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Time: February 22, 2012 from 6pm to 8:30pm
Location: Santa Fe College Building S - Room 326 http://www.sfcollege.edu/
Street: 3000 NW 83rd Street Building S Room S326
City/Town: Gainesville, FL 32608
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Organized By: James Ward and Mike Levin
Latest Activity: Feb 23, 2012
James Ward from Heroku will be presenting at the Gainesville Java User Group.
Santa Fe College Building S - Room S326 http://www.sfcollege.edu/
Session Description:
Heroku is a Polyglot Cloud Application Platform that makes it easy to deploy Java, Play! and Scala apps on the cloud. Deployment is as simple as doing a "git push". This session will teach you how to instantly deploy and scale Java, Play! and Scala apps on Heroku.
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We have room S326. S building is next to Santafe's bookstore.
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