, new projects, and more info about the first clojure-conj. Here are The Relevant Bits from last week's "20%" time: Lots of planning and organization on the (first clojure-conj). This is an event you are not going to want to



Matthew McCullough

Presenting at the Raleigh-Durham No Fluff Just Stuff Symposium

Posted By: Matthew McCullough on Aug. 29, 2010

North Carolina This week, I made a four day journey to the very forested state of North Carolina. Joey knew a Coloradoan was coming and turned on the statewide AC to bring it down to a comfortable 72 degrees Fahrenheit when I landed. The food was great



Vladimir Vivien

The JavaFX Cookbook

Posted By: Vladimir Vivien on Aug. 26, 2010

You know that feeling you have after you run (if you run) a long distance that you have been trying to break for the longest.  Well, I have that same feeling of hard-work-pays-off with the publishing of my first book "JavaFX 1.2 Application Develop



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Gradle Training with Hans Dockter

Hans Dockter

Project automation is essential to the success of software projects. It should be straight-forward, easy and fun to implement. Gradle is a powerful build framework that relieves developers of the rigid restrictions imposed by other tools. Join Gradle project founder Hans Dockter for 2 days of in-depth training.



 

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Video: Matthew McCullough Über Conf 2010 Interview

Matthew McCullough Über Conf 2010 Interview

By Matthew McCullough

Matthew McCullough is an energetic 12 year veteran of enterprise software development, open source education, and co-founder of Ambient Ideas, LLC, a Denver consultancy. Matthew currently is a member of the JCP, reviewer for technology publishers including O'Reilly, author of the DZone Maven RefCard, and President of the Denver Open Source Users Group. His experience includes successful J2EE, SOA, and Web Service implementations for real estate, .. Watch Video » More Video »
 

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Podcasts

  • Podcast - About Über Conf with Jay Zimmerman   About Über Conf with Jay Zimmerman

    Listen in as Über Conf director, Jay Zimmerman talks about what he has in store for this unique event. Über Conf will be held June 14-17 in Denver.
  • Podcast - Jay Zimmerman talks with JavaOne Radio - part 1   Jay Zimmerman talks with JavaOne Radio - part 1

    Jay Zimmerman is the founder and director of No Fluff Just Stuff symposium series. In this interview Jay talks about the reason for creating No Fluff Just Stuff and the community that has developed around this popular series.