Tampa Java User Group

Last Tuesday (the 23rd of Feb) the Tampa Java User Group had a large turn out for the presentation on Hadoop.  Speaker Matthew McCullough did an outstanding job of effectively capturing the essence of a complicated subject in less than two hours.  The power of the technology was demonstrated when Matthew demonstrated Hadoop working on his laptop on problems that can easily scale to thousands of nodes.  We close the night with a drawing to the up coming Central Florida Software Symposium in April.  Congratulation to our winner.

-= Presentation Materials=-
Presentation Slides - http://www.slideshare.net/matthewmccullough/hadoop-v031

-= Tools/Technologies Mentioned =-
Apache Hadoop - http://hadoop.apache.org/
Great Hadoop Tutorials - http://developer.yahoo.com/hadoop/tutorial/
Companies/Project Using Hadoop - http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/PoweredBy
Amazon Aws MapReduce - http://aws.amazon.com/elasticmapreduce/

-= Special Thanks =-
Matthew McCullough, Ambient Ideas, LLC (http://ambientideas.com/)
Jay Zimmerman, NFJS Software Symposium (http://nofluffjuststuff.com/)
Mark Nickols, TekSystems (http://teksystems.com)
The folks at GCA Technologies (http://gca.net)
RJ Salicco, Axiomatic IT (http://axiomaticit.com/)

-= Upcoming Events=-

• Our presentation for March 200 is being prepared now.  Once we get confirmation from the speaker, we Feffwill send out an event note.  Stay tuned for the announcement.
• Central Florida Software Symposium - we are privileged to host the Central Florida Software Symposium this year.  It will be held on April 16 -18.  Don’t miss this opportunity to get recharged on the latest technologies and practices sweeping the industry.  The best part is it is local and you don’t have to travel far.  If you are interested, see http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/tampa/2010/04/home for details.

Hello Java Developers,
Ever wonder how companies such as Yahoo, Google, Facebook, Amazon, financial organizations, and others are able to process large amount of data?  For our Feb 2010 meeting, Speaker Matthew McCullough, from the NFJS Java Software Symposium conference series, will do a presentation on distributed computing.  He will explore Apahce Hadoop, a production-ready Java framework that uses the MapReduce strategy to process large amount of data using grids of commodity machines.  The meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, Feb 23 and promised to be packed with interesting information to get you started with distributed computing.

-= Presentation =-
Hadoop: Divide and Conquer Gigantic Datasets (Intro)
Moore’s law has finally hit the wall and CPU speeds have actually decreased in the last few years. The industry is reacting with hardware with an ever-growing number of cores and software that can leverage “grids” of distributed, often commodity, computing resources. But how is a traditional Java developer supposed to easily take advantage of this revolution? The answer is the Apache Hadoop family of projects. Hadoop is a suite of Open Source APIs at the forefront of this grid computing revolution and is considered the absolute gold standard for the divide-and-conquer model of distributed problem crunching. The well-travelled Apache Hadoop framework is curently being leveraged in production by prominent names such as Yahoo, IBM, Amazon, Adobe, AOL, Facebook and Hulu just to name a few.

In this session, you’ll start by learning the vocabulary unique to the distributed computing space. Next, we’ll discover how to shape a problem and processing to fit the Hadoop MapReduce framework. We’ll then examine the incredible auto-replicating, redundant and self-healing HDFS filesystem. Finally, we’ll fire up several Hadoop nodes and watch our calculation process get devoured live by our Hadoop cluster. At this talk’s conclusion, you’ll understand the suite of Hadoop tools and where each one fits in the aim of conquering large data sets.

-= Speaker Bio =-
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, financial management, and telecommunications firms, and several published open source libraries.

Matthew jumps at opportunities to evangelize and educate teams on the benefits of open source. His current interests are Cloud Computing, Maven, iPhone, Distributed Version Control, and OSS Tools.

For more about Matthew, visit http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/speaker/matthew_mccullough.

-= Meeting Info =-
Speaker: Matthew McCullough
Organization: NFJS Speaker
Date: Tuesday, 02/23/2010
Networking: 6:30 pm
Presentation: 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

If you plan to attend, arrive early as main door locks at 7.00 pm.  An RSVP email will be sent later from tampa.jug at gmail.com [check spam filter]. Be  sure to respond so we can plan accordingly.  There will befood and plenty of prizes and giveaways.

