Re: [jug-discussion] directions/changes

At 10:20 AM 6/2/2009, you wrote: I sent this in reply to another thread, but realized I hijacked it. Please use this thread for discussions on future direction, leadership and other changes. Meeting space: One proposal is to move the current meeting to the Creative Slices downtown (115 E. Broadw

Re: [jug-discussion] Jython - alive (again)

At 04:18 PM 4/21/2009, you wrote: http://www.jython.org/Project/ I thought I'd toss out there that the Jython project was revived on March 9, 2009 with the beta release of Jython covering the 2.5 version Python (ironically my first day as a Python dev was on Mar

[jug-discussion] College of Science Lecture, Speaker Paul Cohen on Tuesday, March 10th at 7pm, Centennial Hall

CoS Lecture Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 Time: 7:00 pm Location: Centennial Hall Speaker Paul Cohen Title Head and Professor Affiliation Computer Science Department, UA Really Intelligent Computers Halfway through its first century, artificial intelligence has delivered some astonishing

Re: [jug-discussion] Call for presentations.

If you don't find anyoneDr. Paul Cohen, the new head of the UAZ Computer Science department, will be giving a public lecture on Tuesday, March 10th at 7pm in Centennial Hall (on campus) entitled "Next: Really Intelligent Computers". regards, -tom At 03:20 PM 2/23/2009, you wrote:

Re: [jug-discussion] Next meeting, Feb 10

Oh nothat sounds really interesting and useful but, unfortunately, I have to attend the UA Science lecture on the iPlant initiative at Centennial Hall at 7 pm. regards, -tom At 10:14 AM 2/9/2009, you wrote: All Rene will be presenting on using dbUnit testing with stored procedures

Re: [jug-discussion] Jug dinner

+2 as I talked Dianne into socializing with you nerds(just joking...she's a nerd herself). cheers, -tom At 11:13 AM 12/11/2008, you wrote: The Jug Holiday meeting will be Tuesday, 12/16 at 6:pm at feast. RSVP is a must, reply here, only if coming please! TR

Re: [jug-discussion] Early Bird Discount ends October 31st...SpringAmericas 2008 returns December 1-4th to Hollywood, FL (JUG Discount Available...)

At 04:08 PM 10/21/2008, you wrote: Yeh, that was definitely chum for chums. :) Seriously though, my issues with Spring are more political/business than technical. Spring can do a lot for you - from a web-app or enterprisey-app angle. But, it comes with a lot of "fluff" too, which raises th

Re: [jug-discussion] Early Bird Discount ends October 31st...SpringAmericas 2008 returns December 1-4th to Hollywood, FL (JUG Discount Available...)

OoohKit puts on his flame-suite and throws a hand grenade into the room Don't listen to that Luddite, Liz. Personally, I think Spring is terrific and there are very few types of web applications I would build without it. As for unnecessarysure, most tools are unnecessary but I bet Ki

RE: [jug-discussion] Next week's meeting (sic)

Oopsthe October TJUG meeting was last night. We'll hope to see you at the November meeting. cheers, -tom At 08:34 AM 10/15/2008, you wrote: so what time and where are we meeting? Respectfully, Liz, Data Base Administrator, Methods Engineering

Re: [jug-discussion] (meetingp '(10 14 2008))

At 01:54 PM 10/12/2008, you wrote: At 09:37 AM 10/12/2008, Tom wrote: I can put together 20-25 minutes on the top few featues of Lisp which have made it so long-lived (with some examples). Let me know, though, because I don't want to expend time if no one is interested in this. Sounds good to

Re: [jug-discussion] (meetingp '(10 14 2008))

At 04:15 PM 10/10/2008, you wrote: Maybe we could get Matt Peterson to walk us through some web development with Lisp. He's done some work with that. I know that Tom Hicks has done a lot with Lisp -- maybe he could entertain us with something. I can put together 20-25 minutes on the top few

Re: [jug-discussion] Lisp turns 50 this month

MAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hmmm, We could celebrate with a presentation on LISP. I would be interested at least. Andy On Oct 9, 2008, at 7:21 PM, Thomas Hicks wrote: "In October 1958, John McCarthy published one in a series of reports about his then ongoing effort for designing a new pro

