From andy at petdance.com Mon Jul 6 11:34:17 2009 From: andy at petdance.com (Andy Lester) Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 13:34:17 -0500 Subject: [Chicago-announce] Google Technology User Group Message-ID: Reposted from Nola Stowe, mrnicksgirl at gmail.com. A new group is starting up in chicago This is Google Technology User Group meeting; developers, students and entrepreneurs are welcome. This is the first such meeting in Chicago -- it is loaded with interesting information, it is big, it is ambitious, don't miss it. Thanks to courtesy of Google Inc. we will meet at their facility at 20 W. Kinzie, Chicago. We will have a lot of short 15 minute presentations to stimulate the ideas and raise questions after which you will be able to talk to the speaker and Google employee about what sparked your interests. The theme of this meeting is: "Google tools to jump-start your next idea into a social networking start-up" We hope you will walk out of this meeting super-charged to create the next big thing, and that this group will become an incubator for a lot of new ventures in Chicago land area. Agenda: 5:15 PM - Uki D. Lucas (Chicago-GTUG.com): - Introduction 5:30 PM - Gregory Kick (Google.com) - GData, Guice, Google collections 5:45 PM - Nathan Ingersoll (Google.com) - project hosting on Google Code 6:00 PM - Jordan Beck (Revere Group) - GWT and Google AppEngine - Photo Carousel example Widget 6:15 PM - David Wolverton (Revere Group) - Facebook for Google Web Toolkit 6:30 PM - Trevor Skaife (Revere Group) - Maven2 dependencies with Google Web Toolkit 6:45 PM - David Wolverton (Revere Group) - Google Friend Connect for Google Web Toolkit 7:00 PM - David Lo (Revere Group) - Building mobile applications with Android 7:15 PM - Phil Wodarczyk (Revere Group) - Building application with iPhone (cool bonus presentation) 7:30 PM - 8:00 PM - Questions and Answers We will start at 5 PM, but we want to allow 15 minutes for people to arrive and mingle a bit. The overhead projector, drinks (maybe beer) and snacks will be provided. We still have openings for guest speakers (Social Networking, Google Technology, success stories, etc.), please contact UkiDLucas at mac.com Follow the news and create a buzz on Twitter by including #Chicago- GTUG in your posts. Register for FREE and invite your friends: http://chicago-gtug-20090710.eventbrite.com/ -- http://rubygeek.com - my blog featuring: Ruby, PHP and Perl http://DevChix.com - boys can't have all the fun -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dave at obtiva.com Wed Jul 8 15:55:54 2009 From: dave at obtiva.com (Dave Hoover) Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 17:55:54 -0500 Subject: [Chicago-announce] Software Craftsmanship North America In-Reply-To: <11c8704e0907081554u17de50c3p9025f31e18cac9ac@mail.gmail.com> References: <11c8704e0907081554u17de50c3p9025f31e18cac9ac@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <11c8704e0907081555u80f3518u6afd6e9d27f8c15c@mail.gmail.com> Chicago Perl Mongers, 8th Light and Obtiva have been organizing Software Craftsmanship North America conference. It will be at the Swissotel in Chicago on the 26th of August 2009. We have speakers such as Robert Martin, Pete McBreen, Richard Sennett, Christopher Avery, Ken Auer, Dave Astels, Michael Feathers, and more. There is only one week left to get early bird conference registration of $99. If you are interested, go to http://scna.softwarecraftsmanship.com for more information or to register. Best, Dave Hoover //obtiva: Agility applied. Software delivered. From andy at petdance.com Tue Jul 28 05:19:54 2009 From: andy at petdance.com (Andy Lester) Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 07:19:54 -0500 Subject: [Chicago-announce] Concurrency and Reliability in Erlang Message-ID: <2B9E3FBA-3FB6-4396-9D8D-42C032BBA82D@petdance.com> Dennis Byrne will be presenting on Erlang at the Polyglot Programmers of Chicago on September 24. I got to hear Dennis talk about Erlang at speakerconf. He does a great job, and understands the language thoroughly. RSVP and details at http://polyglotprogrammers.com/usa/illinois/chicago/ Best, Dave Hoover //obtiva: Agility applied. Software delivered. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Polyglot Programmers" group. To post to this group, send email to polyglot-programmers at googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to polyglot-programmers+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/polyglot-programmers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---