DevNexus 2014 - Feb 24-25 - Atlanta - 10+1 Tracks - 100 sessions

The preparations for DevNexus 2014 are in full swing and we are targeting to have the biggest and boldest DevNexus developer conference ever. DevNexus will take place February 24-25 at the Cobb Galleria Centre in Atlanta, GA. With the holiday season upon us, why not reward yourself with a DevNexus ticket?

Registration is now open at: http://www.devnexus.com

Best of all, DevNexus will not break your wallet. The Early Bird Pass is available for $210 ($240 regular) and the Group Pass for groups of 5 or more is $210. We also have a $150 Student Pass available (Contact us for the code - info at ajug dot org). Keep in mind not to wait too long as DevNexus has sold out completely in the past couple of years.

This year we will offer 10 parallel tracks + 1 workshop track covering a wide spectrum of topics such as:

• Java/JavaEE/Spring
• HTML5
• JavaScript
• Data + Integration
• Alternative Languages on the JVM
• User Experience
• Cloud
• Agile + Tools
• Mobile

In total we will have almost 100 sessions for you! 

Currently the call for papers is still under way and the response so far has been nothing short of phenomenal. Already we have started confirming a few speakers. We are excited to have Brett Meyer, a core Hibernate team member. Mark Pollack, Spring Data and Spring XD co-lead as well as Rob Winch, the lead developer for Spring Security will present as well. Furthermore, industry experts such as Venkat Subramaniam and Peter Bell are confirmed to speak. Over the next couple of weeks you will see an explosion of new speakers and sessions being added to the DevNexus website at:

http://devnexus.com/s/speakers

Please check in often to see the progress! Also, we are very excited to announce our first keynote presenter who will fly in all the way from Germany: Sven Peters is a software geek working as an ambassador for Atlassian. He has been developing Java applications for over 12 years and leading small teams using lean methodologies. Sven likes effective software development and cares about the motivation of developers.

He will present:

How To Do Kick-Ass Software Development

With Kick-Ass Software Development you actually get stuff done. Feedback cycles are short, code quality is awesome and customers get the features they lust after. Less mangers managing, less testers testing and less IT-operators operating. The developers take the power back, making them much happier. Sound like paradise? It is! This session will show you how we do Kick-Ass Software Development at Atlassian. I will talk about how we: use pull requests for better code quality; collaborate fast to develop ideas; avoid meetings to get more stuff done; tighten our feedback loops to fail faster; shorten our release cycles; and work together happily on different continents. It's a great way to develop software and we think it can work in your company, too.

With this line-up of topics and many more to come, attending DevNexus should be a top priority - This is the South-East’s best, yet affordable, developer conference! We, the volunteers from the Atlanta Java Users Group would be delighted to see you all at DevNexus! Learn, network and have fun -

We would like to thank all our Sponsors that help us greatly to keep DevNexus super-affordable.

Platinum Sponsor:

• ThoughtWorks - http://www.thoughtworks.com/

Gold Sponsors:

• Compuware - http://www.compuware.com/
• inBloom - https://www.inbloom.org/

Silver Sponsors:

• 4t Networks - http://www.4tvirtual.com/
• Altisource Labs - http://www.altisourcelabs.com/
• Anteo Group - http://www.anteogroup.com/
• Apex Systems - http://www.apexsystemsinc.com/
• AppDynamics - http://www.appdynamics.com/
• Aspose - http://www.aspose.com/
• Coverity - http://www.coverity.com/
• LexisNexis - http://www.lexisnexis.com/
• Sonatype - http://www.sonatype.com/

Cocktail Hour Sponsor:

• Hunter Technical Resources - http://www.htrjobs.com/

We are looking forward seeing you all in February!!!

Please register today at: http://www.devnexus.com

If you have any questions let us know at info at ajug.org and please follow

us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/devnexus for news and updates.

DevNexus 2014 - Atlanta (Feb 24-25) - Call for Papers

The Atlanta Java Users Group is in the middle of organizing its annual developer conference for 2014. 

We are excited to announce that the Call for Papers is active now. Please spread the word among your peers and if your are interested we would love if you submit session proposals for our conference at:

http://devnexus.com/s/cfp

This is what we plan so far:

DevNexus 2014 is on February 24-25 (Monday and Tuesday). We plan on having 1000+ attendees with 10 parallel tracks and 1 workshop track. This equates to:

• 90+ sessions (75min each)
• 4 workshops
• 2 keynotes (60 min each)

Topic-wise we plan to cover the following:

• Java/JavaEE/Spring
• HTML5 + JavaScript
• Data + Integration
• User Experience
• Alternative Languages on the JVM
• Cloud
• Agile
• Tools
• Mobile

Here is a short promo video that we did during DevNexus 2013:

If you have any questions, please ping me or the rest of the organizers at info at ajug dot org.