[jug-discussion] Lisp turns 50 this month

"In October 1958, John McCarthy published one in a series of reports about his then ongoing effort for designing a new programming language that would be especially suited for achieving artificial intelligence. That report was the first one to use the name LISP for this new programming language. 5

[jug-discussion] Final article in series finally published

The final article in our series "A RESTful Core for Weblike Application Flexibility" has finally been published at TheServerSide.com: http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss?l=ARESTfulCorePart4 Links to the previous articles in the series are available at the end of the final artic

[jug-discussion] Participate in a UAZ MRI brain study (off-topic)

Dr. Dianne Patterson is looking for subjects in a brain research study. If you are interested, she can be contacted at: Dianne Patterson, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Arizona SHLS 328 621-5105 I've been scanned a couple of times and it's an interesting experien

[jug-discussion] Resource Oriented Computing articles on TSS

For those of you who are interested in learning more about Resource Oriented Computing (RESTful principles applied to application software), Randy Kahle and I are writing a series of small articles on TheServerSide.com. TSS just published article #3, out of 4, at the following URL: http://www.th

Re: [jug-discussion] Radio Buttons

At 09:10 PM 8/31/2008, Tim Worden wrote: Thanks Chad and everyone, I will these rules and not post that much. I was working on that last problems for days before posting. I have a lot of books on Java and Googled the problem with no luck. The problem was with location and not the code so I do

Re: [jug-discussion] Radio Buttons

At 12:01 AM 9/1/2008, Bill Mitchell wrote: I count Tom as a good friend and valued colleague but I've got to respectfully disagree with him on this point. :) I suspected you might, Bill. So how about we create a 'jug-problems' mailing list where anyone can solicit help with problems at any lev

Re: [jug-discussion] Radio Buttons

Dear Mr. Worden: The Tucson Java Users Group is a forum for Java oriented professionals to interact and collaborate. I can't speak for the other members of the group, but I think it is outside of our scope to help students debug their programming assignments or even to teach Java. There are alre

Re: [jug-discussion] Google's Wire Format Goes Open Source

are actually explicitly designed so that you can add fields and whatnot and still be able to read in records stored in the old format. Cool, perhaps I'll have to take a closer look at them if I have a need for a binary wire protocol. Thanks Nick, regards, -tom Nick O

Re: [jug-discussion] Google's Wire Format Goes Open Source (resend)

At 03:15 PM 7/10/2008, Nick wrote: This is pretty cool: http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2008/07/protocol-buffers-googles-data.html Protocol buffers are *the* lingua franca for RPCs, structured data storage, and just about any data sharing you can think of at Google. If you're building a d

Re: [jug-discussion] Google's Wire Format Goes Open Source

At 03:15 PM 7/10/2008, Nick wrote: This is pretty cool: http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2008/07/protocol-buffers-googles-data.html Protocol buffers are *the* lingua franca for RPCs, structured data storage, and just about any data sharing you can think of at Google. If you're building a d

Re: [jug-discussion] IntelliJ Idea (was: Some thoughts on Scala)

At 12:55 PM 7/10/2008, Chad wrote: I have to admit, Idea is a very nice IDE, Ruby support is as good as any other IDE, and any shortcomings in Ruby support vs other IDEs are outweighed by the overall maturity of Idea. The Groovy support is also pretty good. However, I am finding mysel

[jug-discussion] Some thoughts on Scala

As a follow-up to my (relatively) recent presentation on Scala, I was interested to see these comments by the lead developer of JetBrains' IntelliJ on the difficulty of supporting Scala in an IDE: http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/javaone_2008_dmitry_jemerov.html Even more interesting is (my

Re: [jug-discussion] Scott Segal's DB Presentation

Yes, thanks to Scott for a good presentation. For those of you who are interested in learning more about Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence here are a few links I've found interesting in the past (some of which Scott mentioned last night): Pentaho ("The Commercial Open Source Alternative

