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: Jeff Brown, Scott Davis, Neal Ford, David Geary, Brian Goetz, Ted Neward, and Venkat Subramaniam
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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Receive a Free Copy of 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
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
Jeff Brown - Core Member of the Grails Development Team
Scott Davis - Author of "Groovy Recipes" & TDD Expert
Scott published one of the first public websites implemented in Grails in 2006 and has been actively working with the technology ever since. Author of the book Groovy Recipes: Greasing the Wheels of Java and two ongoing IBM developerWorks article series (Mastering Grails and in 2009, Practically Groovy), Scott writes extensively about how Groovy and Grails are the future of Java development.
Scott teaches public and private classes on Groovy and Grails for start-ups and Fortune 100 companies. He is a regular presenter on the international technical conference circuit (including No Fluff Just Stuff). In 2008, Scott was voted the top Rock Star at JavaOne for his talk "Groovy, the Red Pill: How to blow the mind of a buttoned-down Java developer".
Neal Ford - Application Architect at ThoughtWorks, Inc.
Before joining ThoughtWorks, Neal was the Chief Technology Officer at The DSW Group, Ltd., a nationally recognized training and development firm. Neal has a degree in Computer Science from Georgia State University specializing in languages and compilers and a minor in mathematics specializing in statistical analysis.
He is also the designer and developer of applications, instructional materials, magazine articles, video presentations, and author of 6 books, including the most recent The Productive Programmer. His language proficiencies include Java, C#/.NET, Ruby, Groovy, functional languages, Scheme, Object Pascal, C++, and C. His primary consulting focus is the design and construction of large-scale enterprise applications. Neal has taught on-site classes nationally and internationally to all phases of the military and to many Fortune 500 companies. He is also an internationally acclaimed speaker, having spoken at over 100 developer conferences worldwide, delivering more than 600 talks. If you have an insatiable curiosity about Neal, visit his web site at http://www.nealford.com. He welcomes feedback and can be reached at nford@thoughtworks.com.
David Geary - Author of Graphic Java 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 1.0 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 TheServerSide Symposium, JavaOne and JavaPolis. David has taught at Java University and was twice voted a JavaOne rock star, for presentations in 2005 and 2007.