SpringOne2GX 2013 - Early-bird registration

Just a quick note to point out that SpringOne2GX is coming up next month in Santa Clara (Sept 9-12) and the early bird registration (save $200) expires tomorrow, Aug 9th.

Therefore, please join us and register at: http://www.springone2gx.com/conference/santa_clara/2013/09/register

In case you haven't been following the massive amount of activity that has been happening in the Spring community such as Spring 4.0, Spring XD, Spring Reactor, Spring Boot, and much, much more (Please check http://blog.springsource.org for some of the latest), I think it is fairly safe to say there will be a LOT of announcements and news this year!

If you are involved with, or work with the Spring framework, Grails, Groovy - This will be a big one and it would be very worthwhile to be there!

Furthermore, if you are interested in cloud/PaaS, the first ever Cloud Foundry conference, Platform, is co-hosted at the same venue on Sept 8-9 and registration for SpringOne means you get to go to that too, if you want. http://www.platformcf.com

Just FYI - there is some crazy massive Cloud Foundry usage going on in China right now: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/07/cloudfoundry/

I will see you there!

Spring Integration STS Templates Updated - 1.0.0.M5

We are proud to announce a new milestone release of the Spring Integration Templates version 1.0.0.M5 for Spring Tool Suite (STS). This release brings numerous fixes and enhancements as detailed below. If you are using the latest version of STS version 3.2, the updated templates are automatically available to you. Just press the "Refresh" button under File --> New --> Spring Template Project.

If you are not fully familiar with the STS Template support, please see the original blog post including screencast at:

http://blog.springsource.org/2012/04/09/create-spring-integration-projects-using-sts/

In this new release, we have updated the templates to the latest Spring Integration version (2.2.3.RELEASE). Also, all templates will now warn if either the Maven support or the Gradle support are not available in the respective Eclipse environment. 

In particular, we made numerous improvements to the War template as well as the Adapter template.

Spring Integration War Template

The War template now provides a much better (prettier) UI using Bootstrap. If you have not used Bootstrap, yet - It is basically the new UI baseline. It is very simple to use and even prototypes, presentation demos etc. shall not look like 1990s websites any longer. 

The updated template also uses wro4j to provide more efficient bundling and minifiacation of CSS and JavaScript resources. This allows the War template to achieve a fairly decent YSlow rating of 97.

Spring Integration Adapter Template

Another area of improvements for this release was the Adapter Template. In 2012, we introduced the Spring Integration Extensions project, to further encourage community contributions to the Spring Integration project. In order to improve the starting experience, we also introduced the Spring Integration Adapter Template for STS back then.

For a detailed overview, please checkout the original blog post introducing the Spring Integration Extensions project as well the Adapter Template:

http://blog.springsource.org/2012/08/23/spring-integration-extensions/

For the 1.0.0.M5 milestone, we upgraded the project to Gradle 1.5 and also upgraded all project dependencies to the latest release. As a minor enhancement, the user provided version number will now also set the version numbers for the XML Schemas (Which provide the XML namespace support). 

I hope that the Spring Integration STS Templates are helpful to you, be it while learning and exploring Spring Integration, to kickstart new Spring Integration projects or to start developing new extensions for Spring Integration. If you see any issues, please let us know either in Jira or the community forums.

DevNexus 2013 Registration closing on 2/5/13 - Only 50 tickets left

With two weeks to go and 800 people attending we have only 50 tickets left for DevNexus 2013. The support from the community has been incredible and we will be closing registration on Tuesday evening, so if you are coming and have not registered, yet, now would be the time...

• We have 8 incredible tracks with 50 speakers covering;
• HTML5 + JavaScript (Backbone.js, Bootstrap, CoffeeScript, Canvas, IndexedDB, WebSocket, LESS)
• Mobile Development (PhoneGap, Android, Titanium, Mobile Web, AeroGear)
• Data + Integration (MongoDB, Storm, Spring Integration + Batch, Ehcache, JPA)
• Java/JavaEE/Spring (Java 8, Java EE 7+8, Concurrent Programming)
• Web (Play, REST, Spring MVC)
• Alternative Languages (Groovy, Scala, Clojure)
• Cloud (Cloud Foundry, AWS, MS Azure)
• Agile + Tools (Git, Gradle, XP, Kanban, Continuous Delivery, Vagrant)

Adding to the fun, we will have a happy hour sponsored by eHire Labs, most of our sponsors will be raffling off cool stuff and we will be giving away a MacBook Air, Nexus 10 tablet and an unlocked Samsung Galaxy SIII in the raffle. http://devnexus.com/s/index

A big thank you to all our sponsors without whom we would not be able to put on this event for such an incredibly affordable price.

