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All Meeting Events (15)
September 30Tuesday
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TampaJUG
September 30, 2008 from 6:30pm to 9pm – 4919 Memorial Hwy TampaJUG will explore MDA Organized by Vlad Vivien | Type: Meeting
October 30Thursday
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OrlandoJUG October Meeting - Turbogears with Fred Sells
October 30, 2008 at 6pm – Devry University Room TBA Turbogears is a web framework written in Python. Fred Sells has recent experience with Turbogears and Flex. Ever wonder how to wire it all together in a multi-language environment? Join us this month… Organized by Michael Levin | Type: Meeting
November 13Thursday
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GatorJUG Meeting - Mule and Service Oriented Architecture
November 13, 2008 at 6pm – Santa Fe Community College Room S-317 Josh Davis will give a presentation on Mule, an open source service oriented architecture that lets you hook apps together. Josh's bio will be up son! Stay tuned! Organized by Michael Levin | Type: Meeting
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Atlanta Python Group - ::: Three Great Speakers tonight!
November 13, 2008 at 7:30pm – GTRI Food Processing Technology Building Great news, everyone! I hope you can make tonight's Python Atlanta Meetup. Thanks to the PyWorks conference being in town this week, I was able to get three well-known, out-of-town speakers to agree… Organized by Brandon Craig Rhodes | Type: Meeting
November 20Thursday
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OrlandoJUG November (UPDATE!) ::: All about Mule
November 20, 2008 at 6pm – Devry University, Room 106 My name is Zemian Deng, and I do software design and development using Java. One recent project I'm involved with is to evaluate Mule (http://mulesource.org) as an integration platform. I would like… Organized by Michael Levin | Type: Meeting
December 17Wednesday
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GatorLUG Meeting
December 17, 2008 at 6pm – Virtually Cuban GatorLUG Meeting Agenda for December 17, 2008 6:00 - 6:20 Announcements / General Discussion 6:20 - 6:40 10 min. Lightning talk segments on any Linux-related topic 6:40 - 7:45: Presentation - The… Organized by Clint Collins | Type: Meeting
December 20Saturday
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Florida Drupal Group December Meetup
December 20, 2008 at 1pm – MindComet Our next meetup is planned for Saturday, December 20, 2008, 1-3 PM at MindComet's offices. Note that this will only be a 2-hour (1-topic) meeting. Directions to MindComet's Headquarters in Altamonte… Organized by Joe, Mike and Andrew | Type: Meeting
January 5Monday
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MySQL Meetup
January 5, 2009 at 6pm – TBA Learn about new features in the NEW 5.1 release of MySQL, talk about any challenges you are facing with MySQL, and give feedback directly to developers. Discuss SQL generalities, or storage-engine sp… Organized by Chad Miller | Type: Meeting
January 6Tuesday
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PHP Meetup
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
January 21Wednesday
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Sunjug: Building and Profiling an Application with Skyway, Netbeans, and JPA
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
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