-= Location =-
GCA Technologies Solution
4919 Memorial Hwy. Suite 150
Tampa, FL 33634
Google Map
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=4919+Memorial+Hwy,+Tampa,+FL+33634

-= Follow Tampa JUG =-
Website - http://tampajug.org/
LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2077654
Twitter - http://twitter.com/tampajug
RSS - http://www.tampajug.org/wordpress/?feed=rss2
Event Calendar - http://www.tampajug.org/wordpress/?page_id=87

For our first meeting for 2009, we will start the year with a practical look into JavaFX, Sun/Oracle’s rich client platform.  While the platform is still in its infancy, it is robust and stable enough for production-ready applications.  In this presentation, we will explore how to quickly get started and provide a practical overview of the key features of the platform for building rich client applications.  The meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, January 2010.

-= Presentation =-
The JavaFX platform is Sun’s answer to Adobe Flex/Air and Microsoft Silverlight rich client platforms.  JavaFX is comprised of a set of build/deploy tools, the JavaFX Script language, and a unified multi-device runtime.  With JavaFX, you write your code once and the build tools figures out how to target either mobile/entertainment devices, desktop, or a web browsers.  The JavaFX Script language is a domain-specific language designed to create interactive graphical applications running on the Java VM.  While the platform is in its infancy, the current version provides a robust and and production-ready environment on which you can build highly interactive rich desktop clients with compelling user experiences. This presentation is a compressed view of the major features of the JavaFX platform that you will find useful to get started.

Topics:
- About JavaFX
- Quick Language Tour
- Shapes/Path/Effects/

Once again, it’s that time to close out another JUG year!  For the past 11 months we’ve  seen everything from Spring, OSGi, JavaFX, Grid Computing, Cloud Computing, to Flex.  For this last meeting is just about “Wings and Beer.  It would be great if you can join us at Wing House on Hillsborough Ave for the last Tampa JUG meeting on Tuesday Dec 15.

If you can make it, just show up, otherwise, we will see you in January next year!

-= Meeting Info =-
Date: 12/15/09
Networking: 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Presentation: Wings and Beer Holiday Party
Location: 8001 W Hillsborough Ave, Tampa, FL 33615
Google Map:http://maps.google.com/maps?q=8001+W+Hillsborough+Ave+Tampa,+FL+33615

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LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2077654
Twitter - http://twitter.com/tampajug
RSS - http://www.tampajug.org/wordpress/?feed=rss2
Event Calendar - http://www.tampajug.org/wordpress/?page_id=87

As you know, cloud computing is a hot topic in development communities.  For the last meeting next week on the Tuesday 17th, we are going to look at two technologies from IBM cloud computing stack.  The first one is sMash, a product designed for agile development of Web 2.0-based application which can be deployed on Amazon’s cloud infrastructure. The other topic will focus on application virtualization which allows you dynamically place and migrate application workload against pool of available hardware to meet service level agreements (SLA’s).

-= Presentation =-
WebSphere sMash
WebSphere sMash enables developers to quickly build and execute agile, Web 2.0-based applications that help businesses be more responsive, flexible and cost-effective. As a fast and simple application foundation, WebSphere sMash advances Smart SOA and accelerates business and IT alignment. It supports some of today’s hottest dynamic scripting languages ( PHP and Groovy) and provides an agile web application development environment that has a small footprint, is easy to modify and is fast to re-start. You can also use WebSphere sMash in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud environment. Develop your applications on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), an Amazon Web service, using the WebSphere sMash AMI. WebSphere sMash enables developers to quickly build and execute agile, Web 2.0-based applications that help businesses be more responsive, flexible and cost-effective.

Application Virtualization
Application infrastructure virtualization provides the ability to separate applications from the physical infrastructure that they run on. Workloads can then be placed dynamically and migrated across a pool of application server resources, allowing the infrastructure to adapt and respond to business needs, and requests to be prioritized and intelligently routed to respond to the most critical applications and users. It frees the enterprise from a tight coupling between an application and associated application servers and can be used with virtualization technologies like VMWare and PowerVM. This loose coupling enables open standards based software to intelligently manage and shift workloads according to agreed upon business policy to meet service level agreements (SLAs).

-= Meeting Info =-
Speaker: IBM
Organization: IBM
Date: Tuesday, 11/17/09
Networking: 6:30 pm
Presentation: 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

If you plan to attend, arrive early as main door locks at 7.00 pm.  An RSVP email will be sent later from tampa.jug at gmail.com [check spam filter]. Be sure to respond so we can plan accordingly.  There will be food and plenty of prizes and giveaways.

