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February 6, 2009 at 9am to February 7, 2009 at 5pm – Ramada Orlando Celebration Resort & Convention Center Acts as Conference 2009 is a two-day Rails conference that will make you a more competitive Rails developer by learning from those driving the innovation that is fueling the Rails community. Held Feb… Organized by Robert Dempsey | Type: Conference
January 31, 2009 at 9pm to February 1, 2009 at 2am – Common Grounds This is only one of the many reasons Grooveshark rocks. Just in: For all of you in Gainesville, we have a show coming up THIS Saturday at Common Grounds for a mere $5! Matt Butcher (formerly the Heat… Organized by Ben @ Grooveshark | Type: party
January 29, 2009 at 6:30pm – Celebration Church Hey everyone. We have a meeting coming up. We will be covering Java FX. We will meet at 6:30p and presentation will start at 7 We are located at: Celebration Church Room 208 2701 Transcontinental Dr… Organized by Alley Davis and Michael Levin | Type: meeting and presentation
January 27, 2009 from 6:30pm to 9pm – GCA Technologies Solution The 2009 January meeting is next week on Tuesday 27, hosted by RedHat. The presentation will be about JBoss and its supported SOA technologies. Speaker Kevin Barfield will discuss the development of… Organized by Vladimir Vivien | Type: meeting, and, presentation
January 21, 2009 at 6pm – Sarasota In this presentation, Joel Fradkin will describe useful several tools for building web applications. First, Joel will present a JPA backed application built using Netbeans. He will create an entity… Organized by David Moskowitz | Type: Meeting
January 21, 2009 at 6pm to January 24, 2009 at 6pm – Orange County Convention Center FETC ( Florida Educational Technology Conference ) takes place January 21-24 in Orlando. Here's the side with info: http://www.fetc.org/ This is a fascinating conference dealing with the use of compu… Organized by | Type: Conference
January 17, 2009 at 8am – The Ramada Gateway Orlando Mongers is organizing a one day Perl conference called, "Perl Oasis", that will focus on practical applications of Perl. Topics will be appropriate for both beginners as well as seasoned hack… Organized by Orlando Perl Mongers | Type: Conference
January 15, 2009 at 6pm – DeVry University Room 116 (Next to Krispy Kreme) JavaEE, SEAM or Spring on Glassfish This session looks at the implementation of the same web application developed with three open source frameworks and highlights what was done differently with eac… Organized by Michael Levin, CambridgeWeb | Type: Presentation
January 14, 2009 from 6pm to 8pm – Santa Fe Community College Room S326 Welcome folks to the first GatorJUG meeting of 2009. We have a special guest speaker: Carol McDonald from Sun. Carol's bio can be found here. We are very lucky to have Carol as our guest. Please RSVP… Organized by Michael Levin | Type: Presentation
January 6, 2009 at 6pm – Stardust Since the first Thursday of the month is January 1st, we thought it best to postpone the meeting until that next Tuesday, January 6th. If you missed December, sorry but no vote for you. ;) If we sta… Organized by Sway Ciaramello | Type: Meeting
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