Re: [jug-discussion] Groovy and JRuby

At 03:49 PM 6/8/2008, you wrote: On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Thomas Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One thing that has turned me off from Ruby in the past is the fanatical > and proselytizing behavior of the community members. Instead of > just setting up strawmen and s

Re: [jug-discussion] Groovy and JRuby

At 12:17 AM 6/8/2008, you wrote: On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Thomas Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To partially answer your original question: I use Groovy because it is > built on top of a mature and immense language platform, so I don't > have to reinvent the wh

Re: [jug-discussion] Groovy and JRuby

At 12:08 AM 6/8/2008, you wrote: On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Thomas Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Really? It's pretty similar in Groovy: > > groovy> [].class.methods*.name.toList() > ===> [get, add, add, indexOf, clone, clear, lastIndexOf, contains, ad

Re: [jug-discussion] Groovy and JRuby

At 09:42 PM 6/7/2008, Chad wrote: The challenge is "show me all the operations you can perform on an Array". Here's how you do it in (J)Ruby: chadmac:~ woolley$ jruby --command irb irb> [].class => Array irb> [].methods => ["frozen?", "sort", ...] irb> [].methods.sort => ["&", "*", "+", "-", "

Re: [jug-discussion] Groovy and JRuby (was Re: [jug-discussion] next month's meeting)

At 04:36 PM 6/5/2008, you wrote: On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Andrew Lenards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Groovy please. What are your (collective) reasons for being more interested in Groovy than JRuby? Haven't we had this discussion before? Just interested... rabble-rouser. :)

[jug-discussion] Upcoming NFJS

At 01:58 PM 6/5/2008, Warner wrote: In preparation for the upcoming No Fluff Just Stuff Jay Zimmerman has graciously offered us a speaker, Brian Sam-Bodden. He has volunteered to speak on either "Groovy Metaprogramming" talk or "JRuby DSLs for Java APIs". Can I vote twice?. Moving onI

Re: [jug-discussion] next month's meeting

Groovy please. -t At 01:58 PM 6/5/2008, you wrote: In preparation for the upcoming No Fluff Just Stuff Jay Zimmerman has graciously offered us a speaker, Brian Sam-Bodden. He has volunteered to speak on either "Groovy Metaprogramming" talk or "JRuby DSLs for Java APIs". I thought I woul

[jug-discussion] Re: [jug-announcements] [4/8] Introduction to Scala

Tim wrote: I have a lot to do, so unless I see a compelling practical reason for Scala, I'll pass. -Tim On Apr 3, 2008, at 12:00 pm, Thomas Hicks wrote: Well, come to the presentation and find out! -Tom At 11:49 AM 4/3/2008, Tim wrote: Sounds interesting, I might be able to

Re: [jug-discussion] Great Meeting

At 02:55 PM 2/13/2008, you wrote: On Feb 13, 2008 10:29 AM, Thomas Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I also would love to hear stuff on Python/Ruby as well, they are > welcome to join us, present, whatever. > I'd like to hear a little of this but, for several reasons, I w

Re: [jug-discussion] Great Meeting

At 08:31 AM 2/13/2008, Warner wrote: Pecha Kucha and Lightning Talks sound interesting (kind of like the code review stuff I proposed a while ago where everybody brought in stuff they wanted feedback on). I think that this would work rather well if we have enough people to give talks, I'll volunt

Re: [jug-discussion] meeting sept. 11th?

Alright...let's all go and ask the Google gearheads again why they still don't have an office in Tucson. -t At 11:28 AM 8/31/2007, you wrote: Oh yeah, another reason why we may not want to have it that week is that Google is coming down to campus that day (and no they didn't even contac

Re: [jug-discussion] Hi guys.... Crank Crud Intro... JPA/JSF Crud tool

Rick, I don't know if you're an IntelliJ user, but you might want to check out the upcoming IntelliJ 7.0 support for Groovy/Java integration. In this Flash demo it looks pretty slick: http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/training/demos/IntelligentGroovy.html regards, -tom At 12:50 PM

Re: [jug-discussion] Writing mock data for DAOs... the GROOVY way... compare this to existing ways to build mock data (like a bean tree)

At 02:02 AM 4/28/2007, Rick Hightower wrote: Here is the original blog (Friday night) where I wondered what if. Get jiggy with Groovy to create test data for tests. I am sick of writing test data. I have some DAO objects that I want to mock. Some of the mock DAO deliver up a lot of data a

Re: [jug-discussion] next language to learn?

