The Colorado Springs Open Source Software May Meeting

AGENDA
6:00 - 6:30 PM - Food, Drinks & Networking
6:30 - 6:40 PM - Announcements
6:40 - 7:10 PM - Basic Concepts
7:10 - 7:20 PM - Break
7:20 - 8:40 PM - Main Speaker
8:40 - 8:55 PM - Door Prize Drawings

MAIN TOPIC ABSTRACT

jQuery

jQuery is a fast, concise, JavaScript Library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript. This presentation will introduce you to the major concepts behind JQuery including how to leverage its power in conjunction with other Ajax and Javascript libraries. We will look at a series of live code examples to demonstrate the power of JQuery to reduce many lines of Javascript to just a line or two of JQuery. We will also look at plugins available for use with JQuery as well as a quick overview of plugin development. This presentation is a basic to medium level presentation and requires a beginning understanding of web development technologies including HTML, Javascript, Ajax, DOM. This presentation can be followed up at a later date with more advanced concepts.

MAIN SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
Scott Ryan is a Senior Enterprise Java Architect and Developer working on contract for a number of companies around the world. Scott specializes in process optimization leveraging Open Source and commercial offerings to achieve unparalleled efficiencies. Scott has been delivering leading edge solutions in countries around the world including Latin America, Canada, Russia, China, Europe, Middle East and Africa since 1984. He has leveraged his teams to deliver software, hardware and consulting solutions in multiple industries including Petroleum, Visualization, Telecommunications, Entertainment, Banking and Mortgage. Scott is currently working in the areas of Web Services, Portals, Frameworks and delivery optimization. He is a BEA Technical Director, serves on the Board of Directors of the Denver BEA User?s Group and Denver Open Source User?s Group, and is a President and CTO of Soaring Eagle, LLC. He participates in several open source projects including Maven, Mojo, Cargo, Pollinate, Beehive, Eclipse and AppFuse. Scott is a regular speaker at user group meetings and industry conferences. Scott holds a degree in Geophysical Engineering from Colorado School of Mines. In his free time he enjoys volleyball, riding his Harley, flying and skiing.

BASIC CONCEPTS TOPIC ABSTRACT

JavaFX Script

JavaFXScript is the new language from Sun focused on assisting developers in building Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). In this "basic concepts" session we'll look at the IDE support for JavaFX Script in NetBeans and Eclipse, sample some of the language constructs, then build a basic application that showcases some of the unique timer-based animations that are so easily accomplished using this new language. This demo application will
then be extended to demonstrate JavaFX's ability to talk to existing Java and Groovy code libraries. We'll wrap up with a comparison of JavaFX to Adobe FLEX, Adobe AIR, Ajax, and Microsoft Silverlight and review each of these platforms' features in comparison to JavaFX.

BASIC CONCEPTS SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
Matthew McCullough is a Java application architect and co-founder of Ambient Ideas. He is an outspoken advocate for the use of Agile Methodologies and Open Source libraries in Enterprise Applications. Matthew serves as a member of the JCP, contributor to the Sun Java 5 SCJP Certification Exam, and a member of the board of directors for the Denver Open Source Users Group. He frequently speaks at training sessions for clients in Latin America.

OUR SPONSORS

Website Sponsor:
ACN...Local, Long Distance, Digital, & Cellular Phone Service

Food Sponsor:
TEKsystems will provide food and drink

Door Prize Sponsors:
Jetbrains will provide a free IntelliJ personal ide license
SourceBeat Publishing will provide one free PDF technical book
Atlassian will provide a free technical book plus some t-shirts and stickers
OReilly Publishing will provide a free technical book
TEKsystems will provide additional door prizes
ACN will provide a 2GB Thumb Drive