Maritimes JUG

Fredericton .NET User Group & Maritimes Java User Group Present

November 2011 MJUG/FNUG Meeting

Door prizes to be won!

Please register online, but you don’t need to bring your ticket.

http://fnug-nov-jquery.eventbrite.com/

6:30pm – 9:00pm (ITC building UNB Campus, Room ITC317)

Topic: jQuery Fundamentals & Plugin Development

Presenter: Matt Simms

Details:

Matt will provide an overview of JQuery basics including selectors, DOM interaction, events and asynchronous calls.

He will then build on the basics demonstrating plugin development and showing examples of existing plugins like jQuery Templates, TimeAgo, and Placeholder that help you “write less, do more”

Speaker Bio:

Matt Simms is a Consultant at SwiftRadius, a dynamic, Atlantic Canada based IT consulting firm, focused on enabling business through information technology.

With experience spanning over 8 years in the IT industry, Matt has performed both technical and software development roles across a variety of sectors.

Matt has been developing with the .NET Framework since 2003 having been involved in various projects including internal and public facing ASP.NET applications and web services and line of business WindowsForms.

Wanting to connect with other local developers, he has begun to actively participate in the developer community by co-organizing events and presenting for the Fredericton .NET User Group.

Maritime DevCon 2011 is on and the date is fast approaching. This year DevCon is a full day event in Fredericton, NB. We will be at the fantastic Wu Conference Centre on the University of New Brunswick campus. A full lunch will be provided along with morning and afternoon refreshments.

Huge thanks to Rackspace for sponsoring the event. Maritime DevCon 2011 would not be happening without the generous support of Rackspace.

Visit http://devcon.careertown.ca/ for full schedule details. Sessions and speakers are still being finalized but so far we have confirmed:

• OpenStack 101
• Designing Extensible and Testable .NET Apps with IoC
• Making Java Speak English (and Twitterese)
• Intro to Node.js
• Distributed Version Control with Git
• MongoDB for Developers

Time, Location, and Cost
Saturday 18 June, 2011 9:00am – 5:00pm
Wu Conference Centre, UNB
6 Duffie Drive
Fredericton, NB
Registration: $45 ($55 after June 2)
Register now at http://devcon2011.eventbrite.com/

See you on June 18th.

Chris Ross from Moncton has started up a user group for IT Pros.  Check out their page @ maritug.ca

May Event in Moncton

Introduction to ICEfaces 2.0: Next Gen JSF AJAX Development

This hands-on 50 minute presentation will provide a complete introduction to the ICEfaces 2 framework.  You’ll learn how ICEfaces 2 extends JSF 2 with features such as Ajax Push, Direct-to-DOM, and Automatic AJAX and allows you to easily build rich Web 2.0 apps without requiring any knowlege of Javascript or AJAX.  The hands-on demo will show you how to easily build rich, data-driven Enterprise applications with ICEfaces 2 with the Eclipse Helios 3.6 IDE using JPA, JSF 2, Facelets, and ICEfaces 2.

About the speaker: Philip Breau has over 6 years of experience developing Enterprise apps with JSF. He has worked at ICEsoft Technologies on ICEfaces since 2006 in Component and Framework development, Training, and Engineering Services.

Cost: FREE!!!  Please sign up so we will know how much food to bring.  Lunch will be provided:  register

Please help us spread the word on twitter, blog, e-mail… bring your friends. Ask your companies about sponsorships. We are always looking for other speakers or programmers who would demo and talk about interesting Java technologies.

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Thursday, February 24, 2011 from 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM (GMT-0400)