Please note there is a change in our usual location.
We're meeting on the Auraria Campus at the Tivoli
this month in room 320C, not the Science Building.
Details are below.
K*FORCE has purchased some door prizes in addition to
sponsoring the room - they're listed at the bottom of this e-mail
and the NFJS Symposium is giving away a ticket to their
May Symposium.
Wednesday March 14th, DENVER
JAVA USERS GROUP Meeting
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The location is on the Auraria Campus in the Tivoli Building
Here's a link to the on-campus Map:
http://www.ahec.edu/parking/ParkingMap06color.jpg *** Free Pizza @ 5:30 ***
Main Session Speaker: Venkat Subramaniam
"Spring Into
Unit Testing"
7:15pm -8:30pm
BC Session Speaker: Venkat Subramaniam
"Spring Into Groovy"
6pm - 7pm
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Location: Tivoli 320C (900 Auraria Parkway - Auraria Campus)
Directions below
*** MAIN PRESENTATION ***
"Spring Into Unit Testing" - Venkat Subramaniam
Description:
Test Driving Development is a valuable technique that has several
benefits.
However, unit testing is hard when your code has dependencies-this often
becomes a quick excuse to give up on TDD.
This example driven Zero Powerpoint (ZePo) presentation will help you
spring into unit test your Spring applications.
We will look at techniques to realize good unit testing,
and focus on effective use of mock objects and frameworks
to help you toss mock objects for your spring application.
In this presentation we will cover topics including:
* TDD Benefits
* Pragmatics of Unit Testing
* Mock Objects
* Hand tossing Mock
* Framework to create mock objects
* Unit Testing Spring Applications
Speaker:
Dr. Venkat Subramaniam, founder of Agile Developer, Inc.,
has trained and mentored thousands of software developers
in the US, Canada and Europe. He has significant experience
in architecture, design, and development of software applications.
Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with
agile practices on their software projects, and speaks
frequently at conferences.
He is also an adjunct faculty at the University of Houston
(where he received the 2004 CS department teaching excellence award)
and teaches the professional software developer series at
Rice University School of continuing studies.
Venkat has been a frequent speaker at the
No Fluff Just Stuff Software Symposia since Summer 2002.
*** BASIC CONCEPTS ***
"Spring Into Groovy" - Venkat Subramaniam
Description:
What do you get when you mix an agile, object-oriented,
dynamic language with a lightweight, flexible, and extensible framework?
You get a Groovier Spring. Spring allows you to develop using Groovy
as much as Java. Groovy brings some neat concepts to the Java Platform
that is hard to realize directly through the Java language.
Using these capabilities can lead to elegant and easier Spring
development.
In this presentation we will cover topics including:
* Strengths of Groovy
* Using Groovy in Spring
* Configuration
* Bean Development
* Deployment
* How it fits in
*** AGENDA ***
5:30 - 6:00 p.m. Food, and Networking.
6:00 - 7:00 p.m. Basic Concepts
7:00 - 7:15 p.m. Announcements
7:15 - 8:30 p.m. Main Presentation
8:30 p.m. Door prizes
*** DIRECTIONS ***
We will be meeting at the Auraria Higher Education Center (AHEC)
located at 900 Auraria Parkway in room 320C of the Tivoli Center.
The campus is adjacent to the Pepsi Center on the North side and
Colfax on the South Side.
Here's a link to the Campus Map followed by the link to the PDF:
http://www.ahec.edu/parking/index.htm http://www.ahec.edu/parking/Campus%20Map%202005.pdf http://maps.yahoo.com/#mvt=m&gid1=19589018&q1=900+Auraria+Parkway%2C+Denver%2C+CO&trf=0&lon=-105.00726&lat=39.746398&mag=3 We are closest to the Pepsi Center for this month's meeting,
so if you are taking the Light Rail you may want to get off at
the Pepsi Center/Six Flaggs stop and then head South and
go across Auraria Parkway to the Tivoli.
If you get off at the Colfax and Auraria stop,
walk North to the Tivoli Center along Main Street.
There is also ample parking in this area (cost is $5.00) if you're
driving.
If you are driving, take Auraria Parkway to across from the Pepsi
Center and head South.
There is a parking lot on one side and a parking structure on the other.
Here is an on-campus map that shows the Tivoli Center in the
North end of Campus near 9th & Auraria marked with a red star:
http://www.ahec.edu/parking/ParkingMap06color.jpg We'd like to thank the Metropolitan State College of Denver
Math and Computer Science Department and Dr. Jody Paul
for sponsoring the Denver Java User Group meeting as an
on-campus event so our rates are reduced.
*** SPONSORS ***
Thanks to our regular Denver JUG sponsors for supporting the Java
community:
- TEKsystems for providing food
http://www.teksystems.com - EvolutionHosting for providing web hosting
http://www.evolutionhosting.com - K*FORCE for sponsoring our March
Location on the Auraria Campus - Tivoli 320C
http://www.kforce.com/ - Metropolitan State College of Denver Math and Computer
Science Department and Dr. Jody Paul for helping us to
be sponsored as an 'on-campus' event.
Doorprize sponsors:
- SoftPro for a Gift certificate towards the purchase of a book
http://softpro.stores.yahoo.net/index.html - SourceBeat (2 "live" books)
http://www.sourcebeat.com/ - JetBrains (1 IntelliJ
IDE)
http://www.jetbrains.com/ - K*FORCE
Pro Spring
JUnit in Action
JUnit Recipes
Groovy in Action
http://www.kforce.com/ - No Fluff Just Stuff Software Symposia /
Rocky Mountain Software Symposium
1 free ticket to the May Symposium in Denver - May 04 - 06
http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/
