January 2011 Blog Posts (4)

Educational demos

Just got done with some educational demos on electrons flowing in transistors It is fun to watch!

 

 

Added by Mike Zielinski on January 31, 2011 at 12:33pm — 2 Comments

Exclusive Java Programmer Certification Offer: 48 Hours Only

This just in (via Nichole Scott of Oracle - thanks, Nichole!) Oracle University has announced some VERY good discounts on a new Java Programmer Certification Preparation Live Virtual Class and certification exam voucher today.

We want to make sure all JUG members who are interested in pursuing the Java Programmer…
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Added by Michael Levin on January 25, 2011 at 8:50pm — No Comments

OSCON CFP

For thirteen years the O'Reilly Open Source Convention has been bringing together people from across the open source universe to learn, collaborate, and inspire each other. OSCON provides a central place to…

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Added by Michael Levin on January 14, 2011 at 12:44pm — No Comments

Cartographer in a new Avatar! , now supports Google Maps 3 & Rails 3

-----Original Message-----

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On Behalf Of Abhishek Parolkar

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To: bangalorerug@googlegroups.com

Subject: [Bangalore RUG] Cartographer in a new Avatar! , now supports Google

Maps 3 & Rails 3



Hello All,

  Cartographer is a Google Maps wrapper that was originally written 

in 2005 when Rails tagged 0.1.  For many years people used it to … Continue

Added by Michael Levin on January 10, 2011 at 8:00am — No Comments

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