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All Events in Community Foundation of Sarasota (13)
March 24Wednesday
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Sarasota JUG: Developing Web Applications with Grails
March 24, 2010 from 6pm to 8pm – Community Foundation of Sarasota This month, the Sarasota Java Users group explores Grails. Grails is a web application development platform that uses the Groovy language. Grails runs on top of technologies you know and love such as… Organized by David Moskowitz | Type: meeting
September 28Tuesday
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Sarasota Jug: Unit Testing with Mock Objects
September 28, 2010 from 6pm to 8:30pm – Community Foundation of Sarasota This month at the Sunjug, we will learn how to incorporate mock object frameworks into our unit testing. Mock objects enables us to test components in isolation, without relying on classes outside of… Organized by David Moskowitz | Type: meeting
October 27Wednesday
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Google Maps in Depth: Geocoding and Rendering
October 27, 2010 from 6pm to 8:30pm – Community Foundation of Sarasota Our June 2010 presentation used Google maps as a sample platform to discuss jQuery and Ajax. Our presentation at the Sunjug this month will examine the Google Maps API in further detail. Steve Golds… Organized by David Moskowitz | Type: meeting
January 26Wednesday
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Google Web Toolkit and App Engine
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
March 2Wednesday
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Java Persistence Meets the Cloud
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
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
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
July 25Wednesday
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SunJUG - Sarasota :: Continuous Deployment
July 25, 2012 from 6pm to 9pm – Community Foundation of Sarasota Hello, Codetown! This last minute announcement comes to you because I just got a reminder about tonight's meeting. Looks like a superior meeting, not only because of the presentation, but also becaus… Organized by Steve Goldsmith | Type: meeting
February 26Wednesday
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SunJUG - Computer Vision using Java
February 26, 2014 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm – Community Foundation of Sarasota Please join us for our February meeting, presented by Steve Goldsmith. Abstract: Computer vision is a field that includes methods for acquiring, processing, analyzing, and understanding images and, i… Organized by Chris Schaefer | Type: meeting
April 30Wednesday
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SunJUG - Boot and More!
April 30, 2014 from 6:30pm to 10pm – Community Foundation of Sarasota April's topic will be "Spring Boot and More!" presented by Ken Krueger, Global Education Delivery Manager for Pivotal Software. Meeting Overview: The recent release of Spring Boot 1.0 promises to dr… Organized by Chris Schaefer | Type: jug, meeting
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