At 10:08 AM 6/19/2007, you wrote: On 6/19/07, Art Gramlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Erlang - You should at least work through the tutorial for it (and if you haven't seen it watch the video where they do live updates to the system). I think you mean this: http://video.google.com/videoplay?d

Re: [jug-discussion] next language to learn?

://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/~jaffer/SLIB Well, that should be enough to keep you busy...;) regards -tom At 11:32 PM 6/18/2007, you wrote: On 6/18/07, Thomas Hicks <<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 3) Structure and Interpretation of Computer Program

Re: [jug-discussion] next language to learn?

At 08:42 PM 6/18/2007, Warner wrote: There was an article that my co-worker James sent me (that I can't find) that talked about functional languages and the new multi-core architectures and how learning a functional language wouldn't be a bad thing. (If you do a google on functional language and

Re: [jug-discussion] next language to learn?

At 02:02 PM 6/18/2007, Warner wrote: As I say in my blog one of the reasons to learn a new language is just that - to see how another language approaches problems so that I'm not stymied into thinking "one way is the only way". In other terms, because I have a hammer everything looks like a nail

Re: [jug-discussion] next language to learn?

Bill's back East for vacation, so I probably just beat him to it. ;) -t At 09:59 AM 6/18/2007, you wrote: I was wondering when Icon was going to come up ;-). I knew it was either going to be you or Bill :-P. -warner On Jun 18, 2007, at 9:50 AM, Thomas Hicks wrote: BTW -- I forg

Re: [jug-discussion] next language to learn?

At 09:56 AM 6/18/2007, you wrote: On Jun 18, 2007, at 9:45 AM, Thomas Hicks wrote: Like the one comment said on your web page: depends on your goals. Actually they just asked why I would want to learn a new language at all. Which quite honestly is not a good question, I feel that all

Re: [jug-discussion] next language to learn?

BTW -- I forgot to mention that if you are heavily into string and text processing it still pays to learn Icon, our locally-developed language. It's a now dated, but many of its pioneering features have influenced the current crop of scripting languages (as acknowledged in their documentation) and

Re: [jug-discussion] next language to learn?

Like the one comment said on your web page: depends on your goals. Are you just trying to learn more about "synthetic language" (as opposed to "natural language")? If so, Scheme, Scala, and Haskell all embody some fascinating concepts in language typology. My favorite: get a version of Scheme w

[jug-discussion] A bit of fun with Groovy

Or should I say a bit of silliness with Groovy The following program creates "reversed" counterparts of all files in the current directory (original files unharmed) whose file suffix is ".txt" (and these should be text files). I don't know of any practical use but it does illustrate some of

Re: [jug-discussion] Higher Order Messaging - Fun code exercise

At 11:49 AM 4/6/2007, Warner wrote: On Apr 6, 2007, at 11:27 AM, Thomas Hicks wrote: At 06:26 AM 4/6/2007, Warner wrote: On Apr 5, 2007, at 10:06 PM, Thomas Hicks wrote: Speaking of Groovy Whatever happened to Warner's Groovy challenge? (see quote below) Did anyone succe

Re: [jug-discussion] Higher Order Messaging - Fun code exercise

At 06:26 AM 4/6/2007, Warner wrote: On Apr 5, 2007, at 10:06 PM, Thomas Hicks wrote: Speaking of Groovy Whatever happened to Warner's Groovy challenge? (see quote below) Did anyone succeed in creating High Order Messaging in Groovy? (Warner?) I *was* going to try and do it last we

