Berlin GTUG - September meetup

The next meeting of the Berlin GTUG will take place on September 12th, starting at 18:30h, in the cafeteria of Club-Office (http://maps.google.com/maps/place?q=club-office,+berlin&hl=en&cid=13399672288090056201), a very nice co-working and office space, located Bundesallee 171, 10715 Berlin.

Our main topics for this event will be Google Closure and the Play framework on Google App Engine.

Filip M. Noetzel, a rockstar freelancer (http://filipnoetzel.com/) from Berlin will walk us through Google Closure. Google Closure Tools (http://code.google.com/intl/de/closure/) is a set of building blocks open sourced by Google in November 2009 used to build products like Gmail, Maps, Docs, Sites, Books, Reader, Calendar, etc. — It consists of Closure Compiler (a JS-to-JS compiler aimed to make your JavaScript smaller, faster and more robust), Closure Library (a rather comprehensive JavaScript library designed for building large applications), Closure Templates (a Client-and-Server templating solution) and a few other tools built around this ecosystem. The talk will provide an overview on these tools, a little background on why things are designed the way they are, differences to other solutions and why you might want to choose Closure for your next web project.

Our second topic will be presented by Raphael Andre Bauer, a regular attendee and presenter at our GTUG, and an awesome local entrepreneur (http://www.raphaelbauer.com/) . He will enlight us on using the Play Framework (http://www.playframework.org/) with Google App Engine (http://code.google.com/intl/de/appengine/) and GWT (http://code.google.com/intl/de/webtoolkit/).

In addition to these 2 columns, we will have our usual Google Tech Roundup, an update on the Google Developer Day in Berlin, and a fun raffle of awesome swags.

See you at Club-Office!