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Ceylon OJUG & GatorJUG Talk - Please Yo me!
Dear Codetown JUGGIES:
We have a chance for a special Ceylon talk on either Mon 10/13, Fri 10/17, Mon 10/20, or Fri 10/24 in Orlando at OrlandoJUG and/or Gainesville at GatorJUG.
As you all know, OJUG meets 4th Th and GatorJUG meets 2nd Wed and these are Mondays and Fridays, so I need your feedback cause I'll have to do some major juggling logistically! Please Yo* me ASAP if you're interested because those dates are gonna get grabbed. Here's the detail:
Gavin King and Stéphane Épardaud will be touring the USA East coast JUGs in October, to present Ceylon, the new programming language they’re working on. At each venue, they will explain what Ceylon is, and why you will want to use it for your next production applications. The talks will be aimed at people who have never heard of Ceylon, or who have heard about it but want to know more. At the end of the evening you will be up to date with all that Ceylon is and has to offer. Don’t miss this opportunity to ask all your questions to the language creators !
Schedule
Oct 14 (Tue): Connecticut JUG
Oct 15 (Wed): New York JUG
Oct 16 (Thu): Greenville JUG
Oct 21 (Tue): Atlanta JUG
Oct 22 (Wed): Richmond JUG
Oct 23 (Thu): Boston JUG
Topics
Format: Two talks of 60 mins each, with 30 mins break in between
Title: Ten Ceylon Idioms (50 mins)
Abstract: Ceylon is a new programming language for writing large programs in teams. Its unique static type system enables, and sometimes even requires, a different approach to some kinds of programming problems. In this session, we'll introduce the type system by presenting a series of simple examples, exhibiting common idioms in the language.
Title: Ceylon from here to infinity: the big picture and what's coming (50 mins)
Abstract: Ceylon is a new modern, elegant programming language for the JVM and JavaScript VM, designed for team work. But it's more than that, it is a full platform with modularity, an SDK, tools and IDEs.
We will present Ceylon the language, the platform, and its ecosystem. You will see everything from starting a new project in the IDE to publishing it on Herd, our module repository, including using the SDK. We will also discuss the ongoing Ceylon projects such as the build system, Vert.x integration or Cayla, the new web framework.
Finally we will discuss the plans for Ceylon 1.1, 1.2 and further.
Speakers: Gavin King and Stéphane Épardaud
Bios:
Gavin King: Gavin King leads the Ceylon project at Red Hat. Gavin is the creator ofHibernate, a popular object/relational persistence solution for Java, and the Seam Framework, an application framework for enterprise Java. He's contributed to the Java Community Process as JBoss and then Red Hat representative for the EJB and JPA specifications and as lead of the CDI specification.
Gavin now works full time on Ceylon, polishing the language specification, developing the compiler frontend, working on the IDE, and thinking about the SDK and future of the platform. He's still a fan of Java, and of other languages, especially Smalltalk, Python, and ML.
You can follow him on G+.
Stéphane Épardaud: From deep into the Nice mountains, Stéphane works for Red Hat on the Ceylon project.
Passionate hacker in Java, C, Perl or Scheme. A web standards and database enthusiast, he implemented among other things a WYSIWYG XML editor, a multi-threading library in C, a mobile-agent language in Scheme (compiler and virtual machines), and some Web 2.0 RESTful services and rich web interfaces with JavaScript and HTML 5.
Eager to share, he is a frequent speaker at various conferences such as the Scheme Workshop 2004, Nice University in 2008-2009, many Java User Groups as well as the Riviera Java User Group he founded with Nicolas Leroux. A long-time open-source user and advocate, he is committer on RESTEasy, author of jax-doclets, stamps.js and various Play! Framework modules, and developer on various Ceylon projects for Red Hat.
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*http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2014/06/a-yo-is-lovel...
I wanna Yo you!
Add my Yo username by tapping here: http://justyo.co/MIKELEVIN
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Comment
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Comment by Michael Levin on July 1, 2014 at 11:35am
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Hi James, Thanks for the input. Keep an eye on the Events section and GatorJUG and OJUG Town to see if we can schedule it. Which JUG are you interested in? I'm guessing it's OJUG.
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Comment by James Berhends on July 1, 2014 at 11:20am
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Hi Michael,I would be interested in coming on either of the dates, with Monday the preferred.
Thanks
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Hi Jack. Yes, we've been having regular meetings. The point of this blog post is to find out whether people are interested in coming to a meeting on a Monday or Friday rather than the normal 2nd Wed for GatorJUG or 4th Th for OrlandoJUG. That's because the Gavin and Stephane are only on the road 2 weeks in Oct and the only days open are Monday and Friday. Gavin is the creator of Hibernate and Seam.
As for Yo, it's a funny concept for an app. Did you read the article? It's sort of like a Facebook poke. In this case, I wanted to get some feedback and asked for it in the form of a Yo.
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Yo , Michael ! good to hear from you again , did not know you were still active , YO sounds interesting !
Happy 10th year, JCertif!
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