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Past Events (418)
February 23Thursday
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Running Java, Play! and Scala Apps on the Cloud
February 23, 2012 from 6pm to 8:30pm – Orlando James Ward from Heroku will be presenting at the Orlando Java User Group. Session Description: Heroku is a Polyglot Cloud Application Platform that makes it easy to deploy Java, Play! and Scala… Organized by James Ward | Type: orlando, java, user, group
February 22Wednesday
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Running Java, Play! and Scala Apps on the Cloud
February 22, 2012 from 6pm to 8:30pm – Santa Fe College Building S - Room 326 http://www.sfcollege.edu/ James Ward from Heroku will be presenting at the Gainesville Java User Group. Santa Fe College Building S - Room S326 http://www.sfcollege.edu/ Session Description: Heroku is a Polyglot Cloud Appl… Organized by James Ward and Mike Levin | Type: meeting
February 21Tuesday
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ICSPO Course - Orlando - 2/21-22
February 21, 2012 to February 22, 2012 – Courtyard Orlando Downtown Intermediate Certified Scrum Product Owner Course is being offered in Orlando on Feb. 21-22. This course will cover: the basic principles of Scrum, how to plan, initiate and lead a Scrum project, rel… Organized by Lean Agile Training | Type: scrum, certification, pmp, hours
January 26Thursday
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Introduction To Platform as a Service
January 26, 2012 from 6pm to 9pm – Devry Univ Introduction To Platform as a Service Java based Platform as a Service (PaaS) can transform your development, governance, and service level management activities. PaaS can serve as a solid foundat… Organized by Michael Levin | Type: meeting
December 15Thursday
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Carbon and Stratos: understanding cloud-enabled modular middleware
December 15, 2011 from 9am to 4pm – Orlando, Florida WSO2 Carbon and Stratos provides a complete middleware platform for Enterprise computing: from on-premise to a full cloud-enabled runtime. In this session we will spend the morning looking at the Car… Organized by Chris Haddad | Type: workshop
November 16Wednesday
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Codeslinger Contest
November 16, 2011 all day – Stuzin Hall, UF - Room 102 Announcing the 6th Annual Codeslinger Shootout! On 11/16/11 you are invited to test your fast thinking and programming skills at the GatorLUG programming tournament. You could win the coveted title… Organized by Clinton Collins | Type: contest
October 27Thursday
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OrlandoJUG October Meeting
October 27, 2011 from 6pm to 9pm – DeVry Join us for an Open Spaces meeting this month, hosted by your JUG Leader, Mike. Open Spaces is a style of meeting in which everyone gets the chance to contribute. Mike has had many meaningful and enj… Organized by Michael Levin | Type: meeting
October 26Wednesday
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*CANCELED* Deploying Cloud Apps with Heroku *CANCELED*
October 26, 2011 from 6pm to 8:30pm – Community Foundation of Sarasota SORRY- THIS EVENT IS CANCELED Heroku will present their Polyglot Cloud Application Platform that makes it easy to deploy Java & Play! apps to the cloud. Deployment is as simple as doing a "git pu… Organized by David Moskowitz | Type: meeting
September 24Saturday
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Barcamp Tampa
September 24, 2011 all day – Tampa The topics and the presenters are diverse, but will appeal to anyone who has an interest in technology and the internet. This is an event for web designers, developers, marketers, copy writers, SEOs,… Organized by Barcamp Tampa | Type: barcamp
September 22Thursday
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OJUG JavaFX 2.0
September 22, 2011 from 6pm to 9pm – DeVry Room 106 This month Jim Clarke, co-author of JavaFX - Developing Rich Internet Applications, will bring us up to date on the latest JavaFX 2.0 features. JavaFX provides a powerful Java-based UI platform capab… Organized by | Type: presentation
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By Beth AndersonPodcast: Effective Mentorship and Remote Team Culture with Gilad Shoham
In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Gilad Shoham about building effective mentorship relationships, leading fully distributed teams and the evolving role of developers in an AI-augmented future.
By Gilad ShohamBeyond Win Rates: How Spotify Quantifies Learning in Product Experiments
Spotify has introduced the Experiments with Learning (EwL) metric on top of its Confidence experimentation platform to measure how many tests deliver decision-ready insights, not just how many “win.” EwL captures both the quantity and quality of learning across product teams, helping them make faster, smarter product decisions at scale. The outcome must support one action: ship, abort, or iterate.
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