Re: [jug-discussion] Higher Order Messaging - Fun code exercise

Speaking of Groovy Whatever happened to Warner's Groovy challenge? (see quote below) Did anyone succeed in creating High Order Messaging in Groovy? (Warner?) Not knowing Ruby, but skimming the given articles, it seems that the first author was trying to accomplish several different things un

Re: [jug-discussion] Higher Order Messaging - Fun code exercise

At 03:08 PM 3/27/2007, you wrote: Hi all, James threw down the gauntlet yesterday with respect to doing this in Groovy. I know it can be done, and I plan on working on this this weekend just for fun. Here's the challenge: http://legacyofthemob.se/istari/2006/10/08/higher-order-messaging-in- ruby/

Re: [jug-discussion] Is AspectJ in my future?

I'd like to have it, if you're giving it away. regards, -tom At 03:28 PM 1/10/2007, you wrote: Last fall I requested an evaluation copy of AspectJ in Action for possible use in a class I was teaching. Yesterday I received a second copy of it. I put the duplicate up in the raff

Re: [jug-discussion] build tools...

I just ran across an innocative, upcoming tool for Ant that might make your life a great deal easier. It's called Virtual Ant: http://www.placidsystems.com/virtualant/Default.aspx regards, -tom At 09:54 PM 12/23/2006, you wrote: Without starting a flame-war... ;) I'm about to e

Re: [jug-discussion] build tools...

At 02:57 AM 12/24/2006, you wrote: ANT: If you want to be like most every over Java project in the world, use Ant. It works fine. Just be sure to always remember: PROPERTIES ARE IMMUTABLE. MAVEN: If you want to get a lot of extra bells and and whistles, such as having all your dependencies aut

Re: [jug-discussion] presentations for 2007

I would love to see a presentation on CAS. cheers, -tom At 06:21 PM 12/13/2006, you wrote: I give a decent talk on the Central Authentication Service. http://www.ja-sig.org/products/cas/ I figure I should eventually do something to earn my holiday dinner, which was wonderful, t

Re: [jug-discussion] job postings?

At 12:00 PM 12/3/2006, you wrote: Hi all, For quite awhile we've had a separate list for job postings. This list has been relatively low-traffic over the years so I wanted to gauge everyone's feelings about letting people post jobs on the discussion list instead. -warner My 2c: Retain the sepa

Re: [jug-discussion] Ralph Griswold 1934–2006

At 06:16 PM 10/6/2006, you wrote: You may have heard that Ralph Griswold, founder of the UA CS department, died on October 4. Here's a link to an obituary on the CS home page: http://www.cs.arizona.edu/news/articles/200610-griswold.html As I wrote in the guest book, I didn't know it when I sta

RE: [jug-discussion] Java Rich Clients with Flex 2.0?

Thanks Tim, Although I didn't state my question very well, your reply to Josh answered the questions I had in mind. I'm just starting a project with a GUI component. I considered Flex but it's a little lower down on my list because of the Flash plug-in requirement. The customer would like a thin

RE: [jug-discussion] OT: Google and Yahoo

At 01:19 PM 9/21/2006, you wrote: --- Michael Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok since any sort of frivolity is frowned upon by > some, let's get serious. > > Call it "govern themselves" or "sensorship" or > "standards" or "regulations", > etc. but the problem with that is who decides? If

Re: [jug-discussion] Java Rich Clients with Flex 2.0?

I hadn't followed this development.tell us more. To where has the licensing fee moved? (i.e. what are the new deployment/licensing terms?). Also, does Flex require its own server?, or only requires it to get some advanced feature set? BTW - (just an off-topic comment) per-CPU licensing terms

RE: [jug-discussion] anyone up for doing a presentation next month?

Ditto. I'd also like to see someone advocate it over JUnit (for comparison and learning purposes). -tom At 09:16 AM 8/22/2006, Steve Shucker wrote: I'd love to see something about either TestNG or AJAX - particularly a comparison between TestNG and JUnit. There's been some talk about J

Re: [jug-discussion] anyone up for doing a presentation next month?

een (Scott, sorry if I got the gist of it wrong, please correct if I did). So, it looks like we have two presos! Who wants to go in Sept. and who wants to go in Oct. ? -warner On Aug 21, 2006, at 5:25 PM, Thomas Hicks wrote: I can do a presentation on SOA and ESB technologies, if anyone is

Re: [jug-discussion] anyone up for doing a presentation next month?

