Hello GatorJUG!

Here's the scoop: we're hoping to have Brion Vibber in this month but it's uncertain. So, in the meantime, we can have a meeting at our usually scheduled time Wed night the 14th...probably at our usual spot at Santa Fe College, Room S326. Check out the Events section at Codetown for details: http://www.codetown.us/events We may have a second meeting this month if Brion can make it.

He gave such a great talk last time, I think it will be fantastic to have him again if he can swing it.

How are you all doing? Have you noticed the GatorJUG Group on our new social network Codetown? If you get the chance, sign up to Codetown and join the GatorJUG group. It's here: http://www.codetown.us/group/gatorjugtown

Codetown has lots of groups you'll like, from J2SE to JEE, Agile and Freelancing, and of course a Jobs group. When you sign up, you get your own homepage. Anything you blog gets aggregated to the main Codetown homepage, column one! There are tons of people, some local and some as far away as Australia, Africa and S. America...SE Asia, India and all over! You may recognize the name Heinz Kabbutz, from his training work http://www.javaspecialists.eu/ Dick Wall of the Java Posse just joined, too! http://javaposse.com/ You can keep up with events on Codetown, too. It's worth your time.

There are some jobs popping up, new projects, interesting developments like Oracle buying Sun (hear about that?) In fact, at the Oracle World conference this was overheard and I used Twitter to tweet it: @mikelevin Gosling at #Oracle OpenWorld: What will happen to Java? Oracle is committed.... "I'm not worried about their stewardship..."

Atlassian is giving away its best tools for $10. All funds support Room To Read. http://www.bit.ly/kmDHF

So, let me and Dan hear from you. What projects are you working on? What technologies are you using? Are you subscribed to the JaxJUG mailing list? They have some incredibly interesting meetings going on. Tampa JUG and Sarasota JUG, too! You'll find all of them on Codetown.

All for now. Be sure to shoot me an email if you want, for any reason.

Best,

Mike Levin
Co-Chair ::: GatorJUG
The Gainesville Java User Group