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Past Events (418)
August 31Wednesday
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JCertif 2011 the biggest Java Community Event in Central Africa ! Save the dates : 31 Aug-4 Sept 2011
August 31, 2011 to September 4, 2011 – Brazzaville, Congo Hi All,As some of you already know. The next edition of JCertif is coming.This year again the JCertif Conference will bring together developers from across Africa to learn, collaborate, and inspire e… Organized by Max Bonbhel | Type: java, community, conference
July 25Monday
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Oscon
July 25, 2011 to July 29, 2011 – Oregon Convention Center Join open source innovators and builders for Oscon 2011 on July 25-29 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland. You get first-hand accounts of how open source is changing development standards tod… Organized by | Type: convention
June 29Wednesday
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Up and Running with Android
June 29, 2011 from 6pm to 8:30pm – Community Foundation of Sarasota Steve Goldsmith will discuss installing and configuring the Android SDK as well as using either Eclipse or NetBeans to develop Android applications. This presentation is meant to go over the basics… Organized by David Moskowitz | Type: meeting
June 23Thursday
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OrlandoJUG- Working with Recruiters and Best Practices
June 23, 2011 from 6pm to 9pm – DeVry Room 106 This month, Tracy Dickerhoff will be speaking about recruiters and resume best practices. Each topic will help you to better understand what needs to be done to become the prime candidate for a job.… Organized by Beth Nieman | Type: informative, presentation
June 20Monday
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JAX Conf 2011
June 20, 2011 at 8:30am to June 23, 2011 at 1:30pm – San Jose Java, Enterprise, Web & Agile The JAX conference will take place June 20-23, 2011, in the US for the first time – at San Jose. JAX will host an impressive cast of big-hitters and exciting chang… Organized by Jennifer Blease | Type: conference
May 26Thursday
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OrlandoJUG - The Quartz Scheduler
May 26, 2011 from 6pm to 9pm – DeVry Room 120 This month, Zemian Deng will give a talk about the Quartz Scheduler Orlando JUG Quartz Presentation (1.5 hours)- Introduction (5 mins) * Quartz's features * Quartz 1.8 vs Quartz 2.0- Scheduling J… Organized by Michael Levin | Type: meeting
May 3Tuesday
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Sunjug Cigar Night
May 3, 2011 from 6:30pm to 10pm – Maduro Cigar and World of Beer It's time again for the next Sunjug Cigar Night. On Tuesday May 3, we will visit two of our favorite places. From 6:30-8PM we will light up at the new university parkway location of Maduro Cigar and… Organized by David Moskowitz | Type: cigar, night
April 27Wednesday
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Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise
April 27, 2011 to April 28, 2011 – Philadelphia, PA This 2-day, 5-track event features close to 50 speakers and topics ranging from HTML5 to MongoDB to Ruby on Rails 3.1 to Spring Integration to mobile development (iphone and Android) to agile project… Organized by Andrea O. K. Wright | Type: conference
April 1Friday
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2011 Greater Florida Software Symposium
April 1, 2011 to April 3, 2011 – Four Points Studio City Hotel Note - this event may be cancelled. Please stay tuned for updates. Happy New Year!Registration is now open for the 2011 Greater Florida Software Symposium returning April 1-3 to Orlando!Here is y… Organized by Jay Zimmerman | Type: java, software, conference
March 24Thursday
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OrlandoJUG - Embedded Java SE - JavaSE running on ARM, PowerPC, ATOM
March 24, 2011 from 6pm to 9pm – DeVry University This month, Jim Clarke will give a talk on Embedded Java SE - JavaSE running on ARM, PowerPC, ATOM, and Oracle will provide refreshments! Jim gave this presentation for the GatorJUG last month. The… Organized by Michael Levin | Type: meeting
Happy 10th year, JCertif!
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