Codetown ::: a software developer's community
March 21, 2011 to March 22, 2011 – Cobb Galleria Center Two complete days of great sessions and an opportunity to meet some of the best and brightest professional software talent in Atlanta, Ga. DevNexus is organized by the Atlanta Java Users Group (AJUG… Organized by Gunnar Hillert | Type: developer, conference
March 17, 2011 from 7pm to 8pm – DeVry University, Orlando, FL BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system for distance education. The goal of the project is to offer a high-quality learning experience to remote students. Fred Dixon is one of the dev… Organized by Vernon Singleton | Type: presentation
March 16, 2011 to March 18, 2011 – Caesars Palace TheServerSide.com's Java Symposium returns to Las Vegas! Over 40 key sessions across 6 tracks: Core Java, Architecture, Agile (NEW!), Cloud, Language and Tools & Techniques. Keynotes by Steve Har… Organized by Kait O'Neal | Type: conference
March 5, 2011 from 10am to 2pm – Voxeo Hey, everybody, it's time for another dojo! We're meeting on Saturday at 10am to get settled, but we'll wait as long as quarter-after. Then we'll pick a language and a problem and discuss an implemen… Organized by Dave Rogers | Type: coding, dojo
March 2, 2011 from 6pm to 8:30pm – Community Foundation of Sarasota You've Been Lied To! You've been told for years that using a persistence framework will insulate your application from changes to the database. As with other such claims, this turned out to be false.… Organized by David Moskowitz | Type: meeting
February 24, 2011 from 6pm to 9pm – DeVry Room 120 Join us for a special evening with Rich Long and discover how to code for Android as we continue learning about this fascinating platform. Rich has extensive experience using Java to program apps f… Organized by Michael Levin | Type: meeting
February 9, 2011 from 6pm to 9pm – Civic Media Center This month, Jim Clarke will give a talk on Embedded Java SE - JavaSE running on ARM, PowerPC, ATOM, and provide refreshments! Stay tuned for more details! Organized by Michael Levin | Type: meeting
January 27, 2011 from 6pm to 9pm – DeVry room 120 Join us for an evening exploring the Android platform. Jackie Gleason is our guest speaker. Jackie has developed a lab based android class. He will be in Florida during the best month of all - Januar… Organized by Michael Levin | Type: meeting
January 26, 2011 from 6pm to 9pm – Community Foundation of Sarasota This month at the Sunjug, David Chandler from Google with discuss two technologies for developing and deploying Rich Internet Applications. What’s New in GWT 2.1 Google Web Toolkit (GWT) lets you bu… Organized by David Moskowitz | Type: meeting
January 12, 2011 from 6pm to 9pm – Civic Media Center Stay tuned for details! Organized by Michael Levin | Type: meeting
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Codetown is a social network. It's got blogs, forums, groups, personal pages and more! You might think of Codetown as a funky camper van with lots of compartments for your stuff and a great multimedia system, too! Best of all, Codetown has room for all of your friends.
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