-= Location =-
GCA Technologies Solution
4919 Memorial Hwy. Suite 150
Tampa, FL 33634
Google Map
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=4919+Memorial+Hwy,+Tampa,+FL+33634

-= Follow Tampa JUG =-
Website - http://tampajug.org/
LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2077654
Twitter - http://twitter.com/tampajug
RSS - http://www.tampajug.org/wordpress/?feed=rss2
Event Calendar - http://www.tampajug.org/wordpress/?page_id=87

For our October 2009 meeting, we will have an introductory look into  Spring Source’s Roo.  What is Roo you may ask?  Roo is a sophisticated
(really is) roundtrip, productivity boosting,  code generator to create Java/Spring applications.  Think of Roo as Rails / Grails for
pure Enterprise Java development with lots of cool features not found in those frameworks.

Our own RJ Salicco just came back from SpringOne in New Orleans and will be presenting and discussing Roo and other cool Spring Source Tools that you may want to check out.  Roo is all about command prompts, so bring your own laptop and follow along as we create a new application right before your eyes.  Come join us as there will be food and give away prizes.

-= Presentation =-
The followings will be discusses
- Spring Roo
- Other Spring Source Open Source Tools

There will be a live demo showing how to go from nothing to full-blown
Java applications in minutes (not hours).

Can’t wait for the presentation? Check out Roo
- http://blog.springsource.com/2009/05/01/roo-part-1/ (blog on Roo)

-= Meeting Info =-
Speaker: RJ Salicco & Vladimir Vivien
Organization: Tampa Java User Group
Date: Tuesday, 10/27/09
Networking: 6:30 pm
Presentation: 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

If you plan to attend, arrive early as main door locks at 7.00 pm.  An RSVP email will be sent later from tampa.jug at gmail.com [check spam filter]. Be sure to respond so we can plan accordingly.  There will be food and plenty of prizes and giveaways.

-= Location =-
GCA Technologies Solution
4919 Memorial Hwy. Suite 150
Tampa, FL 33634
Google Map
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=4919+Memorial+Hwy,+Tampa,+FL+33634

-= Follow Tampa JUG =-
LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2077654
Twitter - http://twitter.com/tampajug
RSS - http://www.tampajug.org/wordpress/?feed=rss2
Event Calendar - http://www.tampajug.org/wordpress/?page_id=87

Our July presentation will be on web development using the Spring 3 stack by Keith Donald of Spring Source (the company that created the Spring Framework).

Spring provides a full open-source stack for building, running, and managing web applications on the Java platform. This session provides an overview of this stack and shows how the pieces fit together.  Attendees learn how Spring simplifies the development and deployment of enterprise web applications.

-= Presentation =-
Developing web applications with the Spring 3 Web Stack

Spring Web MVC is a popular web framework, and the foundation of the Spring 3 Web Stack. Version 3.0 of Spring MVC introduces major new features, including support for annotated @Controllers, comprehensive REST support, convention-over-configuration, an enhanced data binding and UI messaging facility, and declarative validation support.  This presentation shows you how to apply these core features to gain development productivity and implementation consistency.

Building on Spring MVC are a number of interesting modules. Spring Web Flow adds significant power for implementing multi-step flows within a Spring MVC-based app. Spring Javascript integrates leading UI toolkits such as Dojo for adding Ajax behaviors to your web application.  Spring BlazeDS integration allows you to build Spring-powered RIAs with Flex.  This presentation provides you an overview of these technologies, and shows you how to put these technologies into practice.

Attend this presentation to see what Spring offers Java web application developers!

-= Meeting Info =-
Speaker: Keith Donald
Organization: Spring Source
Date: Tuesday, 07/28/09
Networking: 6:30 pm
Presentation: 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

If you plan to attend, arrive early as main door locks at 7.00 pm.  An RSVP email will be sent later from tampa.jug at gmail.com [check spam filter]. Be sure to respond so we can plan accordingly.  There will be food and plenty of prizes and giveaways.

-= Location =-
GCA Technologies Solution
4919 Memorial Hwy. Suite 150
Tampa, FL 33634
Google Map

-= Follow Tampa JUG =-
LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2077654
Twitter - http://twitter.com/tampajug
RSS - http://www.tampajug.org/wordpress/?feed=rss2
Event Calendar - http://www.tampajug.org/wordpress/?page_id=87