- November 19, 2008: Open Source Business Intelligence with Pentaho
An introduction to Business Intelligence with Pentaho's Open Source, Java based, BI Tools
This talk will include a high level intro into what business intelligence is, along with details on various open source Java based BI projects from Pentaho including Reporting, OLAP, ETL, and Data Mining. Will Gorman will demonstrate building a Data Warehouse to show how all the tools can be used together.
About the Speaker
Will Gorman works for Pentaho, a venture backed open source business intelligence company based in Orlando, Florida.
About Pentaho
Pentaho is the commercial open source alternative for business intelligence (BI). Pentaho Open BI Suite provides comprehensive reporting, OLAP analysis, dashboards, data integration, data mining and a BI platform that have made it the world's leading and most widely deployed open source BI suite. Pentaho's commercial open source business model eliminates software license fees, providing support, services, and product enhancements via an annual subscription. In the years since Pentaho's inception as the pioneer in commercial open source BI, Pentaho's products have been downloaded more than three million times, with production deployments at companies ranging from small organizations to The Global 2000.
See http://www.pentaho.com for additional information
The event will be hosted by FCCI Insurance Group. FCCI located at 6300 University Pkwy, Sarasota, FL 34240, which is just east of exit 213 off I75.
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Food and refreshments will be provided by Pentaho
Meeting Schedule
6-7PM: Food and Networking
7PM - 9PM: Presentation
Please RSVP to dave@sunjug.org if you plan on attending. All are welcome.
- October 15, 2008: JRuby - A Java Programmer's Perspective
Can the Java and Ruby camps finally get together and feel the love?
We may find out at the next meeting of the Sarasota Java Users group.
Steve Goldsmith will discuss JRuby and using the Java Api.
JRuby is a 100% pure-Java implementation of the Ruby programming language.
For more info on JRuby, see http://jruby.codehaus.org/
About the Speaker
Steve Goldsmith has been programming since 1980 and working professionally in the field for over 20 years. Steve has played many roles over the years from developer, development supervisor, enterprise architect and now sr. systems architect.
He worked for Travelers insurance programming and managed their systems for 3.5 years in the late 1980s.
Steve has been with FCCI Insurance Group for almost 17 years filling many roles over that time span.
The event will be hosted by FCCI Insurance Group. FCCI located at 6300 University Pkwy, Sarasota, FL 34240, which is just east of exit 213 off I75.
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Food and refreshments will be provided byTEKsystems.
About TEKsystems
It’s not about the one-time IT job or the one time communications job, it's about building IT careers and communications careers one job at a time. At TEKsystems®, we build long term relationships with our technical professionals by:
° Consistently providing them with great opportunities within quality companies
° Providing opportunities to excel and grow
° Matching their technical and industry experience to jobs worthy of their abilities
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- September 24: Using IBatis with Spring
Using IBatis with Springs Transactional Management Model
Finding the best approach when accessing a database in java can be a daunting task. The most common solution is to program directly to the JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) APIs. However, the result is hard to read complex code that has nothing to do with your business logic. JDBC also does nothing to address the natural differences that usually exist between an applications object model and its relational database model. The developer is left to pick up the pieces and add more code to glue these two views together.
What of Object relational mappers (ORM)? There are several implementations such as Hibernate, EJB Entities 3.0 etc. However, most of them implement full domain models mapping entire application object models to database tables.
If these mappers are too heavyweight for your needs, but you want to avoid the pitfalls of JDBC implementations in your business code, there is a simple object relational mapper framework out there that could be just what you are looking for. Instead of mapping full domain models, IBatis maps java objects directly to SQL statements. Its goal is to implement 80% of the JDBC boiler plate code that would have otherwise been left to the developer.
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- SunJUG August 20, 2008: Woody's River Roo
Its Cigar Night at the SunJUG.
Wednesday August 20, 2008. 6PM - ?
We'll be meeting this month at Woody's River Roo. on the Manatee River in Ellenton.
No presentations. No sponsors. just Cigars, Booze , and general
debauchery. Java talk is optional.
Woody's has a full menu of food and drink available. Bring your cigars!
Please RSVP to dave@sunjug.org if you plan on attending!
About Woody's
A visit to Woody's River Roo Pub & Grill is truely a unique experience. The crowd is usually an ecclectic mix of locals and visitors, most of which are always ready to spark up a conversation. The daytime atmosphere is friendly and laid back, with acoustic guitarists often entertaining the crowd. Yet nighttime can bring anything from hard driving blues & rock, to some of the best karaoke singers in the area. You'll often even see "Woody" and his wife Christine.
Information and directions:
http://www.woodysriverroo.com/
- June 18: SunJUG Triple Header
This month at the Sarasota Java Users group, we will hear three talks.
First up is Skyway Software. Skyway will give us a follow up to their Skyway 6.0 preview talk earlier this year. Since then, they've release version 6 Beta, as well as an open source community edition. Skyway will also tell us about a new open-source Domain Specific Language (DSL) product and their community site.
They will also provide the food! You can find out more at www.skywaysoftware.com
Next up, Doug Rothauser will tell us why we should "favor composition over inheritance"
And finally, Steve Goldsmith will give us a "Java One Recap"
This will be our last meeting until September, so we will also discuss our plans and topics for the fall, and talk about our summer project, the Web App Framework Shootout.
The event will be hosted by FCCI Insurance Group. FCCI located at 6300 University Pkwy, Sarasota, FL 34240, which is just east of exit 213 off I75.
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Food and refreshments will be provided by Skyway Software.
Meeting Schedule
6-7PM: Food and Networking
7PM - 9PM: Presentation
Please RSVP to dave@sunjug.org if you plan on attending. All are welcome.
- May 21, 2008: Scrum: An Agile Software Development Framework
Will Gorman will be discussing the ins and outs of Scrum, a lean software development framework that is commonly used within the software industry. In the talk, Will will discuss the methodology and definitions of Scrum, along with his company's unique approach combining open source development and the Scrum process.
Will Gorman works for Pentaho, a venture backed open source business intelligence company based in Orlando, Florida.
The event will be hosted by FCCI Insurance Group. FCCI located at 6300 University Pkwy, Sarasota, FL 34240, which is just east of exit 213 off I75.
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Food and refreshments will be provided by Joe Healy of Microsoft
Meeting Schedule
6-7PM: Food and Networking
7PM - 9PM: Presentation
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