Gold Sponsors:

• Compuware - http://www.compuware.com/  
• IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) - https://www.theice.com/   
• SpringSource, a division of VMware - http://www.springsource.com/  
• Terracotta - http://terracotta.org/  

Silver Sponsors:

• 4t Networks - http://www.4tvirtual.com/
• Actuate - http://www.actuate.com/
• Anteo Group - http://www.anteogroup.com/
• Apex Systems - http://www.apexsystemsinc.com/
• AppDynamics - http://www.appdynamics.com/
• Bridge2 Solutions - http://www.bridge2solutions.com/
• Creative Mischief - http://www.creative-mischief.com/
• Dimensional Thinking - http://www.dtglobalstaffing.com/
• eHire Labs - http://ehirelabs.com/
• GitHub - http://www.github.com/
• Google - http://www.google.com/
• inComm - http://www.incomm.com/
• JBoss - http://www.jboss.com/
• Lancope - http://www.lancope.com/

Cocktail Hour Sponsor:

•  eHire Labs - http://ehirelabs.com/

DevNexus 2013 - Schedule Published

DevNexus 2013 is only 4 weeks away and will take place February 18-19 at the Cobb Galleria Centre in Atlanta, GA. The past days and weeks, we have been super-busy organizing and confirming the best speakers of our industry. Finally, we are now happy to announce the preliminary schedule for DevNexus 2013 at:

http://devnexus.com/s/devnexus2013/schedule

This year will mark our biggest DevNexus conference event, yet! Compared to last year, we added 2 more tracks to the conference, bringing the total to 8 tracks. 40 speakers will deliver 71 sessions equipping you with the critical knowledge to take your career to the next level. This also includes 2 wonderful keynote sessions by Neal Ford and Ben Evans.

As in prior years, we will cover a wide variety of crucial topics and we will have dedicated tracks on:

• HTML5 + JavaScript (Backbone.js, Bootstrap, CoffeeScript, Canvas, IndexDB, WebSockets, LESS)
• Mobile Development (PhoneGap, Android, Titanium, Mobile Web, AeroGear)
• Data + Integration (MongoDB, Storm, Spring Integration + Batch, Ehcache, JPA)
• Java/JavaEE/Spring (Java 8, Java EE 7+8, Concurrent Programming)
• Web (Play, REST, Spring MVC)
• Alternative Languages (Groovy, Scala, Clojure)
• Cloud (Cloud Foundry, AWS, MS Azure)
• Agile + Tools (Git, Gradle, XP, Kanban, Continuous Delivery, Vagrant)

With this line-up of topics, attending DevNexus should be a priority - This is also the South-East’s best, yet affordable, developer conference! We, the volunteers from the Atlanta Java Users Group would be delighted to see you all at DevNexus! Learn, network and have fun -

Please register today at: http://www.devnexus.com

We would like to thank all our Sponsors that help us greatly to keep DevNexus super-affordable ($195 group-ticket / $220 regular ticket). 

Gold Sponsors:

• SpringSource, a division of VMware - http://www.springsource.com/
• Terracotta - http://terracotta.org/
• IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) - https://www.theice.com/careers.jhtml

Silver Sponsors:

• AppDynamics - http://www.appdynamics.com/
• Anteo Group - http://www.anteogroup.com/
• Apex Systems - http://www.apexsystemsinc.com/
• Creative Mischief - http://www.creative-mischief.com/
• Dimensional Thinking - http://www.dtglobalstaffing.com/
• eHire Labs - http://ehirelabs.com/
• GitHub - http://www.github.com/
• Google - http://www.google.com/
• inComm - http://www.incomm.com/
• JBoss - http://www.jboss.com/
• 4t Networks - http://www.4tvirtual.com/
• Bridge2 Solutions - http://www.bridge2solutions.com/

Cocktail Hour Sponsor:

• eHire Labs - http://ehirelabs.com/

We are looking forward seeing you all in February!!!

PS:

If you have any question let us know at info at ajug.org and please follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/devnexus for news and updates.