NFJS Meetup

Are you going to be at JavaOne? Be sure to attend the NFJS Meetup. This event will be held Monday May, 5 from 8:30 - 10:00 pm. We will host an expert panel discussion to give people a taste of what an NFJS show is all about.

Our expert panel will include: Venkat Subramaniam, Ted Neward, Jeff Brown, Scott Davis, Neal Ford, Brian Goetz, and David Geary

All attendees will receive a complimentary copy of the NFJS Anthology, Volume 2. In addition, we will raffle off some great books authored by NFJS speakers: Groovy Recipes by Scott Davis and Programming Groovy by Venkat Subramaniam. Scott and Venkat will be on hand for a signing of their books.

Event Details

  • Location: W Hotel in the Great Room (across the street from the Moscone Center)
  • Appetizers & Drinks: 8:30 - 9:00pm
  • Expert Panel Discussion: 9:00 - 10:00 pm

A few of the topics to be covered during the expert panel are:

  • What can Sun do to make the JVM more attractive for other (non-Java) languages, dynamic or otherwise?
  • Why all the histrionics around closures? Would method handles solve the problem?
  • What is the most effective role Sun can play from this point forward with Java the language and the VM?
  • Is SOA the future or just part of the hype machine?

You must sign up to attend! This event is free, but attendance is limited to 250 people. Sign up ASAP!


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NFJS Anthology

These essays are a summary of the latest thinking in the industry, and range from the philosophical to the tutorial, covering the topics that the writers felt were the most important for readers today. If you feel like the neatest technology and latest ideas are passing you by, this book can help bring you back you to speed.


Fundraiser for the Family of Steve Metsker

Fundraiser for the Family of Steve Metsker

We will be holding a fundraiser for the family of Steve Metsker. Steve passed away on February 8, 2008 after a short ilness with cancer. Steve is a former NFJS Speaker, author of several Java books, and active member of the Java community. We are asking for donations to the college funds for Steve's children.




NFJS Meetup Panelists

Venkat Subramaniam - Founder of Agile Developer, Inc.

Dr. Venkat Subramaniam, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with agile practices on their software projects, and speaks frequently at international conferences and user groups. He is author of ".NET Gotchas" (O'Reilly), coauthor of 2007 Jolt Productivity Award winning "Practices of an Agile Developer" (Pragmatic Bookshelf), and author of "Programming Groovy: Dynamic Productivity for the Java Developer" (Pragmatic Bookshelf).

Ted Neward - Enterprise, Virtual Machine and Language Wonk

Ted Neward is an independent consultant specializing in high-scale enterprise systems, working with clients ranging in size from Fortune 500 corporations to small 20-person shops. He speaks on the conference circuit, including the No Fluff Just Stuff Symposium tour, discussing Java, .NET and XML service technologies, focusing on Java-.NET interoperability. He has written several widely-recognized books in both the Java and .NET space, including the recently-released "Effective Enterprise Java". He lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife, two sons, four video-game consoles, thousands of books (on programming and otherwise), and eight PCs.


Jeff Brown - G2One Director Of North American Operations - Groovy and Grails Developer

Jeff Brown is the Director Of North American Operations for G2One and a member of the core Groovy and Grails development teams. For over 10 years Jeff has been involved in designing and building object oriented systems.

Jeff teaches a number of Java and object oriented training courses in addition to doing consulting and mentoring work for industries including Aerospace, Financial and Medical. Areas of expertise include Java, agile web development with Groovy and Grails, distributed computing, object database systems, object oriented analysis and design and agile development.

Scott Davis - Author of "Groovy Recipes" & TDD Expert

Scott Davis is an internationally recognized author and speaker. He is passionate about open source solutions and agile development. He has worked on a variety of Java platforms, from J2EE to J2SE to J2ME (sometimes all on the same project).

Scott's books include Groovy Recipes: Greasing the Wheels of Java, GIS for Web Developers: Adding Where to Your Web Applications, The Google Maps API, and JBoss At Work.

Scott is the Editor in Chief of aboutGroovy.com, a news and information website that tracks the latest developments in Groovy and Grails. He also writes a regular column for IBM DeveloperWorks -- Mastering Grails.

Scott is a frequent presenter at national conferences (such as No Fluff, Just Stuff) and local user groups. He was the president of the Denver Java Users Group in 2003 when it was voted one of the top-ten JUGs in North America. After a quick move north, he is currently active in the leadership of the Boulder Java Users Group. Keep up with him at http://www.davisworld.org.

Neal Ford - Application Architect at ThoughtWorks, Inc.

Neal Ford is an Application Architect for ThoughtWorks. He is an architect, designer, and developer of applications, instructional materials, magazine articles, and video/DVD presentations. Neal is also the author of Developing with Delphi: Object-Oriented Techniques (Prentice Hall PTR, 1996), JBuilder 3 Unleashed (SAMS Publishing, 1999), and Art of Java Web Development (Manning, 2003). His language proficiencies include Java, C#/.NET, Ruby, Object Pascal, C++, and C. Neal’s primary consulting focus is the design and construction of large-scale enterprise applications. He is also an internationally acclaimed speaker, having spoken at over 30 developers’ conferences worldwide.

Brian Goetz - Author of Java Concurrency in Practice

Brian Goetz has been a professional software developer for 20 years. He is the author of over 75 articles on software development, and his book, Java Concurrency In Practice, was published in May 2006 by Addison-Wesley. He serves on the JCP Expert Groups for JSRs 166 (concurrency utilities), 107 (caching), and 305 (annotations for safety analysis). He is a frequent presenter at JavaOne, OOPSLA, JavaPolis, SDWest, and the No Fluff Just Stuff Software Symposium Tour. Brian is a Sr. Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems.

David Geary - Author of Graphic Java Swing and Co-author of Core JSF

A prominent author, speaker, and consultant, David holds a unique qualification as a Java expert: He wrote the best-selling books on both Java component frameworks: Swing and JavaServer Faces (JSF). David's Graphic Java Swing was one of the best-selling Java books of all-time and Core JSF, which David wrote with Cay Horstman, is the best-selling book on JavaServer Faces.

David was one of a handful of experts on the JSF Expert Group (EG) that actively defined the standard Java-based web application framework, and he's currently helping to define the next version of JSF on the JSF 2.0 EG.

Besides serving on the JSF and JSTL Expert Groups, David has contributed to open-source projects and co-authored Sun's Web Developer Certification Exam. He invented the Struts Template library which was the precursor to Tiles, a popular framework for composing web pages from JSP fragments, was the 2nd Struts committer and contributed to Shale.

A regular on the NFJS tour, David also speaks at other conferences such as JavaOne and JavaPolis. David was twice voted a JavaOne rock star, for presentations in 2005 and 2007.

At NFJS, David loves to interact with attendees and is known for his sense of humor, dazzling demos and electrifying live-coding sessions.