Tech Omaha

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

This month’s Omaha Java User Group meeting had Stephen Haberman (@shaberman) of Exigence talking about Martin Fowler’s book Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture.

Stephen looks at the various patterns and concepts such as Separation of Concerns and Domain Modeling.

Here is the ustream of the meeting:

OJUG, Presentations, video

Live Broadcast by Ustream.TV

The Omaha Java User’s Group moved their regularly scheduled 3rd Tuesday meeting to Monday, Oct 20th so that David Hussman would be able to pass his wisdom to us. He’s a consultant on agile practices and offered three talks for our approval. “Pragmatic Agility” was the talk that won the general consensus. David is an engaging speaker that spoke from experience. His talk was engaging and witty. The honesty was refreshing in that he was not preaching agility, but rather ask yourself the questions of why you should do it. He explained forcing agility down people’s throats was not the way and neither was being dogmatic. His presentation style was different from what we have seen. The slides had few words and mainly pictures. The agile movement needs more David, his talk came off like a conversation instead of a sales pitch.

We are still working out the kinks on ustream…tried to record this presentation, but it looks like it didn’t record correctly… it did stream well though!

OJUG, Presentations, video