I can do a presentation on SOA and ESB technologies, if anyone is interested. -tom At 10:04 PM 8/20/2006, you wrote: Hi all, We are unfortunately short a presentation next month (Sept. 12th), anyone up for doing a presentation? I had planned on doing at least one on the Pragmatic Ajax pr

[jug-discussion] Recent NFJS symposioum in Phoenix

I know that some members of this august forum attended the recent NFJS symposium in Phoenix. Did any of those attendees happen to catch the talk given by Brian Slettan on NetKernel? If so, I'd love to hear your feedback on the talks and on NetKernel itself. Send to me at: hickst at theriver dot co

Fwd: [jug-discussion] JUG Celberation Picnic - Saturday July 15 10AM, Mt Lemmon

Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 17:38:14 -0700 To: ReneStone,TR_Rudkin From: Thomas Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Fwd: [jug-discussion] JUG Celberation Picnic - Saturday July 15 10AM, Mt Lemmon Rene, Dianne and I would like to attend. We'll bring jello/fruit salad. Depending on your

[jug-discussion] Web Framework debates online

There's a lot of heat being generated online about the growing plethora of web development frameworks. Often, the comments and replies to the articles are more informative and useful than the articles. Here are a couple of links I ran across this morning, for those who are interested in trying sep

Re: [jug-discussion] App Dev Framework choices

At 09:44 AM 6/22/2006, Chad wrote: Cool. I checked out the REXML page. This quote is great: "Some of the common differences are that the Ruby API relies on block enumerations, rather than iterators. For example, the Java code: for (Enumeration e=parent.ge

RE: [jug-discussion] App Dev Framework choices

I believe she was applauding your inclusion of "human aspects" factors in making a technological decision and sarcastically saying that was blasphemy. I'm afraid Cara's getting kind of cynical after working at her current job location. They tend to be ratherum.behind on the technology and

RE: [jug-discussion] App Dev Framework choices

us on developer productivity. Well you asked..... -Original Message- From: Thomas Hicks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 12:29 PM To: jug-discussion@tucson-jug.org Subject: Re: [jug-discussion] App Dev Framework choices Hopefully not. I didn't ask "which app fra

Re: [jug-discussion] App Dev Framework choices

cheers, -tom At 12:16 PM 6/20/2006, you wrote: you may have just started the next religious war On Jun 20, 2006, at 11:30 AM, Thomas Hicks wrote: Hey Rick, You raise an issue I've been looking at lately: the pros & cons of various web app dev frameworks. I was motiv

[jug-discussion] App Dev Framework choices

Hey Rick, You raise an issue I've been looking at lately: the pros & cons of various web app dev frameworks. I was motivated by my lack of knowledge about what's out there and inspired by Matt Raible's comparison presentation (http://www.virtuas.com/articles/webframework-sweetspots.html). In t

[jug-discussion] Net Neutrality (techno-political)

Dear Fellow JUG members, As technologists, we often have the luxury of avoiding political issues. Unfortunately, however, one of the founding principles of the Internet, Network Neutrality, is currently under seige by lawmakers. Big telecomm and ISP companies like AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast are s

[jug-discussion] New SQL on Rails project

For those of you working on RAILS, TRAILS, GRAILS, etc., etc., (ad nauseam) you've GOT to check out the SQL on Rails project at: http://www.sqlonrails.org/ Be sure to view the cover art for the forthcoming O'Reilly book and the very professional screencast! cheers, -tom

[jug-discussion] generate instances from an XML Schema

Hey Folks, I'm building an XMLSchema for a project and would like to generate multiple instances of the schema for testing purposes. That is, given the XML Schema (a grammar), I want to produce 2000 instances/messages/documents that conform to the schema (strings in the language defined by the gr

