Hi everyone,

I hope you’re all doing well and have had a good start to the week. Last week we manned the LJC booth at JAX conference and managed to speak to a few developers that had not signed up to the LJC so firstly, welcome to our new members! It was also great to catch up with most of you at the community night, I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.

If you are interested in getting involved in some more event over the next two weeks here is a list of what is happening in London:

Monday 4th November - The Bleeding Edge
Enterprise Java developers value reliability and stability, but what happens to your technology stack if you’re willing to take a risk? At jClarity we’re running production systems using Html 5, Angular.js, vertx, Mongo, groovy and deploying using chef. Its been an interesting ride: some things worked really well and some things don’t.
Come along and find out what we’d recommend and what we’d avoid with hindsight. We’ll also talk about how we ended up with such a diverse stack and how to make technology choices in a fairer way. We’ve made the mistakes so you don’t have to.
The London Java Community - http://www.meetup.com/Londonjavacommunity/events/144638112/

Monday 4th November - Not Just Arduino #21
At 7pm at London Hackspace (Arduino / electronics demos and jam)
http://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/view/Not_Just_Arduino

Tuesday 5th November - Code & Coffee (West London)
Code & Coffee is a cool meeting for those who like coffee and love writing code. The idea is simple. Just come along and you may find other developers writing some code before going to work while drinking some coffee and/or having breakfast.
Caffe Nero
6 Hammersmith Broadway, London, W6 TAL
London Software Craftsman Community - http://www.meetup.com/london-software-craftsmanship/events/134322082/

Tuesday 5th November - Code & Coffee (Old street)
Code & Coffee is a cool meeting for those who like coffee and love writing code. The idea is simple. Just come along and you may find other developers writing some code before going to work while drinking some coffee and/or having breakfast.
Look mum no hands!, 49 Old Street, London, EC1V 9HX
London Software Craftsman Community - http://www.meetup.com/london-software-craftsmanship/events/134322092/

Tuesday 5th November - In the Brain of Oren Eini aka Ayende Rahien The DB Disassembly Kit
In this talk we will go into the details that actually make up the different components in a database, discuss how they are put together and what are the different design choices that you have for each of those components and how they work together.
Skills Matter - http://skillsmatter.com/event/java-jee/the-db-disassembly-kit

Thursday 7th November - Android for Java Developers
This is the first event in a series of events we are running in collaboration with Londroid.co.uk on Android for Java Programmers.
Are you a Java programmer interested in learning about mobile apps? Do you want to broaden your programming horizons by being able to program on different devices? Are you looking to create the next Angry Birds but don't know where to start?
This talk aims to give you enough knowledge to get you through the initial learning curve and give you enough knowledge to allow to explore Android on your own.
We'll talk about the basic structures of the language, how you use it, what you can use from your existing Java knowledge and what the benefits of becoming a Londroider might be.
The London Java Community - http://www.meetup.com/Londonjavacommunity/events/144640832/

Monday 11th November - Evening Code and Coffee / Craft Beer
Similar to our morning Code and Coffee sessions, there is no strict format, only an opportunity to meet with like minded craftsmen, and discuss or collaborate on whatever you would like to.
Unlike our morning Code and Coffee sessions, you don't have to get out of bed at some ungodly hour to be here. Just rock on down after work to find other night owls.
We'll be meeting in "Look mum no hands!", a laptop friendly cafe/bar that's open until 10pm, and sells great coffee, good beers, and some tasty food if you make it before 8:30. They also repair bikes and hang them from the ceiling like chandeliers, because why not?
http://www.lookmumnohands.com/
London Software Craftsman Community - http://www.meetup.com/london-software-craftsmanship/events/134322122/

Tuesday 12th November - Improving Infinispan's Scalability: A new approach to group communication
NOTE: For those wishing to attend remotely, the Google Hangout link will appear here shortly before the event starts.
Infinispan is a distributed in memory key/value store that aims to be highly available and scalable. Its ability to scale is tightly linked to the underlying order protocol, aka atomic broadcast, used for enforcing serializability.
In this talk I will explore the scaling limits of Infinispan’s existing protocol and then propose an alternative approach to designing broadcast systems, that decouples ordering and broadcast.
This talk contrasts our approach with Infinispan’s, exploring the design features of our new approach and how they will improve Infinispan’s scalability.
This talk will be given by Ryan Emerson.
Newcastle JBoss User Group - http://www.meetup.com/Newcastle-JBoss-User-Group/events/148418582/?22893

Tuesday 12th November - Code & Coffee (London Bridge)
Code & Coffee is a cool meeting for those who like coffee and love writing code. The idea is simple. Just come along and you may find other developers writing some code before going to work while drinking some coffee and/or having breakfast.
Caffe Fratelli
Victor Wharf, Clink Street, London SE1 9DG
London Software Craftsman Community - http://www.meetup.com/london-software-craftsmanship/events/134322162/

Tuesday 12th November - Code & Coffee (Central London)
Code & Coffee is a cool meeting for those who like coffee and love writing code. The idea is simple. Just come along and you may find other developers writing some code before going to work while drinking some coffee and/or having breakfast.
Starbucks
55-59 Oxford Street, Marylebone London, W1D 2EQ, London
London Software Craftsman Community - http://www.meetup.com/london-software-craftsmanship/events/134322132/

Tuesday 12th November - Data and logic on acid: Introducing Leapsight Semantic Dataspace (LSD)
About the talk:
LSD is a distributed, in-memory, scalable, fault-tolerant, deductive semantic dataspace built on Erlang/OTP and Riak Core.
LSD stores immutable temporal facts, using the Resource Description Framework (RDF) as the basis for its information model. Facts are stored as a labelled directed graph, providing a natural and friction-less representation of many-to-many relationships, which are the nuts and bolts of consumer profiles, social networks, product catalogues and consumer-brand relationships. LSD provides dynamic schema and data management via formally defined ontologies without the need for physical schema changes..
London Erlang User Group - http://www.meetup.com/erlangusergroup/events/140020132/

Wednesday 13th November - Spark, Scala, and the Berkeley Data Analytics Stack.
This talk will introduce Apache Spark. Spark is a cluster computing engine that lets users concisely express a wide range of applications through APIs in Scala, Java and Python. Under the hood, Spark is written primarily in Scala. Spark supports streaming, batch and interactive analytics on very large datasets. Due to its support for in-memory storage and general operator graphs, it can run 100x faster than Hadoop for complex algorithms such as machine learning and graph processing...
London Scala Users' Group - http://www.meetup.com/london-scala/events/144457152/

Wednesday 13th November - In the Brain of Russ Miles - Simple Pro Programming Techniques for Adaptable Software
Using code every step of the way, this talk by Russ Miles will take a tour through the problems of the Layered Architecture and how these problems are cleared up by applying the Hexagonal Architectural Pattern along with the latest software development techniques and tools.
Skills Matter - http://skillsmatter.com/event/java-jee/simple-pro-programming-techniques-for-adaptable-software

Thats everything for now, If you’re interested in getting your group or event on the list then please contact me on [address removed] for further assistance.

Sam

@SHRecWorks