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

The Nebraska Cold Fusion User Group (NECFUG) held their November meeting on the 25th. The speaker was Jimmy Winter, founder of MusicArsenal.com, a site that helps musicians manage and promote their business. He talked specifically about how he uses Transfer-ORM to simplify the way he accesses the database from Cold Fusion.

TechOmaha.com streamed it live, and now we have it recorded here for posterity. Enjoy!

NECFUG, Presentations, 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