[jug-discussion] For Nick on April 1st

New Google Brain to Keep "Golden Copy" of Your Deepest Hopes, Fears, Secrets Today Google introduced a new product, Google Brain. Building on its popular Google Goggles, a headset that records users' audiovisual sensory input and uploads it to Google's servers, the Brain attachment will build and

Re: [jug-discussion] RE: Organization Discussion

At 02:32 PM 2/4/2006, Warner wrote: I know that we've talked about this in the past (privately over beers  rather than publicly, but it sounds like now is the right time).  There are a few issues that I see with this: - Do our ideologies, culture, etc. match with the TCS? - Does what they do me

Re: [jug-discussion] RE: online presentations

At 08:39 AM 2/4/2006, you wrote: On 2/3/06 18:00, "Thomas Hicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Geez...I can practically hear the carnival music I am a little surprised at the shortsightedness of the comment or maybe I just don’t see value added tongue-in-cheek. Sorry, it w

Re: [jug-discussion] RE: online presentations

At 04:46 PM 2/3/2006, you wrote: I'm curious how many folks would be more interested if they were _selling_ a presentation? 'pop'...the sound of a dozen geeks ears pricking up.  .. How much would you pay to watch a typical JUG-quality 60 min technical preso (i.e. not necessarily a profession

Re: [jug-discussion] any interest in an obj-c preso?

I would be interested in this. regards, -tom At 08:58 AM 1/23/2006, you wrote: I know that this would probably be a limited audience as this is not  about web programming (per se), but I've been learning objective-c to  help port an app from java to it for a friend of mine. Th

[jug-discussion] The real success of Java

Another illustration of, in my opinion, the main success of Java (from the Apple developer website). -tom Java on Intel-based Macintosh Computers Q: Do I need to change my Java application to run on Intel-based Macintosh computers? A: The answer is probably no. Pure Java applications req

Re: [jug-discussion] Meeting in December

+2 (Dianne and I) -tom At 12:43 PM 11/17/2005, you wrote: The people have spoken Cuvee  3352 E. Speedway. Still need to get any additional head count  of those who plan to attend. While I 'll ask again to get a better count a day before I need to get a number for planning with the restau

Re: [jug-discussion] Meeting in December

I agree and vote for Cuvee ($.04) -tom At 02:15 PM 11/16/2005, you wrote: What!?  You mean I will actually get to make this year's TJUG party!? Fantastic, count me in.  I'll RSVP for Melinda when/if she responds to the compelling "wanna go party with the nerds?" invite ;) And you can't b

Re: [jug-discussion] thanks Dennis!

Darnsorry I missed this. Are slides available online somewhere? thanks,     -tom At 11:01 AM 10/13/2005, you wrote: I just wanted to say thank you to Dennis for his presentation  Tuesday, very informative. I definitely want to find out more about  Axis2 and it's REST implementation as well

Re: [jug-discussion] medtuc finch?

At 12:06 PM 7/11/2005, you wrote: So no comments on first post try try again. Michael Oliver Hey Ollie, I guess the "Ignore him and maybe he'll go away" policy didn't work now we'll have to invoke the "finch filter" on the mail server. :) regards, -tom

Re: [jug-discussion] Promotion of new JUG mascot

At 09:40 AM 7/7/2005, you wrote: Sometimes cartoonists shouldn't mess with mother nature. I'm not sure about Juggy, but you could put the real finch photo on our page. Then again, that's one vote for the real finch from a birder. Hey, I like that idea... +1 for the real bird from another birder.

Re: [jug-discussion] Promotion of new JUG mascot

on our page anytime soon ;-) (alright, if we get enough people who really want it, maybe...). Please no! -tom -warner On Jul 6, 2005, at 11:50 AM, Thomas Hicks wrote: According to the Java Lobby, there's a new move afoot to promote a new mascot for Java User's Groups (strange bu

[jug-discussion] Promotion of new JUG mascot

According to the Java Lobby, there's a new move afoot to promote a new mascot for Java User's Groups (strange but true): https://jugs.dev.java.net/juggy/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-m

[jug-discussion] One more joke

I just couldn't resist sending you'all one more joke I saw on the net tonight. a one-line commentary on Apple's recent announcement about moving to Intel chips. It read: "Intel is our ally, we have always been at war with IBM." (Especially funny given Apple's world-famous 1984 commercial)

[jug-discussion] JUG nerd humor (animation)

Another Java-spoof, Madbean animation production has made it to the silver (blue?) screen (Tim sent us one of these previously) -tom http://madbean.com/anim/jarwars/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For add

Re: [jug-discussion] june preso?

