Events

Welcome to the LAJUG Events page. This page contains information with regards to LAJUG sponsored events.

Calendar

Below is our schedule of monthly meetings. If your organization is interested in speaking at our monthly meeting please contact Marco or Matt.

Date	Topic	Location
July 7, 2009	OSGi	El Segundo
Speaker	Company	Host
Simon Barere	n/a	Marco
Status
Confirmed
Date	Topic	Location
June 9, 2009	Google App Engine	El Segundo
Speaker	Company	Host
Michael Parker	Google	Marco
Status
Confirmed
Date	Topic	Location
May 5, 2009	Matchmaking in the Cloud: Hadoop and EC2 at eHarmony	El Segundo
Speaker	Company	Host
Steve Kuo	eHarmony	Marco
Status
Confirmed
Date	Topic	Location
April 7, 2009	A Janus Introduction to Scala	El Segundo
Speaker	Company	Host
James Iry	n/a	Marco
Status
Confirmed
Date	Topic	Location
March 3, 2009	Design & Building Scalable Java Applications	El Segundo
Speaker	Company	Host
Behzad Pirvali	Fox Audience Network	Marco
Status
Confirmed
Date	Topic	Location
February 3, 2009	Implementing an ESB Solution using Mule	El Segundo
Speaker	Company	Host
Wey Cheng	MuleSource	Marco
Status
Confirmed
Date	Topic	Location
January 13, 2009	Database Fundamentals and JDBC	Oracle office in El Segundo
Speaker	Company	Host
TBD	Oracle Corporation	Marco
Status
Confirmed

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Monthly Meeting

We hold the LAJUG Monthly Meeting on the first Tuesday of each Month.

Directions

This meetings agenda will be as follows:

6:30-7:00 pm	Networking
7:00-7:10 pm	Introduction and Announcements
7:10-7:40 pm	Google App Engine
8:00-8:10 pm	Break
8:10-9:00 pm	Continue Google App Engine
Closing	Raffle, then Dinner at Chilis. [Directions - Go South on Sepulveda approximately one mile. Turn left at Marine. Address is 2620 N. Sepulveda Blvd / Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 - Google Maps Link ]

Raffle

At this meeting we will raffle a very special gift from JetBrains, a Personal License to the award-winning IDE product, IntelliJ version 8.1.

We will also raffle a few fun gifts from Sun Microsystems.

Date	Time
June 9, 2009 [Sorry Laker Fans]	6:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Location
El Segundo [ Directions]
Topic
Google App Engine
Speaker	Title	Company
Michael Parker	n/a	Google
Abstract
Google App Engine lets you run your web applications on Google's infrastructure. App Engine applications are easy to build, easy to maintain, and easy to scale as your traffic and data storage needs grow. With App Engine, there are no servers to maintain: You just upload your application, and it's ready to serve your users. App Engine recently unveiled its second language: Java. This includes an early look at our Java runtime, integration with Google Web Toolkit, and a Google Plugin for Eclipse, giving you an end-to-end Java solution for AJAX web applications.

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LAJUG Westside Study Group

We select one thought-provoking Java programming book at a time, read it outside the group, and meet to discuss the software development and methodology issues thus raised.

LAJUG members are welcome to attend regardless of experience level. You'll get more out of it of you read the current book selection and attend regularly.

We hold group meetings every Tuesday from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, except the first Tuesday of the month--that's reserved for the monthly LAJUG Meeting.

Date	Time
January 20, 27 2009	7:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Location
E! Networks 5750 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90036 Directions
Topic
Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston [Synopsis] Founders at Work is a collection of interviews with founders of famous technology companies about what happened in the very earliest days. These people are celebrities now. What was it like when they were just a couple friends with an idea? Founders like Steve Wozniak (Apple), Caterina Fake (Flickr), Mitch Kapor (Lotus), Max Levchin (PayPal), and Sabeer Bhatia (Hotmail) tell you in their own words about their surprising and often very funny discoveries as they learned how to build a company. Where did they get the ideas that made them rich? How did they convince investors to back them? What went wrong, and how did they recover? Nearly all technical people have thought of one day starting or working for a startup. For them, this book is the closest you can come to being a fly on the wall at a successful one, to learn how it's done. But ultimately these interviews are required reading for anyone who wants to understand business, because startups are business reduced to its essence. The reason their founders become rich is that startups do what businesses do—create value—more intensively than almost any other part of the economy. What are the secrets that make successful startups so insanely productive? Read this book, and let the founders themselves tell you.
Host
Ken Dempster
Agenda
We'll be continuing our work with the book Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston. Chapter 4 Joe Kraus and Chapter 5 Dan Bricklin, are the focus of the next session on the 20th. While reading, try to develop some questions.
Next Book (NA)
NA [Synopsis]

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If you or your organization is interested in speaking at an LAJUG Event please contact Marco or Matt.

If you would like more information with regards to the Study Group please contact Ken Dempster.