Big Thanks to Big Sky Technology (www.bigskytechnology.com) who pays for our meeting room rental every month and Tek-Systems (www.teksystems.com) who pays for our food each month! We appreciate your support!
We will raffle a ticket to the Rocky Mountain Software Symposium. This NFJS event will occur on May 29-31th.
The April Meeting will be on the First Tuesday of the Month!
We will resume our schedule of meeting on the second Tuesday of the month with the next (May) meeting.
DATE: | Tuesday - April 7th, 2009 |
LOCATION: | Wolf Law Building, Room #207 |
6:00 Introduction to JRuby by Frederic Jean
There was a time not too far ago where adopting Ruby meant having to abandon Java. JRuby allows you to adopt a powerful and expressive language and still have access to the abundance of libraries and frameworks available on the Java Platform.
This talk will provide an introduction to JRuby and how to combine Java and Ruby code to write powerful and flexible applications.
About Frederic Jean
Software engineer with experience leading small development teams and succesful delivery of high visibility software. Focus on web development on top of the Java Enterprise Edition platform as well as Ruby on Rails.
Frederic is a frequent speaker at the Boulder JUG and Denver JUG. he also spoke at the Boulder Ruby Users Group, Derailed and the Denver Open Source Users Group.
7:30 Java IPC and the CLIPC Library by Clark Hobbie
Java has open source libraries that do everything from formatting HTML to making fries, but there are very few choices when it comes to inter-process communications (IPC). This talk introduces a new open source library called CLIPC and also goes over the fundamentals of IPC with an eye towards the Java environment.
About Clark Hobbie
Clark Hobbie is the owner of Long Term Software, LLC. a Denver area software consulting company. Clark has been working with Java for over 10 years with an emphasis on web enabled systems.