Sounds good to mego for it Warner. And thanks, -tom At 08:12 AM 6/4/2005, you wrote: On Jun 4, 2005, at 2:32 AM, Erik Hatcher wrote: On Jun 3, 2005, at 6:47 PM, Warner Onstine wrote: ... in seeing a Ruby on Rails demo? I might be able to whip something together *might*?!  If you can

Re: [jug-discussion] Fwd: Numerics in Java.

your input and keep the ideas coming. :) -tom On 6/2/05, Thomas Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >  A colleague at SAIC has a question you folks might be >  able to help him withthanks, >  -tom >  >  > Subject: Numerics in Java. >  Date: Thu, 02 Jun

[jug-discussion] Fwd: Numerics in Java.

A colleague at SAIC has a question you folks might be able to help him withthanks, -tom Subject: Numerics in Java. Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 09:30:02 -0700 From: Steve Juranich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm looking for a good, actively maintained (the latter is more important than the former

Re: [jug-discussion] Bookstore

At 11:24 AM 5/18/2005, you wrote: I'd agree with the Broadway BN.  Horrible.  The one at foothills is  much better and the borders on oracle is pretty good. Huh!?!? I conclude from these comments that we are all looking for different things at these stores, which is affecting our ratings. I fi

Re: [jug-discussion] Bookstore

At 05:51 AM 5/18/2005, you wrote: Hello TJUGs. My first post to the list to say hello and ask some of your advice. I am new to the Tucson area. Welcome.   I am looking for a good bricks 'n mortar technical bookstore with a large Java library as an alternative to online. Ain't we allunfortunat

Re: [jug-discussion] more smackdowns

At 09:42 PM 5/12/2005, you wrote: Here are some other possible smackdowns that Danny Mandel brought to my attention: Cayenne vs. Hibernate Hibernate vs. JDO OK, but make it Hibernate 3 vs. JDO 2. Spring vs. HiveMind Groovy vs. Ruby Groovy vs. beanshell (or other _javascript_ing language) might be

Re: [jug-discussion] for cactus locking lib jars

At 05:31 PM 4/22/2005, you wrote: I'm using the following taskdef to run my cactus tests: .. cara PS Hi everyone. I've been on the list for awhile, but this is my first post. Tucson is a fun and beautiful place so far. How bloody hot will it get? Bloody hotI've heard that an average summe

[jug-discussion] Jobs at SAIC

Hey Folks, The project I'm on at SAIC is flush with money and they have several positions open from Scientific Programmer to Research Scientist and several DB-related jobs; like DB Administrator and SQL Programmers. I just thought I'd throw this out to you'all since I know several companies on this

[jug-discussion] Our thanks to Nick

Nick, I'm sure that other JUG members will agree with me when I say I will sorry to see you leave the Tucson area...you are a standout in a group filled with talented people. It was a pleasure getting to know you a little and I thank-you for all the teaching and presentation you did for the JUG a

Re: [jug-discussion] "Simple" Spring question

At 02:09 PM 4/13/2005, you wrote: I have a file on my classpath that has a single string in it, no spaces, nothing else in the file. I also have a bean defined in Spring which takes a string property. What is the absolute easiest way to get this number out of the file, and passed as a String into

Re: [jug-discussion] new meeting space! meeting coming tuesday

It helped me a lot to realize that the building being referred to is the old Computer Center building, located right on Speedway. (despite CCIT's fancy name, the campus maps still call this the Computer Center). Hope this helps others to make it to the meeting. -tom At 09:19 AM 4/7/2005,

  1   2   3   >