Tech Omaha

Don’t miss the lightning talks this Tuesday at the Omaha Dynamic Language User Group.

We’ve got Jay Hannah presenting MooseX::Workers, Matt Secoske talking about architectures for large amounts of data, Corey Spitzer presenting OpenCV (an open-source computer vision framework), and anyone else who would like to give a short (roughly 5 minutes — or longer) talk. It’s pretty open so show up, meet some local techies, and share some cool ideas.

ODYNUG meets the second Tuesday of each month, 7pm-9pm
at UNO’s Peter Kiewit Institute (PKI)
Room PKI 269
1110 South 67th Street
Omaha, NE

Dynamic Language UG, Presentations

Tuesday April 14th, 7:00pm

Meeting location is UNO’s Peter Kiewit Institute (PKI) building
1110 South 67th Street
Omaha, NE

We have not one, but two speakers in from out of town. It’s a dynamic language double feature.

Randal Schwartz will be presenting the talk he’s giving at Infotec, “Seaside: your next web framework.” Come learn about this exciting framework that lets you bring the power of the smalltalk IDE to bear on modern web application development.

Andy Lester will be giving his popular talk “Get Out Of Technical Debt Now!” We all have technical debt in our projects: documentation that doesn’t get written, bugs that get forgotten, broken tests that get ignored. Andy has a strategy for cleaning it up, and convincing your management to let you do it.

The meeting is sponsored by the good folks at Tek Systems, they’ll be providing pizza and pop.

http://odynug.kicks-ass.org

Dynamic Language UG, Perl

This coming Tuesday, December 9th, is looking to be a smorgasbord of cool tech things happening here in Omaha!

TechOmaha.com will be streaming all of these LIVE at http://techomaha.com/were-live

And, since so many Techies are going to be out and about, we are going to have a TechOmaha Holiday Bash!  More info coming on this VERY soon!

First up, we have:

Perl lightning talks!

The Fall 2008 UNO CSCI 2850 (Programming on the Internet) class invites you to an evening of lightning talks on Perl programming, the Firefox web browser and other (mostly) web-related topics.

Lightning Talks are no longer than 5 minutes and can be about anything: a new idea, an evaluation, an observation, a story, a complaint, an explanation, a suggestion, a report of success or failure, a call to action, a description of a technique, technology, or a lament.

Usually we split the talks over two nights, but this semester it’s going to be one, big solid night of talks.

Where: Peter Kiewit Institute, Room 252 ( http://tinyurl.com/5g83cb ) When: Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 Time: 6:00 PM until 8:30 PM

You can see a list of all the talks here.

Omaha Java Users Group!

This month Paul Heaberlin is talking about Java Content Repositories
like Apache Jackrabbit and the like. I’m looking forward to it as JCRs
promise to give your app’s content versioning, full text search, etc.
It should be good.

• Tuesday, December 9th
• Food / Open forum starting at 5:30pm
• Presentations to start at 6:00pm (note earlier time)
• Gallup Riverfront Campus, 1001 Gallup Dr, Omaha, NE
• Please RSVP to stephen at exigencecorp dot com

Details can be found here

and last but not least:

Omaha Dynamic Language Users Group

Security Testing In Your Applications – Daniel Carnes

As developers, we are all concerned with security in our applications. More often than not it is tacked on to the product lifecycle like some sort of Frankenstein. Daniel thinks this is simply unacceptable and it should be one of the first things to be setup in building your application. Let’s face it. Security is easy to get wrong. Daniel is going to show us how to setup our environments early and to make sure our applications stay safe. This will be one not to be missed!

http://odynug.kicks-ass.org

Meeting location is UNO’s Peter Kiewit Institute (PKI) building
1110 South 67th Street
Omaha, NE

Dynamic Language UG, NECFUG, OJUG, Perl, Presentations, UNO, video