Greenville Java™ Users Group

Last modified: 9 January 2012

News

NetBeans 7.1 Released - 05 January 2012

NetBeans 7.1 was released on the 5th of January and features an incredible amount of functionality. You can check out the new IDE by downloading it here NetBeans 7.1.

Check out the new an noteworthy functionality from the release notes.
JavaOne 2011 - 11 October 2011

JavaOne 2011 was a huge success. We had at least three members of our JUG attend in addition to John Yeary.

John Yeary had the privilege during the Thursday Community Keynote address to hand out a Duke's Choice Award to SodBeans. Sodbeans is an innovative technology featuring an "omniscient" debugger, and is designed to help the visually impaired.
Felipe Gaucho Passed Away - 8 March 2010

A year has passed since the untimely death of one of our community. Let us take a moment to remember Felipe.

Felipe Gaucho founder of CEJUG, Java Evangelist, and friend passed away last week at age 40 from a heart attack. His contributions to the Java community will be sorely missed.

Last year at JavaOne, Felipe was one of the panelists at my talk on improving JUGs and the Java community. Thanks Felipe.

Our prayers and wishes go out to his family.

Meeting Time and Location

Meetings are held the second Thursday of each month at: Immedion 78 Global Drive Greenville, SC 29607 (864) 908-3000 at 6:30PM

If you need assistance, please contact John Yeary, President/JUG Leader at (864) 363-6655.

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Meeting - Next Monthly Meeting

SCHEDULE: MEETING scheduled for the 12th of January @ 6:30PM.

SPEAKER: John Yeary

TOPIC: NetBeans 7.1 Release - Tips & Tricks

ABSTRACT:

The NetBeans IDE was release this week. John will demonstrate its functionality, tips, and tricks.

We will also start the new year off with Chapter 4 of the book Java: The Good Parts which can be downloaded from
the downloads section of the GreenJUG site.

AUDIENCE: Everyone

FOOD AND BEVERAGES:

Pizza and beverages will be provided by Amanda Troup from TEKSystems Inc.

REGISTRATION: Please register here.

Oracle™ Certified Java™ Programmer Boot Camp

We conduct a FREE ten (10) week Oracle™ Certified Java™ Programmer (Official Oracle Site) exam preparation that is open to all members.

If you wish to participate, please purchase the required books and have completed reading the sections prior to coming to the meeting. The books, presentations, and code samples can be found here.

NOTE: If you want to participate in the boot camp, please sign up at JUG Events.

Please see the details for our program and get more information: Oracle™ Certified Java™ Programmer.

Upcoming Meetings

February: MongoDB - ???

March: Patrick Curran - Java Community Process (JCP)

April: Daniel Lark - You can tune a VM, but you can't tune a fish. (JMX)

Previous Meetings

Previous meetings can be found here: Previous Meetings.

Mission Statement

The Greenville Java™ Users Group is a community of Java™ programmers who meet to discuss Java™ technologies. Our goal is to keep the community informed of new technology, exchange ideas, and educate.

Membership and Participation

The group is open to anyone. Please join the membership by bookmarking the project and becoming an Observer. You can also join our mailing lists. Any content contributions, or presentation requests can be posted to the mailing lists.

Note: There is a job mailing list for postings on current job openings.

We also have a GreenJUG Wiki for people to contribute on.

Blogs

If you are a technology blogger, and want to add your blog list, please let us know.